His Banner Over me is Love!
“He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love.” (Song of Solomon 2:4 WEB)
In a Jewish wedding, the wedding couple get married under a canopy called a “Chuppah” which consists of a big sheet (like a banner) stretched out over four standing poles.
This scene is a picture of two people in love sealing their marriage by a covenant.
Imagine Jesus standing with you under the canopy, affirming His love for you. He sealed the New Covenant of Grace for you by shedding His own precious blood.
Perhaps that is why I was led to color the carpet as red because we are standing upon the foundation established by His blood.
““You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. The work of the skillful workman shall it be made.” (Exodus 26:31 WEB)
Without realizing it until the picture was done, the colors I used reflect the four colors of the veil in the Tabernacle, and the golden wings of the cherubim on the Ark of the Covenant. The Chuppah is like a tabernacle—you are preserved from the corruption of the world and kept from harm in God’s dwelling place.
“For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.” (Romans 7:2 WEB)
A covenant between two is dissolved when one of the two parties dies.
You already died once when you first placed your faith in Jesus. You shared in His death at the cross, His burial, and His resurrection. This means that the covenant between you and God can never become null and void!
When you know that you are united with Jesus by an everlasting covenant, you will not be afraid of falling out of His favor or of any enemies.
His banner over you is love. Just look up and see His love spreading out over you, enveloping you, keeping you safe and protected under the shelter of God!
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Waiting for our Bridegroom
“In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.” (John 14:2-3 WEB)
The passage above is Jesus speaking to the disciples. It sounds like the loving words of a bridegroom to his bride, because it is.
In Jewish custom, the bridegroom would prepare a honeymoon/nuptial room in his father’s house before fetching the bride there on a day that she doesn’t know. She only knows the approximate period where he will come, but not the exact day or hour.
Look at the sequence of events: 1) Jesus goes back to Heaven to prepare a place for the disciples, 2) He will come again to receive the disciples to Himself, 3) The disciples will finally be where He is in Heaven, in His Father’s house.
I believe that the disciples and all saints who are in Heaven at the moment, are not yet where Jesus is, in the temple of God in the highest part of Heaven.
There is a mountain of God there, the true Zion, where the true temple stands. Everything on earth in Jerusalem was built to reflect the heavenly truth. Even the location of the temple, the layout etc.
The mountain of God is off-limits to the spirits of the saints at the moment, but when Jesus comes again to receive His saints to Himself at the Rapture, we will be resurrected, receive our glorified bodies, and join Him in the highest part of Heaven to meet Abba God.
It’s not that we are not cleansed perfectly or not holy enough yet to approach God’s throne in Heaven. Our born-again spirits are already perfectly righteous and holy. But there is a right timing for the bride to meet the bridegroom.
We are waiting for Jesus to receive us to Himself, and we will join Him up there in our glorified bodies, not in spirit form.
The Jewish wedding customs give us clear sequence of the Biblical events to come.
About one week before the wedding, the bridegroom and bride don’t meet, to keep themselves ceremonially holy and to increase the anticipation for each other. This period represents our current time, where we are still eagerly waiting for Jesus’ return for His redeemed saints.
Even the spirits of saints in Heaven are also waiting for the Rapture so they can finally meet Jesus face to face.
Next in the heavenly wedding agenda is Jesus coming to catch us up to the air to meet with Him there, in the Rapture (harpazo).
Just picture a strong bridegroom lifting the bride off her feet, carrying her in his arms as she wraps her arms around his neck. That’s the romantic picture of the Rapture.
Then, in Jewish weddings, the bridegroom and bride will have a private wedding ceremony, followed by a honeymoon in the nuptial room prepared in the father’s house.
This honeymoon is the seven-years period of the Tribulation. While the world is going through the Tribulation, the Raptured saints will be safe in Heaven, enjoying closeness with Jesus.
After that, the bridegroom and bride will have a marriage supper to celebrate their new marital union with their family and friends. Many wedding guests are invited.
This is a picture of the marriage supper of the Lamb which will take place on earth, at the beginning of the Millennial Reign of Christ.
Jesus will come back to earth with us, to destroy the Antichrist and his wicked armies, and we will move into our marital home: Jerusalem. That’s where the Marriage Supper of the Lamb is going to be held, and also when we will stand before Jesus’ throne to receive our eternal rewards.
If you look at the Bible for what it really is, it is actually a love story. A story of a Father seeking a pure, beautiful and holy bride for His beloved Son who wants someone to lavish His love upon. If you miss this overarching theme of love, you have missed the entire point of the Bible.
Did you know that the Bible gives us some of the layout of Heaven and important geographical aspects of it? In the meantime, all saints are waiting for the Rapture in Paradise in the third heaven.
Knowing your eternal destination will give you a peace and confidence in your soul, enabling you to live life without the hovering cloud of uncertainty about what lies ahead.
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“You search and keep on searching and examining the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and yet it is those [very Scriptures] that testify about Me;” (John 5:39 AMP)
The Bible is the story of Yahweh (Jesus) finding a perfect bride for Himself.
When Adam sinned, God already had a plan to reconcile mankind to Himself.
Yahweh sovereignly chose the nation of Israel which came from the loins of Abraham to be His special treasure, like a beloved bride.
But Israel committed spiritual adultery with the idols of the Gentile nations.
When she had gotten so corrupt, even worse than Sodom, Yahweh divorced her, and Israel ceased to be considered His people for a time (Ezekiel 16).
“He said, “Call his name Lo-Ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.” (Hosea 1:9 WEB)
Under the Law, the penalty for adultery was death. Israel should have been totally wiped out, but Yahweh had a plan to legally reserve a remnant of Israel for Himself.
““‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.” (Leviticus 20:10 WEB)
His plan was hinted by the prophets and finally revealed when Yahweh appeared as Jesus to die on the cross for not just Israel’s sins, but the sins of the whole world.
Through dying in the place of His beloved bride and thereby paying for her sins, Jesus has a righteous basis to reconcile Israel to Himself.
His bride is at root Jewish, but Gentiles have been grafted in as well—everyone who placed their faith in Jesus as Lord becomes a citizen of Israel that has been born of the Spirit—a chosen people of promise, not by the flesh.
“But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree; don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.” (Romans 11:17-18 WEB)
Today we are part of a Jewish marriage custom which reflects the heavenly marriage process as well.
We are in the betrothal stage whereby our Bridegroom Jesus has given us special gifts to purchase us as His bride.
He has washed us with His own blood and the water of His water, making us pure and unblemished.
He has dressed us with ministry and spiritual gifts like golden crowns, bangles and necklaces.
Now we are waiting for Him to come and receive us to His Father’s house for the private wedding and honeymoon.
In a Jewish wedding, the bridegroom comes to receive the bride at a time that she doesn’t know.
They don’t meet each other for at least a week to remain ceremonially holy and this also increases the anticipation and longing for each other.
The bride only knows an estimated period of time, so she has to be dressed and ready for it to happen at any time during that season of time.
This speaks of the Rapture of the saints—we know the signs that indicate the closeness to His return, but we don’t know the exact day or hour. Nevertheless our spirit longs for Jesus’ return.
When the church is in Heaven with Jesus, that period of 7 years is like the private honeymoon. During this time, the world will be going through the Tribulation—Daniel’s 70th week, also known as the time of Jacob’s trouble.
In a Jewish wedding, after the couple consummate their marriage during their honeymoon, they will emerge from the room and appear to their invited guests at a marriage feast to celebrate with them.
This speaks of the Second Coming of Christ. Jesus will return to earth with His bride (that’s us) and defeat the Antichrist. He will then set up His Millennial kingdom from Jerusalem—like a marital home where He will live with His bride.
The marriage feast will be held in the Millennial Kingdom on earth. The virgins at the feast (Matthew 25:1-13) represent Jews who place their faith in Jesus during the Tribulation, while the servants of the bridegroom (Luke 12:35-40) represent the Gentiles who place their faith in Jesus during the Tribualtion.
At the marriage feast of the Lamb, eternal rewards will be given out to every believer at that time. It will be a great day of celebration for all the redeemed!
“and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.” When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is he who will feast in God’s Kingdom!”” (Luke 14:14-15 WEB)
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