The Ancient Hebrew Wedding Model - Part 1: History & Biblical Times

[Music] you okay so today we're going to start a series called the ancient hebrew wedding model now for those they've maybe been in the walk a bit longer or probably aware of the of this especially what we're going to cover today today is going to be more foundational going through the ancient wedding ceremony and how the reason i'm doing this is because passover is just under twelve weeks away and for some people that have not been doing this as long you've probably only experienced the more traditional passover seder and the more traditional understanding behind it and one thing that i find in this in the tale in the torah messianic movement is that we you sure almost becomes a second place in the passover and there's so many things that we lose out on if we don't put you're sure in the center of it now the reason i want to go through this series is so that when we get to Passover it will mean something more you will see you masai in a different light hopefully in a more intimate light so we're going to look at the ancient hebrew wedding models but today we'll look more the basic foundational stuff understanding this cultural aspect of scripture helps us understand scripture on a different level now once you're aware of how things were doing back then you start seeing it everywhere in the scripture little hints here little hints there and you just get that oh I never saw it that way before you just gain a deeper appreciation for it it will help you understand things in regards to prophecy everyone loves talking about prophecy I'm gonna say this from the get-go if you do not understand the cycle of the mower deme and if you don't know how to wrap the ancient Hebrew wedding model around it you don't understand you won't understand prophecy fully I'm not saying you won't get it but you won't get that deeper intimate aspect to it again once you're aware of these things today what you'll find is that as I'm going through this you're gonna go ah this is what you're sure is talking about what this is what that refers to it helps us understand our relationship to our Messiah and our bride group hopefully we're hoping to become the bride not to just get into the kingdom there's we all know it is gonna be very there's gonna be hierarchy where do you want to be it will help us understand our walk in this faith and how we ought to be acting and small specifically how we should be preparing not just coasting along so let's get down to the basics modern-day weddings and the lead-up to a wedding is very much different to what it used to be back in modern times sorry back in biblical times there were several stages to a Hebrew wedding and each one was just as important and actually one thing it's quite different of the modern day in the modern day it's the actual wedding day that's considered the big most important thing in the Hebrew mind say it was right at the very beginning these were the most important stages and the final wedding was just a fulfillment of what was already laid down so the first stage is called she'd or him and it's essentially the matchmaking stage the next stage after that was a whole scene the betrothal stage we have a somewhat warped version of this called engagement it's not the same as betrothal as we'll find out and then you have Dan issuing the marriage itself now each one of these there were there's various things that go within these three stages each stage had certain ceremonies and practices associated with it and we find hints of them throughout scripture again you just have to know what you're looking at and where to look over times of these can be found throughout the word so let's look at she'd routine Genesis 2:18 says yah Elohim said it not good for the man to be alone I am going to make a helper for him as his counterpart it was Elohim that decided to choose the bride for Adam she routine refers to the preliminary arrangements prior to the legal betrothal in ancient times marriages were actually looks more like an alliance between families as opposed it had this idea of survival the well-being of the family and practicality we understand this in terms of royal terms Kings would marry their children two kings of other countries for political reasons this it was a similar mentality but more on a family level obviously it wasn't completely devoid of emotion though let's note that the concept of romantic love actually remained a secondary issue if considered at all but romantic love grew over time and we're going to see an example of this especially in the second half of this today's teaching it was generally the fathers that did the deliberating at this stage the the father of the bride and the father of the groom and the groom would be involved in the deliberating but they organized they decided what would happen and what the conditions would be it was common for children to be betrothed to each other now as we're going to see betrothal was you illegally together but you weren't consummated however it was seldom that marriages were forced upon young people that had no interest for each other say if obviously the fathers would will bring the two to the two people together but if it just wasn't working it wouldn't be forced generally now it's worth noting that when children would be truth to each other the whoever was too young or too mature would have to wait to be of age before there was a consummation so we're not talking child brides and things were there in Auto Orthodox Judaism today many marriages is still arranged by a marriage broker or matchmaker called a shad Han those of you who have seen Fiddler on the we'll know that it's considered an exalted and holy vocation to find an arranged a good merits will match called acidic between a man and a woman we see this in judges and she's shown when Samson went down to Timna and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines and he went up and informed his father and mother saying I have seen a woman in Timna of the daughters of the Philistines and now take her for me for a wife see Samson is talking to his parents saying you take her as a wife for me but his father and mother said to him is there no woman among the daughters of your brother's or among all my people that you should take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines and she Michonne said to his father take her for me for she is pleasing in my eyes now whose do it we can see a hint here that Samson is asking his father go and do the negotiation with this woman's father this is why he's asking his parents however his father and mother did not know that this was of yah that he was seeking an occasion to move against the Philistines for at that time the Philistines were ruling over yes right then she Michonne went down to Timna with his father and mother and came to the vineyards of Timna so this is what was going on there this is essentially they were going to do a formal proposal but so you can imagine Samson's parents going over to this woman's parents house and saying my son wants to marry your daughter what can we do to make this happen this would begin the process of setting the terms for the marriage if that proposal was accepted the next stage is that Oh scene so this is the betrothal stage now there's several components to this once the match had been made the terms of marriage would be made and set in the form of a kotoba ketubah it's a contract but don't think too much businesslike but it is kind of like that the ketubah was a legally binding document and his primary purpose was actually to protect the bride it was to protect the woman as we will see the father of the bride would use his wisdom to look out for the best interests of his daughter so that the father was responsible for essentially what happened to his daughter men you have a very important role not only responsible for your wives but for your daughters the bride was actually seen as being completely under the Father's control for example if a man slept with a virgin they generally got married but the father had to consent there has to be concerned as we see due to early 2228 says when a man finds a girl who is a maiden who is not engaged and he seizes her analyze with her and they are found out then the man who lays with her shall give to the girl's father fifty pieces of silver and she is to be his wife because he has humbled her he is not allowed to put her away all his days now these verse is actually used by those outside the camp Don believers we're going to tackle this probably in a future teaching the laws of sexuality and how rape and what this is actually talking about if that makes sense because atheists will use this to basically make us look bad and to slander the word of Elohim in Exodus 22 we have the counterpart to this passage and when a man entices a woman who is not engaged in lies with her he shall certainly pay the bride price for her to be his wife this is the fifty shekels that we've just seen if her father absolutely refuses to give her to him he pays according to the bride price of maidens so fornication was a very costly endeavor shall we say you could you would end up forking out fifty shekels and still not have a woman at the end of it the could suit now the ketubah consisted of several stipulations the conditions and requirements of the groom and bride to each other we would call that the vows on a basic level but it would have gone into more detail I the the groom would say to that I promise that I will perform the duty of a husband we will try and have children I will provide this for you I will protect you and the wife on the flipside she will say I will serve you I will be the mother I will be the woman of the house the bride's estate inventory was listed in the original youtubers and this was an accounting of assets such as money property livestock and businesses usually given from the bride's father to bless her and send her on her way and everything that this bride contributed to the marriage so we call it nuptials prenuptials you know when you signed is the disclaimer if whatever happens would I take this back it's a form of that we'll see later on why this is important and the bride price this was usually set at 50 shekels of silver because of what we just read in Torah and this was a cash penalty for a divorce without proper cause so basically if it wasn't for the case of adultery or taking a second wife without consent in permission from the bride's and all her father so it was only rich people that had more than one wife and it didn't happen that often actually we think they happen quite a lot it was only royalty and most of it was it was more so that the woman had provision for her it was different the mentality was different the dowry in Hebrews called the maja and this was the price of the bride paid by the groom's father and all the groom to the bride's father we know as a dowry so all this was written in the ketubah and this was part of the deliberations this stage took quite a while as you can imagine that you know the father of the bride would I want this I want that my daughter needs this my daughter needs that and this is where a lot of the time was spent in ancient days marriages was not an agreement between two individuals but between two families now it's all about me modern day me me me the newly married man usually did not find a new home for himself but occupied a nook in his father's house so they extended the the family home the family of the groom gained but the family of the bride lost a valuable member who helped with all the household tasks it was reasonable therefore the father of the bride received the equivalent of her value is a useful member of the family this is what the dowry was about so when people look at this sort of way of doing the marriage thing modern-day people automatically think that it's objectifying women by putting a price on them it wasn't about the value of the woman it was about you've lost it you've lost someone as part of the family household that costs money so this was actually a form of honoring the family that was giving the bride if that makes sense this wasn't about debasing the woman if anything he honored her family she would have wanted her family to get a good dowry remember back then you know if he didn't work if he didn't live off the land if you died you got you went poor these were this was mainly an agrarian society all hands on deck but my wife grew up on a farm she understands this someone doesn't pull their weight or you're missing someone it's hard work in the course of time the Mohar lost its original meaning as a purchase price paid to the father for his daughter and actually became more of like the idea of a gift to the family usually a very expensive gift as far back as early biblical times it was customary for a good father to give the whole of the moja or the best part of it to the bride so essentially it went back to the family but it became the bride and this would have become part of the bridal inventory so to speak that we've just covered in the ketubah a father who appropriated the whole Mohar for himself was considered unkind and harsh well I found a really interesting thing so this idea of the the father giving back to the bride what he's been given we know these verses versus all the tide of the land of the seed of the land of the fruit of the tree it belongs to yah it is set apart to you so think of this is something being given to the father what does he do he gives it back and see I have given the children of LaVey all the tithes in India Israel as an inheritance in return for their service in which they are serving the service of the tent of meeting I found it I think it's an interesting parallel almost that the father is giving back the Mohawk as it was he doesn't need it right he's blessing he's a good father on top of the Mohawk the groom would give costly gifts called the Matan to the bride as a sign of his commitment and as a sign of his promise to return for her now the Matan was usually given after the signing of the ketubah and where they would meet and the the groom would give her these gifts as a way of saying I'm coming back for you as we're gonna see they would spend at least a year apart after the ketubah was signed where the groom would go off and prepare a place and this was his way of saying remember me I will come back for you we see the Matan and the Mohawk in Scripture the Shechem incident in Shechem said to his father and her brothers let me find favor in your eyes whatever you say to me I give so we knew what's going on you know he's he's took döner and they've had fornication asked of me a bride price at maja and a gift I'm at an ever so high and I give according to what you say to me but give me the girl for a wife if you look at the Hebrew he's essentially saying look tell me what the Diary is and let me give her him a really large gift I just need her as a wife so at least Shechem he knew that what he did was wrong he took the döner from out of the father's covering but at Lee he's trying to make amends he's trying to do right it was actually Lavy Levi and Simeon that kind of they're the ones that actually unrighteous in all of this by the end of it now once all the stipulations had been agreed upon the proceedings of betrothal could occur so everything's being hashed out the ketubah is being written now it gets signed now we can move forward the groom and his father would go to the bride's father's house and they would knock on the door this was like a ceremony almost so everything once everything was set in stone this would occur the bride's decision would then be made known by whether the door was opened or not now this should sound familiar when you shura says in revelation I stand at the door and knock is it's an invitation to betrothal to be in Union if opened the groom and his father would share a covenant or meal with the bride and her family and partake of bread and wine now again in Revelation what does it say I stand at the door and knock he who opens up I shall come in to dine with him and he with me this is wedding talk but we read right over it it just sounds really nice and poetic in our Western mindsets then would come the public ceremony of betrothal said there would be the private thing where of the opening of the door bread wine then there would be a public one right by the mouth of two or three witnesses the bride and the groom would undergo a mikvah in preparation for the betrothal ceremony then they would stand under a chuppah the canopy and the groom would give the hat on to his bride this is when he would say I will come back for you he would give gifts to her now again Paul says that Anu sure gave gifts unto his people the ketubah would then be signed there were three copies of the ketubah one for the father of the bride one for the married couple and a sealed copy for the local judicial court and this would remain sealed and only a judge would be allowed to break that seal and open it should as we're going to see later on should they be mishaps and someone comes to the court and there's accusations once the ketubah was signed the bride and groom were legally married and betrothed to one another that's it like but there hadn't consummated unfortunately the modern day the the modern equivalent of engagement is kind of even then there's a lack of commitment like even marriage nowadays people think that when they married they still a get out clause you know when my wife and I got engaged and it was with the idea that this is it you know that there's no coming out of this unfortunately people treat marriage very flippantly however consummation and cohabitation did not yet occur so you are legally bound but it wasn't consummated the groom will go back to his father's house and prepare a place for him and his bride to dwell can you see the whole time the bride has been protected everything because now the groom is forced he's bound by contract he has to go and prepare a place for his brides it wasn't just let's just quickly shack up run off to Gretna Green and hope for the best during this time the bride would learn all about the groom and how to be a pleasing wife she would learn to be a mother a house mistress and so forth she would also prepare her wedding garments in preparation for the wedding this should all be sounding very familiar but she would make a wedding dress basically during the betrothal period the bride and groom they wouldn't see each other so for a year they wouldn't see each other however messages were usually pass between the two by the friend of the groom we get let's think spiritually now for a second if we our groom is up in heaven right now we're here on earth who's the one during the back and forth between the groom and us we have the Ruhr for this okay let's look at divorce and adultery quickly because even during betrothal if you wanted to break that betrothal you needed to get a divorce certificate that you were bound so when my wife and I got engaged it we had this understanding in mind that's it even though we haven't had the wedding we're together that's it we're bound we'd made that commitment this is how serious it was but nowadays you can get engaged and you just pop your ring off and go I'm sorry you know it's there's no honor to it anymore if the groom divorced his wife without jus cause that all committed adultery not only would he have to pay the bride price the fifty shekels but he would also have to return the whole of the bride's inventory that was written in the ketubah so let's just save you know let's put I'm going to use myself and my wife as an example she's gonna kill me after but had I wanted to annul the betrayal I would have had to pay the fifty shekels and give back everything that she was going to bring back because there wasn't jus cause and the only Jew cause we've read was adultery uncovered 'no son cleanness this is where actually the idea of putting away comes from so people must have heard of the difference in their divorce putting away their the same are they different the man would put his wife away without divorcing her which meant he would get to keep all the assets it was really was really it was an underhand move but basically the man will go he just send the woman away and because there wasn't a divorce certificate because it wasn't legal and it hadn't gone to the judicial court he kept it all now this this is what you schewe is railing against and as you can see this actually puts the bride in a very vulnerable place now because she's lost everything she's out on her own she's probably being publicly shamed because it was a community life back then this is what you sure was talking about that putting away let's quickly read it it has been said whoever puts his wife away let him give her a certificate of divorce but I say to you that whoever puts his away his wife wears it certificate that there's no certificate there he said whoever puts his wife away except for the matter of whoring makes her commit adultery why she's still married so if she's been sent out and there haven't be we'd call it separation today say if a married couple then separates and the other person goes off is that adultery absolutely it is and whoever marries a woman who is being put away commits adultery that's obvious now yeah Matthew 19 this comes up again the Pharisees came to him they're trying him now they're trying to test him they're trying to catch him in his words saying to him is it right for a man to put away his wife for every reason this is where they're trying to catch him out for every reason and he answering said to them did you not read that he who made them at the beginning made of male and female and he said for this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife and the two shall become one flesh so that they are no longer two but one flesh therefore what elohim has joined together let not let man not separate what's really interesting in in the divorce is actually a form of murder because you've got something that's now worn and you're tearing it apart you even out lied the two now at one flesh you you've it's a form of murder this is why does the death penalty for it by the way they said to him why then did Moche command to give a certificate a divorce and to put her away he said because of the hardness of your hearts Moshe allowed you to put away your wife but from the beginning it was not so and I say to you whoever puts away his wife except on the ground of whoring and marries another commits adultery and whoever marries her who has been put away commits adultery remember that adultery essentially broke covenant it was essentially shattering the stone tablets on the floor now let's put this in context back of Tor are you sure it can't be speaking against Torah so let's actually see what the command says in Deuteronomy 24 it says when a man takes a wife and shall marry her then it shall be if she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found a matter of uncovered 'no sinned her unclean this is talking of basically extramarital relations he shall write her a certificate of divorce put it in her hand and send her out of his house there's a process written legal document give it to her send her out now certificate of divorce the Hebrew yeah the certificate is Seafarer which means book or written document and for divorce is key to it and it literally means a cutting a cutting of something so it's a certificate of a breaking is because remember the marriage was a legal binding thing so you need a legal binding thing to undo it but the only excuse you have is adultery you can't just there was this whole argument in this first century by the way between the school of Hallel and the school of Shamai and one school said that you can only divorce through your wife because of adultery the other school said well she's burnt the dinner divorce her sort then put her away and this is why this issue is being brought to you sure and if she left his house and went and became another man's wife is that a sin she's got a certificate of divorce that so far there's no sin going on in the latter husband shall hate her and write her a certificate of divorce and put it in her hand and send her out to be his wife or when the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife says see now the certificate of divorce has been had the same power as the husband dying please note the reverse three certificate of divorce with grounds for divorce and a death of a husband they the same thing then the former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her back to be his wife after she has been defiled for that would be an abomination before you that now comes the sin you can't divorce a woman her go somewhere once she's divorced that's it she's off-limits she can't come back to you unless he dies first and do not bring sin on the land which ye our elohim is giving you as an inheritance the problem in the first century and even before that as early as malachi the problem was that men were sending women away without a certificate of divorce they wanted to keep the bridal inventory the woman this actually a poor in a vulnerable state should have been publicly shamed now back then there was on a shame going on so not only was she shame but so was a father's house now this is what is spoken of in Malachi where everyone knows God hates divorce right let's actually look at this passage verse 13 chapter 2 this is what you have done a second time you cover the altar of yar with tears with weeping and crying because he no longer regards the offering nor receives it with pleasure from your hands and you said why because yar has been witnessed between you and the wife of your youth against whom you have acted treacherously though she is your companion and the wife of your covenant and did he not make one like the two people and he had the remnant of the Spirit what is the one alone he seeks a seed of Elohim so you shall guard your spirit and let none act treacherously against the wife of his youth if you read the context years réalité said had married a wife and then were marrying pagan women and y'all was coming against this for I hate divorce and this is where people say that's it you can't have divorce says y'all eloheem of yeast fry out and the one who covers his garment with cruelty Fedya of hosts so she shall guard your spirit and not treacherously this is from the is our the King James actually got this rightful ones they translate this correctly the word for divorce tears Shilla which means to send out to put away when we read Deuteronomy and it says you shall give her a certificate of divorce and then send her away you shall give her this affair key to it the handwritten document and then you shall shall add her you have to give her the document before you send her out if not she becomes an adulteress there's no mention here of a certificate of divorce and the context of Malachi here you can read it in the chapter it's about men that were married a foreign women even though they were already married an Israelite they were probably safe thinking oh she's better look in you know on you go love I'm keeping all your assets by the way and this is what yah hates sending away is unrighteous everyone with me so far hmm well I want what we're on this thing of divorce Yeshua said that actually it wasn't so at the beginning a man and a woman were meant to stay together now they need I'm just gonna say this there has to be very good grounds for divorce you know adultery the man is battering his wife things like that now you know this is a sheer breaking of covenant but I want to suggest that if you are torah observant you are fully walking in the character of messiah there should be no reason for you to divorce because if you're fully walking as here's your you're laying your life down that the man needs to lay his life down for the bride why wouldn't a woman want to be with a man that lays his life down for her why would she see what I mean and the woman she's serving the man and beam and help me why would the man not want to stay so I wouldn't you know if you say you're walking in Torah and you're following a walking in his character they shouldn't be any grounds for divorce I'm sorry so if there is something going on that's there's something else at play let's look at the knee suey so Denise you in is it comes from the word it means to take the groom comes and he takes his bride this is after the year of betrothal and we'll see how this goes it comes from the word Nassau which means to lift up not only would the groom come to take his bride he would honor her and lift her up this is why they used it say I love the Hebrew here there's this kind of like wordplay between he's taking her but he's also he's exalting her when the groom came for his bride there was a great procession of joy jubilation and shofar blasts say that the groom would come and there would be a great procession and they would literally be blowing shofar saying the groom is coming the groom is coming the bride would see the light of the procession in the night these ceremonies usually happened at night and she would have to go out and follow the light and go meet her groom now how do you get around in the dark back then with a lamp with a lamp so she would have to have a lamp ready and go out and meet her groom she would like her or lamp and go out and meet him I love this because the groom has gone all the way from his father's house and gone over there and though the woman has to watch for that glimmer of light and hear the sound of the shofar and then she has to go out to him that this idea of in James it says draw draw near to Elohim and he shall draw near unto you it's a two-way thing it's just so beautiful although the bright knew to expect her groom after about a year sometimes it was more she did not know the exact day or hour it was the father of the groom who gave the final approval for him to return to collect his bride the groom wasn't allowed to just go okay two days today it was the father of the groom they says son you're ready your ready to be a husband and you already know to provide for your family again men you have an important role in bringing up your sons to be men according to scripture not you know what you see out in the modern day you know males that are not meant for that reason the bride kept her Oh lamps ready at all times as the groom usually came in the night she it was a bit of a surprise visit so to speak the groom would then take his bride and take her back to his father's house to consummate and celebrate the couple would finalize their vows and drink a cup of wine to signify their union so there's a cup of wine and a no covenant meal at the betrothal and now you have one at the consummation so let's look at this it wasn't just straightforward you know they do what they have to do even this had a set way a set sequence of events there was a procedure to the consummation the bride might have up to ten friends who would act as witnesses to the event it sounds very familiar doesn't it you know oil lamps ten people ten witnesses now they the mother of the bride and all the bride herself they would so a name of the couple on the cloths right I think people know where I'm going with this this was called the proof of virginity that the bride would bleed on as she lay on top of it during the consummation both the groom and the bride would have signed several formal witnesses to the event and they would there wouldn't be in the room but they would wait outside or in an adjoining room while the couple consummated the marriage in the wedding breath in the wedding bed so the bride would have up to ten witnesses - this is where the idea of a bridal party comes from by the way how many witnesses do you think the groom had - two witnesses does that sound familiar two witnesses announcing the coming of the grooc sounds familiar hmm they should do this is where the parable of the top of the table the ten virgins come in so let's just break this down quickly the bride's ten virgins they're the witnesses and they would walk to the with the bride in a ceremony to the wedding feast of the house for the groom so the bride is waiting she would have her friends ready on standby as well as the bride was waiting for the group to arrive and take her to his father's house the ten we know they fall asleep because of the delay of the groom once the groom arrives the male witnesses of the groom would announce his arrival with a shofar and cause from his own voice to the Brydon and her maidens this is where the two witnesses commit and one of these witnesses would have been the friend of the groom that this is how it worked back in ancient times where he would go between the groom and the bride to send messages you know this is where it's almost it's really cute in a Rancic this idea of love letters and love messages and it should bring up the Song of Solomon in our mind at this point they trimmed their lamps which had been burning and the wise virgins had taken extra oil because of the delay as the groom takes his bride to the Hopa room a celebration party begins in the outside room and the five foolish virgins run to buy the extra what would have happen is that the groom would have came taken the bride the bridal party would have gone they would have been this great big fanfare and they go back to the groom's house for the consummation and for the party essentially now this is where the five foolish are off to buy oil during when it's dark as well the entire wedding party make their way to the groom's house and the door is closed when the last person in the procession enters and they used to lock the door this is where the five foolish virgins arrived knock on the closed door and are told I never knew you and are forbidden to enter the wedding feast now the groom these were the witnesses of the bride so the groom didn't know them now when it says I never knew you what's usually the tagline that goes that you who work lawlessness so let's remember what it means to know him intimately I've said this before many people claim to know him and do everything that he hates the Hooper that was using the betrothal ceremony was used as a covering for the marriage bed this varied by the way sometimes it was over the marriage bed sometimes it was where they would do the public ceremony it depended there's actually like some discrepancies here once the marriage was consummated the groom would hand the proof of virginity to the witnesses and the celebrations would begin so that they'll be waiting in the room and it was there was a lot hanging on this should we say yeah no pressure right hits yeah I always gotta feel sorry for the women on this well I'll be honest great importance was put upon the virginity of the bride if she wasn't found a virgin what happened she could be stoned so you could imagine when the groom came out with great joy and says you know here it is there was elation and relief and this is part of the reason why you needed to celebrate the witnesses were there for the specific job of confirming the bride's virginity the bride's parents wanted to know and so did the the broader groom's parents people needed to know let's look at where this comes from in Deuteronomy 22 when a man when any man takes a wife and child go into her and shall hate her so their consummating and he decides there and shall make abusive charges against her and bring an evil name on her and say I took this woman and when I came to her I did not find her a maiden then the father and the mother of the young woman shall take and bring out the proof of the girl's maidenhood to the elders at the gates this is why it was very important and the girls fathers shall say to the elders I gave my daughter to this man as a wife and he hates her and see he has made abusive charges against their saying I did not find you our maiden and yet these are the proofs of my daughter's maidenhood and they shall spread the garment out before the elders of the city and the elders of that city shall take that man and punish him and find him one hundred pieces of silver and give them the father of the young woman because he has brought an evil name on the maiden of his Ryo and she is to be his wife he's not allowed to put her away all of his days because again this is an honor and shame thing only this is protection of the woman but if the matter is true that the girl was not found a maiden they shall bring out the girl to the door of the father's house and the men of her City shall stone her to death with stones because she has done wickedness in Israel to in her father's house thus you shall purge the evil from your mix this is what so you can imagine when this consummation was going on it was life the parents were praying please please please write remember if the bride was actually found guilty of adultery she'd lose everything usually her own life with it the groom would actually keep the whole Bridal inventory with it because the fault was on her that there was a lot at stake now the bride price was fifty shekels of silver we covered this earlier and here the cost of accusation of harlotry was a hundred shekels of silver now this means nothing to us right what does this mean so let's put it into modern terms we've done this before with a Torah portion one Denarius so is which is the same as a silver dime in America was a day's wage so in the first century a silver denarii was what you got for a day's wage this was true right up until the nineteenth century in America you had a silver dime as a day's wage so for always two thousand years the money stayed the same now as of April this year minimum wage goes up to 821 so everyone think yes but you work 12 hours back there not 8 hours a day so that means that a silver denarii or so one day's wage is 98 pounds and 52 pence let's call it let's call it a hundred now yes so a Denarius a dime nearly a hundred pounds now there's fourteen denarii or fourteen silver dimes to one ounce 1 ounce of silver so one ounce is basically one thousand three hundred and seventy nine pounds an ounce of silver in terms of monetary value but now one shekel is point four of an ounce which means that five shekels is two ounces which means that five shekels is equivalent to twenty eight days wages you know I've done it this way you can pause the video and check my maths that means five shekels is nearly two thousand eight hundred pounds five shekels that so remember now we're talking bribe price 50 shekels so it puts it back in let's keep going a half shekel which was the redemption of souls works out to 275 pounds which is five and a half days wages that that was the redemption that you brought that you paid to the tabernacle thirty shekels which is what your shoe was bought for track sold for sixteen thousand pounds five hundred and fifty or one hundred and sixty eight days wages because we think are thirty pieces of silver there's and remember that these are minimum values I'm going off minimum wage so it's probably more what would you do for 16 grand I don't know what that is in r and fifty shekels the price of fornication twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty six pounds that was two hundred and Nets nine and ten months wages now remember if you have found fornicating you would have to pay that to the father of the Brier of the go and he could still say no you know nine ten months out of pocket and you don't have anything to show for it other than shame by the way this was because back then if you weren't a virgin you were a lot less likely be remarried so it was to make up for the fact hundred shekels is fifty five thousand pounds the accusation of harlotry one and a half years wages so if you accused your newly what married wife and you have found to be a liar that's the fine you had hopefully that puts it back because people think this is one of the thing that non-believers will throw the believer are look thirty pieces of silver it's not this was a lot of money that this was enough to be having to sell yourself to someone to pay off a debt I hope that puts it into a better perspective nowadays you can just sleep around it will cost you probably an STD but this is why when the proofs of virginity were presented there was a great joy an elation and the celebrations could begin it was they were Ruby in a very tense moment now this is really interested in John 329 this is Johanna and the immerser John the Baptist he that has the bride is the bridegroom but the friend of the bridegroom who stands in his him rejoices greatly because of the voice of the bridegroom so this joy of mine is complete this is talking of the witness standing outside when the bridegroom will come out and go it it is done there'll be great rejoicing knowing all this everything we've covered so far now let's look at Miriam and Yosef but the birth of you sure Messiah was as follows after his mother Miriam was engaged to Joseph before they came together she was found to be pregnant from the set-apart spirit so they're engaged they betrothed but before they came before they consummated so Miriam in Joseph or actually they're legally married they're in betrothal their clothes are quite engaged so you can imagine this is a bit of a tough spot for Miriam to be in and Yosef for her husband being righteous not wishing to make a show ever had in mind to put her away secretly he wasn't going to do it publicly he had every ground to say you harlot and would have probably won the court look the case but while he thought about this he a messenger of yarra appeared to him in a dream saying Joseph son of David do not be afraid to take Miriam as your wife for that which is in her was brought forth from the set-apart spirit and she shall give birth to a son he should I call his name yeshua for he shall save his people from their sins and all this came to be in order to feel what was spoken by yah through the prophets saying see a maiden shall conceive and she shall give birth to his son and they shall call his name Emmanuel which translated means ell with us and Yosef awaking from his sleep did as the messenger of yah commanded him and took his wife C having cook she's still considered a wife but knew her not until she gave birth to her son the firstborn and he called his name you sure so you can imagine already there would have probably been whispers about Miriam she would have been accused of basically playing the harlot she got pregnant before because everyone knew when the Wed like the wedding was a big thing and people would have C hang on they betrothed why is she pregnant what's going on I'll go as far as saying this that you sure might have even been called son of a because of the circumstance this happened Yosef and the father of Miriam would have signed a ketubah and there would have been legally married little so put yourself they've signed the ketubah they're betrothed she's given the inventory of assets everything's you know on the books Miriam was in a vulnerable position and at the mercy of a husband she was pregnant before the hoper she wouldn't have had a virginity cloth or the proof of maidenhood now this is what was used in a Kinnick accusation of harlotry yost now says Yosef was a righteous man he did not want to disgrace her even though he believed she was an adulteress this is why you wanted to put her away because at first he would have thought hang on I haven't slept with her remember they're not living together at the time well we know that for a period of time she was with Elizabeth her cousin he was going to divorce a secret secretly and merely hand her the get the get is another word for the certificate of divorce without making an accusation of adultery now to the legal Court this would have looked like divorce without a cause because there was he didn't want he did it in secret he didn't want to make a big show and dance of it had Joseph decide divorced her without accusation of dock adultery he would have been required to return the inventory of assets to the of the bride that she'd brought in and he would have had to pay the bride price to the father right so how much 50 shekels over 25 thousand pounds and he hadn't done anything wrong he had legal grounds to accuse her and keep everything whilst not have to pay the fifty shekels so twenty-seven thousand pounds Joseph had everything to gain by openly accusing her but it would have cost him much to divorce her secretly and he'd made that decision he was willing to take the hit how many divorcing spouses would give up a solid winnable legal position in court and adopt the losing position mainly to protect the reputation of their spouse as a great personal financial disaster puts Joseph in a different light he truly was a righteous man but this is what it means to die to self to lay your life down so Joseph had two choices divorced Miriam for cause Miriam's reputation harmed probably stoned in the process Joseph keeps the bridal inventory yosef does not pay fifty shekels twenty-seven thousand pounds or he divorces secretly for no cause Joseph's reputation harmed Joseph gives back the bridal inventory Joseph must pay fifty shekels what would you do it's you know we like to say oh I would do the righteous thing come on all right let's last little section once the marriage are being consummated there was a huge celebration and it lasted for seven days what feast do we have that's a great celebration seven days right these celebrations usually happened after the harvest a little funny that when there was plenty of fruit wine and general joy your hard work the years hard work is done you can kick back a little bit you know you've got that moment's peace let this have a great you know let's have a wedding these celebrations happen at the groom's place which he had prepared at his father's house what did you sure say I go to prepare a place for you let's take a break here and so this is just a foundation the ceremony itself and how everything would have played out now in the second half we're going to see actual scriptural examples of this okay the second half let's take what we've learned and looked at in the first half and let's start looking for it in the scriptures because if it isn't in Scripture well then what's the point right so we have a good outline of what the ancient Hebrew wedding ceremony our process is we know the various stages a lot of people will say well why haven't I seen it before in scripture when you you don't know what you don't know so if you don't you're not aware of it you're not gonna see it the fact is that it's actually all over you just have to know what you're looking for and where to look and you just have to understand the culture and the context so let's do a quick recap of what the stages are he had she'd Hakeem which was the matchmaking finding a match and setting out the terms of Covenant this was done by the fathers then we had a whole scene which was the betrothal the bride and groom would undergo the mikveh there was the giving of the hat on so the groom would give the gifts over to the bride as a sign that he's coming back and then there would be the signing of the ketubah then there would be the Covenant of meal and the cup of wine and then we had the knee Suey so you have the groom coming to take his bride home announced by his two witnesses the finalization of the vows and the cup of wine and the consummation and then there would be the big wedding feasts so let's look at Genesis 24 this is a well-known story and it's a beautiful type and shadow actually so whilst we go through this constantly think of how this relates to us and our Heavenly Father in Abraham was old advanced in years in yah had blessed Avraham in every way in Avraham said to the oldest servant of his house who ruled over all the head please put your hand under my thigh so that I make you swear by yar the Elohim of the heavens of the of the earth that you do not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I dwell but go to my land and to my relatives and take a wife from mice for my son Yitzhak and the servant said to him what if the woman refuses to follow me to this land do I then take your son back to the land from which he came and Avraham said to him beware lest you take my son back there Yael oh here with the heavens who took me from my father's house and from the land of my relatives and who spoke to me and swore to me saying to your seed I give this land he sends his messenger before you and you shall take a wife from for my son from there and if the woman refuses you to follow you then you shall be released from this oath only do not take my son back there then the servant put his hand under the thigh of Avraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter we actually see the beginning stages of shador seen here remember it was the father who deliberates it and showed it was the father of the bride and the groom and we see the same here Avraham is saying my son needs a wife and but in this case he's given it the responsibility to his servant we see that Avraham is the one responsible for choosing a bride yet he passes the duty over to his servant to find a bride for his son so already like think about this it's in the spiritual sense like we're hoping to be the bride of Messiah and if we're going to see here think of Avraham as the father Yitzhak as the son as you sure and Eleazar the servant is the Ruhr the spirit there's going forth and is the spirit that had to go and select the bride you have this beautiful picture of the spirit drawing people near and doing the heart circumcision and writing that ketubah on our hearts let's keep going and watch it so this is the servant has now got to the land he's found Rivka Rebekah and watching her the man remained silent in order to know whether yah had prospered his way or not so he's at the well and it came to be when the cameras had finished drinking and the man took a golden nose ring way in half a shekel and two bracelets for her wrist weighing 10 shekels of gold now these were initial gifts to woo the bride he was to get her attention they're not the Hutton the Hudson will come later but right it's the classic man chasing the woman this time it's the servant that's chasing for his for his master's son let's keep going and Rivka had a brother whose name was Levon and Levon right ran out to the man to the fountain and it came to be when he saw the nose ring in the bracelets on his sister's wrists and when he heard the words of his sister Rivka saying verse the man spoke to me that he went to the man saw him standing by the camels at the fountain and he said come in O blessed of yah why do you stand outside I myself have prepared the house in a place for the camels noticed that he sees the God Islam all remember that marriages were often done with survival in welfare in mind and that marriages were between families as opposed to individuals so we we're going to see Levon where his heart was actually in this knowing what we know about Livan Livan means white in Hebrew yet we know he was a bit of a slippery character right changed wages 10 times and so forth so you have this idea of whitewashed tubing whites on the outside you know evil inside it's easy to see why he wanted to marry Rivka off especially with the terms that Eleazar proceeded to give you've got to think like the bracelets they were costly we've just read that Avraham was blessed in every way he was rich like filthy rich by our today's standards let's see the terms that the servant sets up so the man came into the house while he unloaded the camels and provided straw and fodder for their camels and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him and set food before him to eat but he said let me not eat until I have spoken my word and he said speak on and he said I am Avraham servant and yah has blessed by master exceedingly and he has become great he has given him flocks and herds and silver and gold and male and female servants and camels and donkeys so we can see the the the Father better well in LaVon I probably think you know this sounds good this is a good deal you know because they would have been benefiting from this and Sarah my Master's wife Boris earns my master when she was old and she has given to him all that he has and he has given to him all they are sorry there and my master made me swear saying do not take a wife from for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I dwell but go to my father's house and to my relatives and take a wife for my son so he's making it very clear I've come here for a wife for my master's son he's setting out the conditions and LaVon answered and Beth well to Beth well was the father LaVon I think he was her brother but he was it seems that LaVon was in charge and said the matzah comes from yar we are not able to speak to you either evil or good see Rivka is before you take her and go and let her be your master's son's wife as yah has spoken who's got the authority to give Rivka away they the father and the man in charge read the story up until this point we haven't heard anything from Rivka which is interested so again it goes to this point that it was the father as the men of the house that did the deliberating and it came to be when Avraham servant heard their words that he bowed himself towards the earth before you and the servant brought out the ornaments of silver and almond ornaments of gold and garments and gave them to Rivka this is the Hat on the gift to the bride from the husband he also gave costly gifts to her brother and her mother there's your dowry the maja you you weren't just going to take the woman away from the house not give it says costly gifts so remember how blessed Abraham was so here we see the exchange the gift of the bride in the gift to the parents the given of the Hutt's aunt of the bride the Mohar to the bride's family to keep going and here in the men who were with him ate and drank and spend the night and when so there you have the Covenant meal so what once the the agreement was set you would have a meal it was the equivalent of shake in the hand you know this deal is done so you would share a meal bread wine just as a little side note this is why in our Paul says that we should not keep company with those who call themselves brothers or even eat with them those that call themselves brothers but you know are in sexual sin and and they're they steal it basically false believers they they say the right thing would do because this idea of eating with men that you were in covenant with you were walking alongside them this is why John says those that do not bring the doctrine of Messiah do not even bring them into your house because when you allowed someone into your house you were saying I trust this person that under my covering we lose all this when they rose in the morning he said let me go to my master now this would have been in the covenant or meal that would have followed the agreement the terms were set the terms were agreed they sealed the deal so now they beat the woman is betrothed she is going to be his wife and Yitzhak said that this is that they now come back this you know the servant comes back with Rivka yet heart went out to meditate in the field in the evening and he lifted his eyes and looked and saw the camels come in and Rivka lifted her eyes and when she saw his heart she dismounted from her camel and she said to the servant who is this man walking in the field to meet us and the servant said it is my master so she took her veil and covered herself this idea of the veil was way way way back then it's not a new thing it had this idea of that the symbolism is that when the husband lifted that fell he was the one that was going to uncover that woman and bring her it's part of being a union as a symbolic act and the servant told you it's like all the matters that he had done in Utah brought her in to his mother Sarah's tent and he took Rivka and she became his wife and he loved her the sea its heart comfort it was comforted after his mother's death this thing of she was brought into the mothers tent is a euphemism there consummated there are now fully man and wife living together the story of Yaakov or say let's go to look at Yaakov now that gives us much insights of how ancient wedding proceedings occurred in ancient times this is in Genesis 29 Yaakov loved Rahul so he said let me serve you seven years for a hell your younger daughter this is the bride for this is the bride price to the father the moja remember Yaakov has got nothing he's ran away from home he's got not one penny so he sees Rahab how do I pay you for the Brock for the dowry I will work for it dalories were not necessarily monetary they could have been done in service as we see here and LaVon said it is better that I give her to you then I should give her to another man stay with me so Yaakov served seven years for a hoe and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her at this point that would be truths but there was no cohabitation we fought written we know from the story they'd not consummated then Yaakov said to LaVon give me my wife for my days are completed and let me go into her let me consummate the wedding and LaVon gathered all the men of the place and made a feast we have the complete process here this passage shows us every single step instead of waiting one year though he had to wait seven the this basically the man was only allowed to take the bride once the financial stipulations had been whatever that was set at the terms of marriage were discussed between Yaakov and LaVon they discussed okay you can work for me seven years that will be the bride price the price for the bride was set at seven years service as Yaakov had no possessions once the terms were met Yaakov was allowed to consummate his marriage and take his bride but we know the story you know the switcheroo so to speak and it came to being the evening that he took layer his daughter and brought her to Yaakov and he went into her and Levon gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leia as a female servant and in the morning it came to be that see it was Leia so this called this is my personal conviction I think that Yakov was pretty drunk at the time because to not recognize a woman that you've been working in the household for seven years remember they threw a great feast you know it's my conjecture just throwing it out there for what it's worth so he said to LaVon what is this that you have done to me was it not for a hell that I served you why then have you deceived me and LaVon said it is not done this way in our place to give the younger before the firstborn complete the weak of this one then we give you this one too for the service which you shall serve me still another seven years so how long was the wedding celebration seven days completes the week so let's keep going with the festivities complete the week of Leah which would have been the seven day wedding fees then you can have rachel but you can you gonna need to work another seven years and Yaakov did so it completed a week then he gave him his daughter Rahel - as a wife so completion of the week is the week-long celebration now for a hoe at least LaVon gave him you know he said you can have her now but on the conditions of that you work for me another seven years the terms for Yaakov to have Rahel was set again did the ladies have any input on this no yakov had to pay off another bride price before he could save before he could have his chosen bride because we know he didn't get his riches until after this event so this is just like basic like we see these principles in Scripture let's look at now how this can apply to us and to yah the ancient hebrew wedding sermon is a shadow of the plan of salvation for elohim it's people and as we go through this series this will become really apparent understanding these principles will help us understand our relationship to our Creator let's now begin to look at how Elohim operated with these principles to select abroad that is everywhere like I said so who did ya choose to be his people who was the father of Israel the picture should give it away Avraham he chose Avraham as we will see Genesis 12 and yar said to Avram go to yourself out of your land from your relatives and from your father's house to a land which I will show you and I shall make you a great nation and shall bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing so he's choosing Avraham he's taking him out out of Babylon by the way beautiful type and shadow of yar taking us out of whatever Babylon is to us and I shall bless those who bless you and curse him who curses you and in you all the clans of the earth shall be blessed Elohim had found his match so to speak I pick you the routine had taken place the match had been made is that I choose you and specifically your seed next chapter and after lot had separated from him yarsa to Avram now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are northward and southward and eastward and westward for all the land which you see I shall give to you and your seed forever and I shall make your seed as the of the earth so that if a man could count the dust of the earth then your seed also could be counted elohim has set the terms of what he will do for his bride remember that part of the ketubah part of the conditions is what the man will do for the bride and eventually what the bride will do for the man here we have the setting of conditions but also with a gift you will have this land Genesis 17 and it came to be when Avram was 99 years old that yah appeared to Avram I said to him I am El Shaddai walk before me and be perfect and I give my covenant between me and you and shall greatly increase you elohim has set the terms of what he expects in return from his chosen walk before me and be perfect walk in integrity be wholesome Genesis 21 and you have visited Sarah as he said and yardie for Sarah as he had spoken say Sarah conceived and brought Avraham a son in his old age at the appointed time of which elohim had spoken to him an Avraham called the name of his son who was born to him who Sarah bore to him yet Huck Elohim has now given the hutton the gift he gave him a son in his old age though he shouldn't have had one it's amazing when you see that the principles are all over at this stage remember the bride is still ye too young for consummation it's like in the type and shadow head oh I see she's she's not old enough secrets to consummate so what would happen you have to wait until the bride is mature enough which takes us to Mount Sinai the groom's intentions are laid out again say therefore to the children of Israel I am yar and I shall bring you out from under the burden of the myths right and I shall deliver you from their enslaving and I shall redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments and I shall take you as my people and shall be your Elohim this is where the four cups of wine in the Passover meal come and you shall know that I am Yaya Elohim who is bringing you out from under the burden of the myths rights and I shall bring you into the land which I swore to give to avril harm to yet hearken to Yaakov to give it to you as an inheritance I am yah we see that he's now fulfilling the Prophet he started to fulfill the promises he set out this step was traditionally done before the formal proposal you know here are the conditions this is what I want to do will you agree next we have the formal proposal and now if you diligently obey my voice and shall guard my covenant then you shall be my treasured possession above all the peoples for all the earth is mine if you say I do you will be my wife and you shall be to me a rain of priests and a set apart nation those are the words which you are to speak to the children of you throw out then we have the bride's answer to the proposal and Moshe came and called all the elders of the people is set before them all these words which ye are commanded him and all the people answered together and said all that yah has spoken we shall do so motion a brought back the words of the people to yah and if you read those chapters they say I do three times so by the mouth of two or three witnesses then is preparation for this special day remember that in the preparation for the betrothal they would undergo mikvah and you are said to Moshe I go to the people and set them apart today and tomorrow and they shall wash their garments and shall be prepared by the third day from the third day yah shall come down upon Mount Sinai before the eyes of all the people the groom comes down and he stands beneath the hopper said this is the betrothal stage still and it came to be on the third day in the morning that there were thunders lightnings and a thick cloud over the mountain I would argue that this is your hope or your canopy and the sound of the ram's horn again fanfare was very loud and all the people who were in the camp trembled the groom then presents the wedding proposal through the friend of the bridegroom and motion he brought the people out of the camp to me without her here and they stood at the foot of the mountain so I think I've missed a verse there a shofar blast announces the day we just read this when the blast of the ram's horn sounded long and became louder and louder Moshe spoke and Elohim answered him by voice the consummation occurs now remember in consummation there was blood emotional after blood they remembered they've sacrificed a load of animals put it in basins and half the blood he sprinkled on the altar and he took the book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people and they said all the Yahoo spoken we shall do and obeyed there's another I do what do you think the book of the Covenant is now in this picture it's the Torah which is the ketubah that the the thank you sorry my brain just went dead there is the conditions what the man will do for the bride and what the bride will do in return I mean if you read the blessings and curses what there's your perfect example if you do these things all this will follow but if you don't do them all that will follow and Moshe took the blood and sprinkled it on the people and said see the blood of the Covenant which yah has made with you concerning all these words we even have two witnesses present I have called the heavens and the earth as a witness against you today I have set before you life and death and blessing in the curse therefore you shall choose life so that you live both you and your seed and to love yo your Elohim to obey his voice to cling to him for he is your life and the length of your days to dwell in the land which I swore to your father's to Avraham to get sucked into Yaakov to give them and again later on as ambolyn to me all the elders of your tribes and your offices so that I speak these words in their hearing and called the heavens and the earth to witness against them you have your two witnesses now this is as they're about to go into the land the place that yah had prepared for them at this stage Ezra had not gone back to the place that the groom had prepared there was still in the desert which means that there was still technically in the betrothal stage the land was the place that Elohim had prepared for his bride in Genesis 15 it says he said to Avram know for certain that your seed it to be sojourners in the lander is not that and shall served them and they shall afflict them for hundred years but the nation whom they serve I'm going to judge and afterward let them come out with great possessions now as for you you are to go to your fathers in peace you are to be buried at a good old age then in the fourth generation they shall return here for the crookedness of the amur rights is not yet complete this is the nation's they had to dis possess something had to be done first before Israel could move into that land yah had some preparations to do let's look at this when a man has taken a new wife let him not go out into the army nor let any matter be imposed upon him he shall be exempt one year for the sake of his home to rejoice with his wife whom he has taken now the event with the twelve spies happens one year after that they were delivered out of Egypt one year there was a full year during that time there was no war with other nations apart from right at the very beginning when the Amalekites tried to get at the back end there was that whole incident with Amalek but after that you read the account there's no war it's not until a year has completed that they then send out the twelve spies and what were they supposed to do go to war no the time that was meant for rejoicing was turned into a time of misery due to her here a nagging wife the Israelites that were complainers that constantly backbiting yarn not trusting in him the yeah says these 10 times these people have have tried me this was meant to be the time when they enjoyed each other's company let's take this back to the garden and when issue himself began he was about thirty years of age being as reckoned by law son of Yosef so no Bailey and then you read down the generation of inertia of Chef of Adam of Elohim I've missed out though you know all the Adams father was Elohim up until this point men were always called son of man son of man son of man only Adam was son of Elohim now in Genesis 2:18 it says yeah Elohim said it is not good for the man to be alone I am going to make a helper for him as his counterpart you have the father again choosing a bride for his son and this is Yeshua well as you sure called the second Adam we have a form here of shidou keen of matchmaking and it was the father that did it now just a thought what we just read here about what a man has a new wife he has to be with her one year before he goes out to war does this imply that Adam and Eve were in the garden for one year before the fall just a thought Itzik an interesting it's a conjecture but it would make sense because everyone thinks are well how we like to think this how long were they in the garden I'm taking an educated guess here just thought I'd throw it out there for what it's worth now in Genesis 2 yeah I know him said it is not good for the man to be alone I am going to make a helper for him as his counterpart and from the ground yellow he formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them and whatever the man called each living creature that was its name so the man gave the name Lords to all the livestock into the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field but for the man there was not found a helper for him as his counterpart so yah Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall on the man and he slept and he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh in its place and the rib which yada he had taken for the man he made into a woman and he brought her to the man and the man said this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh this one is called woman because she was taken out of man in Hebrew she's called ashab because she was taken out of ICH he shot for this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife and they shall become one flesh and as they were both naked the man and his wife and there were not ashamed now this is a beautiful type in shadow beautiful type in shadow of Messiah and his bride now I have to give a little credit to to Jeff giftings on this we've been in our private time going through Genesis 1 to 4 and really pulling it apart and so some of this credit to you Jeff Yushu was called the second Adam Paul clearly said you she was the second Adam and compared him to Adam now Adam was put into a deep sleep which is a type and shadow of death now a messiah the second Adam had to die a wound was created in his sight and Yod took one of the ribs and closed up the flesh in its place so Adam had a wound what happened to you sure upon the cross he had a spear in his side the result of this was a bride for Adam the resolve of him going of dying of having a fleshly wound and then that being closed up the resolve of the death of Messiah and blood and water pouring out from his side as a bride fit for the king it's a beautiful type and shadow it's amazing I'm gonna leave it there because now in the next part I want to start looking at how this marriage ceremony applies to us into Messiah we'll look at mrs. words and we'll start tying it to Passover and a lot of the enigmatic things that our Messiah said and at some point it will maybe delve a bit more into Adam and Eve [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 86min 13sec (5173 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 06 2019