The Jewish Wedding - Chuck Missler

you and I are familiar with a wedding that's quite distant from the ancient Jewish wedding after which the Bible is patterned it opens with the ketubah the betrothal the commitment the generally on the part of the the prospective bridegroom he took the initiative and they established a marriage covenant and the negotiating price the mohair was he had to pay to purchase for us for his bride and once that was done from that point on she was set aside she was she was sanctified in a sense set aside set apart from that moment on she was considered exclusively for the bridegroom there was an enforceable contract remember Joseph and Mary they were a spouse and yet he had that problem because they even though it was just a spousal he was committed it was a it was it it was a committed situation in Matthew 1 and also Malachi 2 and so forth so and as a symbol of that relationship they would both drink wine as a sealing that so that that led to the next step and this is all you'll find this all through the scripture in Judges 14 10 and 11 all the way through but let's go on to the next part when after that happens the bridegroom would depart to his father's house and he would prepare typically a room addition that would be it would take some time for him to construct and arrange for meanwhile sheep would prepare for his imminent return this is a very interesting concept that we need embrace and understand because there's it's ret referred to all through the scripture and that is that the bridegroom they're committed but they're not married yet and the bridegroom is absent and how long he'll be gone is deliberately indeterminate she does not know when he's going to return if that's what we mean by imminence there was no preconditioned the event that would have to take place before he could return and when he finally did return there was a surprise gathering usually at night often in midnight and he would he would sometimes be gone say maybe for a year while he added a room to his father's house and that would you know give her of course a chance to get a trousseau together and get prepared for married life and so he would at the end of this separation he would come to take his bride with him the groom the best man other male attendants would leave the father's house conduct the torchlight procession typically to the home of the bride and although the bride was expecting her groom to come she didn't know when and so as a result the groom's arrival was typically preceded by a shout and which was which forewarned the bride to be prepared for us coming in the notes that accompany this will have all the footnotes and the authorities for all these things but that then leads to the the the Koopa I might mention by the way the surprise gathering that is even memorialized in Matthew 25 by Jesus way talks about the tenth famous ten versions understand that parable the context of it they're waiting for the surprise of the bridegroom coming you find that all through the Scriptures if you look at Psalm 45 and so on but anyway the Hupa then connects to the wedding proper and they would they would be escorted by the members of wedding party to the bridal chamber originally a hoop on now just memorialized with a little canopy but in the original days was a separate chamber and Bryer prior to entering the chamber the bride remain veiled so that no one could see her face while the groom has been the bridesmaid wait outside the bride and groom entered the bridal chamber alone there in the privacy of that place they entered into a physical union for the first time that consummated the marriage and that was covenant presumably maybe a year earlier and after it was consummated the groom would come out of the bridal chamber announced that the consummation of marriage to the members of the wedding party and then the guests so forth the wedding party would not sit to the guests and so forth and that leads of course to the marriage supper lasted typically seven days you'll find that in a number of places judges 14 Matthew 9 Matthew 22 again we have it used as an idiom and in the parables and so forth so they had a great wedding feast so and and after the seven days that right would be unveiled and everything to see her face and so forth so that's it now what's interesting this marriage model is not only in the scripture and other authorities it's fulfilled in the idiom of the church in the scripture the Covenant was established first Corinthians 11:25 deals with that the purchase price was nothing other than the blood of Christ himself first Corinthians 6:19 2:20 is goes through that in fact that's what we usually do when we take communion to commemorate that the bride then was set apart you want to really read carefully Ephesians 5:25 to 27 where we have instructions where Paul tells them you know that wives submit to your husbands and so forth and he goes through that whole thing and then even quotes justice 224 for this cause a man leave his mother his father to cleave to his wife the two shall be one flesh he quotes that in the context of Brydon the Bride of Christ and Christ himself he put crisis in the church the very next verse after he quotes that he says but I just about the time you get there you think he's what Paul is talking about is the marriage relationship but then he throws your curveball says I speak of Christ in the church he's expressing this model and we remind our first covenant in 1st Corinthians 11 the bridegroom presently has left for the father's house that's where he's been for this interval period of time and there'll be an escort to accompany him upon his return to gather his bride and we'll see that in 1st Thessalonians 4 shortly

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Published: Wed Jun 06 2012