the rapture and the Jewish wedding ceremony According to the pattern of the Ancient “Jewish Wedding Ceremony,” the Bride is told she will be imminently whisked away to the Father’s house during a defined time period, to be married to the Son, where she is asked to be ready and alert for her wedding. Upon being whisked away, both the Bride and Groom are out of the public view for that week. They emerge from their marriage chamber after the week is completed to be presented as married. - Coffee Scribe 1 CoffeeScribe.ca [email protected]I am one who loves to “re-search.” I like to look at things from different angles and search what has already been searched (re-search). This Coffee Scribe article was coauthored along with a Facebook friend and brother in Christ, Stephen Hyun.
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the rapture and the Jewish
wedding ceremonyAccording to the pattern of the Ancient “Jewish Wedding Ceremony,” the Bride is told she will be imminently whisked away to the Father’s house during a defined time period, to be married to the Son, where she is asked to be ready and alert for her wedding. Upon being whisked away, both the Bride and Groom are out of the public view for that week. They emerge from their marriage chamber after the week is completed to be presented as married.
The Hebrew form of the word “gathering” (Strongs H3349) means
“cleansing” and “purging.” In Greek the word simply means to “gather
together,” although it does contain the importance of “place” within it.
Genesis 49:10 says:
“ The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between
his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering
(Strongs H3349) of the people be.”
– KJV Strong’s H3349 matches the Hebrew יְקָהָה (yiqqahah).
Isn’t it amazing that the “gathering” at the rapture also means that we will
have been purged and cleansed (made holy). We will have been purified
and made virgins, cleaned free of all sin.
At the feast of the wicked, which I’ll look at further down, all participants
will be pure scum, in their sin, evil and wicked, uncleaned and unable to
ever get clean.
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an interesting observanceLooking into all of these idioms, shadows and types of symbols in the
ancient Hebrew wedding, we see the pre-tribulation rapture so clearly.
But more than that, we see that none of it actually fits into a post-
tribulation rapture position.
The most famously known Biblical representation of an ancient Jewish
wedding ceremony which best foreshadows a pre-tribulation rapture
of the Church is recorded for us in Genesis chapter 29, where Jacob
marries Leah and Rachel. Additionally, there are other excellent examples
in both Old and New Testaments showing us further shadows and types
as well…
idioms, shadows & types of a pre-trib rapture:Even though we understand perfectly well that these examples below are
NOT actual raptures in and of themselves, they are however very good
Biblical types of symbols which foreshadow a pre-tribulation rapture
point of view:
• Enoch, the First Raptured:
“ And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him”
(Gen. 5:18-24);
• Moses, the Second Raptured:
A type of the rapture appears in Exodus 19. Moses was on Mount Sinai
receiving the Word of God. A “cloud” descended, and the “sound of
the trumpet was very loud” as the “Lord descended” on the mount
(Ex. 19:16-18). The “Lord came down” and “Moses went up” (v. 20);
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• Elijah, the Third Raptured:
“ And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold,
there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them
both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.”
“ And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot
of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more:
and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces”
(2 Kings 2:11-12);
• Fourth: Jesus, Resurrection and Type of Rapture:
“Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into
heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven,
shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven”
(Acts 1:11);
• Fifth: Rapture/Resurrection of the Old Testament Saints:
“ And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the
top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints
which slept arose,
And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went
into the holy city, and appeared unto many” (Matt. 27:51-53);
• Sixth: The Apostle John, the Revelator:
“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the
first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me;
which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must
be hereafter. And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne
was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne” (Revelation 4:1-2).
“And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them,
Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud;
and their enemies beheld them” (Revelation 11:12);
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• Seventh: Rapture of the Church:
“ For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with
the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead
in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be
caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in
the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord”
(1 Thessalonians 4:16-17);
• Eighth: Rapture of the Two Witnesses:
“ And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them,
Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud;
and their enemies beheld them” (Revelation 11:11-12).
You can twist things and try to make them fit the post-trib view,
but the more you try, the deeper into a mess you get. The pre-trib
rapture, just fits in so well, just like a jig-saw puzzle.
Bible verses that are not specifically referenced as to which translation they are at time of their quote are taken from the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible. Other quotes from: “Prophetic Scroll Midnightcry Messengers” – Stanley Hardgraves, Endtimes Watchman. Other sources include: “Perry Stone Makes a Case for the Rapture,” Charisma News in 2011; and, “The Bible Shows Us Seven Raptures” by: Gary Stearman on November 10, 2014, Prophecy Watchers.
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in conclusionA Jewish wedding is full of beautiful biblical customs and pictures for
God’s greater purpose in marriage that ultimately point to our marriage
with Christ. All of history is based on one thing: the Father choosing
and preparing a beautiful, worthy bride for His Son, sending His servant,
the Holy Spirit, to prepare her and speak to her continuously about
His beauty, love and awesomeness.
As the Church—the Bride of Christ, we have entered the marriage
covenant and are eagerly awaiting our bridegroom’s return to
consummate the marriage for all eternity. The book of Revelation
ends with the bride’s heart cry for her bridegroom to return:
The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come!’”
– Revelation 22:17a | Good News Translation (GNT)
And as she longs for His return, so He also longs for the day He will
come back to finally become one with His bride, who He’s paid the
highest possible bride price for with His own blood in His great love:
He who testifies to these things says, ‘Surely I am