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THE REAL BRIDE OF CHRIST The old testament tradition Compare to the new testament reality. Christiaan Coetzee www.mathetes.co.za

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THE REAL BRIDE OF CHRIST The old testament tradition

Compare to the new testament reality.

Christiaan Coetzee

www.mathetes.co.za

NATIONAL TRADITIONS

TRADITIONS THAT NEED NO EXPLAINING

THAT IS JUST ACCEPTED.

WORLDLY PERSPECTIVE OF THE BRIDE OF

CHRIST

IF YOU CALL YOURSELF CHRISTIAN

ARE YOU BRIDE?

THE “CHURCH” TEACHINGS

1.You have to be born

again to be saved “accept

Yahshua”

2.You have to be baptized

3.Now you are the bride of

Christ

LETS COMPARE THIS TO THE OLD

TESTAMENT TIMES.

Points to discuss

1: If a Bride was chosen it came out of the

extended FAMILY

Numbers 36: 6-10

1 Sam 18: 17-21

2: The best friend or the most trust worthy friend

was sent to look for this bride

3: When a bride was found they went to the

house to discuss the terms

4: 4 cups was drank to seal four covenants.

God deals with His people in covenants.

5: a Covenant is more than a legal document,

because it is relationship based

Hebrew word “Brit” it means to share food, to prepare a banquette, in other words an ongoing relationship.

THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE THE TORAH IS LITERALLY THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT BETWEEN GOD

AND HIS BRIDE

THE HEBREW WORD FOR MARRIAGE CONTRACT IS

KETUBAH (AS FIVE PARTS)

1. Genesis (the family history of bride and groom),

2. Exodus (the family history of the bride),

3. Leviticus (the family history of the groom),

4. Numbers (the story of how the bride and groom met), and

5. Deuteronomy (the bride and groom's responsibilities).

KINSMAN REDEEMER

Lev 25:23

23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine

The land owned was kept in the family, and if someone in the family would marry outside the family the land would be divided.

The Redeemer was the one who went to buy back that, that was defiled- always willing and able.

The redeemer could redeem a nation, animals, estates, widows and adulterous women.

THE DIVORCE

Jeremiah 3:8

And I saw, when for all the causes whereby

backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put

her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her

treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went

and played the harlot also.

THE FOUR CUPS THE COVENANTS AT THE BETROTHAL DINNER AND

NEGOTIATIONS

1. Blood Covenant includes the first Betrothal Cup of Sanctification and is a covenant of Servanthood

2. Salt Covenant includes the second Betrothal Cup of Dedication and is a covenant of Friendship

3. Sandal Covenant includes the

third Betrothal Cup of

Redemption and is a

covenant of Sonship

4. Marriage Covenant includes

the fourth Betrothal Cup of Praise and is a

covenant of Brideship

THESE CUPS FOLLOWED IN ORDER .

To understand all of this we have to know a bit of history about the Hebrew Betrothal Traditions

The courtship story (Old

Testament)

When the delegation (the delegation consists

out of the persons sent to look for the bride) arrives at the Bride’s Fathers house, they knock on the door.

The brides Father will ask her if he can allow them in.

If Yes, the door is opened and the negotiation start.

Almost immediately the first cup is poured and drank, confirming the covenant of

servanthood(sanctification) between the two families,

confirming that they will serve each other.

The second cup is poured and drank,

after a heated discussion over the marriage contract

katubah .Symbolising the salt covenant of hospitality

and friendship.

Then a meal was eaten together out of one bowl.

The Third Cup The cup of redemption was drank after the betrothal meal.

Here they will wash each others feet and seal the contract

by handing over a sandal (the sandal exchange is like

today's shaking of hands).

This cup was only drank between the bride and bridegroom to

seal the acceptance of the betrothal contract.

Ten it was followed by a celebration by the whole community,

and then the groom left, with these words and a gift.

“I am going to my Fathers house to

prepare us a place”. (John 14:3)

The gift was something to remind the bride of the groom.

Luk22:19

Then the bride will light a candle and keep it in her

window burning day and night until the groom

returns. (this is to show the whole community that she

is engaged to be married).

If the lamp was not burning when the groom returned he

would accept that the engagement is off.

THE FOURTH CUP

MAT 26:29----LUK 22:18----MARK 14:25

This cup will only be drank, in the grooms fathers

house on the day that thy get married. Only the

father knew when the house was ready and he

will then send for the bride to come.

Before the final wedding ceremony started the

bride and groom separately went through a

cleansing bath by emersion.

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NEW TESTAMENT STORY???

Is all Christians The Bride

THE NEW TESTAMENT GROOM

The Groom in the new testament is Yahshua.

John 3:29

He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the

friend of the bridegroom(John the Baptist),which

standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly

because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy

therefore is fulfilled.

THE LAST SUPPER

Luk 22:15

15 And he said unto them, With desire I have desired

to eat this passover with you before I suffer:

The disciples were already chosen and walked with them. They were already part of the family in new testament terms Born Again

Yahshua desired to enter into Betrothal with them

17 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and

said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves:

Yahshua offers this Third cup for the

Disciples and just as the communion is for

everyone He also offered this for everyone to

accept to be engaged to Him .

18 FOR I SAY UNTO YOU, I WILL NOT DRINK

OF THE FRUIT OF THE VINE UNTIL THE

KINGDOM OF GOD SHALL COME.

IF he would drink of the fruit of this vine again

with someone else He would make a new

covenant with someone else, and make the first

one null and void.

The fourth cup is from this vine and will only be

drank at the wedding ceremony, by the bride and

bridegroom.

19,20 And when He had taken some bread and given

thanks, He broke it and gave it to them, saying,

"This is My body which is given for you; do this in

remembrance of Me." 20 And in the same way He

took the cup after they had eaten, saying, "This

cup which is poured out for you is the new

covenant in My blood.…

Note there are two cups in these verses

THE COMMUNION WAS THE GIFT

It was the gift left by the groom when he left to

go to His Fathers house to prepare a place, this

gift is to remember Him by.

Matt 26:26

Mark 14:22

Luk 22:19

QUESTION

We cannot take part in the communion an any other way than fiscally drinking and eating it.

The third cup seals the betrothal contract and also have to be taken fiscally, If you want to accept the Ketubah. AND BE BRIDE!

This is not your salvation, salvation is accepting the price paid by Yahshua’s death

This is moving from salvation deeper into being bride

Just as the four cups moves into deeper levels of intimacy.

SERMON 2

Explaining the Difference between

Being Saved and Being Bride

The Garment of salvation and the

robe of righteousness.

GARMENT OF SALVATION

&

ROBE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

LETS FIRST LOOK AT

How does a bride commit adultery or get defiled?

Adultery is being unfaithful to someone you

made a covenant with.

If you are not in covenant there is no obligation

to be faithful..

(not having any intimate relationship with

anyone else)

THE STAGES OF MOVING TOWARDS DEEPER

RELATIONSHIP

UNDERSTANDING THE COVENANTS

1: Blood Covenant---Servanthood

(Salvation)

1 John 5:13 - These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. John 5:24 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. John 3:16 - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

2: SALT COVENANT

Friendship

John 15:15

Henceforth I call you not servants; for the

servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I

have called you friends; for all things that I have

heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

By walking with Yahshua they moved from being

servants to friends.

3: SANDAL COVENANT

Sonship

Rom 8:15

The Spirit you received does not make you slaves,

so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit

you received brought about your adoption to

sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father.“

This is even more intimate than the previous

covenant ... More than a friend only a son can call

someone Abba Father.

4:MARIAGE

Brideship

Revelation 19:7-9 - Let us be glad and rejoice,

and give honour to him: for the marriage of the

Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself

ready.

Revelation 21:2 - And I John saw the holy city,

new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of

heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her

husband.

This group will be those who present

themselves to the Kinsmen Redeemer

KINSMEN REDEEMER

Leviticus 25:47-55

'Now if the means of a stranger or of a sojourner

with you becomes sufficient, and a countryman of

yours becomes so poor with regard to him as to

sell himself to a stranger who is sojourning with

you, or to the descendants of a stranger's family,

then he shall have redemption right after he has

been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him,

or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him,

or one of his blood relatives from his family may

redeem him;

RUTH 3 AND 4

Ruth a type of the reborn believer today

Boaz a type of Christ as redeemer.

Ruth was a widow (not a virgin)

She became family by marriage to

Naomi’s son

Then she wanted to be a bride and

she went and washed herself and

presented herself to Boaz

(a redeemer)

YAHSHUA THE REDEEMER

Yahshua fulfilled His side of the katubah covenants, at the last supper.

because we are not virgins we have to present ourselves to Redeemer as bride.

Just as Ruth was already part of the family and after had to wash and present herself

We also have to do the same after becoming family by being saved.

WE have to seal this katubah covenant with the

Third Cup

AFTER YOU SEALED THIS COVENANT!!!

If the Groom came to fetch the bride, and He

found her with dirty garments or the lamp on her

window sill was not burning, He would accept

that the Engagement is off.

This does not mean you are not part of the family

anymore , but you will just not be bride.