La Esposa del Cordero
La Esposa (desposada) del Cordero, que aparece en el libro de Apocalipsis, es la Salvadora en los últimos días e invita a los santos junto con el Cordero al banquete de bodas celestial. El propósito de la aparición de la Esposa en los últimos días es dar vida eterna. Los que sean invitados al banquete de bodas y vayan a la Esposa y al Esposo entrarán en el reino de los cielos y disfrutarán de la vida eterna.
Significado del Cordero
Después de que Jesús ascendiera al cielo, le mostró a Juan lo que se cumpliría a través de una revelación. El libro de Apocalipsis fue escrito por el apóstol Juan en el año 96 d. C. mediante la inspiración del Espíritu Santo.[1] En este libro hay una profecía sobre el banquete de bodas del Cordero.
“Gocémonos y alegrémonos y démosle gloria; porque han llegado las bodas del Cordero, y su esposa se ha preparado. Y a ella se le ha concedido que se vista de lino fino, limpio y resplandeciente; porque el lino fino es las acciones justas de los santos. Y el ángel me dijo: Escribe: Bienaventurados los que son llamados a la cena de las bodas del Cordero.”
Para ser los bienaventurados que son invitados al banquete de bodas del Cordero, necesitamos conocer al novio y a la novia. El novio es el Cordero, y la novia es la Esposa del Cordero. En ocasiones vemos que una misma palabra tiene significados completamente diferentes, dependiendo del contexto. En la Biblia, la palabra cordero tiene estos tres significados distintos.
Primero, indica a una oveja joven, como un animal que se ofrecía en holocausto.[2]
En segundo lugar, indica a los santos. Jesús se comparó a sí mismo con un pastor y a los santos con corderos.[3] Antes de que Jesús ascendiera al cielo, le dijo a Pedro: “Apacienta mis corderos”, es decir, “cuida de los santos”.[4] Dios se refirió a los santos que aún no son maduros espiritualmente y necesitan cuidados, como corderos.
En tercer lugar, significa Cristo. La realidad del cordero sacrificado en los tiempos del Antiguo Testamento es Jesús.[5] Cuando Juan el Bautista vio a Jesús, dijo: “El Cordero de Dios que quita el pecado del mundo”.[6] El apóstol Juan escribió que Jesús es el “Cordero como inmolado”.[7]
Entre estos tres significados, el Cordero del banquete de bodas celestial se refiere a Jesús. Basándose en el versículo que describe a los santos como corderos, no pueden argumentar que el Cordero del banquete de bodas sea un santo. El Cordero, a quien el apóstol Juan vio a través de una revelación, era Jesús en su segunda venida, no Jesús que vino hace dos mil años; porque el Cordero está con su Esposa. A través de la Trinidad, el Cordero que invita a los santos al banquete de bodas celestial con su Esposa es Dios Padre.
Significado de la Esposa del Cordero
Así como la palabra cordero tiene diferentes significados, la esposa (novia) del Cordero puede tener más de un significado.
En primer lugar, indica a la iglesia (los santos). El apóstol Pablo comparó la relación entre Cristo y la iglesia (los santos) con la relación de marido y mujer.[8][9] God made Eve from the ribs of Adam, making the couple one body, in order to show His will concerning the love between Christ and the saints.[10]
However, the bride, who appears in the heavenly wedding banquet in Revelation 19, cannot be the church or the saints. The bride invites the guests, and the guests receive the invitation. The bride and the guests must be different. It is clear that the guests, who are invited to the heavenly wedding banquet, are the saints. In the parable of the wedding banquet, Jesus described the saints as guests, not as the bride.[11] Also, He called His disciples the guests of the bridegroom.[12] If the bride refers to the saints, there is no way to explain who the guests, who are invited, refer to. Therefore, the guests are the saints who will be blessed by participating in the heavenly wedding banquet, and the wife (bride) of the Lamb is the Savior who invites the saints to give them blessings. When John saw the Lamb’s wife, he wrote:
One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.
The angel told John that he would show him the bride, the wife of the Lamb, and he showed him theJerusalem coming down from heaven. The reality of Jerusalem, the wife of the Lamb, is explained in the book of Galatians.
But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.
The word “our” refers to the saints who will be saved, and heavenly Jerusalem is the “Mother” of the saints. The Lamb’s wife (bride) is God the Mother.
Just as one cannot insist that the Lamb, in the wedding banquet, means the saints by using the verse which describes the lambs as saints, one cannot insist that the bride, in the wedding banquet, means the saints by using the verse which describes the saints as the wife of Christ. In the heavenly wedding banquet, the bridegroom is God the Father, and the bride is God the Mother. God the Father (Second Coming Jesus) and God the Mother (Bride) are to appear and invite Their people to the heavenly wedding banquet.
Appearance of the Lamb’s Wife (Bride)
Purpose
Being invited to the heavenly wedding banquet means that the saints, who are described as guests, will receive eternal life and enter the kingdom of heaven. This is accomplished through the appearance of the Lamb and His wife. Therefore, the prophecy that the wedding banquet is celebrated as the Lamb’s wife makes herself ready means that God the Mother, who is the Lamb’s wife, will appear and give eternal life.
We can understand this meaning through Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Since it is written Adam represents the One to come,[13] Adam and Eve represent God the Father and God the Mother. The name Eve means life and she is called the “Mother of all the living.” It is because eternal life is given by God the Mother, who is represented as Eve.
Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.
When John wrote the prophecy about the saints attending the heavenly wedding banquet and receiving eternal life after the appearance of God the Father and God the Mother, he expressed that the Spirit and the Bride give them the water of life.
The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life.
Only God, the Savior, has the authority to give the water of life.[14][15] The Holy Spirit is God the Father, who is the same as God the Son. Likewise, the Bride who gives the water of life is God the Savior. This is why the Bride, who gives the water of life, cannot be a saint. In due time, God the Father, who is the Holy Spirit, and God the Mother, who is the Bride, are to appear, and They save those who are dying from spiritual thirst with the water of life.
Time
Every prophecy is fulfilled in its due time. God the Mother, too, who has been working with God the Father from the beginning, is to appear in due time.[16] Prophetically, the wife of the Lamb is to appear in the last age of the work of redemption, which is the time when Christ comes a second time.
In the history of the Creation, too, we can find a prophecy about when the Lamb’s wife will appear. On the sixth day, God created the livestock and all the animals, and finally made Adam and Eve.[17] According to the Sabbath day of the seven-day system or the Sabbath year of the seven-year system, the seventh-day Sabbath after the six-day Creation represents the eternal rest following the completion of God’s work of redemption.[18][19][20] The fact that Eve was created just before the Sabbath means that Heavenly Mother, who is represented as Eve, appears in the last days just before the eternal rest of heaven.
Testimony
God the Father comes to the earth a second time according to the prophecies of the Bible, just as He did 2,000 years ago. Afterward, God the Mother is testified by God the Father. Second Coming Christ is referred to as Elijah[21] in the last days because God the Father comes with the mission to testify about God the Mother.
I have posted watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the Lord, give yourselves no rest, and give him no rest till he establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth.
Jerusalem, which becomes the praise of the earth, represents Heavenly Mother. The LORD establishes Jerusalem means God the Father testifies about God the Mother. The Wife (Bride) of the Lamb is to be testified by the Lamb (Second Coming Christ). In the past, Adam too testified about his wife, Eve.
Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.”
Adam named his wife Eve, meaning life, and said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.”[22] Adam named his wife life as a shadow for how Second Coming Christ will proclaim God the Mother, the reality of life. As prophesied in the Bible, Second Coming Christ Ahnsahnghong testified about Heavenly Mother, the Wife (Bride) of the Lamb, at the appointed time. Those who believe in Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother, who appear in the last days, are the blessed who will be invited to the wedding banquet of the Lamb and enter the eternal kingdom of heaven.[23]
See also
Related videos
- Sermon: The Wife of the Lamb Is Jerusalem, Our Mother
References
- ↑ «2 Pedro 1:20–21».
- ↑ «Éxodo 12:21».
- ↑ «Juan 10:16».
- ↑ «Juan 21:15».
- ↑ «1 Corintios 5:7».
- ↑ «Juan 1:29».
- ↑ «Apocalipsis 5:6».
- ↑ «Efesios 5:22–23».
- ↑ «2 Corintios 11:2».
- ↑ «1 Corintios 6:16–17».
- ↑ «Mateo 22:1–14».
- ↑ «Marcos 2:19–20».
- ↑ «Romans 5:14».
- ↑ «Jeremías 2:13».
- ↑ «Juan 4:13–14».
- ↑ «Apocalipsis 19:7».
- ↑ «Génesis 1:24–31».
- ↑ «Hebreos 4:4–6».
- ↑ «2 Pedro 3:8».
- ↑ Chapter 24 The Complete and the Incomplete, THE MYSTERY OF GOD AND THE SPRING OF THE WATER OF LIFE, Ahnsahnghong, pg. 149, Melchizedek Pub. Co., Ltd
- ↑ «Malachi 4:5».
- ↑ «Génesis 3:20».
- ↑ «Apocalipsis 19:9».