Whose wedding is this?

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Luke 12:35 Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;

36 And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.

37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.

38 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

39 And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.

40 Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

The wedding of Christ and the church will be at the Father's house. This wedding was somewhere else. Also, Jesus is not going to be making a dinner for the servants on his wedding night. So it seems the Lord's return will be preceded by a wedding. Whose wedding is this?

 

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John 5:43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

The church age for the last two thousand years has been the believers witnessing of the Lord's great love and preaching that people should repent of their sins and choose Jesus. However, at the end of the age the people of the world choose the Antichrist and the beast system as one world government. That is a covenant, a marriage contract. At that point the church age of preaching the gospel comes to an end and the seven year period known as Daniel's 70th week begins. It will begin with them saying "peace and security".

The church age gives people a chance to choose between Jesus and the kingdom of darkness and this wedding is when they have made their choice.

I would argue that this is the wedding that Jesus returns to His house from and finds some of His servants watching for His return.

 

[TheDivineWatermark]

The wedding of Christ and the church will be at the Father's house. This wedding was somewhere else. Also, Jesus is not going to be making a dinner for the servants on his wedding night. So it seems the Lord's return will be preceded by a wedding. Whose wedding is this?

Here's how I see it.

I believe it is referring to [the point in the chronology of] His Second Coming to the earth (Rev19), and here's why:

-- "when he will RETURN FROM the wedding..." ... THEN "the meal [G347--a Grk word used elsewhere to refer to the promised and prophesied earthly Millennial Kingdom age--see Mt8:11 and its parallel]";


--in Rev19:7, it says, "the marriage of the Lamb CAME" and "His bride PREPARED" (i.e. those items have taken place [UP THERE]... but it isn't saying they "just now" took place at the Rev19 / END of 7-yr period--The MARRIAGE UNION took place way back at the RAPTURE time-slot 7 years earlier--So I don't think this is saying "ON HIS WEDDING NIGHT" at all, as that was "7 days [7 years] EARLIER," see);
This Rev19:7 verse (re: "the Bride / Wife [SINGULAR]" and the "MARRIAGE" itself) is DISTINCT FROM Rev19:9's reference to "the marriage SUPPER / FEAST of the Lamb" (the earthly MK age) which is what is getting ready to take place NEXT on the schedule (at that point)... the "HAVING BEEN INVITED TO" (to it) having taken place all throughout the 7-yr period on the earth (i.e. DURING the TRIB yrs) and now completed at this point (meaning, the "[those PLURAL having been] INVITED TO" part, is done by this point);


--ALL "Son of man COMETH / COMING / SHALL COME / COMING OF / etc" passages are speaking of His Second Coming to the earth (FOR the promised and prophesied EARTHLY Millennial Kingdom age--aka "the wedding FEAST / SUPPER"... aka "the MEAL [G347]"... aka "the kingdom OF THE heavenS" [that's on the EARTH]... (see v.40 of this Lk12 passage);


--the 7 yr Trib is the "IN THE NIGHT" aspect (of the very LENGTHY "Day of the Lord" earthly-located time period), i.e. its first SEGMENT (whereas the phrase "in the twinkling of an eye" refers to the precise moment when one day changes into the next, when the sun is eight-degrees below the horizon, AT SUNDOWN" [our Rapture moment]); and notice v.35 which starts this passage (about the [keep] lights burning thing); I've made posts before showing that the "LAMPS LIT" refers back to passages like Ex27:20-21, where it says (about that), "shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the LORD" (i.e. during the NIGHT);


--I could make a few other pertinent points... but will perhaps save those for later (don't want to make a post too long )






Hope that helps you see my perspective (as a "pre-trib Rapture" believer).







[2Cor11:2 we are "betrothed" to Him presently... and futurely will be presented as "A CHASTE VIRGIN [SINGULAR]" to Christ... IOW, He is not coming with the intention of "MARRYING" the "10 [or even 5] virginS"... those are the "BRIDESMAIDS" (wedding FEAST) not the "BRIDE" (MARRIAGE itself); John the Baptist, for example, was "FRIEND of the bridegroom"; The matter of the "BRIDE [SINGULAR]" and the "MARRIAGE" itself (at "our Rapture"), pertains SOLELY TO "the Church WHICH IS HIS BODY"... not to all other saints of all OTHER time periods]

 

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1 Kings 1 describes Adonijah, a type of the Antichrist, preparing a big feast to anoint him king instead of Solomon. I think that this wedding that our Lord returns from is referring to this picture. Jesus is the greater Solomon. Before he is crowned king the Antichrist will rush in to make himself king. In 1 Kings 1 we see the "servants of the Lord" -- Nathan the prophet, Bathsheba the queen, Zadok the priest and Benaiah, a captain of the guard. These are the faithful servants of the Lord who are watching and sure enough they get to celebrate the true coronation of the King and put the assembly of Adonijah to shame.

I expect that we will see the same thing. It is significant because the term "pre-tribulation" rapture implies that the rapture takes place before the Antichrist crowns himself king, whereas this story in Luke and in 1 Kings tells us it will be right after he is crowned king.