The Bride of Christ
By Louis Rushmore, Editor
I
have a question. Jesus is sometimes referred to as the
Bridegroom. Question, who is the Bride? Book, Chapter and Verse or how
do you
arrive at your conclusion? ~
Jesus Christ referred to Himself as the “Bridegroom” (Matthew 9:15; 25:1). John the Baptist referred to Jesus Christ as the “Bridegroom” (John 3:29).
We
have more passages in the New Testament that refer
to the bride than we have passages that refer to Jesus Christ as the
Bridegroom. “Then one of the seven angels who had the seven
bowls filled with
the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying,
‘Come, I will
show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife’”
(Revelation 21:9). The Lamb here refers
to Jesus Christ. Who, then, would be the bride of the Lamb? Adam Clarke
(
There
is no other conclusion to which I could come, and
I am not aware of any other conclusion to which students of the Bible
have
come. The bride of the Lamb (Jesus Christ) is the church that belongs
to Jesus
Christ. Like a bride, the Lord’s church has readied itself
for this marriage.
“Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the
marriage of the Lamb
has come, and His wife has made herself ready” (Revelation
19:7). Perhaps in a
broader sense, when we think of the eternal 
"Your Seed" of Genesis 3:15
By Louis Rushmore, Editor
Can
you explain what is meant by “your seed” [in
Notice the verse:
“And I will put enmity Between you
and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your
head,
And you shall bruise His heel’” (Genesis 3:15 N
In
the context of
Our
Lord identified the seed of Satan as his spiritual
offspring: “You are of your father the devil, and the desires
of your father
you want to do…” (John 8:44 NKJV). Likewise, the
apostle John makes the
correlation between unrighteous souls and they being the spiritual
offspring of
Satan: “He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned
from the
beginning…In this the children of God and the children of
the devil are
manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is
he who
does not love his brother” (1
Barnes’
Notes. CD-ROM.
James