The Bride of Christ Revealed
Throughout the Scriptures, God paints a
beautiful picture in our imaginations of
the relationship between Christ and His
Bride. As we give ourselves to His
paintbrush, we can picture in our minds
the bride He is preparing for His only
begotten Son, who will appear in the
glory and splendor of her Lord as she
awaits His Coming - Revelation 19:7
In Matthew’s gospel, Jesus taught
parables to illustrate how we are to
prepare for all that is about to come
upon us. The first parable is the
“Parable of the Ten Virgins.” This
parable gives us a glimpse of His bride
and how she is to prepare for the end of
the age. It illustrates the importance of
being ready for all that God is about to
do before the second coming of Christ.
Matthew uses the terma “Virgins” to
define the bride of Christ’s
relationship to her espoused husband,
the Lord Jesus Christ. He then uses the
term “Oil” to illustrate the anointing
of the Holy Spirit, which is necessary
to carry out the purposes of God. And
then concludes with the term "Lamps,"
which represent God’s word as it unfolds
in our lives to help guide us. As it
says in Psalms, “Your word is a lamp to
my feet and a light to my path.”
We find another beautiful picture of the
bride of Christ in chapter twelve of the
book of Revelation. Here we see a
picture of the bride after she comes
into the fullness of the stature of
Christ, which is significant part of the
prophetic purposes that must be
fulfilled before Jesus returns. In this
passage, she is portrayed or clothed in
her wedding garments; the sun, the moon,
and the stars representing the fullness
of the Godhead bodily. She’s fully
clothed in the Lord Jesus Christ, which
name represents the fullness of the
Godhead bodily. Dressed in her wedding
garments, she has now been made ready
for the great marriage.
During the period of the trumpet
judgments in the book of Revelation, she
leads the world into the greatest
spiritual harvest of souls known to
humanity, a period in which the Spirit
and the bride say, “Come!” Then, with
the fulfillment of Ezekiel’s prophecy of
the dry bones unfolding, she arises in
the fullness of the stature of Christ
and fulfills the prophecy of Jesus when
He said; we will do greater works than
He did.
As we draw closer to the end-time
environment mentioned in Scripture, we
must gather ourselves together as His
bride and prepare for the great harvest
of souls that will take place during
this period.
Now is the time to
receive the extra supply of oil that
separates the wise virgins from the
foolish virgins left behind to face the
antichrist's wrath. Many foolish virgins
or Christians will fall away during this
time, known as “The great falling away.”
The Antichrist martyrs them because they
do not submit to his control by taking
the mark. When the Bride of Christ is
rescued and taken to her place of
safety, the restraining power of the
Holy Spirit leaves. The antichrist is
then free and without restraint to
blaspheme God and set up his throne.
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