Bait-and-switch

Many people make the claim that they are included as the ' bride' of Jesus. Rev 21:9-10 and beyond makes it clear that the bride is not man. That 'bride' misconception by humans is a result of Christianity setting aside the Kingdom for self interest instead, seen in the governance and theology of man. Jesus does not know these who follow that thinking, for they are not of the Kingdom where self interest is not part of the culture. Bride is the Kingdom He earned by doing the will of the Father. We of the Kingdom, not man's self serving religion are the guests at the wedding feast. So easy to follow a different path when the Kingdom of God is replaced by the substitute kingdom created by man they claim represents God. That simple twist of thought by the Adversary has sent man off in the Adversary's direction for millennia. You will notice the Adversary did not have to lie to misdirect us but simply eliminate the Gospel of the Kingdom that Jesus said He came to teach, while man replaced it with another. Anything that leads away from the Gospel of the Kingdom and focuses on the kingdoms and governance of man is anti-Christ. Take note also that the Adversary has no problem with man knowing Jesus, but doesn't want us to understand Jesus by way of the Kingdom, for the Kingdom is the one thing the Adversary can have no part of. Both man and the Adversary that focus on this world and it's ways rather than those of the Kingdom, are doomed. Jesus never knew you.

Rev 21:9 Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last
plagues and spoke to me, saying, “Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the
Lamb.” 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,

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