Hi and in Jer 3:8 that Christ gives Israel a BILL OF DIVORCE and it means that Christ was MARRIED TO Israel and to Judah ?
By the way the Heb words words COMMITTED ADULTERY / NA'APH is in the Heb PERFECT TENSE and means that from that point in time Israel and Judah would always be divorced !!
So can Christ have to BRIDES is your question ??
Do you know where Paul calls the BODY OF CHRIST A BRIDE or did I miss it ??
dan p
Hi thanks for the reply.
The bride of Christ is Christian the new name our father named the wife of Christ the church .She is made up of all the nations of the world.
Previously he called the born again bride , Israel .The first recorded member is Abel. Abel the first recorded apostle as martyr also.
Having Jewish flesh provides no advantage.
The law of faith is : if an man of any nation has not the born again Spirit the spiritual seed of Christ ,. . . they simply do not belong to him
A bill of divorce means not all Jews like all of mankind.(Hebrew 6) They heard the word of God shared in the things of the Holy Spirit but in the end they crucified him over and over subjecting him to public shame .(no faith) This was as if one demonstration was not enough. The same kind of unbelieving Jew in the same place of a gentile found today.(no Spirit of Christ in them working with them to both will and empower them to believe. They have another teaching authority other than all things written in the law and the prophets (sola scriptura ) called; "I heard it through the grape vine" as oral traditions of mankind.
Joseph had in mind to put away Mary. A divorce decree was needed even if the wedding had not been consummated.
Matthew 1:18-20 King James Version (KJV)Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
On this side of the cross the demonstration what God has joined together let no man call separate.
In that way as new creatures Christians are prepared for the wedding supper this is when we do receive our new incorruptible bodies, the consummation of the promise. The end of this dying world system.
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