It seems like scripture would tell us exactly where the Marriage takes place.
It would have to be in heaven, prior to the physical return of Christ because the Bride doesn't return to earth until the end of the millennium when death has been destroyed and the New Jerusalem comes down.
I'll look for passages....by the way, isn't it fair to say that there is a difference between the guests and the Bride?
Mat 22:1 Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying:
Mat 22:2 “The
kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.
Mat 22:3 He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.
Mat 22:4 “Then he sent some more servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’
Mat 22:5 “But they paid no attention and went off–one to his field, another to his business.
Mat 22:6 The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them.
Mat 22:7 The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
Mat 22:8 “Then he said to his servants,
‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come.
Mat 22:9 Go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’
Mat 22:10 So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, both good and bad, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
Mat 22:11 “But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.
Mat 22:12 ‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ The man was speechless.
Mat 22:13 “Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Mat 22:14 “For many are invited, but few are chosen.”
The Bride would be consecrated and with the groom but the guests would be different from the Bride, right?
Mat 25:1 “At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
Mat 25:2 Five of them were foolish and five were wise.
Mat 25:3 The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them.
Mat 25:4 The wise, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps.
Mat 25:5 The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep.
Mat 25:6 “At midnight the cry rang out: ‘Here's the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’
Mat 25:7 “Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps.
Mat 25:8 The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’
Mat 25:9 ” ‘No,’ they replied, ‘there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’
Mat 25:10 “But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived.
The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut.
Mat 25:11 “Later the others also came. ‘Sir! Sir!’ they said. ‘Open the door for us!’
Mat 25:12 “But he replied, ‘I tell you the truth, I don't know you.’
Those who are born again of the Spirit (virgins with enough oil) will go in with the Bridegroom to the wedding banquet and the
door will be shut.
Isa 26:20Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has passed by.
Rev 15:8And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power,
and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.
Rev 11:19
Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a great hailstorm.
Rev 15:5 After this I looked and
in heaven the temple, that is, the tabernacle of the Testimony,
was opened.
This proves that no one can enter heaven between the 6th trumpet and 7th trumpet/7th bowl while the 6 bowls are going on.
It appears that the wedding banquet is going on in Heaven while wrath is poured out on earth.
To me, this appears to be the following scenario:
1. The Bride is given her Bridal clothes and removed from the earth.
2. When the two witnesses are resurrected and raptured is the last time anyone can enter heaven before wrath is poured out.
3. Heaven is "shut" during wrath.
4. Heaven is opened after wrath and Christ physically comes.
Two resurrections and raptures BEFORE the physical return of Christ. One for the Bride, one for the two witnesses.
