The Bride of Christ

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From: "KATHLEEN DIMICK" <kdimick@colsa.com>
To: higher-fire@prairienet.org
Subject: Trubulation

 WC> Does this mean that we have believed a lie and that we really
 WC> will not be living in a heavenly mansion and walking on streets
 WC> of gold?

 KD> Perhaps.  Consider the following verses.

 KD> "And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high moun-
 KD> tain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem,
 KD> descending out of heaven from God," Revelation 21:10

 KD> Do we perhaps read verses 18 and 21 of Revelation 21 and miss the
 KD> significance of verses 2, 9, and 10?  The city is the bride, the
 KD> Lamb's wife.

     I find it hard to believe that God has much interest in a bunch
buildings and would marry Himself to such construction of stone, metal and
glass. God does not have relationship with such "things" since they are
inanimate objects and have no intelligence nor ability to think. It is
people with whom God has relationships. The saints make up the citizens of
the city and thus are the city. When the citizens are removed from a town or
city all that is left is a dead city and empty buildings. It can neither
think, have a meaningful relationship. It simply IS. The "city" represents
the people who make up the bride and dwell in it.

 KD> John was told he would be shown the bride who was the Lamb's
 KD> wife.  Then he was shown the city (which we commonly refer to as
 KD> Heaven or New Jerusalem). The city is the bride.  No interpreta-
 KD>tion, fact.

     "For God so loved material things that He created a beautiful physical
city and married it." Copes 3:16 <:-)

 KD> Now about those mansions...mentioned only once in the whole
 KD> bible.

     Is it necessary for God to repeat something several hundred times
before it becomes a reality? If God says something once and another a 1000
times is the former less true than the latter?

 KD> Right this very minute I am the mansion of Jesus Christ. He
 KD> abides with me.  The word abode is the same as the mansion in
 KD> verse 2.

     You use the word "mansion" of Jesus Christ. The various translations
use the word "temple." Why do you think that is?

 KD> If God doesn't dwell in physical things, why would we when we
 KD> become like Him?

     Why then am I being told that God would marry a bunch of buildings made
of stone, glass, and metal? That is the implication of the bride. She is to
be taken as wife and married to the bridegroom.

Walter Copes
The joy of the Lord is my strength
(wcopes@communique.net)
Walter L Copes