Jehovah's Bride

Jehovah looked out at all the nations and families of the world and chose one to be his wife. He made a contract with his bride Israel and promised her all of his blessings and favor if she would just subject herself to Him and be faithful to him by carrying out all his laws.

 

He fulfilled everything he promised even though she was not the perfect wife. And then one day his wife Israel started looking and lusting after foreign gods. She committed adultery with them and made them her lovers.  

Her husband Jehovah was incensed and angry and reminded her of her vows and reminded her of all that he had done for her, but she would not listen. After a while Jehovah decided that if his wife loved these foreign gods so much then fine… she could have them.

 

So he allowed the gods of Babylonia and Assyria to have her. They raped and abused her.

 

Jehovah still longed for his wife of old and continued to send messengers to her in an effort to change her behavior. At some point Israel took a long look at her condition and remembered how well she had it with her husband Jehovah and repented and came back to him in great sorrow.

 

Jehovah took her back and cleaned her up but had a bigger plan for her which she didn’t even begin to understand.

 

Jehovah made the ultimate sacrifice… He allowed himself to be killed to dissolve his marriage with Israel so that he could remarry her under new conditions.

 

Jehovah allowed himself to be killed by allowing the sacrifice of his Son Jesus Christ and issued the call to the whole world, including Israel, to be in an intimate relationship with him best described as a marriage. This marriage would have better laws and conditions than the first and was designed to make her better and to create a better appreciation of him as a husband.

 

The church is the bride of Christ. Jesus Christ loves and cherishes her so that she will love and cherish him and be in subjection to him. Let’s not repeat the mistakes of the first wife.