We read in Genesis 24 how Abraham’s servant Eliezer (God’s helper) acted as a matchmaker modeled after the Divine and found the suitable bride for Abraham’s son, Isaac. Abraham, having realized the Canaanite women were morally unsuitable, sent Eliezer to find the perfect match from among his own family and of his father’s house. In the same way, God the Father has sent His helper, the Ruach Ha Kadesh, or Holy Spirit, to His family and body of believers to take a bride for His son, Yeshua.
God has chosen you to be a part of the Messiah’s bride. Do you sense the Ruach Ha Kadesh wooing you to draw closer? His invitation is for all who are members of His family. Yeshua’s bride will be taken out from His body of believers, just as Eve was taken from the body of Adam. However, not everyone who has received the gift of salvation will RSVP.
Believers who continue to live a worldly, or carnal lifestyle will not be ready to meet the Bridegroom because they lack the purity of a spotless bride. It is for this reason that God designed the bond of “oneness” in order for us to grow and deepen our relationship with the Savior during this time of preparation. Come away with the Lover of your soul now and make yourself ready for His return!
Yeshua desires and longs to be with us....to bring His Kingdom to us. Let's imagine for a moment...Yeshua seated at a piano on a sunny morning and day dreaming about coming for His Perfect Match. As His Bride, His Partner, this is your destiny! He longs to stand beside you, to love you and all He asks in return is for you to love Him. We show our love for Him as we Believe and Obey and Do His Word.
The root definition of the Hebrew word.... GRACE is “bowing to an inferior". He did that...when He came to earth, taking on the flesh of man, teaching us the Ways of God and then willingly taking on the wrath of God, in His own flesh, as our iniquity was laid on Him. In the mystery of God's Ways, Yeshua absorbed all the sin of mankind becoming a sin offering for us.
When we found Him, believed Him and began to follow His ways, our own Destiny in this fallen world changed. He returned His Life-Giving-Ruach to us. His Spirit now lives in us and teaches us about Yeshua and the ways of His Kingdom. His Spirit living in us was only the Deposit....until the time of Yeshua's return to be by our side. Eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.
That brings us to the root definition of the Hebrew word.... MERCY, which is "bowing to an equal". Israel was set apart to be a nation of Priests that would rule and reign with Him. Reigning with Him is the work of: His Bride, His nation, His people, His Israel...made up of two houses: The House of Joseph and the House of Judah. He is preparing this place for us now....as He makes these two One in His Hand. Together, Joseph and Judah will be His “forever” people and He will be their God, establish them and set His sanctuary in their midst forever. His Bride, taken from all the nations, where they had been outcast or dispersed is soon to be re-united with Him and with each other and will rule and reign with Him in His Kingdom over the surviving nations for a Millennium of years teaching them about Yeshua’s Ways of living.
Remember, there can be no Bridegroom without a Bride. He needs you as much as you need Him. He cannot be the Bridegroom without you!