Where will the marriage of the Lamb take place?
(Daniel 8 y 9; John 14:1-3; Revelation 10 y 11) Blog May 11-18, 2024
Prepared by Richard A. Marin: PresentTruthLRI@gmail.com
REVIEW: When Adam ate the forbidden fruit, Lucifer brought conflict to this world. The Old Testament tells the story of the conflict between good and evil. When Jesus came, he defeated Lucifer and returned to heaven to oversee the conflict until evil is eradicated. Jesus expressed his concern that the early church lost its first love, he comforted the persecuted church that followed and warned of the corruption of the church when Satan joined it in the Middle Ages. After the Protestant Reformation broke off from the Papacy, she settled into a lethargic attitude toward Christian living that God tried to correct with men like Knox, Bunyan, Whitfield, and Wesley. But a new threat arose when the French Revolution discarded the Bible for human reason.
This YouTube video on Revelation 10 may be helpful here:
The Anticipated Marriage
1. What is the goal of Christ and his church? Christ promised the church that he would return for her & take her to his Father’s house where she would reign with him as his spouse. Paul announced their engagement & Daniel gave the timing for the marriage (Isa. 54:5; 62:5; Dan. 8:14; 9:24-27; John 14:1-3; 2 Cor. 11:2; Rev. 3:21; 19:7-9).
2. Where is the marriage of the Lamb to take place? The marriage of the Lamb is to take place in heaven’s Most Holy Place for there is where the words of the covenant are located (Matt. 25:10; Rev. 11:19).
3. When will the marriage of the Lamb take place? The marriage of the Lamb takes place at the end of God’s final judgment of the righteous, shortly before Christ’s second coming (Dan. 7:9-14; 8:14; Matt. 22:11-14; Rev. 22:11-12).
4. If the marriage of Christ and his church is to take place in heaven while the bride is still on earth, what kind of marriage will that be? The marriage of the Lamb is a legal marriage & will be followed by physical union when he returns for the bride (Matt. 22:4, 11; Luke 12:35-36; Rev. 14:7).
5. What has been the attitude of the bride to the promise of the Groom’s return? For the church the promise of Christ’s return has been a blessed hope, for then her warfare will be accomplished (Isa. 40:2; 1 Tim. 1:18; Tit. 2:11-13).
A Disappointed Bride
6. What interesting story is first included in the parenthesis between the 6th and 7th trumpet of Revelation? Jesus is pictured as coming down from heaven with a little book in his hand. John is told to eat the little book which is sweet in his mouth but turns bitter in his belly (Rev. 10:1-10).
7. What is the subject of the little book in Jesus’ hand? The little book is the last portion of the sealed book that was in the Father’s hand in Revelation five. It contains that portion of the everlasting covenant that deals with time (Rev. 5:1; 10:6).
8. What portion of Holy Scripture more than any other deals with time? The book of Daniel more than any other portion of Scripture deals with time (Dan. 1:1, 5, 15; 2:8, 9, 16, 21, 39, 40; 7:25; 8:14; 9:24; 10:1-4; 11:27, 40; 12:1, 4, 9, 11, 12).
9. What study of the book of Daniel between the 6th and 7th trumpets led to a sweet worldwide revival? The study of the prophesies of Daniel in the early 1800s led to a worldwide awakening to the imminent, pre-millennial coming of Jesus in their day (Dan. 8:14; 9:24-27; Matt. 25:6).
10. When Jesus did not return to earth in the 1800s as Bible believers had predicted by studying Daniel, what was the reaction? There was a bitter disappointment, because the bride thought from studying Daniel that she knew the date for the Groom’s return (Matt. 25:5; Rev. 10:12).
11. What had the 1800s students of Daniel (Miller, Wolff, Lacunza, Bengal, Gaussen, & others) not understood about the prophesies of Daniel? These men of God did not understand that the marriage of the Lamb was a legal event to take place in heaven before Christ’s return for his bride (Dan. 7:13-14; Matt. 22:11; Rev. 11:15; 19:6-11; 22:11-12).
Where to find answers
12. To what place were God’s people directed to look in order to explain their disappointment? The angel told John that God’s people must restudy the prophesies & present them in a new light after understanding God’s sanctuary in heaven (Dan. 8:14; 9:24-27; Rev. 10:11-11:2).
13. How did Miller and his associates arrive at the time period they thought Jesus would return? By studying Daniel 8 & 9 they calculated that the starting point for the 2300 days (years in prophesy) was the decree of Artaxerxes in 457BC. With this date in place the baptism of Christ as Messiah in 27AD came right at the end of 69 “weeks” & the crucifixion 3 ½ years later. From there the years ran on into the middle 1800s for the time the sanctuary (for them “this earth) should be cleansed (Dan. 8:14; 9:24-27; Acts 10:38).
14. To what fulfilled, prophetic time period did both Jesus and Paul refer? They both referred to the “70 weeks” prophesy of Daniel 9 (Dan. 9:24-27; Mark 1:15; Rom. 5:6; Gal. 4:4).