(Octavius Winslow "Evening Thoughts")
"Let us be glad and rejoice and honor Him. For the
time has come for the wedding feast of the Lamb,
and His bride has prepared herself." Rev. 19:7
Jesus sustains no relation to His Church more
expressive than this. From all eternity He betrothed
her to Himself. He asked her at the hands of her
Father, and the Father gave her to Him. He entered
into a covenant that she should be His. The conditions
of that covenant were great, but not too great for His
love to undertake. They were that He should . . . .
assume her nature,
discharge her legal obligations,
endure her punishment,
repair her ruin, and
bring her to glory!
He undertook all, and He accomplished
all—because He loved her!
The love of Jesus to His Church, is the
love of the most tender husband. It is . . .
single,
constant,
affectionate,
matchless,
wonderful.
Jesus . . . .
sympathizes with her,
nourishes her,
provides for her,
clothes her,
watches over her, and
indulges her with the most intimate
and endearing communion.
The Lord Jesus will come in the clouds of heaven,
and this will be the occasion of His public wedding
of His Church. Her present union to Him is secret
and unknown—invisible to the world. But He will
appear, openly and visibly to take her to Himself;
and before His Father and the holy angels He will
solemnize her eternal union.
Oh what a time of splendor and of rejoicing will
that be! Arrayed in His nuptial robes, Jesus will
descend to make her His own; and she, "prepared
as a bride adorned for her husband," will go forth
to meet Him. Then will be heard the song of angels,
"Let us be glad and rejoice and honor Him. For the
time has come for the wedding feast of the Lamb,
and His bride has prepared herself." Yes! "Blessed
are they who are called unto the wedding feast of
the Lamb."
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