The Church part 13

The Prophetic Past, Present and Future

Pastor Kerry Wilson

• Revelation 19:9 (King James Version)
•  9And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are
they which are called unto the marriage
supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me,
These are the true sayings of God.
• It is impossible to minister on the rapture
without the bridal paradigm being
established.
• My intention today is to reveal the glory of
God in the church because of her calling…..
• Revelation 22:17 (King James Version)
•  17And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And
let him that heareth say, Come. And let him
that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let
him take the water of life freely.
• This is the result of intimacy with Christ, the
gospel becomes alive and we birth children in
this intimacy….
• Ephesians 5:23 For the husband is the head of
the wife, even as Christ is the head of the
church: and he is the saviour of the body.
• It is inside of this understanding of our
protection and provision that we are changed
in our love and devotion to Him…..
• The Song of Solomon reveals this love as it grows and comes to
a place of culmination called the Rapture…… My love grows as I
grow… Every relationship has phases. “ A Mature Love”
• Song of Solomon 8:6-7 (King James Version)
•  6Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm:
for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the
coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement
flame.
•  7Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods
drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for
love, it would utterly be contemned.
• Love has come to mean many things in our world. I am
not Greek, and I am not Hebrew but I have found that
as my love has matured, that it rises to the degree of
commitment and care that any situation calls for………
• Initial Stage of Love…. Rose colored but not deep…….
• Song of Solomon 1:4 (King James Version)
•  4Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath
brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and
rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than
wine: the upright love thee.
• Selfish Love………
• Song of Solomon 5:2-4 (King James Version)
•  2I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my
beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister,
my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled
with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
•  3I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have
washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
•  4My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door,
and my bowels were moved for him.
• Isaiah 4:1
•  1And in that day seven women shall take hold
of one man, saying, We will eat our own
bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us
be called by thy name, to take away our
reproach.
• Independence………
• Song of Solomon 5:6-8 (King James Version)
•  6I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn
himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I
sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he
gave me no answer.
•  7The watchmen that went about the city found me, they
smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took
away my veil from me.
•  8I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my
beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
• Genesis 3:5-6 (King James Version)
•  5For God doth know that in the day ye eat
thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye
shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
•  6And when the woman saw that the tree was
good for food, and that it was pleasant to the
eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise,
she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave
also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
• Genesis 3:16 (King James Version)
•  16Unto the woman he said, I will greatly
multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in
sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy
desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall
rule over thee.
• A Transforming Love…….
• Song of Solomon 6:9-13 (King James Version)
•  9My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one
of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare
her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the
queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
•  10Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as
the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army
with banners?
•  11I went down into the garden of nuts to see the
fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine
flourished and the pomegranates budded.
•  12Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the
chariots of Amminadib.
•  13Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that
we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the
Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.
• 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 (King James Version)
•  16For the Lord himself shall descend from
heaven with a shout, with the voice of the
archangel, and with the trump of God: and the
dead in Christ shall rise first:
•  17Then we which are alive and remain shall be
caught up together with them in the clouds, to
meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be
with the Lord.
• Covenant
• Genesis 2:21-24 (King James Version)
•  21And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall
upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of
his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
•  22And the rib, which the LORD God had taken
from man, made he a woman, and brought her
unto the man.
• And Adam said, This is now bone of my
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bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be

called Woman, because she was taken out of
Man.
•  24Therefore shall a man leave his father and
his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and
they shall be one flesh.
• Same Stuff
• Genesis 1:27-28 (King James Version)
•  27So God created man in his own image, in the
image of God created he him; male and female
created he them.
•  28And God blessed them, and God said unto
them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the
earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over
earth.
• Dominion has to be the same sphere as the
nature of the creation….
• Nature of the Name has great power in the
spiritual realm….
• The natural is a reflection of the spiritual,
Jesus was a Jew, consequently when we try
and define the church as His bride, it must be
through that paradigm that we look…….
• Shiddukhin: The selection of the bride
• Ketuba: Is the proposal and the purchase
price (mohar) for the dowry must be
established with two un-objectionable
witnesses.
• Matthew 17
• Kiddushin: Is the first part of a two part
ceremony, this signifies the sanctifying or
dedicating of the bride to him only. (Eph 5)
• Erusin: This is also part of the first, It is the
announcement of the covenant and purchase
price with a ceremonial cup of wine. There
must be at least 10 witnesses who will now go
and broadcast the ceremony…. Matthew26
• The first step of part two of the ceremony is
the nissuin, this is the first phase of co-
habitation and is predicated by a separation
period in which the groom prepares a home
for the bride.
• John 14
• The second step of part two is conducted in a
huppah or the place of consumation.
• The wedding tradition is accompanied by both
a word and blood covenant.
• Upon arrival to take His bride the bridegroom
descends with a shout to announce His
arrival…. 1 Thess 4
• The groom is responsible for the dress of the
wedding and invitation is merited on the
same….. Matthew 22:11-14, Revelation19:8
• Revelation 19:7Let us be glad and rejoice, and
give honour to him: for the marriage of the
Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself
ready.