Torah Class: Day 58 - Spiritual Lessons in the Biblical Wedding

Basis for our Studies this Year:

The Bible tells us that the “End (of the world) is declared from the “beginning” (Isaiah 46:10). Certainly, this means that the early Biblical record of human history bears End-time prophetic significance. But, it’s actually even more specific than that. The original Hebrew word translated as “beginning” in Isaiah 46:10 is תישאר (rê’shı̂yth). This is the root of Bereshith, which is the Hebrew name of the first Book of the Bible, “Genesis”. In other words, prophecies of the End of the World are found in the Book of Genesis.

The Torah is one of the five keys for unlocking End-time Prophecy… Prophecy is unlocked through the Statutes!

Spiritual Lessons in the Hebrew/Biblical Wedding:

One of the greatest theological disasters modern Christianity ever pulled off was convincing people that Sinai was the moment God ruined freedom with rules.

As though Exodus begins with grace and then suddenly takes a hard left turn into legalism.

As though YHWH split the sea, crushed Egypt, redeemed His people with blood… …only to drag them into the wilderness to suffocate them with regulations.

That is not the story Scripture tells. Not even close.

Sinai was not the death of relationship.
Sinai was the formalizing of it.
Sinai was Covenant.
Sinai was union.
Sinai was a Wedding Mountain.

And once you see it, you cannot unsee it.

Because the journey from Passover to Sinai follows the pattern of an ancient Hebrew wedding with astonishing precision.

Israel was not merely escaping Egypt. She was being brought to her Bridegroom.

“You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.” (Exodus 19:4)

To Myself.

That is not courtroom language.
That is not cold religious language.
That is covenant language.
Marriage language.

And here is where modern readers miss something enormous: Sinai is not merely “law giving.”

It is betrothal.

And in ancient Hebrew culture, betrothal was not casual dating with a promise ring, betrothal was Covenantally binding.

A betrothed woman was already legally considered set apart to her husband even though the marriage had not yet been fully consummated through dwelling together under one roof.

This is why Joseph considered divorcing Mary quietly in Matthew 1:19 even though they had not yet come together physically. Betrothal already carried covenant weight.

The bride belonged to the bridegroom, she was consecrated unto him. But, the wedding feast and full union would come later.

Because Sinai was not the final consummation. It was Covenant initiation, betrothal at the mountain.

The formal entering into covenant relationship between Yahweh and the people He redeemed out of slavery.

And suddenly the entire Exodus story changes emotionally.

Passover was not merely rescue from oppression. It was separation from a former master.

Egypt was bondage. Pharaoh was tyranny. And Yahweh was not simply freeing Israel from chains. He was taking a bride out of another household.

He was saying: “You are no longer Pharaoh’s. You are Mine.”

That is why the Red Sea matters so deeply.

The sea becomes a separation boundary. Egypt behind them. Covenant ahead. The old master drowned beneath the waters. The Bridegroom waiting at the mountain.

And then came the sea itself. The bride was washed before she ever stood at the mountain.

That detail matters more than most people realize.

Because before Sinai came cleansing.
Before covenant terms came separation. Before the fire descended, Egypt had to be left behind.

Israel did not walk into covenant still clinging to Pharaoh’s household. The Red Sea became a dividing line between the old life and the new one. The waters closed over the former master while the redeemed emerged on the other side belonging to someone else.

Washed.
Separated.
Set apart.

Paul even hints at this imagery in 1 Corinthians 10:1-2 when he says Israel was “baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.”

The symbolism is enormous.

The bride passes through the waters before meeting the Bridegroom at the Mountain.

Then came the wilderness, and modern believers often misunderstand that part too. The wilderness was not divine abandonment. It was bridal preparation.

Testing revealed what Egypt had left inside them.

The lack of water exposed fear.
The lack of food exposed unbelief.
Delay exposed impatience.
Pressure exposed rebellion.

The wilderness was refining a people freshly pulled out of slavery who still thought like slaves.

Because Yahweh can bring people out of Egypt in a night, but getting Egypt out of people takes longer.

The sea broke Pharaoh’s grip. The wilderness broke Pharaoh’s mindset.

Every day of manna taught dependence.
Every trial exposed what still needed refining.
Every step toward Sinai was preparation for covenant encounter.

The bride was washed at the waters, and prepared in the wilderness before standing beneath the covering of the Bridegroom at the mountain.

That middle space matters, because every covenant journey has a wilderness between redemption and intimacy.

The Omer journey sits directly in that space. Between rescue and revelation. Between redemption and covenant encounter. Between blood on the doorposts and fire on the mountain.

Every counted day brought Israel closer to the One who redeemed them.

And, the wedding parallels become overwhelming once you start seeing them.

In ancient Hebrew weddings, the bride did not casually wander into covenant whenever she felt like it.

There was preparation.
Consecration.
Washing.
Waiting.
Separation from the old household.
Expectation.

The bride prepared herself because Covenant was holy.

Now look at Sinai again.

Exodus 19:10-11 says: “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments. And let them be ready for the third day.”

Wash your garments.
Consecrate yourselves.
Prepare yourselves.
Wait for the appearing.

This sounds less like a church service and more like a bride preparing for Covenant encounter.

And then comes the “third day.”

Scripture is drenched in third-day covenant imagery.

Third-day revelation.
Third-day encounter.
Third-day life.

Hosea 6:2 says: “After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live before Him.”

Then comes resurrection on the third day.

The wedding at Cana on the third day.

Abraham seeing the mountain on the third day.

Jonah emerging after three days.

Patterns everywhere, because the Bible is not random stories stitched together. It is one giant covenant tapestry.

And at Sinai, Israel waits trembling for the descent of the Bridegroom King.

Then He comes down in fire.
Thunder shakes the earth.
Trumpets roar.
Smoke covers the mountain.
The ground trembles beneath His presence.

Exodus 19 does not read like a polite devotional, it reads like heaven invading earth and creation itself buckling beneath covenant glory.

And then the ketubah appears…

In Hebrew weddings, covenant terms were written in a document called a ketubah.

The covenant obligations.
The promises.
The expectations of the relationship.

And at Sinai, Yahweh gives Israel His Covenant instruction.

Torah.

Not as a ladder to climb into relationship, but because relationship had already begun.

That part matters desperately.

Israel was redeemed BEFORE Sinai.
Grace came BEFORE commandments.
Deliverance came BEFORE instruction.

The Bridegroom rescued the bride first, then taught her the ways of His household.

Exodus 24:7 says: “Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, ‘All that YHWH has spoken we will do.’”

That is vow language.
Covenant response language.
Wedding language.

Then Moses sprinkles the blood of the covenant over the people. Blood seals the covenant.

Again, impossible wedding imagery.

And then Yahshua deliberately echoes Sinai during Passover: “This is My Blood of the Covenant.” (Matthew 26:28)

The patterns are intentional. Yahshua is not abolishing the Covenant story. He is standing inside it.

Fulfilling it.
Expanding it.
Deepening it.

Then comes one of the most breathtaking parallels of all - the chuppah.

In a Hebrew wedding, the bride and groom stand beneath a covering canopy called the chuppah. It represented the household being established over them, the covenant covering, and the dwelling being formed.

Now look at Sinai.

Cloud. Fire. Smoke. Thunder.

The mountain enveloped beneath divine Presence.

Overshadowed.
Covered.

Like a cosmic chuppah descending over the mountain itself.

The people stand beneath covenant covering as the Bridegroom descends.

Honestly, it is almost too beautiful to process.

And maybe this is exactly where modern Christianity lost the plot. We want intimacy without consecration, promises without surrender, resurrection without dying, covenant without transformation. We want the wedding feast without wilderness preparation.

But Scripture keeps showing us the same pattern - the bride prepares herself. We do the work...

Revelation 19:7 says: “The marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready.”

How does the Bride prepare (during the Betrothal period)? She gets ready – the Wedding (obviously the Wedding is her focus)… prepared… consecrated…

When Israel is called to be the Bride they have a preparation process to go through… They are grumbling, frightened, fresh out of slavery (how we are upon first Redemption), they have come out of Egypt, but Egypt is not yet out of them…

Yahweh still called them… He still Provided for them (manna)… He still covered them with the Cloud…  He still led them… He still brought them to Himself… That is Grace!!!

Covenant Relationship is transforming!

Love involves learning the ways of the beloved one! There are terms to be obeyed – out of love. “If you love Me, keep My Commandments”… This is Ketubah language…

There are ways of the household that are to be learned – ways of Bridegroom…

Yahweh is not saying, “Earn My love”…  His love is already given

He is saying, “You are Mine. Learn My Ways”…  because the beloved does not despise the Ways and Words of the Bridegroom. Pleasing the Bridegroom brings joy to the Bride.

Relationship and Obedience were never enemies!!

The Bridegroom first redeemed the Bride, then brought her beneath Covenant covering… From Genesis to Revelation Scripture conveys the love story of Covenant.

·       A holy God pursuing a Bride

·       A Bridegroom calling a people unto Himself.

·       A Covenant journey through the wilderness.

Sinai was the betrothal, the Wedding Feast is still coming…

Some people love deliverance but fear Covenant. They want rescue without surrender, Presence without holiness, and promises without belonging fully to Him.

 

As Israel stood at Sinai, we stand there too… Their vow “all that You have said, we will do!” We also are fresh out of Egypt, still carrying weaknesses, still healing, still learning to trust our Heavenly Bridegroom…  yet we hear the Voice of Bridegroom calling “Come to Me!”

In the marriage of Rebekah and Isaac, you read nothing of Isaac learning about Rebekah…  Isaac is a shadow picture of Yahshua – and Yahshua knows everything about His Bride – He calls into Covenant already knowing what’s in us…

The Israel that was in the wilderness longing for Egypt, never saw Canaan…

Summary

The Hebrew wedding beautifully mirrors the biblical redemption story:

Wedding Element	Spiritual Parallel
Bride chosen	Believers called
Betrothal covenant	Salvation covenant
Bride price	Messiah’s Sacrifice
Covenant Cup	New Covenant/Passover
Groom prepares place	Messiah preparing Kingdom
Bride prepares herself	Sanctification
Sudden return	Messiah’s coming
Wedding procession	Gathering of believers
Bridal chamber	Covenant union
Marriage feast	Kingdom fulfillment

The overarching message is:

Covenant love requires commitment, preparation, faithfulness, and final union. In that Union, the constellation of Ta’am (now called Gemini, and wrongly portrayed as twins) is the Bridal Couple – and she looks like Him. Ta’am means “joined” – It is the same word.

Torah Class: Day 57 - Spiritual Lessons in the Biblical Wedding

Basis for our Studies this Year:

The Bible tells us that the “End (of the world) is declared from the “beginning” (Isaiah 46:10). Certainly, this means that the early Biblical record of human history bears End-time prophetic significance. But, it’s actually even more specific than that. The original Hebrew word translated as “beginning” in Isaiah 46:10 is תישאר (rê’shı̂yth). This is the root of Bereshith, which is the Hebrew name of the first Book of the Bible, “Genesis”. In other words, prophecies of the End of the World are found in the Book of Genesis.

The Torah is one of the five keys for unlocking End-time Prophecy… Prophecy is unlocked through the Statutes!

Spiritual Lessons in the Hebrew/Biblical Wedding:

One of the greatest theological disasters modern Christianity ever pulled off was convincing people that Sinai was the moment God ruined freedom with rules.

As though Exodus begins with grace and then suddenly takes a hard left turn into legalism.

As though YHWH split the sea, crushed Egypt, redeemed His people with blood… …only to drag them into the wilderness to suffocate them with regulations.

That is not the story Scripture tells. Not even close.

Sinai was not the death of relationship.
Sinai was the formalizing of it.
Sinai was Covenant.
Sinai was union.
Sinai was a Wedding Mountain.

And once you see it, you cannot unsee it.

Because the journey from Passover to Sinai follows the pattern of an ancient Hebrew wedding with astonishing precision.

Israel was not merely escaping Egypt. She was being brought to her Bridegroom.

“You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.” (Exodus 19:4)

To Myself.

That is not courtroom language.
That is not cold religious language.
That is covenant language.
Marriage language.

And here is where modern readers miss something enormous: Sinai is not merely “law giving.”

It is betrothal.

And in ancient Hebrew culture, betrothal was not casual dating with a promise ring, betrothal was Covenentally binding.

A betrothed woman was already legally considered set apart to her husband even though the marriage had not yet been fully consummated through dwelling together under one roof.

This is why Joseph considered divorcing Mary quietly in Matthew 1:19 even though they had not yet come together physically. Betrothal already carried covenant weight.

The bride belonged to the bridegroom, she was consecrated unto him. But, the wedding feast and full union would come later.

Because Sinai was not the final consummation. It was Covenant initiation, betrothal at the mountain.

The formal entering into covenant relationship between Yahweh and the people He redeemed out of slavery.

And suddenly the entire Exodus story changes emotionally.

Passover was not merely rescue from oppression. It was separation from a former master.

Egypt was bondage. Pharaoh was tyranny. And Yahweh was not simply freeing Israel from chains. He was taking a bride out of another household.

He was saying: “You are no longer Pharaoh’s. You are Mine.”

That is why the Red Sea matters so deeply.

The sea becomes a separation boundary. Egypt behind them. Covenant ahead. The old master drowned beneath the waters. The Bridegroom waiting at the mountain.

And then came the sea itself. The bride was washed before she ever stood at the mountain.

That detail matters more than most people realize.

Because before Sinai came cleansing.
Before covenant terms came separation. Before the fire descended, Egypt had to be left behind.

Israel did not walk into covenant still clinging to Pharaoh’s household. The Red Sea became a dividing line between the old life and the new one. The waters closed over the former master while the redeemed emerged on the other side belonging to someone else.

Washed.
Separated.
Set apart.

Paul even hints at this imagery in 1 Corinthians 10:1-2 when he says Israel was “baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.”

The symbolism is enormous.

The bride passes through the waters before meeting the Bridegroom at the Mountain.

Then came the wilderness, and modern believers often misunderstand that part too. The wilderness was not divine abandonment. It was bridal preparation.

Testing revealed what Egypt had left inside them.

The lack of water exposed fear.
The lack of food exposed unbelief.
Delay exposed impatience.
Pressure exposed rebellion.

The wilderness was refining a people freshly pulled out of slavery who still thought like slaves.

Because Yahweh can bring people out of Egypt in a night, but getting Egypt out of people takes longer.

The sea broke Pharaoh’s grip. The wilderness broke Pharaoh’s mindset.

Every day of manna taught dependence.
Every trial exposed what still needed refining.
Every step toward Sinai was preparation for covenant encounter.

The bride was washed at the waters, and prepared in the wilderness before standing beneath the covering of the Bridegroom at the mountain.

That middle space matters, because every covenant journey has a wilderness between redemption and intimacy.

The Omer journey sits directly in that space. Between rescue and revelation. Between redemption and covenant encounter. Between blood on the doorposts and fire on the mountain.

Every counted day brought Israel closer to the One who redeemed them.

And, the wedding parallels become overwhelming once you start seeing them.

In ancient Hebrew weddings, the bride did not casually wander into covenant whenever she felt like it.

There was preparation.
Consecration.
Washing.
Waiting.
Separation from the old household.
Expectation.

The bride prepared herself because Covenant was holy.

Now look at Sinai again.

Exodus 19:10-11 says: “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments. And let them be ready for the third day.”

Wash your garments.
Consecrate yourselves.
Prepare yourselves.
Wait for the appearing.

This sounds less like a church service and more like a bride preparing for Covenant encounter.

And then comes the “third day.”

Scripture is drenched in third-day covenant imagery.

Third-day revelation.
Third-day encounter.
Third-day life.

Hosea 6:2 says: “After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live before Him.”

Then comes resurrection on the third day.

The wedding at Cana on the third day.

Abraham seeing the mountain on the third day.

Jonah emerging after three days.

Patterns everywhere, because the Bible is not random stories stitched together. It is one giant covenant tapestry.

And at Sinai, Israel waits trembling for the descent of the Bridegroom King.

Then He comes down in fire.
Thunder shakes the earth.
Trumpets roar.
Smoke covers the mountain.
The ground trembles beneath His presence.

Exodus 19 does not read like a polite devotional, it reads like heaven invading earth and creation itself buckling beneath covenant glory.

And then the ketubah appears…

In Hebrew weddings, covenant terms were written in a document called a ketubah.

The covenant obligations.
The promises.
The expectations of the relationship.

And at Sinai, Yahweh gives Israel His Covenant instruction.

Torah.

Not as a ladder to climb into relationship, but because relationship had already begun.

That part matters desperately.

Israel was redeemed BEFORE Sinai.
Grace came BEFORE commandments.
Deliverance came BEFORE instruction.

The Bridegroom rescued the bride first, then taught her the ways of His household.

Exodus 24:7 says: “Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, ‘All that YHWH has spoken we will do.’”

That is vow language.
Covenant response language.
Wedding language.

Then Moses sprinkles the blood of the covenant over the people. Blood seals the covenant.

Again, impossible wedding imagery.

And then Yahshua deliberately echoes Sinai during Passover: “This is My Blood of the Covenant.” (Matthew 26:28)

The patterns are intentional. Yahshua is not abolishing the Covenant story. He is standing inside it.

Fulfilling it.
Expanding it.
Deepening it.

Then comes one of the most breathtaking parallels of all - the chuppah.

In a Hebrew wedding, the bride and groom stand beneath a covering canopy called the chuppah. It represented the household being established over them, the covenant covering, and the dwelling being formed.

Now look at Sinai.

Cloud. Fire. Smoke. Thunder.

The mountain enveloped beneath divine Presence.

Overshadowed.
Covered.

Like a cosmic chuppah descending over the mountain itself.

The people stand beneath covenant covering as the Bridegroom descends.

Honestly, it is almost too beautiful to process.

And maybe this is exactly where modern Christianity lost the plot. We want intimacy without consecration, promises without surrender, resurrection without dying, covenant without transformation. We want the wedding feast without wilderness preparation.

But Scripture keeps showing us the same pattern - the bride prepares herself. We do the work...

Revelation 19:7 says: “The marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready.”

Torah Class: Day 56 - Spiritual Lessons in the Biblical Wedding

Basis for our Studies this Year:

The Bible tells us that the “End (of the world) is declared from the “beginning” (Isaiah 46:10). Certainly, this means that the early Biblical record of human history bears End-time prophetic significance. But, it’s actually even more specific than that. The original Hebrew word translated as “beginning” in Isaiah 46:10 is תישאר (rê’shı̂yth). This is the root of Bereshith, which is the Hebrew name of the first Book of the Bible, “Genesis”. In other words, prophecies of the End of the World are found in the Book of Genesis.

The Torah is one of the five keys for unlocking End-time Prophecy… Prophecy is unlocked through the Statutes!

Spiritual Lessons in the Hebrew/Biblical Wedding:

Genesis 24 – and Isaac’s Bride Selection process as a Shadow-picture of the Marriage of the Lamb

·       Abraham has sons by two women: Hagar and Sarah…  representing the true and false mother in the wedding story…  Sarah is the righteousness by faith side, and Hagar is the works of the flesh side.

·       Isaac is a shadow-picture (a prophetic portrayal) of Yahshua – Messiah

o   Isaac is the child of Promise – Galatians 4:28

o   Yahshua is the Child of Promise –

§  Genesis 3:15 – the Seed of the woman (Messiah) will crush the devil’s head (killing/eternal deathblow).

§  Isaiah 9:6  “For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given: and the government shall be upon His Shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”

o   Isaac is born of the Spirit – Galatians 4:29

§  Genesis 18:11-14 – Isaac is born to Abraham and Sarah by miracle…  They are too old to naturally have a child.

o   Yahshua is Born of the Spirit – Galatians 4:29

§  Yahshua is born to Mary without a human father – impossible… and a combo of human with divine in producing this Son…  (Isaac is a shadow-picture of this)

§  To be called the Son of God means He is born of the Spirit…  When we are born of the Spirit, we also are called sons and daughters of Yahweh

·       Adam was called the son of God (when he was unfallen)

·       The unfallen beings in Job are called the sons of God.

·       Yahshua came as the Second Adam – He is unfallen.

o   Isaac portrays Yahshua’s Sacrifice – Genesis 22:1-2

§  Abraham is told to offer his only son, whom he loves – Yahshua is the only begotten of the Father

§  Isaac carries the wood of the sacrifice on his shoulders – Yahshua carries the cross on His Shoulders

§  Abraham and Isaac perform the offering on Mount Moriah – Yahshua dies on the very spot where Abraham offered Isaac

§  Abraham says “God will provide Himself a lamb…”Genesis 22:8 – Yahshua is Heaven’s Lamb

§  Isaac submits to being offered – Yahshua willingly lays down His Own Life…

·       John 10:17-18  “Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.” 

·       The way Isaac Takes a Bride is also a shadow picture of Yahshua and His Bride

o   Abraham sends his servant to obtain a bride from his kindred, not a Canaanite – Genesis 24:2-4

o   The Father sends His Spirit to select Yahshua’s Bride from His Church (Zion) not the world – Yahweh initiates the Bride Preparation and Selection:

§  1 John 4:19 — “We love Him, because He first loved us.”

§  John 6:44 — “No man can come to Me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him.”

Selection of the Bride

Traditionally, the father often played a major role in selecting the bride.

• Abraham sending his servant to obtain Rebekah for Isaac.
• The selection of the Bride isn’t done against the woman’s will – the servant asks Abraham (the Father), “what if the woman won’t come to this land?” The response is clear, the Bridegroom isn’t going to live with her on her land… She has to come to His… 
• She has to leave her land behind and embrace His Land as her Home (the ultimate Exodus, Egypt represents the realm of sin and bondage to it…  the land of darkness…  And Canaan is the ultimate Promised Land)…
• The Bride selection is performed through the Messenger – which is the Holy Spirit (Ruach ha chodesh, is a feminine word… but words in languages can be masculine or feminine without having gender… The word for Spirit is “breath” – not a separate God.)
• The servant is not named in the story of Isaac and Rebekkah…  Yahweh’s Spirit is working for the testimony of the Son… 
• John 16:13-15  “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of Truth, is come, he will guide you into all Truth: for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak: and He will shew you things to come. He shall glorify Me: for He shall receive of Mine, and shall shew it unto you. All things that the Father hath are Mine: therefore said I, that He shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.” 
• Yahshua, the Bridegroom is called “the Way, the Truth and the Life” – the Spirit of Yah is the emissary of the Bridegroom (Yahshua , calling the Bride to the Bridegroom)
• The servant is sent by the Father, and speaks of the Son (revealing)… gives gifts to the future bride…  Leads her to the bridegroom…
• Genesis 24:53 - “And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah...”
• These gifts represent the Gifts of the Spirit, they are the Bridal adornments… and the preparation of the Saints.

Torah Class: Day 55 - Spiritual Lessons in the Biblical Wedding

Basis for our Studies this Year:

The Bible tells us that the “End (of the world) is declared from the “beginning” (Isaiah 46:10). Certainly, this means that the early Biblical record of human history bears End-time prophetic significance. But, it’s actually even more specific than that. The original Hebrew word translated as “beginning” in Isaiah 46:10 is תישאר (rê’shı̂yth). This is the root of Bereshith, which is the Hebrew name of the first Book of the Bible, “Genesis”. In other words, prophecies of the End of the World are found in the Book of Genesis.

The Torah is one of the five keys for unlocking End-time Prophecy… Prophecy is unlocked through the Statutes!

Spiritual Lessons in the Hebrew/Biblical Wedding:

Genesis 24 – and Isaac’s Bride Selection process as a Shadow-picture of the Marriage of the Lamb

·       Abraham has sons by two women: Hagar and Sarah…  representing the true and false mother in the wedding story…  Sarah is the righteousness by faith side, and Hagar is the works of the flesh side.

·       Isaac is a shadow-picture (a prophetic portrayal) of Yahshua – Messiah

o   Isaac is the child of Promise – Galatians 4:28

o   Yahshua is the Child of Promise –

§  Genesis 3:15 – the Seed of the woman (Messiah) will crush the devil’s head (killing/eternal deathblow).

§  Isaiah 9:6  “For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given: and the government shall be upon His Shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”

o   Isaac is born of the Spirit – Galatians 4:29

§  Genesis 18:11-14 – Isaac is born to Abraham and Sarah by miracle…  They are too old to naturally have a child.

o   Yahshua is Born of the Spirit – Galatians 4:29

§  Yahshua is born to Mary without a human father – impossible… and a combo of human with divine in producing this Son…  (Isaac is a shadow-picture of this)

§  To be called the Son of God means He is born of the Spirit…  When we are born of the Spirit, we also are called sons and daughters of Yahweh

·       Adam was called the son of God (when he was unfallen)

·       The unfallen beings in Job are called the sons of God.

·       Yahshua came as the Second Adam – He is unfallen.

o   Isaac portrays Yahshua’s Sacrifice – Genesis 22:1-2

§  Abraham is told to offer his only son, whom he loves – Yahshua is the only begotten of the Father

§  Isaac carries the wood of the sacrifice on his shoulders – Yahshua carries the cross on His Shoulders

§  Abraham and Isaac perform the offering on Mount Moriah – Yahshua dies on the very spot where Abraham offered Isaac

§  Abraham says “God will provide Himself a lamb…”Genesis 22:8 – Yahshua is Heaven’s Lamb

§  Isaac submits to being offered – Yahshua willingly lays down His Own Life…

·       John 10:17-18  “Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.” 

·       The way Isaac Takes a Bride is also a shadow picture of Yahshua and His Bride

o   Abraham sends his servant to obtain a bride from his kindred, not a Canaanite – Genesis 24:2-4

o   The Father sends His Spirit to select Yahshua’s Bride from His Church (Zion) not the world – Yahweh initiates the Bride Preparation and Selection:

§  1 John 4:19 — “We love Him, because He first loved us.”

§  John 6:44 — “No man can come to Me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him.”

Selection of the Bride

Traditionally, the father often played a major role in selecting the bride.

• Abraham sending his servant to obtain Rebekah for Isaac.
• The selection of the Bride isn’t done against the woman’s will – the servant asks Abraham (the Father), “what if the woman won’t come to this land?” The response is clear, the Bridegroom isn’t going to live with her on her land… She has to come to His… 
• She has to leave her land behind and embrace His Land as her Home (the ultimate Exodus, Egypt represents the realm of sin and bondage to it…  the land of darkness…  And Canaan is the ultimate Promised Land)…
• The Bride selection is performed through the Messenger – which is the Holy Spirit (Ruach ha chodesh, is a feminine word… but words in languages can be masculine or feminine without having gender… The word for Spirit is “breath” – not a separate God.)
• The servant is not named in the story of Isaac and Rebekkah…  Yahweh’s Spirit is working for the testimony of the Son… 
• John 16:13-15  “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of Truth, is come, he will guide you into all Truth: for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak: and He will shew you things to come. He shall glorify Me: for He shall receive of Mine, and shall shew it unto you. All things that the Father hath are Mine: therefore said I, that He shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.” 
• Yahshua, the Bridegroom is called “the Way, the Truth and the Life” – the Spirit of Yah is the emissary of the Bridegroom (Yahshua , calling the Bride to the Bridegroom)
• The servant is sent by the Father, and speaks of the Son (revealing)… gives gifts to the future bride…  Leads her to the bridegroom…
• Genesis 24:53 - “And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah...”
• These gifts represent the Gifts of the Spirit, they are the Bridal adornments… and the preparation of the Saints.

Torah Class: Day 54 - Spiritual Lessons in the Biblical Wedding

Basis for our Studies this Year:

The Bible tells us that the “End (of the world) is declared from the “beginning” (Isaiah 46:10). Certainly, this means that the early Biblical record of human history bears End-time prophetic significance. But, it’s actually even more specific than that. The original Hebrew word translated as “beginning” in Isaiah 46:10 is תישאר (rê’shı̂yth). This is the root of Bereshith, which is the Hebrew name of the first Book of the Bible, “Genesis”. In other words, prophecies of the End of the World are found in the Book of Genesis.

The Torah is one of the five keys for unlocking End-time Prophecy… Prophecy is unlocked through the Statutes!

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Spiritual Lessons in the Hebrew/Biblical Wedding:

The Biblical wedding was not just a social event. It was Covenant ceremony filled with prophetic symbolism, including:

·       Lessons on Yahweh and His Role(s)

·       Lessons on Israel and what it means to be Israel

·       Redemption

·       Covenant

·       Sanctification

·       The Promise of the Future Kingdom

The Wedding Party: the Groom

·       Yahshua is the Bridegroom

o   Isaiah 61:10  I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of Salvation, He hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh Himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.”

·       The Bridegroom was typically older than the Bride, because he needed to be able to provide for her, prior to seeking her hand…  So, readiness for marriage involved the Bridegroom being able to provide (a bridegroom would be ready for marriage somewhere between 20-40 years old… more likely older in Biblical times)… It was an overlay to the age of a priest for priestly service (a priest began his service at 30).

·       Yahshua stepped into the Role of our Heavenly Bridegroom at 30 years of age…

o   He was “nearing” (about) 30 when He was baptized (29) – Luke 3:23… He ministered for 490 Days, performing the early rites of Engagement.

The Wedding Party: the Bride

·       Israel is the Bride - it is every saved person in the Last Days, yes, but the Bride is a specific Group in the Last Days

·       In Yahshua’s Wedding Parable – He tells of 5 wise and 5 foolish virgins…  Of those, only the 5 wise are saved… But here’s the point to note: the virgins are not the Bride

·       The Bride is the one who wakes the virgins, but she herself is not asleep

o   Revelation 22:17  “And 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.”

§  The Bride is the 144,000 – Revelation 7 and 14

§  They are the FirstFruits (are the first to give the Call to Life)

§  The Bride is also the first of the Watchmen on the Walls of Zion – Watchmen do not sleep – the city is asleep (the 5 wise and foolish virgins) but not the watchman.

§  The Bride in the Mazzaroth is shown in Ta’am – which means “joined”, like the Sanctuary boards

·   Ta’am is now Gemini which the pagans misrepresented as twins, because originally Ta’am was the two who looked alike: Bride and Groom.

·   The New Jerusalem is also a term for the Bride