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.