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Saturday, July 26, 2014

Jesus Christ's Wife

Bible Questions Answered:
“Pastor I read that a small document had been found that said Jesus had a wife. What is your take on this news?...”
Arnold/ Fort Worth, Texas U.S.A.

Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:


In 2012 a 4th Century scrap of papyrus, no larger than a business card, was discovered. The scrap of paper was bought by an East German, Hans-Ulrich Laukamp, who died in 2002. Rene' Ernest managing the Laukamp estate made the discovery public.

Writer of the fragment, is unknown. Experts say that it is written in Coptic (Egyptian) language and contains errors (according to the journal Harvard). The words “Jesus said to them, 'My wife...” have been written in a more bold print than the rest of the text, which experts mark as being “suspicious.”

And so this information, which many brand as dubious, begs the question “Did Jesus Christ have a wife?”

And the answer is...................................................
He sure did!

At least in three instances in The Word Of God, we see references to the bride of Christ!
Those three would be, Israel (God's chosen people), The Church Of The Lord Jesus Christ, and The New Jerusalem.

Israel:
Isaiah 54:5 KJV
For thy Maker is thine Husband; The Lord Of Hosts is His name; and thy Redeemer The Holy One Of Israel; The God Of The Whole Earth shall he be called.
Isaiah 61:10 NLT
I am overwhelmed with joy in The Lord my God! For He has dressed me with the clothing of salvation and draped me in a robe of righteousness. I am like a bridegroom dressed for his wedding or a bride with her jewels.

Isaiah 62:5 KJV
For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.
Jeremiah 3:14 KJV
Turn, O backsliding children, saith The Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
Jeremiah 3:20 KJV
Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her Husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with Me, O house of Israel, saith The Lord.

Jeremiah 31:32 KJV
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an Husband unto them, saith The Lord:

Ezekiel 16:32 KJV
But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her Husband!
Hosea 2:2,13-16,19,20,23 NLT (Be sure to read the whole chapter.)
2 But now bring charges against Israel—your mother— for she is no longer My wife, and I am no longer her Husband. Tell her to remove the prostitute’s makeup from her face and the clothing that exposes
her breasts.
13 I will punish her for all those times when she burned incense to her images of Baal, when she put on her earrings and jewels and went out to look for her lovers but forgot all about Me,” says
The Lord.
14 “But then I will win her back once again. I will lead her into the desert and speak tenderly to her there.
15 I will return her vineyards to her and transform the Valley of Trouble into a gateway of hope. She will give herself to Me there, as she did long ago when she was young, when I freed her from her captivity in Egypt.
16 When that day comes,” says The Lord, “you will call Me ‘my Husband’ instead of ‘my master.
19 I will make you My wife forever, showing you righteousness and justice, unfailing love and compassion.
20 I will be faithful to you and make you Mine, and you will finally know Me as The Lord.
23 At that time I will plant a crop of Israelites and raise them for Myself. I will show love to those I called ‘Not loved.’ And to those I called ‘Not My people,’ I will say, ‘Now you are My people.’And they will reply, ‘You are our God!’”


Joel 1:8 KJV
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the Husband of her youth.

The Church Of The Lord Jesus Christ:
John 3:29 KJV
He that hath the bride is The Bridegroom: but the friend of The Bridegroom, which standeth and heareth Him, rejoiceth greatly because of The Bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
John 3:29 NLT
The Bridegroom who marries the bride, and the best man is simply glad to stand with Him and hear His vows. Therefore, I am filled with joy at His success.
II Corinthians 11:2 KJV
For I am jealous over you with Godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
Ephesians 5:21-33 NLT
21 And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to The Lord.
23 For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of His body, the church.
24 As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything.
25 For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up His life for her
26 to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s Word.
27 He did this to present her to Himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault.
28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself.
29 No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church.
30 And we are members of His body.
31 As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.”
32 This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one.
33 So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Revelation 19:7-9 KJV
7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to Him: for the marriage of The Lamb is come, and His wife hath made herself ready.
8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
9 And He (the angel) 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.

 
Revelation 22:17 KJV
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 New Jerusalem (Its Residents The People Of God) :
Revelation 21:2,9,10 KJV
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her Husband.
9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, The Lamb's wife.
10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,


Does Jesus Christ, God's Eternal Son, have a wife? Yes and it is the people of God.
If you have received the Savior into your heart and life, you are joined to The Lord Jesus.

Ephesians 5:31 KJV

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

Salvation Prayer