COVENANT
2 ASPECTS: BETROTHAL CONSUMMATION MARRIAGE COVENANT
GROOM LEAVES FATHER’S ESTATE IN SEARCH OF BRIDE GROOM LEAVES HOME
NEGOTIATES DOWRY FOR HIS DAUGHTER – SHOWS GROOMS ABILITY TO PROVIDE FOR HIS DAUGHTER BRIDE’S FATHER
MARRIAGE COVENANT IS NOW ESTABLISHED – A CERTIFICATION IS GIVEN AND RECORDED – HUSBAND AND WIFE (NO PHYSICAL UNION AT THIS TIME) GROOM PAYS PRICE
BRIDE AND GROOM DRINK FROM WEDDING CUP DECLARATION OF COVENANT
AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME – USUALLY 1 YEAR GROOM RETURNS HOME
GROOM PREPARES LIVING ACCOMODATIONS GROOM’S PREPARATION
BRIDE GATHERS WARDROBE BRIDE’S PREPARATION
PREPARES TO RETURN TO BRIDE’S HOME (USUALLY AT NIGHT) GROOM GATHERS HIS ESCORTS
KNOWS THE APPROXIAMATE TIME OF GROOMS RETURN – BUT WAITS FOR HIS SHOUT OF ANNOUNCEMENT BRIDE HAS EXPECTANCY
BRIDE LEAVES HOME WITH HER WEDDING PARTY TO RETURN TO GROOM’S FATHER’S HOUSE GROOM RECEIVES BRIDE
BRIDE AND GROOM ENTER NEW HOUSE AND FOR THE 1 ST TIME ENJOY PHYSICAL UNION CONSUMMATION AT NEW HOME
ESTABLISHING COVENANT - APPLICATION TO SLAVATION
Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse … That he might present it to himself a glorious church EPHESIANS 5:25-28 GROOM LEAVES HOME
Ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. 1 CORINTHIANS 6:19-20 BRIDE’S FATHER NEGOTIATES
Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church EPHSIANS 5:25-27 GROOM PAYS PRICE
After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: 1 CORINTHIANS 11:25 DECLARATION OF COVENANT
What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? JOHN 6:62; And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. ACTS 1:9 GROOM RETURNS HOME
In my Father's house are many mansions:... I go to prepare a place for you. JOHN 14:2 GROOM’S PREPARATION
And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, … for the edifying of the body of Christ: EPHESIANS 4:11-12 BRIDE’S PREPARATION
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. JOHN 14:3 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, … Then 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. 1 THESSALONIANS 4:16-17 GROOM GATHERS HIS ESCORTS
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout … 1 THESSALONIANS 4:16 BRIDE HAS EXPECTANCY OF ANNOUNCEMENT
Then 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. 1 THESSALONIANS 4:17 GROOM RECEIVES BRIDE
And so shall we ever be with the Lord. 1 THESSALONIANS 4:17 CONSUMMATION AT NEW HOME
COMMUNION
After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. 1 CORINTHIANS 11:25
TESTIMONIES OF MARRIAGE