1. COVENANT

2. 2 ASPECTS: BETROTHAL CONSUMMATION MARRIAGE COVENANT

3.  GROOM LEAVES FATHER’S ESTATE IN SEARCH OF BRIDE GROOM LEAVES HOME

4.  NEGOTIATES DOWRY FOR HIS DAUGHTER – SHOWS GROOMS ABILITY TO PROVIDE FOR HIS DAUGHTER BRIDE’S FATHER

5.  MARRIAGE COVENANT IS NOW ESTABLISHED – A CERTIFICATION IS GIVEN AND RECORDED – HUSBAND AND WIFE  (NO PHYSICAL UNION AT THIS TIME) GROOM PAYS PRICE

6.  BRIDE AND GROOM DRINK FROM WEDDING CUP DECLARATION OF COVENANT

7.  AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME – USUALLY 1 YEAR GROOM RETURNS HOME

8.  GROOM PREPARES LIVING ACCOMODATIONS GROOM’S PREPARATION

9.  BRIDE GATHERS WARDROBE BRIDE’S PREPARATION

10.  PREPARES TO RETURN TO BRIDE’S HOME  (USUALLY AT NIGHT) GROOM GATHERS HIS ESCORTS

11.  KNOWS THE APPROXIAMATE TIME OF GROOMS RETURN – BUT WAITS FOR HIS SHOUT OF ANNOUNCEMENT BRIDE HAS EXPECTANCY

12.  BRIDE LEAVES HOME WITH HER WEDDING PARTY TO RETURN TO GROOM’S FATHER’S HOUSE GROOM RECEIVES BRIDE

13.  BRIDE AND GROOM ENTER NEW HOUSE AND FOR THE 1 ST TIME ENJOY PHYSICAL UNION CONSUMMATION AT NEW HOME

14. ESTABLISHING COVENANT - APPLICATION TO SLAVATION

15.  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

16.  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

17.  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

18.  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

19.  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

20.  In my Father's house are many mansions:... I go to prepare a place for you.  JOHN 14:2 GROOM’S PREPARATION

21.  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

22. 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

23.  For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout …  1 THESSALONIANS 4:16 BRIDE HAS EXPECTANCY OF ANNOUNCEMENT

24.  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

25.  And so shall we ever be with the Lord.  1 THESSALONIANS 4:17 CONSUMMATION AT NEW HOME

26. COMMUNION

27.  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

28. TESTIMONIES OF MARRIAGE