"WEDDING BELLS SHALL RING SO MERRILY"

YAHWEH PROPOSES TO THE NATION OF ISRAEL AND WHAT A PROPOSAL!

Yahweh had chosen a bride, the nation of Israel. She had come through the loins of a man He called His friend, Abraham. She found herself in slavery in Egypt, bound to gods that are not gods, suffering from the bondage. And Yahweh wanted her for his bride. So, by great signs and wonders, he will bring her out of bondage, out of slavery to a Mountain on the day of Pentecost, a day of new beginnings. At Mount Sinai, Yahweh will propose to this nation, this woman, amid the thundering and fire and shaking and as her to obey His laws.

YAHWEH WILL TELL THEM THAT THIS IS WHAT HE IS ABOUT!

Exodus 19:3-20

Ex 19:3 Then Moses went up to ELOHIM, and Yahweh called to him from the mountain and said, "This is what you are to say to the house of Jacob and what you are to tell the people of Israel:

The object of what we read here was the announcement of the terms on which Yahweh was to take the Israelites into a close and personal relationship, indeed a marriage relation to Himself.

It is important to note:

(1) that Yahweh reminded the people that hitherto they had been the objects of His free grace and love: Hi loved them enough to bring them out of Egypt.

(2) that the law is not proposed as a means of life, but as a means by which Israel might become "a peculiar treasure" and a "kingdom of priests"; and a perfect wife.

I COURTED YOU BY WHAT I DID FOR YOU AND TO EGYPT!

Ex 19:4 'You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself.

1. They were to obey His voice.

2. They were to keep His Covenant.

3. They were to be ELOHOIM’S own treasure EVENTUALLY HIS WIFE. His own people, in whom He would have all right, and over whom He should have exclusive authority above all the people of the earth.

4. They should be a "kingdom of Priests", and their state would be a theocracy,

with ELOHIM as their sole Governor, with all subjects being priests, all

worshippers, all sacrifices, every individual offering up the victim for

himself. It would be for each personal.

Ex 19:5 Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine,

Ex 19:6 you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites."

They were to be a nation, one people, firmly united among themselves, living under their own laws; They should be holy, righteous in their conduct, holy in their hearts. AND IN A MARRIAGE COVENANT WITH THE CREATOR. WHAT OTHER NATION WOULD BE WED TO THE GREAT CREATOR OF THE WORLD?

Ex 19:7 So Moses went back and summoned the elders of the people and set before them all the words Yahweh had commanded him to speak.

Ex 19:8 The people all responded together, "We will do everything Yahweh has said." So Moses brought their answer back to Yahweh.

Ex 19:10 And Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. Have them wash their clothes

It was necessary they bathed, washed their clothes because they were to appear in the presence of Elohim. Everything should be clean and pure about them. Their future Husband would appear before them. They must look their best as a bride to be.

Ex 19:16 On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled.

Ex 19:17 Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet with Yahweh, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

Ex 19:18 Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because Yahweh descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, the whole mountain trembled violently,

Ex 19:19 and the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder. Then Moses spoke and the voice of Yahweh answered him.

Ex 24:3 When Moses went and told the people all Yahweh's words and laws, they responded with one voice, "Everything Yahweh has said we will do."

Ex 24:4 Moses then wrote down everything Yahweh had said. He got up early the next morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up twelve stone pillars representing the twelve tribes of Israel.

After the people had agreed on this covenant, Moses drew up the agreement to preserve the memory of this covenant.

1. As legislator, he reduces to writing all the articles and conditions of the agreement, with the peoples consent.

2. As their mediator, he accepts the resolution of the people and Yahweh engages Himself to Israel, to be their Elohim, their King and Protector to be their Husband and to fulfill all the promises made to their fathers.

3. To make this more solemn and affecting, and to ratify the covenant, which could not be done without sacrifice, shedding and sprinkling of blood, Moses will build an altar, erect 12 pillars, of unhewn stone. The altar will represent the throne of Elohim, and the 12 stones will represent the 12 tribes.

These are the two parties of the covenant.

Ex 24:5 Then he sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as fellowship offerings to Yahweh.

Ex 24:6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he sprinkled on the altar.

Ex 24:7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They responded, "We will do everything Yahweh has said; we will obey."

Ex 24:8 Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, "This is the blood of the covenant that Yahweh has made with you in accordance with all these words."

The book now being read was ready to be ratified and binding and would be done by sprinkling half the blood on the altar and half of it on the people, showing that both Yahweh and they were bound to this marriage covenant.

Yahweh to support, defend and save them, the people to fear, love and serve Him. 

THE MARRIAGE AGREEMENT WAS NOW MADE! NOT YET CONSUMMATED!

They cheerfully consented to take ELOHIM for their portion. Thus the marriage covenant was made, the parties being mutually bound to each other. The message was sent back in the same way it came.

ISRAEL ACCEPTS THE PROPOSAL FROM YAHWEH!

The nation of Israel accepted His proposal of marriage with one voice, saying this, we will do. Yahweh will adorned her with everything she had needed, became engaged to her. She fell in love with Yahweh, and Yahweh loved her. He will do everything for her to prepare her to be a bride, but she will become a whore, she became a harlot and commit adultery with other so called gods before the wedding took place.

Jer 3:6 - 8

Yahweh said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen [that] which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. And I said after she had done all these [things], Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw [it]. And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.

Isa 50:1

Thus saith Yahweh, Where [is] the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors [is it] to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

Ezekiel 23: 11- 21

"Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother. They became prostitutes in Egypt, engaging in prostitution from their youth. In that land their breasts were fondled and their virgin bosoms caressed. The older was named Oholah, and her sister was Oholibah. They were mine and gave birth to sons and daughters.Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem. (Israel in Samaria and Judah in Jerusalem) "Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was still mine; and she lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians-- warriors clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all of them handsome young men, and mounted horsemen.

She gave herself as a prostitute to all the elite of the Assyrians and defiled herself with all the idols of everyone she lusted after. She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when during her youth men slept with her, caressed her virgin bosom and poured out their lust upon her. "Therefore I handed her over to her lovers, the Assyrians, for whom she lusted. They stripped her naked, took away her sons and daughters and killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women, and punishment was inflicted on her. "Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister. She too lusted after the Assyrians-- governors and commanders, warriors in full dress, mounted horsemen, all handsome young men. I saw that she too defiled herself; both of them went the same way.

"But she carried her prostitution still further. She saw men portrayed on a wall, figures of Chaldeans portrayed in red, with belts around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like Babylonian chariot officers, natives of Chaldea. As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust. When she carried on her prostitution openly and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister. Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.

They lusted after strange gods of wood, stone, gold and silver. They paid their dues to these gods.

YAHWEH HAD CARED FOR HER, HAD CLOTHED HER WITH RIGHTEOUS, BUT SHE WANTED MORE, SHE WANTED A DIFFERENT ELOHIM!

Eze 16:13

So you were adorned with gold and silver; your clothes were of fine linen and costly fabric and embroidered cloth. Your food was fine flour, honey and olive oil. You became very beautiful and rose to be a queen. And your fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, because the splendor I had given you made your beauty perfect, declares the Most High. "'But you trusted in your beauty and used your fame to become a prostitute. You lavished your favors on anyone who passed by and your beauty became his. You took some of your garments to make gaudy high places, where you carried on your prostitution. Such things should not happen, nor should they ever occur. You also took the fine jewelry I gave you, the jewelry made of my gold and silver, and you made for yourself male idols and engaged in prostitution with them. And you took your embroidered clothes to put on them, and you offered my oil and incense before them. Also the food I provided for you-- the fine flour, olive oil and honey I gave you to eat-- you offered as fragrant incense before them. That is what happened, declares Yahweh. "'And you took your sons and daughters whom you bore to me and sacrificed them as food to the idols. Was your prostitution not enough? You slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols. In all your detestable practices and your prostitution you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, kicking about in your blood. "'Woe! Woe to you, declares Yahweh. In addition to all your other wickedness, you built a mound for yourself and made a lofty shrine in every public square. At the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty, offering your body with increasing promiscuity to anyone who passed by. You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, and provoked me to anger with your increasing promiscuity. So I stretched out my hand against you and reduced your territory; I gave you over to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were shocked by your lewd conduct. You engaged in prostitution with the Assyrians too, because you were insatiable; and even after that, you still were not satisfied. Then you increased your promiscuity to include Babylonia, a land of merchants, but even with this you were not satisfied. "'How weak-willed you are, declares Yahweh, when you do all these things, acting like a brazen prostitute! When you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were unlike a prostitute, because you scorned payment. "'You adulterous wife! You prefer strangers to your own husband! Every prostitute receives a fee, but you give gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors. So in your prostitution you are the opposite of others; no one runs after you for your favors. You are the very opposite, for you give payment and none is given to you.

SHE WAS CALLED THE "ASSEMBLY IN THE WILDERNESS" BY STEPHEN IN ACTS 7

And Yahweh gave her a bill of divorcement before the wedding ever took place. And it will take her death for Yahweh to once again become engaged to her. In fact, it will take the death of the Only Son of the Mighty One of Israel for this engagement to take place again.

The Church in the Wilderness came not to the wedding, but to rejection by the Bridegroom.

But there will be another engagement, one of a different nature, one with the Church, but to the wrong bridegroom. And this church will marry their bridegroom.

WEDDING BELLS WILL RING!

So, the sound of wedding bells rang thru the air in the city of seven hills, and it sounded to the world a union that would raised to be great. This marriage was an engagement, not just consummated. BUT IT WILL BE! And later will end in Divorce.

The groom was a General, having overcome many battles in great triumph.

The bride was a beautiful lady, who had received the greatest care of all young brides. She was once engaged to another one, another husband. She had been chosen for a wedding, but not to this man. She now become engaged to a very different one. One who will also groom her, one who will nourish her, one who will bestow lavishes gifts on her but for a very different reason. One who will prepare her for his wedding. 

The bride's to be’s name: the Church.

The groom's name: Constantine.

This monumental event took place in history in the year 312 AD. It was the engagement of church and state.

When they kissed, both of these parties would be changed forever. The great and world ruling government of the Roman world will become a religious empire, and the bride, known as Christianity by his side, would become known as the state religion.

The bride, "engaged to one husband" now becomes unfaithful, led astray from the devotion to the Messiah, Yahshua.

You see, once again, with the falling of Israel, she is brought back to the Messiah, once again engaged to the Messiah, by the death of the Son of the Mighty One of Israel. But again, she falls away, again she heads into prostitution. Again she leaves her engaged One to follow other gods. You see, when you were baptized, you did symbolically die. You then became eligible for the wedding that is to come. Will you remain true to your Husband to be, or go after false gods the way Israel did. This time the bill of divorcement means the "sea of fire".

Lets read it in: The apostle Saul writing.

2Co 11:2

I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to the Master, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him. But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to the Messiah.

Notice "virgin" not virgins. The whole body of Yahshua makes up the church, not individual members.

For I am jealous over you. His course was induced because of his jealousy for them, not in behalf of himself, but of the Master. He had espoused them to the Messiah, the Bridegroom of whom the church is the bride. He has a fear lest this bride may be led astray .

AND SHE WAS LED ASTRAY!

By uniting herself to the state government of the world she was becoming part of the world and involved in world affairs (John 17:16), contrary to the words of her betrothed and Master who said that his kingdom was not of this world (John 18:36).

SATAN

How then, did this beautiful young bride to be of the Messiah, become unfaithful? One word! Satan!

Satan is the mocker of the Father, He is called the Deceiver of all the world, he is the tempter. And he began to prepare this young bride by bringing her into the ways of the world.

HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?

Well, it was slow but sure. Once full of fervent love and zeal, totally devoted to the teachings of the Master, she began to lose her first love, began to change, began to listen to the Father of all lies.

She loved the Master, but as Satan slowly began to deceive her, she needed a lover now. Satan began to seduce her. To prepare her for his union.

Satan began to tell her, your engaged One to be has died, went back to His throne, and He told you to bring in the Kingdom to this earth. How are you going to do that without getting involved with this world. There’s a better way and after all , your first love will finally marry you. You have been saved. He wants you to do it this way. This is what He wants you to do. Get involved and straighten out this world.

He began to tell her, it was O.K. to observe the days of this world, as long as we do it in the memory of the Master, to change His Name from a Hebrew god to a Greek god. That was all right, he assures her. You are marrying the Messiah, he tells her, but he only has a different name. You're in a different country now, we do things a little different here. It is O.K. he assures her.

And the church was tempted and many fell. However, not all did, but will address that later, in part 2 of the true marriage.

"Between the years AD 100 and AD 3500, the so-called Christian Church changed almost beyond recognition..."

Now she begins to commit fornication with this king of the earth, Satan, in the person of Constantine. She had forgotten the engagement of her youth and the marriage covenant of her ELOHIM

Now joined in engagement to the church, the Roman empire grew to great heights, confirming what had been prophesied long before in the dream of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon.

THE VISION OF THESE EVENTS ARE RECORDED IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL.

This mighty king had seen a vision of a huge statue with extraordinary brilliance and a frightening appearance. Its head was of fine gold, its breast and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, and its two legs of iron

Daniel 2:31-32.

"You looked, O king, and there before you stood a large statue-- an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance.

The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay.

Here were depicted four world empires that would follow one another: the Babylonians, the Medes and Persians, the Greeks, and the Romans .

Daniel 2:37-40

You, O king, are the king of kings. The Elohim of heaven has given you dominion and power and might and glory; in your hands he has placed mankind and the beasts of the field and the birds of the air. Wherever they live, he has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold. "After you, another kingdom will rise, inferior to yours. Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule over the whole earth. Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron-- for iron breaks and smashes everything-- and as iron breaks things to pieces, so it will crush and break all the others.

After the division and fall of Rome, depicted by the two legs of iron, the king saw that the statue had feet partly of iron and partly of clay so it seemed there would arise yet another world empire. That last world empire is on the scene and Satan is at its head.

Thus far there have been no more world empires since Rome fell, although many rulers in the ensuing 1,500 years have attempted to revive the Holy Roman Empire. History, to this day, does not record anything corresponding to the feet with its ten toes of iron and clay until now, but you will have to wait till Part 3.

Daniel 2:43

And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay.

Daniel told the great king that the iron and clay would mix together in engagement: "As you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, so they will mix with one another in marriage, but they will not hold together, just as iron does not mix with clay"

WILL THAT ENGAGEMENT MADE YEARS AGO NOW BE CONSUMMATED?

Will the engagement made by Emperor Constantine and the fallen church now be consummated?

The answer is yes, but that marriage will end in divorce. Satan will look around and find him a new bride, a young bride, eager to kill themselves for him, willing to kill any that opposes him. (Part 3)

2Thess 2: 3,4

Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshipped, so that he sets himself up in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

Yes, I believe that the vows will be committed by one who is called god, who sits in the temple of god. Those vows will be committed to this one with his new bride, but not this one.

They together will rule the entire world, not just the Roman world, but the entire world. That engagement that was entered into with the General Constantine will finally be consumed in marriage. But it does not last. But lets continue to see how Satan rules with his first bride, who is a type of what is to come.

Already this great false church who calls herself the church of god, is infiltrating all levels of government and of business enterprises in order to usher into power a one-world government system.

She is attractive by dealing with problems of the world. Who can stand against her, she says. Her very size and stability will seem to offer the state the way to control dangerous religious groups and individuals.

BOTH THE BEAST AND THE FALSE PROPHET GETS ITS AUTHORITY FROM NONE OTHER THAN SATAN HIMSELF.

Re 13:3 One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was astonished and followed the beast.

Re 13:4 Men worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, "Who is like the beast? Who can make war against him?"

Satan gives the authority and power -- He is behind it.

Notice - the deception they worship the beast, but really is Satan, because they worship him also without knowing it. They will think, he will get his power from God, from his great signs.

Him = one man at the head. Becomes very powerful and this is why they worship the beast power.

Remember, one false prophet and one beast that is head of this combine. Hitler being a type, who was taken over by Satan himself. He was looked on as a savior and adorned by people all over Germany.

Unable to be set apart, she will find a way to live in society being both in and of the world. So she will bring into existence another "holy empire" another Christendom a harlot kingdom because she will have united her heart to the kings of the new world empire. 

THE MARRIAGE WILL NOT LAST LONG!

Just a short period in time!

THE BEAST WILL COME TO HATE HIS BRIDE!

And a divorce will come (see part 3)

The Beast Power under control of Satan, will look around and find a new bride. A bride that will give their physical lives to him, be eager to die for him, to conquer the world for him.

This marriage to the Beast power will finally fail. The Stone will smash it to bits. We read the words of the Apostle John as he describes the true church, and this church was at one time the true church. It started in Jerusalem by a Jewish Savior, and moved into the world.

Eph 5:25-27

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

How far is this description from the pure virgin that was once betrothed to Messiah or the church that He gave Himself up for, to set apart her and cleanse her, that He might present to Himself a bride in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and blameless.

PART 2

Part two will continue with the daughters of the great whore! Who are they, are they here now. Do they include Protestants, Muslims, Chinese and Japanese and all the religions of the world? Will they be a part of this marriage of this false church to Satan? How that marriage will fail and Satan will find a new bride.

PART 3

The Stone that will crush the system. The true marriage that will last forever, the marriage of the Lamb and His Bride, the true Church. Elohoim’s ultimate solution.