The LORD our Passover

Picking back up with John 6:60 we find the following:

Many therefore of His disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples murmured at it, He said to them, Does this offend you? And if you shall see the Son of man ascend up where He was before? It is the Spirit that quickens spirit; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak to you, are spirit, and are Life. But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray Him. And He said, Therefore said I to you, that no man can come to Me, except it were given to him of My Father (Who is Spirit).

From that time on many of His disciples went back, and walked no more with Him. Then said Jesus to the twelve, Will you also go away? Simon Peter answered, Lord, to whom shall we go? You alone have the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that You are Christ, the Son of the Living God.”

Now we will look at marriage and how this all ties us to Him even though in metaphoric language and by similitude. In order to keep it veiled to the unknowing, though they maybe redeemed. It seems that only after our entry into God's Salvation, through the door others hidden, do these things come to Light in the learning and revelation of Christ. In the accepting of His yoke of Matthew 11:29. In the passage just looked at we have mans Redemption in the quickening of mans spirit where the flesh profits nothing which substantiates what I have already stated. It is for this reason that for years I was troubled beyond measure because of what I both saw and heard from mans pulpit. And though I tried to work among them they remained resistant to what God wanted to accomplish be it through me or anyone else Spiritually lead.

I do not want to retrace our steps of Matthew 21 and 22 and the related passages we have already looked at. So I will turn to Isaiah's letter to see what he reveals concerning the revelation of union and unity in the bond of peace as recorded in chapters 54 and 62. And then possibly Paul's account in his Epistles in the marriage of two parties, where the weaker takes on the identity of the stronger, in the exchange of the surname, usually of the male. With the female becoming know by her husbands last name, this being in the name of. For we have in like fashion spiritually had this exchange take place. This is also the action of the LORD's Last Supper or Betrothal Feast/Marriage of the Lamb and our being identified in His death. She has all right and privileges of her husbands name. This is exactly what the Lord Christ Jesus and Paul by revelation speak of as a mystery. Okay Isaiah 54 beginning at verse 1 of chapter 53 to keep the flow going through chapter 54 verse 10 we find this spoken through the prophet concerning the need or want of faith and the sufferings of Christ and the Church promised with Grace in the promises revealed.

“Who has believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: He has no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from Him; He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.

Surely He has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed (brought into His Salvation in unity with Him, spiritual Life restored). All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; (the work of a callous heart of unbelief which stretcher into our Redemption period of training, tutoring and teaching) and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth: He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare His generation? for He was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was He stricken. And He made His grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His death; because He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth. Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief: when You shall make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand. He shall see of the travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied: by His knowledge shall My righteous servant justify many; for He shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong; because He has poured out His soul unto death: and He was numbered with the transgressors; and He bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Sing, O barren, you that did not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you that did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says the LORD. Enlarge the place of Your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of Your habitations: spare not, lengthen Your cords, and strengthen Your stakes; For You shall break forth on the right hand and on the left; and Your seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. Fear not; for you shall not be ashamed: neither will you be confounded; for you shall not be put to shame: for you shall forget the shame of your youth, and shall not remember the reproach of your widowhood any more. For your Maker is your husband; the LORD of hosts is His name; and your Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall He be called. For the LORD has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when you were refused, says your God. For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you. In a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on you, says the LORD your Redeemer. For this is as the waters of Noah to Me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with you, nor rebuke you. For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but My kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall the covenant of My peace be removed, says the LORD that has mercy on you.” (more can be found in Psalm 45:10-17, Jeremiah 3:14-16, Ezekiel 16:8, Hosea 2:19-23) To all this hear what John the Baptist has to say as recorded by John in chapter 3 beginning with verse 27; “John answering said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. As you yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before Him. He that has the bride is the bridegroom:(LORD) but the friend of the bridegroom, which stands and hears Him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this is my joy therefore is fulfilled. He must increase, but I must decrease. He that comes from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaks of the earth: He/he that comes from heaven is above all. And what he has seen and heard, that he testifies; and no man receives his testimony. He that has received His testimony has set to his seal that God is true. For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God: for God gives not the Spirit by measure unto him. The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. He that believes the Son has Everlasting Life: and he that believes not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abides/remains on him.”

This statement can be applied to the Son's of God who now have God's righteousness and kingdom rule and law at work within them, by trust which has become His Faith.

With our spiritual eyes and ears now opened we can perceive through His righteousness, the passages just quoted, we can hear and learn of those who have been born into Christ and Christ rebirthed within them. This is New Covenant and kingdom of heaven and of God ground, in a true marriage of two becoming as One, in this kind of language. In the marriage of Spirit to spirit. For the average person this may not register at first and does not to those who have received their Redemption as laid out by God. As it remains a mystery until Salvation takes a grip and become our new stronghold within our very soul.