COVENANT
MARRIAGE COVENANT 2 ASPECTS: BETROTHAL CONSUMMATION
GROOM LEAVES HOME • GROOM LEAVES FATHER’S ESTATE IN SEARCH OF BRIDE
BRIDE’S FATHER • NEGOTIATES DOWRY FOR HIS DAUGHTER – SHOWS GROOMS ABILITY TO PROVIDE FOR HIS DAUGHTER
GROOM PAYS PRICE • MARRIAGE COVENANT IS NOW ESTABLISHED – A CERTIFICATION IS GIVEN AND RECORDED – HUSBAND AND WIFE • (NO PHYSICAL UNION AT THIS TIME)
DECLARATION OF COVENANT • BRIDE AND GROOM DRINK FROM WEDDING CUP
GROOM RETURNS HOME • AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME – USUALLY 1 YEAR
GROOM’S PREPARATION • GROOM PREPARES LIVING ACCOMODATIONS
BRIDE’S PREPARATION • BRIDE GATHERS WARDROBE
GROOM GATHERS HIS ESCORTS • PREPARES TO RETURN TO BRIDE’S HOME • (USUALLY AT NIGHT)
BRIDE HAS EXPECTANCY • KNOWS THE APPROXIAMATE TIME OF GROOMS RETURN – BUT WAITS FOR HIS SHOUT OF ANNOUNCEMENT
GROOM RECEIVES BRIDE • BRIDE LEAVES HOME WITH HER WEDDING PARTY TO RETURN TO GROOM’S FATHER’S HOUSE
CONSUMMATION AT NEW HOME • BRIDE AND GROOM ENTER NEW HOUSE AND FOR THE 1ST TIME ENJOY PHYSICAL UNION
ESTABLISHING COVENANT- APPLICATION TO SLAVATION
GROOM LEAVES HOME • 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
BRIDE’S FATHER NEGOTIATES • 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
GROOM PAYS PRICE • 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
DECLARATION OF COVENANT • 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
GROOM RETURNS HOME • 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’S PREPARATION • In my Father's house are many mansions: ... I go to prepare a place for you. • JOHN 14:2
BRIDE’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
GROOM GATHERS HIS ESCORTS 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
BRIDE HAS EXPECTANCY OF ANNOUNCEMENT • For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout… • 1 THESSALONIANS 4:16
GROOM RECEIVES BRIDE • 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
CONSUMMATION AT NEW HOME • And so shall we ever be with the Lord. • 1 THESSALONIANS 4:17
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
