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Revelation chapter 19 verse 7.

Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory for the marriage of the lamb has come and his

bride has made herself ready.

Oh I love this imagery. Don't you like this picture of when we will be united

with Jesus as his people in heaven.

The picture is of a marriage ceremony.

The marriage of the Lamb has come and his bride has made herself ready.

Like we are the bride of Christ, you and I, all who trusted in Jesus, the Bible tells us we are the body of Christ, the household

of God, and in this imagery, the bride of Christ, like I think about my wedding day.

When I stood at the front of this church sanctuary and the doors in the back swung open and my bride who had made herself ready steps into the room and everybody stands and everybody's smiling and I'm beaming and

she's beaming and it's like this joyful celebration of a husband and a wife a groom and a bride coming together and experiencing a

fullness of relationship that they had just anticipated leading up to that moment, but now would be a reality from

this moment. This is what our reunion. This is how heaven describes our

union with Jesus. Like we know him now. We love him now. We have

his promises to us now. We live in him now. He's our life now, but there's coming a day when our union with

him will be perfect. Our union with him will be complete. Don't you long for that day?

Like no more sin, no more temptation to sin. We'll be done with

sin. No more suffering. No more pain. No more suffering no more pain no more sorrow no more death

with Jesus forever. Oh this is why the Bible I I mean, Revelation 19 is just this crescendo that just growing and growing,

and it goes into chapter 20 and 21 and 22, like, come Lord Jesus, come quickly, quickly bring this about.

So we pray.

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