So your saying that Israel is the bride?
If so. Your right according to the NT.
REVELATION 21 {9} And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I WILL SHEW THEE THE BRIDE, THE LAMB'S WIFE. {10} And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, {11} Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; {12} And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of THE TWELVE TRIBES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL:
Theres the bride according to this new covenant scripture. Its the 12 tribes of Israel, just as the old testament says.
Would you post the Scripture where Israel is called the Bride, then show Old Testament Scripture in which Israel had received the promises given?
You make the names of the Twelve Tribes mean to say that Israel is the Bride, but what do you do with...
Revelation 21:14
King James Version (KJV)
14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
...?
Understand that just as the Writer of Hebrews points out the Old Testament being the First Principles of the Doctrine of Christ, even so here we see that Israel is a foundational principle in the overview of the Redemptive Plan of God.
Israel is not the Bride, the Church is the Bride. Israel is the Old Testament picture of the Body of Christ, and those of faith under Old Testament Economies will be a part of that One People of God, the Bride of Christ.
The Bride is not exclusively the Church (though it is for now) in the Eternal State (when this city is actually delivered from Heaven to the new heavens and earth, nor is it exclusively Israel, but the Bride is comprised of both Jew and Gentile in Christ.
We see the Writer of Hebrews contrast the temporal picture of the Law with the New Covenant.
Consider:
Hebrews 12:18-24
King James Version (KJV)
18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake
22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
The spirits of Old Testament Saints were made perfect, that is, complete through the Work of Christ. Today, those brought into the New Covenant are perfected forever when they are sanctified, and this occurs at the time of salvation. Both are among the redeemed, but there is a difference between the two Covenants, even as there is a difference between the Covenant of Law and the Abrahamic Covenant.
God bless.
