Jesus, the Lamb of GOD, delighted to do His Father’s will.The course marked out for Him was a remarkable one. He “made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of aservant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, Hehumbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore GOD also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name.” “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus,” for GOD has predestinated that theBride of Christ must first be conformed to His image (Romans 8:29).
Those who demonstrate their loyalty to their heavenly Bridegroom under the various testsnow upon us, filling up of the afflictions left behind of Christ for the Body’s sake will becounted worthy to form the Bride, the second Eve. O glorious prospect drawing near—the Marriage of the Lamb!
“And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.” -Matthew 25:10
When the marriage is consummated, and the virgins, the Bride’s companions that follow her, are brought into the King’s palace, with gladness and rejoicing, then the regeneration of Adam’s race, for whom atonement will have been made, will begin, and “the fathers shall become the children” of the Bride and Bridegroom, and they shall be made princes in all the earth, as co-labourers in the glorious work—the restitution of all things made possible through the sacrifice of the man Christ Jesus.
(Reference: ‘What Pastor Russell Taught’)
