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MONDAY MAY 4


THE BEST WEDDING EVER

READ:
Revelation 19:7
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The marriage of
the Lamb has
come, and His wife
has made herself
ready.
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Within the last 800 or so years, a new custom has been added to the Jewish wedding ceremony. At the very end, the groom crushes a wine glass under his foot. One explanation of this is that the shattering of the glass symbolizes the destruction of the temple in AD 70. Young couples are encouraged to remember, as they establish their own homes, that God's home had been destroyed.

God is not homeless, however. He has just chosen a new place to life__in us, His followers. In the metaphors of Scripture, believers are both the bride of Christ and the temple in which God lives. God is fitting His people together to build a new home that will be His permanent dwelling place. At the same time, He is preparing the bride and planning a wedding that will include all of God's family from the beginning of time.

Our part is easy though sometimes painful. We cooperate with God as h
He is at work in us to make us more like his Son Jesus. Then some day, at the best wedding ever, our Lord will present us to Himself without spot or wrinkle. We will be holy and without blemish (EPH. 5:27). This wedding will bring an end to all sorrow and suffering.
__ Julie Ackerman Link

**Finish then Thy new creation; pure and spotless let us be; let us see Thy
great salvation perfectly restored in Thee. WESLEY_________________________________________________
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The return of Jesus is sure.

*****************************************Today's Bible Reading __ revelation 21:1-8*************************************
1 Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the
first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also
there was no more sea. 2 Then I, John, saw the holy city,
New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a
loud voice from heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God
is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be his
people. God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 And
God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be
no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more
pain, for the former things have passed away."

5 Then He who sat on the throne said, "Behold, I make all
things new." And He said to me, "Write, for these words are
true and faithful."

6 And He said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the
Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain
of the water of life freely to him who thirsts. 7 He who
overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he
shall be My son. 8 But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable,
murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars
shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and
brimstone, which is the second death."

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Our eternal home is so different from our
current earthly home that it is described by what is missing rather
than by what is present__not tears, sorrow, death, crying, or pain.
"The former things" (v.4) of this earth will be no more.