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CELEBRATION

"For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones."

(Ephesians 5:30)

The Heavenly Father has introduced us to His Son, who has taken us as His Bride and joyfully signed our Marriage Covenant with His Blood, and He has given us His Royal Name. When we accepted His offer to wed our hearts to His, all the rights, status and privileges of His eternal kingdom became ours, and the golden doors of His heavenly treasury were opened to us, so that we, His Bride, would be adorned in all His beauty, and share in the vastness of His wealth for the glory and honor of His righteous and holy name.

Our Faithful Husband has paid all our debts and made provision for our every want and need, and He has prepared for us an eternal home where, when He returns, He will present us before the Majestic Glory, as a radiant Bride, without stain or wrinkle, but holy and blameless, perfected and complete. It will be here that we confirm our marriage covenant in the final part of the wedding ceremony, the celebration of the Wedding Feast - the Wedding Supper of the Lamb! (Revelation 19:9).

While we await that glorious day when we, the Church, the Bride of Christ, will celebrate our joyous nuptials with our Beloved Bridegroom, we are to live every day with joy and peace and in the security of knowing that we are His chosen wife, His spouse, His queen. He has engraved us on His hands and has united us together as One Flesh - an eternal union that even death cannot separate. He has made us one with Him. We are members of His Body, with Christ as the Head. And at the final consummation of our Marriage to the Lamb, the Faithful and True One will be glorified, for His Bride will be at His side reigning with Him.

While our Bridegroom is away making final preparations to take us home with Him, He expects His Bride to also be preparing to receive Him with joy when He returns. This is why He has said we will fast (Matthew 9:15); so we can be set apart to Him and separated from the world, and keep His Body purified "by the washing with water through the Word" (Ephesians 5:26). He has claimed us as His own, and, as a Jealous Husband, He won't share us with any other. He intends to return to find a faithful wife who has not been defiled by the world.

Our Body is no longer our own - we have become One Flesh with the Jesus Christ - and on the day of our consummation a new life was deposited within. Fifty days after our Savior was resurrected from the dead, the first signs of life appeared in His Church; and we've been reproducing this irrepressible life ever since (Acts 2:1-4).

It is vital that we take care of the Body as one who is pregnant with new life. The Presence of Holy God is dwelling within, and we've been given a sacred trust to see that this new life within is nurtured, nourished and reproduced. The same power the Holy Spirit exerted when He raised Jesus Christ from the grave is the same life that resurrects us from the dead and raises us to a new quality of moral life (2 Corinthians 5:5). We are called to live a life that is higher than us, and the Holy Spirit has been given as a gift to help perfect us in Christ, so that we can live the life of holiness He has purposed for us, and glorify Him with our lives (Romans 6:4). The power to live this new life comes from within. The One who has written His covenant of love on our hearts and signed it in His blood, has sealed it with His Holy Spirit - to the praise of His glory!

" 'Not by might, nor by power,

but by My Spirit,'

says the LORD Almighty."

(Zechariah 4:6)

These final 12 days of our journey through our marriage covenant with the Lord, provides us a divine opportunity to resolve to live undefiled from the world. This final stage of our journey takes us through the Jewish High Holy Days, beginning with the Feast of Trumpets, which inaugurates a new year and begins the Ten Days of Awe. Traditionally these days are meant to be a time of repentance in preparation for Yom Kippur - the Day of Atonement, but the past two weeks have been for us a time of repentance, so these Days of Awe will be for us a time of Thanksgiving. As believers we have a lot to be thankful for: We have been engraved on the Hands of our Savior, Sealed by His Holy Spirit, and our names are already written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

"L'Shanah Tovah Tikateyvu" - May you be written down and inscribed for a good year!

During these 10 days you are invited to live as Daniel did - who resolved not to eat from the table of the pagan ruler of the land he was exiled in, but chose to only eat from the table of His King (Daniel 1:8-20). May we allow the Holy Spirit to saturate us with holy influences so we can live a pure and holy life, in every way, not just in the food we eat; so we can set an example to all believers in the way we live.

The final two days of our journey will be a time of intercession. The Day of Atonement falls on a Sabbath this year. It is considered "The Sabbath of Return." Since we have experienced our Sabbath rest in Jesus Christ, we will be interceding for God's peace and rest to come to the lives of others, and our land, as we pray His heart on Marriage; which He has shared with us these past few weeks that it was His intent all along to bring us into a more perfect union with Him. That perfect union will one day be fully realized in the New Jerusalem when His purposes are complete, so our final day of intercession will focus on praying for the Peace of Jerusalem. Details and prayers will be provided online (www.trumpetandtorch.org/40holydays) [Click on Day of Intercession and Wedding Feast for more information].

Our Father

Which art in heaven,

Hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done in earth,

as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts,

as we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom,

and the power, and the glory, for ever.

Amen.

(Matthew 6:9-13)

"The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!"

"Yes, I am coming soon."

"Amen. Come, Lord Jesus."

(Revelation 22:17a, 20)

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