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Good afternoon friends let us unite in prayer. All mighty Eternal Father again we have come to worship you in Spirit and truth, recognize thy admonition that we are not to leave off the assembling ourselves together; too draw the mighty catalysed spiritual strength that descends upon thy household as we obey thy voice. As we meditate and think upon these things of thy purpose and are guided by thy Spirit; The catalyzation of such spiritual strength empowers us from day to day through out the week, we pray that you grant unto each one of us the understanding the basic truths essential to move through life for these tasks which are before us; recognising that we are in one of the great turbulent periods of human history, here in time of great tribulation, here in the period of the time of Jacob’s trouble; but also the hour of mighty victory for thy Kingdom.

We turn tonight in our thinking to the subject ‘Behold the Bridegroom Cometh’ because there is a symbolism to mystery here which reaches back to the knowledge of our race, to its relationship with God over a long period of time. The very understanding of the knowledge which God restored unto the Patriarchs and the Prophets sometimes is not discerned in the areas of contemporary theologians. As one goes back into this knowledge of the ancients, the writings of the patriarchs, the volumes of Enoch, the testimonies made known unto us from the book of Seth, as Seth the author, records these facts, the vast number of these ancient and sacred records became a symbolism of Mystery that is the relationship of God to His Household, His people.

In the teachings of Jesus there is then a multitude of parables which are illustrations of the Mystery, but which were not intended to be easily understood because of the KEY which is therein contained. ‘Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, unto ‘them’ it is not given.’ Almost all these parables are directly related to the purpose, the development the plan of the Kingdom, and God’s own personal relationship to it. All are therefore vital for a Christian to understand.

In the ancient writings of these Patriarchs, the great mystery and wisdom of symbolism were discussed. This symbolism was in the higher orders of their race. And here the symbolism was a part of their wisdom and understanding. In fact, in the Assemblies, where they met together to discuss these revelations and these patterns of significance, there were many things that they understood in these measures of symbolism in the days that proceeded the Ministry of Christ.

In the 21st chapter of Revelation we read, in verses 3-5,“Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.”

How far does this go and what does it mean? It means the fullness of interpretation: all things new.

We turn to the Apostle Paul’s writing in the Book of Colossians and we find, in the 1st chapter, he is talking about the fullness of God having dwelt bodily with us, and he tells us, in verses 15-18, that this is, the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature. For by him (Yahshua or Jesus) were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have pre-eminence.”

The Scriptures tell us many things about the peoples of the earth, and about brute beasts which are made to be taken and destroyed. Uniquely we are mistaken in our understanding as to the background of the distinction between peoples. All through the Old Testament we go into the foundation of races and people, and we translate the word “man” just as “a man,” not seeming to know that there are various kinds of “men”, backgrounds, and situations.

This is one of the reasons that you find the Old Testament in some places speaks about races of people, about men, where the word is “enosh”, meaning “beasts”. Then there happens to be another structure of the Hebrew word which means “brute beasts”, which is even lower than the structure of the symbol known as beasts. When the word Adam is used, the word is “man”, and it means “the offspring of The Most High”. Therefore, when Yahweh (God) begat Adam in His Own Image and began to transfer the sons and daughters of The Most High to earth, through the posterity of the Adamic race, He had established that the Adamic people were the children of His Kingdom.