[Uri’el-2012]

U-2012> Look up; Yah'shua is coming soon for His Bride !

CB> Amen and Amen! Come quickly Lord Jesus!

Consider this:

Rev 21:2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.

and this

Rev 21:9 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.

According to scripture, the bride of Christ is the city, New Jerusalem, not the church.

The use of the word "as" defines a metaphor.

It is not to be taken as literal.

YHvH is not in love with a city.

All throughout the WORD, YHvH has used marriage
as a metaphor for the outward sign of His love for us(as His Bride).

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach

[jimmyray]

QUOTE: "All throughout the WORD, YHvH has used marriage as a metaphor for the outward sign of His love for us(as His Bride)."

I concur on the metaphor assertion, especially since we are referred to as the Body of Christ (8x!, Eph 4:12, Rom 12:5, 1 Cor 12:27, et al).

Scripture is rich in meaning!