Wedding of the Lord of Lords Galatians 4

Hello, I'm William Bell. Welcome back to allthingsfulfilled.com's YouTube channel. In this video, we're going to talk about Galatians and the wedding feast of the Lord, the bride, and those things that pertain to the fall of the city, as we've been doing in the previous videos. We hope that you have been enjoying the studies, and we also encourage you to subscribe to our channel and contact us if you have any questions or leave your comments below. So, what about Galatians? What's in this book that suggests to us that there is a correlation between the fall of the city of Jerusalem and the wedding of the Lamb, the marriage of the Lamb? I think when we turn to Galatians chapter 4, we find some evidence there that is worth our examination. Now, this book is primarily about the differences between the law and the gospel, those who are turning back to the law versus remaining faithful to the gospel, so much so that Paul said of them in chapter 3, O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has evidently been set forth among you. Now, when we look at this text, we're going to focus on Galatians chapter 4, verses 21 through 31, and this is the section where the Bible says Abraham had two sons. The underwriting theme of Galatians is all about the inheritance, and who was entitled to the inheritance. And so, the seed of Abraham is discussed through the fleshly seed of those who were sons of Abraham compared to the spiritual seed of Abraham, which is developed more effectively in chapter 3 and moving into chapter 4. So, we're looking at somewhat the climax of Paul's argument in Galatians on who really was entitled to the inheritance, and we're going to see that that does involve the marriage of the Lamb as well. So, let's talk about it. In Galatians chapter 4, starting at verse 21, the Bible says that, tell me you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law? For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a bun woman and the other by a free woman. But he who was born of the bun woman was born according to the flesh, and he of the free woman through Primus. Which things are symbolic? For these are the two covenants, the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar. For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and now corresponds to Jerusalem which now is. So, here's Jerusalem coming up in the text right here as we speak. Jerusalem which now is. And the phrase now is means that this is talking about something that was current at the time that Paul wrote. It was a contemporary event in their day. So, it's not talking about a Jerusalem that exists today. This was back in the first century. And so he says, Jerusalem which now is and is in bondage with her children. So, notice this is a Jerusalem. This Jerusalem is in bondage and this Jerusalem has children. Also he says, but Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all. And for it is written, rejoice O barren you who do not bear. Break forth and shout you who are not in labor. For the desolate has many more children than she who has a husband. Now we brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise. But as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the spirit, even so it is now. Nevertheless, what does the scripture say? Cast out the bun woman and her son. For the bun woman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman. So then brethren, we are not children of the bun woman, but children of the free. Now this is a great text. And it's one that I really, really appreciate because it basically tells the entire story of the Bible about our inheritance and about the seed line through which it came. It tells the story about Christ being the seed. In Galatians three and verse 16, and those who enter into Christ through faith become the one seed with him and therefore became the heirs and were entitled to the inheritance. That's pretty much a summary in a nutshell. But how does this affect the wedding concept, the wedding theme of the New Testament that we've discussed in Matthew 22, in Matthew chapters 24 and 25, and then just in the previous video in Matthew, excuse me, in Ephesians chapter five. Well, first and foremost, when we look at the context, notice that as I said, he's talking about two women and he definitely mentions that one of them had a husband and that she also had children. That would be Hagar, which is a symbol. This was an allegory. And Paul says it was symbolic of what was actually going on. So even if you look back in Genesis, that was an allegory that was telling you about what was current in Paul's day. And that was something which involved Jerusalem that as he said now is, or the current Jerusalem, which was in place at the time Christ spoke to them. And at the time the apostles were there. And even as we said in Ephesians. So again, in verse 24, verses 24 and 25, it says, which things are symbolic? Well, these are the two covenants, the one from Mount Sinai, which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar. Well, this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to Jerusalem, which now is and is in bondage with her children. Now, when the text says that to rejoice, O barren, you who do not bear the barren woman in the in the old covenant was Sarah. It was Sarah who didn't have children. Hagar had the children. And because she had children, Ishmael, her son, mocked her, mocked. No, Hagar actually mocked Sarah because Sarah didn't have any children. And of course, I'm sure because of their desire to have children, Sarah was very downtrodden by it. She felt very bad about it, so much so that she asked for Hagar to be removed. And of course, she was. But the point was, she was the barren woman. So when we look in the text and it says, rejoice, O barren, you who do not bear, break forth and shout, you who are not in labor. This is a text, as it was prophesied in Isaiah about Sarah, about the new covenant, about the bride of Christ who was going to bring forth children, but had not yet brought them forth. And so in Isaiah 54, for example, the Bible says, sing, O barren, you who have not born, break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who have not labored with child, for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married woman, says the Lord. So the desolate was Sarah. She didn't have any children. Those who were of the Jerusalem that now is the one that was in bondage, they were full of children from that perspective. And so when the prophecy was written, Sarah had not come into being yet. She had not started to bear children through Jesus Christ. In other words, this is going to be his bride that's espoused to him, according to second Corinthians 11 in verse two, and that was going to consummate that relationship in marriage a little bit later on. And we're going to see more about that. Now, when we talk about this covenant to relationship and marriage, it's a good idea for us to look at Ezekiel chapter 16, that kind of tells us how Israel, the old covenant people entered into a relationship with God and their marriage came about. For example, the Bible says in Ezekiel 16, again, the word of the Lord came to me saying, son of man caused Jerusalem to know her abominations and say, thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem, your birth and your nativity are from the land of Canaan. Your father was an Amorite, your mother, a Hittite. And he says, and as for your nativity on the day that you were born, your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water to cleanse you. You were not rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths. No, I pitted you to do any of these things for you to have compassion on you, but you were thrown out into the open field. And when you yourself were loathed on the day that you were born. And when I passed by you and saw you struggling in your own blood, I said to you in your blood live. Yes, I said to you in your blood live. I made you thrive like a plant in the field and you grew matured and became very beautiful. Your breasts were formed and your hair grew, but you were naked and bare. Now watch what God says. When I passed by you again and looked upon you, indeed, your time was the time of love. So I spread my wing over you and covered your nakedness. And that's symbolic of consummating a marriage so that, you know, children could be born and what it was really about consummating the marriage. And then he says, yes, I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you and you became mine says the Lord. So now she is the bride of Christ. This is God entering into this covenant relationship with old covenant Israel. And he says, I washed you with water. Yes, I thoroughly washed off your blood and I anointed you with oil. I clothed you in a broad cloth and gave you sandals of badger skin. I clothed you with fine linen and covered you with silk. I adorned you with ornaments, put on bracelets on your wrist and a chain on your neck. And I put a jewel in your nose, earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. She became his queen. She was his bride. And he says, thus, you were adorned with gold, silver. Your clothing was a fine silk linen, a fine linen silk and embroidered cloth. You ate pastry, a fine flour, honey and oil. You were exceedingly beautiful and exceeded to royalty. So this is God talking about Israel having entered this relationship with him. And as a result, they produce children. And because it was a covenant that was made with them at Sinai, they were in bondage because, as we explained in Ephesians, it was connected to the law. There was no deliverance from sin under the law. It only had a shadow of the salvation that was coming. And thus, they were in bondage. And so, as I was saying, they were in bondage under the law and had no deliverance from that law. That's the covenant that's mentioned here. And that's the bride that's mentioned here. And that's the one who has the husband in Galatians 4. However, a new relationship was coming about. And that relationship was already in progress because the espousal was being made. And the reason it was in progress is because Christ had died to that law. Now, we want to look at a scripture in Romans chapter 7, because Romans 7 tells us about the relationship of a husband and wife and that which gave the right for a new relationship to take place. The Bible says in Romans 7, 1 in verse 4, Or do you not know, brethren? For I speak to those who know the law, that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives. For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. Now, the Jews knew that. And when Christ died, he was dying to the law. Remember, we said from Galatians 4 in verse 4, It was made of a woman made under the law. But the Bible says that he died and in dying, he died to the law and therefore was no longer subject to it. And since he died, that broke the marriage bond between the old covenant and the new as far as he was concerned. So he's able to enter into a new relationship. And so therefore, this espousal is coming about. As Paul said, I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. Second Corinthians 11 in verse 2. And Jesus was therefore waiting for his bride to be presented to him. However, the relationship had to completely be severed. And that involved the divorcing of the old covenant, which old covenant bride, and that is what was taking place in the, in the New Testament. And so what we have, he says, so that if while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law so that she is no adulteress, though she'd be married to another man. Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law by the body of Christ or through the body of Christ. Now, that also is suggesting that Christ had become dead to the law. And so by their dying with Christ, and notice that it doesn't say that the law died, it says they became dead to the law through the body of Christ. In other words, according to Romans six, when they died with Christ in baptism, they entered into his death. That was the severing of their relationship with the law, as is mentioned in Romans five, 19 and 20, through Romans chapter six, one through four, and following. And so he says, you have become dead to the law through the body of Christ that you may be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead notice that we should bear fruit to God. So if you put that together with the text in Galatians chapter four, that talked about Sarah, who represented the new covenant, who was free, who was barren and didn't have children, but who was going to break forth and shout because children were about to be born. That's what this text is saying. It says that you should be, which focuses on the future of that relationship, that you should be married to another. And even to him who was raised from the dead, you see, he had broken that relationship. He's able to enter into a new relationship because of death. And then it says that we should bring forth fruit to God and therefore to produce children through that relationship and the fruit of the spirit as well. And so the Bible says for the desolate has many more children than she who has a husband. So what I've tried to do in those verses was to establish the fact that a new relationship has come about that this wedding we've seen in the uniting of these brethren with Christ who has been raised from the dead. And therefore you have this, you have Sarah, the new covenant, the bride of Christ, being a part of being the means through which that relationship is taking place. And so the new covenant and the church being the bride of Christ. And so in the verses that follow, he says, now we brethren, as Isaac was our children of premise, but as he who was born according to the flesh, then persecuted him who was born according to the spirit, even so it is now. So Ishmael persecuted Isaac in the historical record back in Genesis, but in the allegory, which is what was going on between the two covenants, the two women and their children, Ishmael, the old covenant people were persecuting the church, the new covenant people. They were persecuting the of premise. And so he says, nevertheless, what says the scripture cast out the bondwoman and her son. Now this casting out of the bondwoman was future to the time Paul wrote, but the bondwoman represented the Jerusalem, which now is in other words, Jerusalem, that was a part of Judaism, Jerusalem that was tied to the land. And they said, cast out the bondwoman and her son, for she shall not be air with the free woman. There's the destruction of the city. Once again, in the casting out, because the disinheriting of the old covenant people resulted in the destruction of the temple and in the ending of Judaism in the severing of that relationship, the divorce from that wife, so that this new relationship takes place in Christ. And therefore you have once again, the wedding that followed the destruction of the city. Well, that's the message from Galatians. I hope that you guys gain something from it. And we look forward to bringing the last one that we're going to talk about in this series, which is going to be from the book of revelation. I want to encourage you to subscribe to our channel. There's a red button. I believe it is on the left side of your screen. You'll just take your mouse left, click with it and click on it one time. And that should get you subscribe to the channel. That way you won't miss any of the videos that we've done and those that we are doing and we'll do in the future. 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