A Pure Bride

The Shallow Glitz & Glam of False Religion

Only in "religion" could two fornicators be heralded as a "fairy tale" couple while they participate in a grand, royal wedding - with the whole world enthralled - presided over by a pedophilic priesthood as other fornicators, adulterers, idolaters, drunkards, and homosexuals join them at a "church" full of idols to celebrate the occasion.

God says in His word that the inhabitants of the earth would become drunk with the fornication of the harlot with the kings of the earth.  Such is certainly true.  Only in Sodom and Gomorrah could that which is defiled be exalted as being honorable.

Is all it takes for us to forget God and His ways a pretty dress?  A handsome couple? An ornate cathedral?

I am not picking on any person(s) in particular.  I am pointing out how very far the values of men have strayed from God's values.  Man routinely calls good what God calls evil...and thinks nothing of it (Isaiah 5:20).

On the outside, religion looks holy and pious, but inwardly it is full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.  Yet who wants to acknowledge that?  Who wants to admit that the Emperor has no clothes?  Do we desire to see the world as it really is or would we rather let our minds be lulled into a world of fantasia, deceiving ourselves with our own imaginations?

Satan is a wonderful dreamweaver because that is all he has.  He cannot offer man anything more than fiction or fantasy because his entire kingdom is built upon a mirage of lies (John 8:44).  And yet when you point that out, you are seen as the enemy (Galatians 4:16).  This is why God warns the church to be sober and watchful in this hour. 

Contrary to what the world (including much of the churchworld) considers pure, God has the following to say about His Bride:

"Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee." Song of Songs 4:7

"The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold." Psalm 45:13

"Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish." Ephesians 5:25-27

"For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ." II Corinthians 11:2

"And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight." Colossians 1:21-22

"Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God. " Revelation 19:7-9

The church is to be "glorious within", not simply outwardly adorned in beautiful attire.  The white linen of the Bride of Christ is not merely a show of virtue, it is the righteousness of the saints.  Those who are not sincere before Him, will find their linen removed at the most inopportune time - even while following after Him - revealing their true nakedness and whoredoms (Ezekiel 23:28-30; Mark 14:51-21; Act 19:16 II Corinthians 5:3; Revelation 3:17, 16:15).

We may be able to pull the wool over the minds of men, but we cannot fool God.  Don't fall in love with, or become bewitched by, the hocus pocus of the world's pomp & circumstance.  The Bride of Christ makes herself ready for her Bridegroom's return and longs for His appearing; where she will be found blameless, without spot and righteous before Him...because she is a reflection of who He is.