The Bride of Christ, The Faith and Religion of a Man

I just considered something amazing. That unusual post I wrote earlier today regarding soul splicing by means of a proposal actually has to do with the combination of two concepts in the Bible:

Revelation 19:7
"Let us rejoice and be glad
    and give him glory!
For the wedding of the Lamb has come,
    and his bride has made herself ready."

I have heard the bride of Christ/the Lamb referenced as "the church." This appears to be  realm crafting to a significant degree from my perspective, where the faith and perhaps religion of a church becomes a woman who will marry Jesus. The question then becomes: "which church?"

Matthew 7:13-14
"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it."

Luke 18:8
"However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”

Matthew 25:10-12
“But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut.

Later the others also came. ‘Lord, Lord,’ they said, ‘open the door for us!’

But he replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I don’t know you.’"

Verses such as these and others pertaining to Jesus rebuking members of religious organizations of the time, calling them children of Satan and etc., all indicate to be that it will likely not be the whole church- all who claim to be Christians or even truly feel that they are- that comprise the bride specifically. These verses also suggests that not only might it not be all or even most, but that the faith Jesus is specifically looking for in a bride may be in critically short supply, and perhaps even singular. 

Revelation 2:17
"Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it."

This verse spoken by Jesus indicates not just "the one who is victorious" but also "that person" and "the one who receives it." Any or all of these could have been pluralized but were not, making it more reasonable to assume that the one referenced was intended as singular, specifically as written, rather than plural. This leads me to believe that the bride of Christ will likely be the personification and physical manifestation, through precise realm crafting, of the faith and religion of one person. Given the following verse, which felt out of place until now, it seems like this will primarily if not exclusively be the faith and religion of one man.

1 Corinthians 11:3
But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

I do not believe this verse to be as sexist as it seems, but perhaps an order of operations specifying that a man will generate the bride of Christ. While less supported, because I feel like this story is largely told elsewhere, it is likely then that the faith and religion of a woman (perhaps "women," if the encoding/equation is handled differently from their perspective, which is not mine to say with certainty) will generate a man in some equivalent way. If this logic is followed through for this verse, then the faith and religion of Christ will also generate the second roller I have written of, the partner for God.

I imagine this generation of the bride could be done in many ways, but if the stage is set and leveled thoroughly I imagine that this process will feel familiar. So stepping into the role of the one who is victorious for the purposes of that brief story, I imagined that Jesus would ask me to marry him and as a straight man I would find it absurd, but from the perspective of my faith and religion realm crafted into a woman it would be amazing, perfect even. As such I would answer no and she would answer yes, and our paths would diverge completely, such that the bride would be ready and present, while I remained to bear witness.

What is additionally exciting though is that this would mean that something akin to the opposite would happen at the same time- God's partner would exist, possibly from this same split, possibly in a reflective splitting and, given the timeless perspective involved, possibly at another point in time or over the course of time. It might be hard to accept such a direct generation of a woman from a man or vice versa, but I am picturing the realm crafting being quite thorough here, as it has been carefully planned from the beginning, such that the heart of each individual stepping from this juncture remains on the same page, but each individual involved is markedly distinct. This is the clearest I have ever seen such an image of the wedding impending at the end of this age, and the way in which it is accomplished feels elegant beyond words.

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