(2 Thessalonians 1:7,8)
This is the day of God's vengeance and his fire will continue to burn
until all parts of the Satanic order are destroyed. The Prophet wrote
concerning this first work of the Messiah: "Thou shalt break them with a
rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel".
--Psalm 2: 9.
TO RECEIVE HIS BRIDE
[455]Jesus is likened unto a bridegroom, while the church is likened
unto a bride. (John 3:29; Revelation 21:9; 2 Corinthians 11:2) Many
beautiful word pictures or types appear in the Old Testament, which God
caused to be made for the purpose of teaching his great plan to those
who would search for the truth. One of these pictures is that of Isaac
and Rebekah. Abraham the father of Isaac sent his servant Eliezer into a
distant land to find a wife for his son Isaac. The servant took ten
camels and went into Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor. There he found
Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, a virgin very fair to look upon.
Eliezer "took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two
bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold". Rebekah agreed
to accompany Eliezer to become the wife of Isaac. "And Rebekah arose,
and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man
[Eliezer]," who brought her unto Isaac. "And Isaac brought her into his
mother Sarah's, tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife," after
his mother Sarah's death.
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