Church as the bride of Christ
213Birth of the Savior
24 Mar 2025
18:38¶ 54
“Before we move on, I know this is not the biblical theology section of this podcast, this is the world history section of this…”
19:11¶ 56
“It also helps you remember, at least it helps me remember what the custom was back then, because it’s like, “Oh, the marriage has…”
19:33¶ 57
“To pursue that, the major part – the first 39 books of the covenant document – were in place, and Jesus ratified it the…”
170Marriage and Culture
31 Jul 2023
20:20¶ 52
“There’s a parallel here. The temple and the city are God’s bride. Israel is God’s bride. In both cases we’re trying to build into…”
27:11¶ 71
“Well, both these men did because the marriages were illegitimate in the first place. Israel is God’s wife and they’re not permitted to marry…”
36:09¶ 100
“It’s funny how many errors in the Old Testament or sins in the Old Testament we can look at as the Bride being impatient…”
142The City of God Revisited
31 Oct 2022
15:14¶ 48
“That’s a huge hint as to who this person is, because if we go back to the sections that follow the Suffering Servant –…”
15:45¶ 49
“In earlier passages she says, “I’ve been by myself. Where do all these children come from? I’m going to call for the Gentiles,” so…”
16:11¶ 53
“Wait, so she’s a woman but she’s a city! Wait a second. Haven’t we heard and seen that before? And aren’t we going to…”
126The Princess
11 Jul 2022
15:32¶ 44
“Of course, we can find mirrors and reflections of the true story in other non-princess-related narrative arcs, but this is classic for a reason,…”
16:05¶ 45
“It’s a message the world doesn’t like. The true bride is absolutely helpless. There’s nothing she can do to save herself. She needs to…”
14:06¶ 41
“I think there are good and bad things about that. There’s bad things where it’s like, “Oh, this is a person made in God’s…”
88A Mother in Israel (Part 4) - Jerusalem
18 Oct 2021
33:22¶ 95
“The answer is yes, but she’s not a goddess. It takes all of God’s people together to constitute a bride for Jesus, to constitute…”
33:47¶ 96
“There is no queen of heaven in an individual sense. There is the Church, the bride, the new Jerusalem, and that city rooted in…”
20:55¶ 63
“The big hint here from Isaiah is that this Jerusalem is someone/something that produces children to God, that in fact God calls his wife,…”
44Yahweh's Bride
1 Nov 2020
29:43¶ 81
“Christ comes as the bridegroom to rescue us from our sins, to rescue us from the dragon, the monster, and we’re the bride. We…”
30:08¶ 82
“There’s the archetype for all the fairy tales and all the adventure stories and all the romances, but he doesn’t come and say, “Well,…”
2:33¶ 8
“Christians are very familiar with the language of “Christ is the husband to the Church. The Church is the bride, the man’s wife,” and…”
9Dominion
1 Mar 2020
38:28¶ 104
“First of all, God wants lots of people because he wants to replicate his image, but this whole process of creating this community, he’s…”
38:56¶ 105
“Are 4 billion or 6 billion or 20 billion enough individually? No, but in all of the interactions, the interplay of love and grace…”
39:15¶ 106
“He knows the exact number of believers it’s going to take – born-again Christians, people remade in his image – to fill out that…”