Is God the Mother in Revelation?
In a previous post, I addressed that the bride of Christ in Revelation is not the church, as many Christians claim. In this post, I want to delve a little deeper into the subject and explain why God the Mother in Revelation is the bride.
In the Bible, Jesus compares the kingdom of heaven to a wedding banquet. You may think it’s because marriages will continue in heaven. But in that same chapter, Jesus clarified that the system of marriage will not exist among the angels in heaven; we will all be the children of God (Matthew 22:30). Since the system of marriage will not exist in heaven, Jesus told this parable to let us understand about God.
In the parable of the wedding banquet, the king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son represents God the Father; the bridegroom represents Jesus Christ (Mark 2:18); and the wedding guests are the people of God who will enter heaven (Revelation 19:9). But, there’s one important character missing from this illustration—the bride.
Why did Jesus illustrate the kingdom of heaven through a wedding banquet? A wedding banquet always has specific components: guests, a bridegroom and, of course, a bride. But in this parable, Jesus Christ never mentions the bride. Without the bride, the wedding banquet cannot begin. So the appointed time for this wedding to begin could not have been 2,000 years ago.
When will the wedding banquet start?
Apostle John also wrote about the wedding banquet in the book of Revelation around AD 96. Jesus had already ascended to heaven approximately 65 years prior. This is what he said:
Biblically, the Lamb represents Jesus Christ. John himself had already explained this (John 1:29). However, the Lamb in Revelation represents Second Coming Jesus. This means that John is not describing a wedding feast that took place at Jesus’ first coming; John is describing a wedding feast taking place in the future. This is a prophecy that Jesus must fulfill at his second coming.
Moreover, if we read this verse more closely, the bride is finally mentioned and said to be ready. In other words, when Second Coming Jesus appears, the bride will also be with Him—in the last days.
Who is the bride?
Not only is it important to know that this wedding feast has an appointed time, but it’s even more important to understand who the bride is. In his vision, Apostle John also saw the bride and wrote it down.
The angel told John that he would show him the “bride, the wife of the Lamb.” And he showed him Jerusalem coming down out of heaven. So the bride of the Lamb—Jesus’ bride—is Jerusalem coming down from heaven.
Apostle Paul explained about the Jerusalem in heaven.
The heavenly Jerusalem—the wife of the Lamb—is our mother. Jerusalem is God the Mother who is to appear on this earth with Second Coming Christ in the last days.
God the Mother in Revelation
It’s important to know that God the Father has a bride because She is God the Mother. And as children of God, we are children of God the Father as well as God the Mother. That is why the Bible says that those who are invited to the wedding feast of the Lamb (and the Bride) are blessed. Those who receive this invitation are receiving an invitation to enter heaven.
In the last section of Revelation, Apostle John wrote God’s invitation to the wedding banquet.
The last prophecy of the Bible indicates that the Spirit (God the Father) and the bride (God the Mother) are the ones who give us eternal life. Jesus Christ compared the kingdom of heaven to a wedding banquet because there is God the Father and God the Mother in heaven.
And just like a wedding ceremony cannot start without the bride, we cannot enter heaven without God the Mother. So while the Bible does compare us—the saints—to the bride of Christ, the bride in Revelation is God the Mother because she gives us eternal life.
