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The Ancient
Jewish Wedding Drama |
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The Ancient Jewish Wedding |
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A proper understanding of the fall
feast days of Yom Teruah, Yom Kippur and Succot provides clarity
to Yahweh's plan for the prophetic fulfillment we call the End
Times. They reveal much more detail than has been thought
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The Bible itself is a marriage covenant. Both the Tanach
(the Old Testament) and the Brit Hadashah (the New
Testament) describe how God through Messiah Yeshua, the
Bridegroom, is in the process of marrying His Bride.
Yeshua’s first miracle - turning water into wine - took place at
a wedding in Cana of Galilee.
There are many parallels between the ancient Jewish Wedding and
the marriage between Messiah Yeshua and his Bride. Yeshua
even called Himself the Bridegroom. |
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1. The Bride is Chosen |
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John 15:16 You did
not choose me, but I chose you ... |
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The Bride is busy with their daily
responsibilities |
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2. The Betrothal |
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Hosea 2:19-20 I will betroth you to
me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice,
In
love and compassion. I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you
will acknowledge the LORD. |
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3.
The Bride Price |
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1
Corinthians 6:19-20
You
are not your own; You were bought at a price. Therefore honor
God with your body.
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The Bridegroom and
His friend approach the Bride's Father |
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4. The Ketubah |
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Jeremiah 31: 31-33
“The time is coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new
covenant
with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
It will not be like the covenant I made with
their forefathers
when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because
they broke my
covenant, though I was a husband to them,”
declares the LORD. “This is the covenant I will make
with the house of Israel
after that time,” declares the LORD. “I will put my law in
their minds and
write it on their hearts. I will be their
God, and they will be my people.
Hebrews 8:10
This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel
after that time, declares the Lord.
I will put my laws in
their minds and write them on their hearts. |
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The Ketubah is
presented to the Bride's Father |
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5. The Bride's
Consent |
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Romans 10:9-10 …If thou
shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe
in thine
heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou
shalt be saved. For with the heart man
believeth unto
righteousness; and with the mouth
confession is
made unto salvation. |
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The Bride is
approached by her father concerning the proposed marriage |
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Ezekiel 16:8-13
8“When
I passed by you again and looked upon you, indeed your time
was
the time of love; so I spread My wing over you and covered your
nakedness. Yes, I swore
an oath to you and entered into a
covenant with you, and you became Mine,” says the Lord GOD.
9“Then I washed
you in water; yes, I thoroughly washed off your blood, and I
anointed you with
oil. 10I
clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave you sandals of badger
skin; I clothed you with
fine linen and covered you with silk.
11I
adorned you with ornaments, put bracelets on your wrists,
and a
chain on your neck. 12And
I put a jewel in your nose, earrings in your ears, and a
beautiful
crown on your head. 13Thus
you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of
fine
linen, silk, and embroidered cloth.
Revelations 3:5
Yeshua says…
“He who
overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not
blot out his name from
the Book of Life; but I will confess his
name before My Father and before His angels.” |
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6.
The 1st Cup of Wine |
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Matthew 26:27-29 (At the
Pesach Meal with His disciples Yeshua …)
… took the cup, gave
thanks and
offered it to them, saying,
“Drink from it, all of you.
This is My blood of the
covenant, which is poured out for many
for the forgiveness of sins. I tell you, I will not
drink of
this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink
it anew with you in
My Father’s kingdom.” |
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The Bridegroom and
Bride drink the first cup of wine |
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7. Betrothal Gifts |
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James
1:17
Every good
gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from
the Father ...
1 Corinthians 12:1, 4, 8-10
Now about
spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.
There are different kinds of
gifts, but the same Spirit.
For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another
the
word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by
the same Spirit; to another the gifts of
healing by the same
Spirit; To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy;
to another
discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of
tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: |
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Gifts are presented
to the Bride |
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8.
The Departure |
The Bridegroom would depart from the home of his Bride’s family. |
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9. The Chuppa |
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John 14:1-3
Yeshua
said: Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.
In my Father’s
house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would
have told you. I am going there to prepare a place
for you. And
if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take
you to be with me that
you also may be where I am. |
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The Chadar (or
Chuppah in this case) is prepared |
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10. The Mikvah |
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Mark 16:16
He who believes and is baptized will be saved. |
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The Bride goes
through her mikvah while her mother and friends watch |
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The Brides shares
her excitement with those around her |
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11. The
Bride is Consecrated |
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Matthew 25
1Then shall the kingdom
of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their
lamps,
and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2And
five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
3They
that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
4But the wise took oil in
their
vessels with their lamps. 5While
the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
6And at midnight
there was a
cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
7Then all those virgins
arose, and trimmed their lamps. 8And
the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our
lamps
are gone out. 9But
the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for
us and you: but go
ye rather to them that sell, and buy for
yourselves. 10And
while they went to buy, the bridegroom came;
and they that were
ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
11Afterward came
also the
other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. 12But
he answered and said, Verily I say unto you,
I know you not.
13Watch therefore, for ye
know neither the day nor the hour wherein
the Son of man cometh. |
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The Bride is
consecrated and set apart |
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The Bride and her
friends prepare their oil lamps |
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12.
Waiting
for the Bridegroom |
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Mark 13:32 But of that day
and hour knoweth no man, no,
not the angels which are in heaven,
neither the Son, but the Father.
2 Peter 3:10
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night. |
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The Bridegroom makes
final preparations - anticipating "catching away" His Bride |
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The Bride waits for
her Bridegroom |
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13. The Witness is
Sent before the Bridegroom |
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The Bride wears a
gold crown resembling the skyline of Jerusalem |
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14. The Bridegroom Cometh |
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Joel 2: 16 Gather the
people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather
the children, &
those that suck the breasts: let the
bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her
closet. |
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The Bridegroom
cometh |
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1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
For
the Lord himself shall descend from heaven
with a shout, with the voice
of the archangel,
and with the trump
of G-d: and the dead in Christ shall
rise first:
Then
we which are alive and
remain shall be
caught up together with them
in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall
we ever
be with the Lord. |
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15. The Catching
Away |
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Matthew 25
6And at midnight there was a cry
made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. |
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1
Corinthians 15:51-52
Listen, I tell you a
mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed
in
a flash, in the
twinkling of an eye,
at the last trumpet.
For the trumpet will sound,
the dead will be raised
imperishable, and we will be changed. |
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The Catching-Away |
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16. The
Bride Encompasses (Circles) the Bridegroom |
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Jeremiah 31:22 ...A
woman shall compass a man. |
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Under the Chuppah |
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The Bride walks
around the Bridegroom seven times |
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The Ketubah
was signed by the Bridegroom, Bride and the two witnesses. |
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The Ketubah is
signed |
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17. Seven Days
Alone |
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Seven days alone in
the Bridal Chamber |
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After the marriage was consummated, there was a
Wedding Feast or Marriage Supper.
This is also a Theme of
the Festival of Sukkot. |
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The Second Cup of
Wine |
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18. The Bridegroom and His Bride Rejoice
Together |
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The Bridegroom
rejoices with his Bride |
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19. Coronation
of the King |
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Revelation 5:11-14
Then I looked and
heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon
thousands, and
ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled
the throne and the living creatures and the elders.
In a loud voice they sang:
“Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and
wealth and
wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!”
Then I heard every
creature in heaven and on
earth and under the earth and on the
sea, and all that is in them, singing: “To him who sits
on the
throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and
power, for ever and ever!” The
four living
creatures said, “Amen,” and the elders fell down and
worshiped. |
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The Coronation of
the King |
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20. The Annointing |
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The Anointing |
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Revelation 19:7-9
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 the
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. |
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Thessalonians 5:1-2
Now as to the times and the seasons,
brethren, you have no need of anything to be written to you.
For you yourselves know full well that
the day of the Lord will come just like
a thief in the night.
Isaiah 62: 5
… as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God
rejoice over you. |
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ANCIENT
JEWISH WEDDING
Drama From
2009
2008 |
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Drama Scenes |
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Several Sets/Scenes
were constructed for the drama |
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1. The Bride's Home |
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2. City Scene with
lake for the mikvah |
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3. The Chuppa |
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4. The Sukka |
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5. The Throne Room |
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ANCIENT
JEWISH WEDDING
Drama From
2009
2008 |
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Check out this Link for Yom Teruah - The Feast of Trumpets -
CLICK HERE |
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