 So what we're doing this afternoon is nothing else, but a walk through this book So the mind urge from eating to the end of the day is exact same title. It's not very creative and So we're going to walk through the highlights of this book now This book has a long history back. I'll show you a bit of it on the next slide but first notice this introductory slide which in the middle you have basically an image of the The the lover and beloved in the song of songs and so here you have your you're not told imagery right there in the center But what is surrounding it on the bottom? Left I guess you have the garden Eden and so you see the beginning of the story of love that begins in the garden Eden and then as we know this is something happened to this divine human love In regard to Eden and namely through sin right through the bell and Which led to the beginning of the so-called exile of humanity for God And that was restoring with this great redemptive event that we see on the second picture the revelation Mount Sinai and So at this moment of Mount Sinai we're going to see how that was kindly the trogo moment in the history of Israel But Mount Sinai only happened once Right when they left Egypt and then met God at at the mountain So where we've got to be for the rest of Israelite history and after this that's the next picture of the temple first The tabernacle of the wilderness and then the temple that would be holy and holy is the nocturnal chamber where God met with his people And so what the temple do it perfectualize It's it's in liturgical fashion the revelation of God Mount Sinai Where God met his bride through liturgy in the temple and the temple at the same time Anticipated the future consummation of the wedding to God his people and that's the last picture we see of I suppose the river of life image of the book of Revelation Which the prophets talked about also about this restoration of the marriage in the messianic age so that's kind of the roadmap for this entire book and As I said it has much of a bit of a history a personal history to it for me And so here I am in 2012 submitting my dissertation at Hebrew University of Jerusalem Which is basically this book in in more expanded weird version So if you think this book is kind of looking thick and daunting. Well, this is the simplified version So that's that was my dissertation which then turned into first books It was already published in 2016 as natural symbolism and second type of writings in the New Testament and rabbinic literature So that did not was not very much modified from that first version is still very academic and also super extensive If you come up by my grill, not my choice, you know authors have nothing to say about the prices of books So not my fault for the price of this one either except I fought to break down the price to 34 retail Publisher and so this is the third recension published this last October I thought after all that would be good to have a semi popular version out there accessible to Anyone who wants to learn about some actual symbolism and history of marriage in scripture So as I said, we're going to walk basically through the book really follow the same order as the books So whether or not you have decided to purchase it It's going to give you a an overview if you feel a little bit overwhelmed in the next hour You know what to do just get this and then you'll have more time to unpack it and also get a lot more details Then we're able to do in just one hour. So what is basically the structure of this book? Who do I do in this book? Well, I introduced the marriage between God and his people first and then there are three major parts the first one I go through to the Old Testament and I show that this natural dimension of God's there with his people has essentially for Critical or key moments in salvation history, which I just mentioned in the last slide So we see in the very beginning seems marriage with creation with our meeting And we see that this marriage is broken And so it needs to be fixed by this great redemptive moment Which is the betrothal of God is Robin outside I and then this is perpetuated in time in the bridal chamber Which is the tapernacle and temple so liturgically the marriage is is extended into time and then this anticipates the internal betrothal of the mystical marriage in the messianic age so all this is Old Testament stuff Read in light of ancient Jewish writing so I'm drawing from the Old Testament But I'm also getting a lot from the rabbi stuff that's not actually spelled out in the Old Testaments in the Hebrew Bible But the rabbis really expanded by what we call midrash You got familiar with the term midrash. So it's an ancient Jewish interpretation. That kind of fills in the Gats that the things I love that unset in the Old Testament the rabbis really creatively enhanced these stories You want to do their old tradition? So I draw a lot from that in this first part now the second part is actually still Old Testament Communion with God through love and wisdom. And so I look specifically at Especially two books I look at the song of songs for the song of songs a very mystifying book in the Old Testament, right? Is it really a sacred book? I mean, it doesn't even mention God and song songs, right? It's kind of like this your rod of love story You mean this guy and girl it's barely made into the canon because the rabbi kind of like I don't know if this is really that sacred literature. It's kind of this, you know romantic poem of sorts, which is almost our ratings and One rabbi in the second century rabbi Akiva said God forbid that we would leave the song of songs out of the scripture Because all the book of scripture are holy, but the song of songs is the holy of holies of scripture And so in mystical fashion the song of songs is not just about a guy and a girl who lives We are in love with each other, but it represents metaphorically outwardly Love between God and Israel. So I'll get just a little bit into that They're here this afternoon, but again, there's much more in the book on the rabbinic interpretation of songs But I go into the mystery wisdom We know the lady wisdom and the books of Proverbs, the wisdom of Solomon, and the book of Sirach And we see wisdom as this female figure who courts her her followers and we see also kind of similar ideas that this mystical marriage is found in Through these four major key moments of salvation this year That's the second part. The third part will cover some of it this afternoon we see how all this is will build in the New Testament and Not all books of the New Testament with those you see here on the screen And so we will look especially at the gospel of John here this afternoon We'll go really quickly over some of the Pauline writings and I'll say a few things about the apocalypse of the book of Revelation So it covers a lot as you can see we just have A little more than an hour. So we'll try to draw highlights out of it and see hopefully what God is up to in in this great mystery of his marriage with that his people and Let's see conclusion. I have to tell you kind of a little anecdote This echelon was kind of forced on me was not part of the original my dissertation So from divide to human bear to what the story went my previous publisher You know the publisher is supposed to edit and it's peer-reviewed So we know you get some feedback and he said we'd like you to include the feminist perspective on your view of marriage. I Mean, we'd like to And if not, we're not going to publish your book. So it's like kind of editorial Publish your blackmail. Hopefully it's not recorded. I guess it is recording The whole show will remain on late. I guess well, it's easy to find out So anyway, they forced me to add this feminist perspective to And I was a bit ticked off. It's like fine, but this is not what I'm doing I'm gonna double right my book why you're forcing me to add content to it So I said, okay fine. You want I'll give you feminist perspective But what I'm gonna do I'm gonna sandwich it between an orthodox Jewish perspective and a Catholic theology the body perspective And so that's this echelon where I gave three modern perspective The divine marriage has applied to human marriage so orthodox Jews perspective Which is very much in continuity with the biblical data the feminist I should say really radical feminist perspective, which is completely in In rupture with the Directory and then the Catholic theology the body of course which returns to very biblical view So that's the fun fact about this echelon, which I will not get into that this afternoon, but so you know where to find it Okay All right, so we begin it with this first part God is real divine marriage in the Hebrew Bible So as I said already We see this community of love We know that scripture is all about this covenant between God and his people if you've heard five minutes of Dr. Speaking about anything you know all that comments already And so this comment is represented as a marriage and this bond of love between a man and a woman And you see that in several books of the Bible and likewise the constants Rupture the constant tension between God these people is of course because of sin And so people in infidelity to God is portrayed in the scriptures as a sin harming a conjugal covenant the type of Infidelity right so idolatry is portrayed as prostitution infidelity is adultery and Disabuse of the law is not just breaking commandments, but it's abandoning God's thousand love All right, and it's not what sin is it's not just oh, there's a bunch of rules on paper here that I've just like Like broken this rule. It's like we're breaking hearts and we're breaking relationships, and we're breaking this marriage Yet the infidelity of Israel does not affect God's eternal fidelity faithfulness So we see that from Genesis to Revelation so as I said again this marriage covenants We see pretty much at every point in scripture We see it's always connected with these four major stages or events We have an original prototype which is broken which needs some kind of redemptive events And this redemptive event you need to stretch it out into history, and how do you do that? through liturgy Right, and then this liturgy looks backwards to the redemptive events, but it also looks forward to full consolation So this liturgy is always this type of thing of being between the times Right, okay. We relate to that Right when we go to mass, right? We're always looking backwards to the cross to to the great paschal mystery that Christ accomplished But we also say Christ's diet Christ's room the price will come again Right when we eat and this brand drinks this cup we proclaim your death until he comes So we're always also looking forward to his second coming So the very essence of liturgy is very much living between the times, right? Looking backwards remembering the past what God has done, but the fullness of redemption is not quite here yet Right, it's here. Basically, it's here sacramentally It's here in faith hope and love, but it's not completely accomplished because there's still suffering. They're still cinnamon So let's look at those four stages in the beginning of the world as way Everybody knows with all this talk of love like Genesis 1 and 2 The word love never appears The word when it also does not appear marriage No, it's not it's almost like more implicit, right? but when you read the rabbis and the midrash Interpretations of Genesis it really portrays creation as a cosmic temple So the creation the days of creation is like God building a home for his children, right? And Dr. Han has talked about this to a man in his books So we see God building his home and the combination of creation of course has got a making man male and female and We know that they're told to be fruitful and multiply and eventually this father and mother and Jointed his wife they shall become one flesh, but we remember the word love or the word marriage in And Genesis it's implied more than expense explicitly spelled out so the rabbis of course will spell this out and in fact It's not just any marriage, but who is the one officiating at the wedding. It's God himself And so the rabbis say Genesis revise this midrash on Genesis Which says the holy one blesses me he took a cup of blessing and blessed them or he blesses bridegrooms and adorns Brides you've ever been to any Jewish wedding is a blessing to pronounce over the cup From which we get the blessing of the cup of mass And so not only it was a wedding there But God is the one who weds Adam and Eve, but not only that the midrash says that God even weds the world So it's not just the marriage of the first couple. And here's this also from Genesis rabbi a Parable, you know the parables of Jesus are very much modeled on these Jewish parables from the first century and before So this parable on Genesis says a king married off his daughter and prepared a marriage canopy in Hebrew school But and he prepared a home for her he sought and accused him So this king said oh my daughter my daughter made his marriage canopy always charming as it charms me at this hour And so this is a metaphor for the blessing the holy one blessed be so God who said to his world Oh my world my world may you always charm me as you charm me at this hour So the daughter becomes a sign of the world and so God who weds his daughter the world's basically to himself There's a beautiful so the wedding between Adam and Eve is already like a type of type of image God's way into the world This means that either it is a type of brothel chamber is this place where you have this this miracle this Communion this intimacy between bridegroom and bride and from how do they do this the rabbi is brought from the song of songs For example the heart of the song of song and we see that basically the conservation of the human between lover and beloved Where he says I have come into my garden my sister my bride The rabbi say has it to say to my bridal chamber to the place which was my real home originally For it was not the original home or was not the original home I was you know This is the divine presence in the lower realm as it says and he heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden What does this mean so it's saying that who has come into his garden my sister my bride This is the divine presence who comes into the garden of Eden this moment of intimacy What they connect with the Lord God walking in the garden to see what they're doing here The Lord God walking in the garden is associating now with the lover who comes in to my guard my sister my bride So the thinly veiled euphemism right for the conservation of the unit between the two and they say this is this marriage is This mystical reality of this wedding between God and creation you're in the garden Cool, isn't it? So the rabbis really thrive on this type of very profound mystical symbolism Taking this story which is so short and concise. Okay, the Lord walking the garden and stuff What was going on there to say nothing? This is the deep mystical union that's going on But as we know it did not last very long right and so we come to Genesis 3 and with the Disobedient and sin so we don't need to go over the the actual narrative of Genesis 3 but you're all familiar with it Right, so it ends in a sin. They choose to reject God and this ends with their expulsion from Eden So how do rabbi portray that? as you type of divorce it's like you violated my Fidelity by my covenants and so basically you're going to be you're going to be cast out as a type of As quasi divorce because we know that God doesn't exactly give up on us right in fact He doesn't at all, but still metaphorically that's the image that they use So we see a loss of the light of the Sabbath this this moment of communion and the Sabbath the loss of divine glory in Adam and Eve and the chair of the guard at the entrance to the gardens of this great drama of separation between God and his riots and So that's gonna last really throughout all the scripture that we're going to see you know that God does not abandon his people And we're going to see throughout Genesis God's gonna prepare his people through the patriarchs, right? I'll first there's a flood and then the patriarchs and he's gonna prepare a moment of restoration of this marriage Okay, so we see our original prototype broken and how is that going to be restored especially with the great covenantal moment and outside So how does this kind of continental moment begin we know that Israel ends up in exile right after you talked about this this morning And so this this slavery which is really the opposite of love this bondage this Situation of alienation this longing for freedom for love for communion. So how does this begin? What is this image you see? What's going on here? There's the Passover right so we see them screaming the blood on the doorpost And so the rabbis portray this Passover not just as this weird bloody killing of a land But as the springtime of love of Israel and they associate the Passover with this passage from the song of songs What my favorite beautiful right so the voice of my beloved the whole he comes leaping upon the mountains Belly over the hills my blood is like a gazelle or young stat Whole there he stands behind a wall gazing in at the windows looking through the lattice My beloved speaks and says to me Arrives my love my dove my fair one come away But behold the winter is past the rain is over and gone the flowers appear on the earth The time of green has come and the voice of the trickled up is heard in our land So what's the rabbi say about this? Well, here's the beloved who is among the thorns in Egypt right and who's the That is the the beloved woman who is the Rose among thorns and here is the beloved man who comes leaping over the mountains to do what? To strike the firstborn of Egypt Everybody's idea of a romantic Romantic guy is going to go kill the firstborn of their enemies And look he stands behind our walls gazing in at the windows So here's god gazing through the windows Right of the Israelites and making sure that Those who are under the blood of the land will be protected And then he invites his love to come out of this winter of slavery and to come into the spring time of love See what they do so they take as well. Don't start the Passover Let's bring this again with the song of song and all the snap all of a sudden our Passover has turned into this beautiful A romance instead of just kind of a strange violence Deliverance, I mean, it's not just that and the Passover is already great in itself, but it injects kind of this is this This marital symbol is in there So they leave and god takes them out And we have the Passover of course the last of the 10 plays and now they come to the red sea Right and more drama there So there's stuff at the red sea right to see the Egyptians coming and they're panicking and what's going to happen. So God's going to intervene as we know, right? And what did they do about this? Well, they say the rabbi say oh, Israel was like a dove fleeing from a hawk Facing a cleft in a rock and a hissing serpent Well, how do they get this from like the original between Being stuck between a rock and a hard place Right and so on the one hand you have the city front of you and then you have the Egyptians coming. Oh my god We're going to die. What are you going to do? They're going to kill us. We're stuck. We have nowhere to go So one of the rabbis do this is what the song song is talking about. Oh my god And the cleft of the rock. Let me see your face. Let me hear your voice Your voice is sweet and your face is lovely So what's the voice of the beloved? It's Israel say, ah, we're going to die. Help us So that is your your beloved sweet voice and her face is lovely her good deeds trying to escape the Egyptians Of course God shows up and opens up The seed with Moses raising his staff and they cross and that leads the way to Mount Sinai so that's where the coming will be formed And where God's going to reveal his divine glory the glory that was lost in the garden of Eden So the rabbis portray this Revelation Mount Sinai is the type of new creation Right, just think of the Red Sea right the opening the separation of the water of the dry land Right, it's kind of like an echo of the separation of the water dry lands That's in the first chapter of Genesis and a remedy to the fall So the brokenness that came through the original sin of the fall of Adam and Eve is not going to be restored here And now another good rash says that Mount Sinai is also the day of God's espousals The Lord came from Sinai to receive Israel as a bridegroom comes forth to meet the bride And so it's the great moment of God's adoption of Israel not only as a kingdom of priests and a holy nation, but also as a bride and what is going to be the Marriage covenants that God will give in Israel The contract or the covenants is going to be the Torah right beginning with the decoad But the entire Torah is going to be like their betrothal covenants So does that give you a different twist on The burden of the law. Oh gosh, I just can't wait for Christ to come and deliver us from this burden of all these commandments that are just uh so heavy No, not at all that the Jews see really the Torah as this great gift and love Of how to live out this covenant of love between God and his people So They quote the beginning of the song of songs letting him kiss me with kisses in his mouth for your love is better than wine What do you think are these kisses for for the rabbis? They're the commandments Kiss me God with your commandments. I can't have enough of them And so the commandments and the Torah Are this expression these kisses and this love that's better than wine In fact, the Torah is often compared to wine like a good wine that brings joy in a creation because it's a source of life All right, so the kisses of the song of songs are associated with the the commandments And song 112 while the king was on his couch my Nar gave forth his favorites We'll come back to that and we'll get to the new testaments But what is the who is this king on his couch according to the song of song? This would be basically God's in heaven right who is uh receiving this Nar the fragrance of israel's obedience at Mount Sinai So Mount Sinai is this great romance between God and his his people He brought me to the house of wine And I think the song says to his banquet table, right? Which is not the best translation that Hebrew says really literally house of wine ladies like the Baptist version So the banquet table in Hebrew literally it's they hang on and have house of wine and there's batter over me was love So again, what's this house of wine? It's Mount Sinai the place of the revelation where God will Um, well adopt his people as his holy nation, but also it has his bride So what's the role of Moses in all this? Well the rabbis portray they see Moses as the Hebrew term is the shul shabin which is basically a matchmaker Or the mediator in the wedding so Moses is the one who He means he mediates between God and Israel and the Torah is this in Hebrew It's kutubah this marriage contract. So that's the gear for what guarantees the wedding and the marriage between God and Israel So fantastic times, right? It's like this this overcoming of original sin and we see that The the divine presence that returns At Mount Sinai that's going to be that's going to last a long time, right? Not exactly So pretty much just a few chapters later. We see Uh-oh Another type of original sin that's exactly how the rabbis depict the sin of the golden calf It's like new creation restoration of the fall boomer before you have time to To enjoy it you see Israel return away from God and and it's Moses is You know turning on the mountain and now they make this golden calf and start worshiping this golden calf So the rabbis portray this as Israel's original sin and an even more shocking metaphor They say this from the Talmud Shameless is the bride of four decades and her only bridal canopy Ouch So the wedding ceremony is still going on and the bride must excuse herself to go commit adultery During the ceremony still That's how harshly they they judge the sin of the golden calf. And so what do we do? We see a renewed alienation Right you see now Israel was supposed to be the First point son of the brook the bride of God and she still is but now she's seriously wounded the covenant Just like Adam and Eve have done so and so the rabbis associate the The song songs one five. I'm black but lovely so the The woman in the song songs who seems to be a little bit embarrassed about her They're getting their Complexion the fact that she was dark in the Middle East is more confident to be to be light-skinned To be to be suntan. It's it's considered less lovely than to be a little light-skinned So she said I'm black because of my sin But still loving because I still love my God because I'm repented from that sin So black in this world and lovely in worlds of coming said the midrash on the song songs So this drama continues, right? So now we see another situation of woundedness and alienation So how are we going to fix that now? And so the next stage Is when I'm chapter three of the book So God's going to come up with a useful solution to Heal the sin of the golden calf and that's going to be through the tabernacle first and much later in the temple And so the tabernacle of this place the sanctuary of this place of God's well will be a remedy to the sin of the golden calf But it will also be as I said earlier this liturgical extension of the Sinai relation So that natural moment is going to carry through into time with the tabernacle, which is kind of like a portable mount Sinai He can't move the mountain But you could move this portable tent where you can see that the prince of God Dwells over the holy holies with that killer of of fire, right? And so here we have our tabernacle and the rabbis, of course now you start to get the the gist of what we're doing They apply the song songs also to the tabernacle and so again this verse that I just quoted earlier let my beloved come to his garden A little wide context the song or song says awake a north wind and come a south wind blow upon my garden and let its spices flow Let my beloved come to his garden and eat its choices fruits says the woman and then he says I have come to my garden I says be my bride and so on I gather my nerve my spice I eat my honeycomb So what do the rabbis say about this? They say this is israel inviting god to come and dwell in the tabernacle and partake of the sacrifices So israel is going to offer these sacrifices Either north or south of the altar. That's the north wind and south wind and god will accept these sacrifices Will take these sacrifices as this invitation for him to come and dwell into the holy bullies and Eating up with honeycomb and with wine and milk and wine is of course offered with the sacrifices And so this this great beautiful moment of consummation of the union between god and his people Becomes now actualized through sacrifice and liturgy right through the ministry of the priests So I said this is going to recall Mount Sinai, but it's going to make it presence also at every liturgy All right, you see the parallels with what we do at mass All right, the mass recalls the paschal mystery, but it also makes it presence We're truly before the sacrifice of Christ at every mess So here's another midrash, which I find very cool on the song songs What does the midrash say on the day when moses finished setting up the tower knackle and had anointed and consecrated it It was on israel's bridal day that moses brought to a conclusion and coming back to earth That god had begun in the days of abraham what So the midrash actually is much longer. I'm not going into more details, but I've illustrated it the midrash says that Through every sinful generation the divine presence removed itself from earth So going up here in this case is not good, right? So you have I guess it's really really small Probably can't read but first the sin of adam and then I can't even see You see better than me so cain and the generation of the generation of the flood the tower battle at every stage The divine presence kind of removed herself Sodom and Gomorrah and the egyptians in the days of abraham So the divine presence removed herself further and further away from humanity until righteous men and until righteous Israelites came and gradually Brought back the screen out of the divine presence of abraham isaac jake lead by kohat and marama and moses And so through moses ministry through their righteousness They led to the divine presence returning and when did the divine presence actually fully return it was when the tabernacle was built So that next time you think that liturgies may be done. I might think that Keep this in mind that liturgy is the place where the divine presence returns Right and dwells with us So fast forward many centuries and the tabernacle will become the temple of solitude and the temple will be seen Also as an actual chamber So here's another rabbinic commentary on the song of songs quoting some of songs 3 verse 11 Go forth and look what God was designed on. He saw with the crown there with his mother crowning on the day of his spousals On the day of the joy of his heart the day of these spousals were first of the day Alex the model is given the day of the joy of his heart was that when the building of the temple was completed Made soon you were built in our days So the temple too is given a Merrill symbolism that it's the moment when God Don't his people and dwells in the temple I go in in the book in the book I spent quite some time with the chair of it, which has a really beautiful symbol It's a bit shocking actually So i'll give you a just a little bit of a taste of it here So to see this beautiful illustration We I think most of us are familiar at the arc of the covenant And the holy holies has two had two cherubim over them So you can see the two little ones the gold ones right over the cherubim But in the temple actually there were two huge cherubim They're actually four cherubim on the sides of the of the arc of the covenant And so the the old testament does not tell us a whole lot about these cherubim what they did We know that there were cherubim in the garden of Eden, right? So what happens when the high priest came into the holy holies? It was kind of like returned to the garden of Eden to this original place of communion But what the rabbis do with this and it's very cool. Like I said, it's a bit shocking They said that During the tilbur festival They would actually open up the holy of holies so that people could not go inside And you could see from afar inside the holy holies And lo and behold, what do they see inside the holy holies? The kerb will be rude for them and the cherubim were shown to them Whose bodies were intertwined with one another And they would say to them see how we were loving before God as your love between man and woman This is like our rated stuff right there and the other bottom so that the The scriptures don't don't talk about this Of course, it would be miraculous and we don't you don't need to take this as historical We don't know it may have been some kind of miraculous movement of the cherubim or it might just be a pious legend So you don't need to build your whole theology on that But it's just kind of a cool fact that the They believed at least it was a tradition this route that the cherubim were like moved and if israel sends Against god the cherubim would kind of face it face away from each other And when israel would be good fable with god the cherubim would turn and embrace each other as a sign of god's love for israel The things you learn and this of life when you study these conference So that's from that the tabloid, which is that the greatest compilation of jewish oral tradition Is tradition of the embracing cherubim So all this to say that the temple was the actual chamber between god and israel So through israel's liturgy and especially the offering of sacrifice Right the offering of sacrifice was this invitation that god would kind of dwell within this temple offering to sacrifice But also keeping a block keeping of the commandments, which was the covenants between god and people Okay, we come to the fourth stage in the old testament As we said the the temple looked backwards to Mount Sinai But it also looked forward to this consummation of the union So just a few of the prophets use natural symbolism named the mosaic Jeremiah, Zechel, and Isaiah And so they expressed marriage in the covenantal language of creation So they Portrayed the love between god and israel as marriage that is grounded in god's creation of the world They also recall the beginning of god's love for israel as something that happened at the time of the exodus This was israel's youth when they were still relatively innocent And they also see This spiritual adultery to this calling worship of vows and these foreign god's will be the judgment in other words Worshiping in the temple is the way to enact this communion But if you pursue other gods then you're you're opening yourself up for judgment That's when the chairmen turn away from each other But the prophets focus mostly towards the future, right? So they anticipate this future restored marriage, which would be the return of the israel back to Zion after their exile So we heard about exile this morning And i'll give you just a couple of a few samples of texts about this future restoration of the divine marriage Look at the mosaic, for example And i will patrol you to me forever. I will patrol you in righteousness and justice in steadfast love and mercy I will patrol you to me faithfulness, and you shall know the lord i'll say a chapter two Very much oriented toward the future, right? Jeremiah 33 This shall be heard again the voice of the birth and the voice of gladness the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride The voice of those who sing as they bring thanks offerings to the house of the lord So the messianic age will be characterized by the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride that will return Of course, these were lost during the exile Very rich passage from isiah You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the lord and royal diet in the hand of your god You shall no more be termed forsaken in your land shall no longer be termed desolate But you shall be called my delight is in her and your land Married, so that's actually a Hebrew pun. Married is Biblulah What root you think that comes from? Biblulah same root as Baal And Baal in Hebrew, you know, it's still a word in modern Hebrew, which means cousins It's true. It's true. It also means lords So your your landlord would be your Baal Habayats in modern Hebrew That's exactly what you said Baal Habayats is a landlord And Baalee, my Baal, is my husband Funny That's why y'all have to learn Hebrew because you get so much fun stuff from You know, what happens to the biblical Hebrew words and what happens to them in modern Hebrew So your land will be married Biblulah for the lord the life's in you and your land shall be married again Biblulah for as a young man marries a virgin so shall your son marry you and as the bride and the rejoicing over the bride so shall your God rejoice over you So this Excatological redemption will be this restoration and conservation and the marriage between God and his people All right, you're all ready still Okay, so that's four chapters. We come to the second part The book and I'm not going to go into any detail of the second part because we want to get to the new Testaments the chapter five is on the song of songs as during to God And so the the if you read the actual song songs if you how many of you ever write the song of songs at all Almost all of you fantastic. Okay. So it has you know, it's kind of like it's a garden a lot of vegetation You have animals right you have, you know, we've got a girl really love each other. This is a reminder of us of another scene My garden garden of Edener, right? It's kind of this identity setting So the song of songs lots always say this is really portrayed as a type of return to Eden In other words, married love is this return back to Eden The rabbis believe that the song of songs was not just written by Solomon, but it was mystically given to Israel outside I'm surprised if not sign. I was like the patrol between God and Israel It was like mystically imparted Israel that time The song of songs is also considered the holy holy's scripture as I said earlier And so it's that the place where you enter God and his His mystery and the song of songs is also anticipates Israel's final redemption So here's the quote that I gave you a little bit earlier the song of song is the holy holy's So if you look at the way the rabbis interpret this song, you really see that as this is a blind Mystery reflecting God's love for his people Okay, I won't say any more about that for now The mystery of wisdom I mentioned about lady wisdom And so in books like Proverbs but we're just interacting with wisdom of Solomon You see lady wisdom, where do you find her? Well, she's present at the great beginning of creation She's co-creating together with God Does this raise a lot of questions? I mean, what is this wisdom is? And clearly she's not like another God, but she's kind of related to God and she's like God's wisdom Kind of like God's word God's love us Right So we're still in the old test when we see how the figure of wisdom really anticipates this idea of this eternal Love us who is somehow God but not the same as the father Right, and so wisdom is right there at creation co-creating together with God He's identified with the eternal Torah here in Alsayana And where would we find her? In the book of Sirach especially you see wisdom dwelling in the temple In the tabernacle of Israel found through Israel's liturgy And wisdom will also reign at the messianic age Do you see what I'm doing? Do you see those four steps that are exactly what we saw earlier? So wisdom present at creation When it was broken wisdom is found in Mount Sinai given of the Torah and then she's Extended into time through liturgy in the temple and she's called to be found in the messianic age as well So if I'm giving you information overload, just blame it on Dr. Mark because he was my teacher and I learned The technique of trying to drink from a fire hydrants teaching has been for a fire hydrant and Okay, so that's the middle part of the book. Let's go to the New Testament Jesus the bride who opened my marriage in the New Testament So we're going to revisit some of the ideas that we just talked about I'm not going to talk much about the gospel of Matthew. There is some ineptual imagery in Matthew The parable of the ten virgins, right? We have the parable of the wedding feast Where it seems like Jesus is hinting at the fact that you might be the bride room. We have the question on fasting Right, we don't fast while the bride room is still with you And so there's a little bit of ineptual symbolism in there But I'm going to skip over that and go straight to the gospel of John, which is Full of very rich, very subtle Nutsual symbolism, and I think it's one of the longest chapters in the book So let's go ahead and gospel of John a little quick review. We have the mystery of John the Baptist We have the things like the kingdom that finds in the temple We have the conversation with Nicodemus and the whole question of baptism and we have the woman at the well It's the American woman at the well Later in chapter 12 We have the anointing of the feet of Jesus in preparation for his burial last supper passing that passion death resurrection So we'll draw just a few things from these From this narrative from the gospel of John and see how would you tie this together with Nutsual symbolism? How many times is God is Jesus Called a bride room in In the gospel of John, does anyone know? No Good try Just once actually So that's why I'm saying it's subtle because actually It doesn't really jump out at you that oh Jesus brought you in here and there and there Even though that the wedding had came out, you probably all thought the wedding came out. He's not called a bride room, right? Implicit. There's something implicit there, but only in John 3 29 Is he called right by John the Baptist? It's the only place But it's enough because once you give that hint you could find a lot more hints in the rest of the book So Jesus called many things in the gospel of John, right? He's the logo season you add of these and you temple He is bride and he's king beside these lamb of God And so we see a lot of key words such as there is talk of marriage All right, there's talk of family. There is talk of birth Especially in the discourse at the last supper Glory rebuilding the temple. Jesus is our Faith water baptism and all these things if you look at them carefully, they're all somehow connected to To marriage and family So if we begin at the beginning, how's the gospel of John begin thankfully? And uh beginning was the word and the word was with God the word was God So right there in the beginning and you or that would be a bit of sheep. Where's we here in the beginning? In the beginning right Genesis, so in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth So that God that John begins with this is already hinting here's here's a connection with the type of new creation So we hear in lights and we hear the the holy spirit And since you ever noticed those seven days in the first chapter of the gospel of John It says the next day John the Baptist came in the next day Jesus met with the disciples the next day and on the third day there was a way at Cainer Right, so if you add up the days it adds up to seven days Those first by first chapter of the gospel of John so seven days sounds familiar right sounds like a new creation So John the Baptist here in his first chapter introduces the bridegroom Messiah he's not yet identified as bridegroom, but we will see how he is later So cannot the wedding at Cainer seems to take place on the seventh day of new creation, right So Cainer is totally set to happen on the third day when Jesus manifested his glory. So that is Looking backward looking forward What's on the third day? When in Canada also the resurrection and what's Jesus going to do at the resurrection It's going to reveal his glory, right? But at Cainer he's already giving a little bit a hint of his glory Even though he says his mother in my hour has not yet come at Cainer, but he will still You know pull a few tricks Of this I would just believe that that moment So the woman in my hour has not yet come and why is he calling a woman? Have you talked about this in previous Bible studies? All right, so woman, what is this between you and me? And so the woman and There will be entity between the woman and the serpent right into her seat and the serpent seat So this alludes to Genesis 3 15. It's expanded in Revelation 12 as well So Jesus our Cainer anticipates the hour of his death And so who provides the wine of Cainer? Yeah, but that's wine right who provides the wine at jew's weddings It's always a bridegroom. So that's why we have the master of the feast They run out of wine the master of the feast says hey bring the bridegroom here. So this poor bridegroom We don't even know who he is. It's an honest bridegroom who's getting married like that But yeah, I kind of didn't order enough wine. It's just massive shame, right at your own wedding Like you're the one in charge and you totally You've blown it. This is a serious problem. So the poor bridegroom he's completely confused, but Um, actually at this point the wine has already been the water has already I wouldn't even turn it to wine and in the back I know the bridegroom is kind of like ha ha. Yeah, I've got this Okay, and so it's very very subtle But it implies that by the very fact that Jesus provides the wine it's saying that basically he is the bridegroom So the wedding at Cainer is like a new creation, right? But it's also something else and that is not quite as obvious So as we said Cainer occurs on the next day next day next day on the third day on the seventh day What what has happened on the third day? If you look backwards back into the Old Testament At a certain place people had to prepare themselves for the third day something happened on the third day Creation of the world No creation of the world on the seventh day. So it happened at a certain mountain during the exodus They uh, they arrived at Mount Sinai and in exodus 19 it says on the third day the Lord will come down from Mount Sinai in the side of the people Yeah, and even some of the Jewish commentaries say well Actually, they arrived seven eight before and then the next day most went on the mountain and the next day Moses came down the next day four times and then prepared himself for on the third day God will reveal himself at Mount Sinai. What did God reveal at Mount Sinai? His glory the Ten Commandments, but also his divine glory revealed himself What was Mount Sinai we said for the rabbis? A patroller wedding, right? So what's going on with the wedding at Cainer? That's also happening in the sequence of four days plus three days happening on the seventh day, right? So that's the the targeting this air of make commentary or translation of the Hebrew scriptures Said the Sinai theophany occurred over a week Four days of sequence and then on the third day the Lord revealed his glory What did Jesus reveal that the wedding came up? And he revealed his glory, right? So we have two events To patrol those where someone reveals his glory that happens on the third day Which is actually the conclusion of a week of seven days And what can we say? What did he receive? Okay, God revealed his glory at Sinai, but he also gave them the Torah What do we say was a symbol of the Torah? Kisses or the house of wine? I don't know coincidence Maybe maybe not seems like a lot for coincidence, right? So so the fact that Jesus gives turns water into wine at Cainer And the Torah at Mount Sinai God revealed the Torah Which is like the good wine the inebriating wine that brings great joy to the people of Israel And we know that So we have this awkward dialogue between Jesus and Mary, right? So They have a wine what woman wasn't between me and you and then Mary just says to the servants Whenever he says to you do it Does that echo something? What did Israel say to God about Sinai? All that the Lord has said we will do we will obey does that sound somewhat similar? Right, Israel's response to Sinai all the Lord that has said we will do we will obey We will hear and we will obey Right, and so we see something very similar here Whenever he says to you do it Mary is echoing the response of Israel at Sinai He's saying just obey once what he says and it will do well Other than the Lord has spoken we will do and So Cainer's wine I also go into a lot of that in the book Cainer's wine represents the type of the messianic Torah, right? We have the Torah given the law given at Mount Sinai and now we have a new Torah that's given We have a revelation of divine wisdom So here's Lady Wisdom who becomes personified in Christ And in anticipation is eschatological messianic feasts So here's another prophet the prophet Amos And what does Amos say about the last days the messianic days? Behold the days are coming says the Lord when the psalmist shall overtake the reaper and the tremors of great Him who sowed seed the mountain shall drink the sweet wine and all the hill shall flow with it I'll bring back the captains of my people Israel then shall build the way cities They shall build the way cities and inhabit them shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them Take that Baptists Not grape juice So It looks like they were waiting for this new wine right in the messianic age the prophet. So Amos is around that Seven eighth century bc And so here we have this new messianic wine at the wedding of Cainer by this new bridegroom gives this new Torah to Israel right and this new betrothal with his people All right, so what happens next we're still in John chapter two Then Jesus reveals himself as a new temple right so you familiar this passage Here's the temple and the synoptics is at the end just before it's crucifixion But in John it's right at the beginning And what is going on? He spoke of the temple in his body. So Jesus is not only bridegroom he's also A temple where did God meet Israel and the Old Testament? Where he beat his bride as we said with the chair of him right inside the holy bullies And now the word became flesh and wealth and tabernacle among us. So we see Jesus who takes on this bridegroom symbolism, but also this this temples of symbolism And of course, it's going to be the land of God. So he's also going to be the sacrifice offered In both temple sacrifice increase, right? Okay, we zip through the chapter three And now chapter three is this conversation with David Elis where he's talking about oh, you must be born and you were born again And they're immediately after this is talking about this Baptism going under the water right and coming back back out and this is where John the Baptist says He was the bride of the bridegroom the friend of the bridegroom who stands and hears and rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice Therefore this joy of mine is now whole So John the Baptist is the friend of the bridegroom. He's talking about the coming of the voice of the bridegroom. Did we just hear about that? The voice of the bridegroom voice of the bride. That was Jeremiah Prophet Jeremiah, right? And so John the Baptist is now this show should be enough John the Baptist is this mediator this matchmaker Between the bridegroom and the bride. That's why he's not jealous. He's not saying oh, Jesus steal my disciples All right, so John the Baptist is excited that this is going to happen And what is this sign of this new covenant of entrance into the new covenant? It's a birth, right? That sounds a little bit marital as well So Bridegroom and bride that are joined through this this type of rebirth So here's your restoration of the voice of the bridegroom that's Jeremiah was talking about Okay, we're sitting here going quickly through these These chapters, but hopefully it's going to give you a taste for more So one of my favorite chapters in fact, that's what made the cover of the book The encounter between Jesus and the Samaritan woman. So What Jesus meets a woman at the well right there? This should be like, okay This should raise some flags. What's going on at Wells usually and the biblical worlds So it's basically your pickup bar of the engineer east Right you want to be a woman you go to the well and why did this happen for example? Do you remember some examples? Moses yeah, we have a couple in your book of Genesis as well Abraham servants who met meets Rebecca will become as an Isaac's wife and most famous to Jacob and Rachel So big romance there. There was a bit of a detour with the Leia story first But I mean jaco's very specific by by Rachel And so what's going on is the man being a woman at a well and there's this conversation And she runs to meet her relatives to bring her relatives, right? He's invited over to have this conversation about wedding and family and so on So what's going on here this meeting Jesus meets the Samaritan woman at the well? I'm like, whoa Jesus I thought you had some Important spiritual stuff to do here. What do you mean the woman at the well for right? That's why the disciples are a bit scandalized at this and think of their conversations like what? Living water spring up to everlasting life give me to drink blah blah blah It's like you want to go for a drink here, right? This literally it's not that different from what what the connotation is that today, right? So this always talk of drinking and then she says well, I'm gonna go and get my husband's but no You've had five husbands and the one you're living with there's not your husband So all this talk of living water. Well, where do we have these living waters in the Old Testament? There you have it We have rivers in the Garden of Eden, right? The temple in Ezekiel And a river flowing from the Holy Holies Lady wisdom is often portrayed as streams of water streaming in wilderness the prophets as well There's a lot of illusions to kind of this return to the Garden of Eden in and through the temple But what's the deal with these five husbands that you've had and what you have now is not granted? Hmm. Well, the woman is a Samaritan, right? And if you recall the history of the Samaritan, you know, they were exiled And then they returned and they returned and they worshiped Five foreign gods and they were intermarried with five foreign people the Samaritans And then they kind of worshiped the Lord, but it was a very syncretistic cult In other words, the Lord was their husband, but he was not really their husband That's why the Jews this the test of the Samaritans up to the time of Jesus Because they had this syncretistic worship. You know, the Samaritan still exists You have a small community and a few hundreds in Samaria and also another part of Israel And you still celebrate Passover as their once when I was living in Israel We actually slaughter a bunch of lands and it's kind of this truly often the Samaritan still exists Much less than at the time there were tens of thousands now there are just a few hundreds So in any case this woman becomes a type of the Samaritan people who worshiped, you know, false gods And they kind of these five husbands represent these these false gods And then what she goes and calls the locals and they invite Jesus to stay there But what you now by this point? This is so similar to the story between Jacob and Rachel Is Jesus going to marry this woman? What's going on? Is there going to be wedding? Is there? Well, what's what kind of a wedding? What is Do we see a wedding a mystical wedding in Gospel of John? What happens to the Samaritans at the end of John chapter four? They all come to faith in Jesus. They all come to believe in Jesus All right, so in other words little curveball, right? There's no way of wedding with a Samaritan woman, but all the community comes to faith in Jesus And what is faith the British chapter? We just saw that if you're not born again, if you do not believe in the Son of God, right? You cannot enter the kingdom of heaven You cannot baptize water and the spirits and now we see this whole community coming to faith. So is there a wedding? Yeah, right not a physical wedding, but a mystical wedding going on here It's over at strength is gospel Oh, so much in there. So we fast forward to John chapter 12 over my favorites And so here's the episode in Bethany. We see Mary of Bethany, right the sister of Lazarus Martha serving it's not the episode of Martha and Mary. It's another one But what does Mary do? She takes a pound of costly one of pure art and onto the feet of Jesus What is deep with her hair and the house was filled with the fragrance of the blankets Where else do we hear about an art? Some of the songs, right So one 12 while the kings and his table by spike the right sense for its fragrance So do we have see a king at the table here? And a king reclining at the table when we see the art that fills the fragrance of the art that fills the house So what John is doing in this narrative, he's really Saying hey, this is where the song songs is happening here. You need to get in the bridegroom who is anointed with the virus and You see this sent from the house So king on a couch a woman of art and this fragrance and love also a woman who loves Jesus, right? So another hint at this actual mystery in the gospel of John And then the hour has come so the gospel of John has no institution there, but it has a very long speech Jesus who washes the feet of his Disciples he speaks of I will prepare a place for for you in my father's house a lot of That family language right patrol the language and so Jesus is deaf without and I've done that time if you want the details But it's portrayed of course as we know it's the past the sacrifice But it's also portrayed as a type of messianic wedding When he says well my hour has not yet has now come And not come at the time of what became of it now it has come And what do we see unique about the gospel of John when he dies his side is pierced in water and blood pour out of his sight So what's that water and blood that alludes to Another type of birth, right? But it also alludes to what came out of someone's sight You know woman, right? It's often translated as rib right over here That he was created out of out of Adam's rib, but actually the Hebrew who says side it can mean both rib and side So it's someone more flattering for women. You're not just a rib, but you actually the whole the whole one side of Right when we talk about the two halves my better half It's actually more represents more faithfully what the what the Old Testament said what Genesis says So we see this kind of new eve of course that water blood coming from Jesus's side is also seen as the mystical brick of the church Right and so it also alludes to these living waters that came out of even when we talked about the temple of Ezekiel Yeah, this birch imagery and so This Mary symbolism invoking the new eve taken out of the side of new Adam and then of course we see God Jesus who says So to John we hold your mother and you hold your son so we also have and the four of The messianic family right there between Mary and John and then after Jesus is has died he's involved with myrrh and howlis Where we hear about these spices The natural song 45 and again the song of songs And so that too they are usually used in kind of a marital or romantic context So his death this gruesome great act of The evil and injustice right John puts in hints to say that Yes through the suffering which is a great Act of evil at the same time and mysteriously there's a great act of love here And here's the bride who offers himself for his bride on the cross And we see that confirmed While three days later with the resurrection appearance And unique to John we see Mary Magdalene who appears or not appearing I mean she comes to the the tomb doesn't find Jesus and then Meets this person. So think about this. She arrives while it is still dark She looks for Jesus in the tomb and says meets these Two figures right they had said they have taken my lord away my lord. I do not know when they have Layed him so she meets these angels or kind of guardians and then she turns around and it says she turns around again She's she sees Jesus standing there thinking he is the gardener And then Jesus says to her Do not belong to me for I do not guess I sent it to the father What does this sound like does that recall something woman who gets up in the nights and looks for one she loves and meets some guardians and It turns around and turns around the city right and it says I held him would not let him go the sound she noted So that's song of songs chapter three The other thing is strange to it that Jesus said do not hold on to me. It doesn't say Mary Magdalene. How long did he just say this? Yeah, right, right And so it's a direct echo of I held him and would not let him go for the song Until I had brought him into my mother's house and then chamber of prayer to see me See how this echoes what Jesus says and not yet ascended to the The father so he's going to take her to the father's house and the song of songs I want to bring him into my mother's chamber Right, you see that resurrection appearance very much the strong very strong echo of the song of songs right there Now it's cool Okay, so much for the gospel of john So we have about nine minutes to go through really quickly Highlights from the rest of the new testament around this game. Uh, just three other books That's about three minutes each All right, so st paul actually four books. Okay, st paul first great theater That's where we have the whole theology of the body as temple of the holy spirit And that's why we have to exclude the one flesh unit with prostitutes So paul it goes out into all of his sexual morality and on what basis? Because your body is a temple of the holy spirit So we move to the first one christ now to the christian believer, right? So where's the temple now? Well, if it was christ's body right and in his flesh for now He's gone up to the father sent the holy spirit as apparently now wears the temple of the holy spirit Here we are. It's the church It queues at least the church but it's also the individual believer So this is why sexuality must be within the framework of the covenant according to 1st Corinthians According to 2nd Corinthians We see also the human body which is portrayed as an earthly tent that awaits its earthly habitation So 2nd Corinthians also has a strong temple symbolism for the body of the christian But also 2nd Corinthians has a really strong actual passage in 2nd Corinthians 11 When paul says to the chrithians I am jealous for you with godly jealousy for I have betrothed you to one husband And I may present you as a pure virgin to christ But I fear less somehow as the serpent deceived by his craftiness To your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity and purity as christ So who is the chrithian church for paul? This pure virgin controls to christ So lest there was any doubt in the gospel of john christ is clearly the bridegroom but who is the bride? It's 2nd Corinthians that says it's really the christian community And so that's why we were to be as temple where are to be consecrated for our bridegroom And so we talked about the show should be not really a couple of times Moses was the show should be in the matchmaker at cyanide John the Baptist was the show should be between Jesus and his disciples So here we're being another one now paul is the show should be any of these the matchmaker between the chrithian church and jesus or between us and jesus But the church is compared to he so the church also could be led astray by the serpent, right? He must be vigilant Watched visually our hearts All right, so that's so much of chrithians Okay, the most rich The richest natural passage in the new testament is found in Ephesians five. We Farting don't have much time for that. So that'll be for another time But that's when we see this one flesh union, right? It's very very rich passage That's where we see husbands. Love your wives as christ loved the church And why submit to your husbands and the christ offered himself to cleanse this bride with With pure water, right and he nourishes this bride with with his very own flesh and There echoes of the song of songs in there. There's strong sacrificial language. So how his love actuated Through sacrifice So I already looking at the temple, right when israel offered their sacrifices. This is what invited thoughts presence And so through human sacrifice through christ sacrifice He enacts human love and now how are we to invite divine love into our lives? Also their sacrifice and where's the highest sacrifice that we join together with It's a mass, right? So we're joined with christ sacrifice And being joined with christ sacrifice in mass. Well, this is where we are able to enact it in human marriage Also where husband loves the husband's love their wives by the christ love the church and wives love their husbands So that's what Ephesians tells us lots of symbolism and sacrifice in the book I go into the connection with the old tests of the sacrifices which some were for the sake of atoning for sins Other was for the sake of inactive communion And these were offered these peace offerings were offered together with bread and wine And those were the sacrifices for communions some of the sacrifice He has offered first to take care of their sins Right and then the peace offerings you can actually eat of the meat together with bread and wine And that would symbolize this communion with god And so the sacrifice who is holy and without blood flesh for the sake of making his bride and also moving in without flesh And so that's where paul quotes from jenesis. He said therefore man shall leave his father and mother be joined to this wife And they shall be more flesh. This is a great mystery. I speak of Christ and the church So he's applying genesis one of two and applying this to the mystery of the relationship between christ the bride and the church his rise there it is Not that we're going to be just talking for an hour about Ephesians 5 but alas Okay, well we just about made it we come to the 12th chapter of the wedding feast on the lamb in the apocalypse And the bible of course ends with a wedding, doesn't it? So after a lot of chaos and confusion and judgment and cups outpoured in the book of revelation We need a land who was slain so there again is sacrifice Right the line of juda who still appears as a land was slain We meet to this mysterious woman crowned with 12 stars Closed with the sun with the moon under her feet Who battled the serpent so we have an echo of the garden of even here and this mother of the messiah Who is clearly the same as the mother consigned at wedded king And at the end we see the holy city new jerusalem coming down out of heaven from god Prepared as a bride adored for her husband And love voice says behold the tabernacle of god is with men. He will dwell with them and they shall be his people And god himself will be with them For the last revelation of the bible we see the bride of the land was closed with the glory of god and this Extraordinary heavenly wedding where the fullness of the glory of god is revealed And at the same time this is the dwelling god of men and there is no temple There is no physical temple because because the bride herself is this dwelling place of the presence of god So the lord god almighty and with the land Are at this temple and in the midst of this revelation the wedding feast of the land As in chapter 41 There's a return to Eden and to the treat of life So the river the water of life flowing from the floor of god and of the land who do we see here We have god we have a lamb and the river See the trinitarian hint There in god the land and the river that represents the whole spirit And so these trees of life. So here we are going back to the garden Eden that is a heavenly garden of Eden healing its fruit for each month So we see healing we see the fullness of life The river of life flowing from the throne of god and this renewed access to the long lost treat of life For the healing of the nations so here we see the conservation of the eternal wedding in this return to the treat of life So what we see today A lot of stuff We basically walk through all the scripture the highlights of both old and new testaments And so we see these four major moments in the salvation history So in the old testament we see there's a prototype right we talked about the garden of Eden Broken love that is repaired at Mount Sinai extended into time through the temple which anticipates the messianic age Right, so see these four stages we move to There we are Okay, we move to the gospel of john You see jesus is the new adam Right and jesus our there's your redemptive moment at the wedding in cana which anticipates the crucifixion So you have your great redemptive moment that restives in this communion Jesus becomes a new temple extended into time And that's going to be fulfilled by this worship in spirit and in the truth that he talks about with the scenario woman when we go to st. Paul The church is a new eve How does the church enter into communion with christ through We meet through the cross in and through baptism, right? So that we now become the temples of the holy spirit and we await the clothing of the heavenly home When we will join jesus in heaven So still four stages And then we come to the book of revelation We meet this woman. We see a return to the tree of life the redemptive event is the land was slain And it's extended forever into time through the heavenly temple and the new Jerusalem And this is the eternal merit sufferer of the land So there you see the same four stages old testament the gospel of john paul and the book of revelation It's almost like there's some kind of divine offer behind all of this, right? All right So what do we see here as the last quick note? We see what we come to know as the four senses of scripture if you You're familiar with how to interpret scripture the catechism speaks about this. We have literal sense We have alboreal sense old testament events fulfilled in christ Then you're fulfilled in a christian life and these events are fulfilled in eternity and this is exactly what we see how we see this nuptial symbolism uh carried out in and throughout scripture Glory to the father to the sons of the holy spirits as it was in the beginning is now ever shall be Where will that end? Thank you very much