One New Man – The Bride
“…that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth — in Him.” (Ephesians 1:10 NKJV)
“It's in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone.”
(Eph. 1:11-12 THE MESSAGE)
God has a plan. He has always had a wise plan through the ages. We are seeing it worked out in our time. He is fulfilling the promise He made to His Son, Yeshua HaMashiach, Jesus the Christ, the Messiah, to present to Him a Bride.
God will complete His plan, in the fullness of time. At the completion of the outworking of His purpose, He will have redeemed a people to Himself. As the living church of peoples are gathered from all nations, we are being united as one. His eternal purpose is being worked out, to gather us to Yeshua, in Yeshua, and for Yeshua.
God first began His plan by calling a man out of his land, to bring him to a new one. Avram (later known as Abraham after God changed his name) heard the call and followed.
“Now Adonai said to Avram, “Get yourself out of your country, away from your kinsmen and away from your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, I will bless you, and I will make your name great; and you are to be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, but I will curse anyone who curses you; and by you all the families of the earth will be blessed.” (Gen. 12:1-3 Complete Jewish Bible)
Through Abraham’s seed after him, his descendants Isaac and Jacob, a nation had been birthed to fill the earth with His light. The olive tree, which is given in creation for our understanding, represents the Jewish people called from the beginning. They are the representation of the Lord. Through them this long enduring promise is being fulfilled, even since the time of Abraham.
As the centuries passed, and the olive tree grew, it endured the onslaught of destruction; the beating of the surrounding elements; the ongoing threats of extinction. Yet the Lord continued to further reveal His salvation plan of redemption through them - to bring together not only the Jews, the olive tree, but to add branches, the Gentiles. These too would be grafted into the tree.
With a cross cut in the branch, to place the wild branch within the natural, the grafting in of the wild branch to the natural branch brings forth the intended produce, the olive itself. The fruit for the Son.
By being grafted in to the olive tree, through that cross cut, these Gentile branches, believers with faith as Abraham had, also receive the riches and favor of God through its Jewish roots.
As Gentiles, we must receive the Jewish roots. For the Jews, they must receive the wild branches. The result will be the one new man, the Bride of Messiah.
Paul wrote to us, Gentile believers, this caution. “And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.” (Romans 11:17-18 NKJV)
Believing Jews and Gentiles from the nations are being joined together for God’s heart purpose from the beginning. Having a Bride for His Son Yeshua, our Messiah, has been the eternal goal. Our diversity and uniqueness will bring out the intended features He has been looking for, and waiting for, in this ongoing creative act of the Father for His Son.
In these last days, the culmination of time, God the Father is bringing forth His created one new man. Even in the midst of the roaring nations, the chaos happening all over the earth, He is doing it. As He brought something out of nothing in the beginning of creation. He will come full circle and do it again in our time.
This one new man will become His Son’s Bride.
Now think on this,
Steve Martin
Love For His People
Founder
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