Romans 23
He has Come to Crown His Bride
Brian Kocourek
James 1:12
Revelations 2:10-11,3:11
We've been talking about the
hedge that GOD has put around us;
Ps 1:6, 27:5, 31:20, Job 1:10 We came to
realize that the hedge is GOD Himself.
Compare PS 103:4 to PS 1:6 and PS 31:20, we see He encircles us and
we are caught up into Him as a cyclotron of His presence or
to be more scriptural;like a whirlwind all around us.
2nd COR 3:18 NIV "And we,who with
unveiled faces all reflect the LORD'S Glory, are being transformed into His
likeness with ever increasing glory,which comes from the LORD, Who is The
Spirit.
This crowning is one which
fadeth not away as we see in 1 PET 5:4 but we see in ISA 40:5-9 that man fades and everything that is created will fade,so this
crown which fades not must be the
Word as ISAIAH says,"onlythe Word of GOD will not fade but
endures forever."
Now ISA 28:5 says He is our Crown. Wm Branham from a message entitled TESTIMONY OF A TRUE WITNESS says,"I got Isaiah 28:11, let's just read
for a moment and find out here what He said about the coming of the HOLY
SPIRIT. Isaiah the 28th chapter, let's
begin at the 5th verse "' In that day shall the Lord of Hosts be for a
crown of Glory."' "He's speaking of this great day when the Witness
would come.What is our crown? ( pounds on pulpit ) The Holy Spirit crowns us.A
crown of Glory,"and for a diadem of beauty unto the residue of His
people." 'The residue, the people that's left over.He'll be a Diadem, a
Crown of Glory, a Diadem of beauty.Think, this is seven hundred years before it
happened'."For a spirit of judgment to him that is setting in
judgment," 'That's what He does to us at the altar.'"For strength to
them that turn the battle to the gate." 'Let me see,"that turn the
battle to the gate," 'them who are standing for Him and with Him, this
Great Spirit,Holy Spirit that is
prophesied , will be the strength of him that stands at the gate in the
battle.He is our strength, we rely upon Him, not upon culture, not upon
education, not upon things of the world."Not by power, not by might but by
My Spirit,Saith the Lord." The
church rest's solemnly in that.He will be the strength of him that stands in
the gate, not his theological background, not his denomination, but the Holy
Ghost will be his strength.He'll be the One that'll stand at the gate. He'll
rely upon the strength of the Holy Spirit to turn the alien away.'
Now Jesus received this same
crown HEB 2:9, PS 8:5
When then does this crown
come to the Elect? 2 TIM 4:8, 1 PET 5:4, At
the time of THE appearing. This word for crown is the Greek word ( stephanos )
which means A BADGE OF ROYALTY.'Brother
Branham said to Lee Vayle in his private audio letter,"For as He come then
to the natural seed,Abraham, He comes now to the Royal seed Abraham, who
is ALSO waiting for the promised Son, not the natural son Isaac, but the
Royal promised Son." 1 Pet 5:4
Now as she receives this
crown which is Himself,she gives back to Him this revelation which she received
by Him and this then becomes her offering unto Him. She then becomes His crown as
we see in ISA 62:3 and PROV 12:4.
The difference between Him
as her crown and her as His crown is that the word for Him as CROWN is
TSePHIYRAH meaning a crown ( as encircling the head). The word for her as a
crown is TSANIYPHAH a head dress (ie. a piece of cloth wrapped around ) a hood,
diadem, mitre. MITRE= the official
headdress of the ancient Jewish Highpriest.
So we see that she is not for His protection as He is for her,
but rather she is for his beauty personified,in which she, by her beauty, is to
attract attention to the head, giving the head the full preeminence.Thus we
have a true picture of a bride and her groom and how each compliments the
other.
MAL3:16-18 Gives us a better understandingthen of this protection he gives her and
her giving back this revelation to Him which He has given to her. 16 "Then those who feared the LORD talked with
each other, and the LORD listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was
written in His presence concerning those who feared the LORD and honored His
name.
17 "They will be mine,"says the LORD
ALMIGHTY, "in the day when I make up My treasured possession.I will spare
them, just as in compassion a man spares his son who serves him.
18 And you will again see the distinction
between the righteous and the wicked,between those who serve God and those who
do not."
Now once again we have a perfect picture of Eden againwhere
husband was to feed wife from the tree of life ,she then would feed him of the
same tree ( a beautiful type of giving back to GOD the revelation He has given
to HIS bride)but instead, before Adam gave to her,the serpent got to her with
the wrong tree and thus perverted the original course GOD had intended for
man.But at this time He has come back "to restore the kingdom to its
rightly position that fell by sin by the first Adam, back to where He walked in
the cool of the evening with His people, talked with them, fellowshipped with
them."
CHRIST THE MYSTERY OF GOD REVEALED p.24-25
Now we see here a
beautiful picture of Bride andGroom.Asshe dresses to meet her mate, she first
puts on her shoes(which is the preparation of the Gospel).She is then dressed
in the Word and the last piece of apparel she puts on before she is presented
to her Groom is the crown or headpiece which consists of a headband,veil and
train,representing God before her, GOD behind her,GOD over her and all around
her.She is then ready to proceed
down the isle to meet her Groom.
As she walks toward her Husband she is veiled to all whohappen to look
on.She then takes her place before Him and as she stands in His presence,He
reaches forward, removes her veil once and for all.He then kisses her and for
the first time she is purely face to face and mouth to mouth.( and the Bride
will have "Thus Saith the LORD," or she will keep still.)
ZEPH 3:9-17 " Then will I purify the
lips of the peoples,that all of them may call on the name of the Lord and serve
Him shoulder to shoulder.