Today I want to talk about the marriage supper of the Lamb. Now we find the timing of the
marriage supper of the Lamb in Revelation 19. The Bible reads in verse number six, and
I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude and as the voice of many waters and as the
voice of mighty thundering saying, Alleluia, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Let
us be glad and rejoice and give honor 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 saints. So right
there we see that the timing of the marriage supper of the Lamb is in Revelation 19 when
Jesus Christ comes on the white horse. Of course a few verses later that's going to
be described. He comes on the white horse to set up his millennial kingdom. And the
Bible says that that is the time when the marriage of the Lamb is come. Now those who
believe in a pre-trib rapture, they believe that the rapture is going to happen before
the tribulation and that we're going to be up in heaven for seven years eating the marriage
supper of the Lamb, or I've heard them say we're going to be honeymooning up there in
heaven for seven years. Well the problem with that is that the Bible says that the marriage
of the Lamb is come in Revelation 19, which is after the tribulation and after God has
already poured out all his wrath. And the seven vials of his wrath have already been
pointed out. He's already destroyed Babylon and now here in chapter 19 he's saying the
marriage of the Lamb is come. So how is that compatible with us eating the marriage supper
of the Lamb up in heaven for seven years? So some that believe in a pre-trib rapture
will say well according to Jewish custom, and whenever I hear them start talking about
Jewish custom I pretty much know that false doctrine is coming because the Bible gives
us everything we need to know about doctrine. We don't need to go to some Jewish rabbi to
get doctrine, but they'll say well the Jewish custom is that they would have a seven day
feast before the wedding. So if the wedding is in chapter 19 they've already been having
the seven day feast, which they're basically saying that the seven day feast is symbolic
of the seven year feast. Well here's the problem with that doctrine. Look up all the
marriages in the Bible. Look up all the weddings in the Bible and you will not find this concept
of a Jewish custom of a seven day wedding feast. The only place that you'll find in
the Bible something like that is in the book of Judges and it was a Philistine wedding.
Let me read it for you. It says in verse 12 of Judges 14, and Samson said unto them, I
will now put forth a riddle unto you if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven
days of the feast and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change
of garments. So when you look up all the weddings in the Bible, they're all taking place in
the course of a day. All the other marriages and weddings don't give any indication of
being a seven day thing. The only seven day wedding that I could find in the Bible was
this Philistine wedding where Samson goes down to the land of the Philistines and has
a wedding in their country amongst their friends and their family. It's their customs and I
do not believe for one second that Jesus Christ is patterning his second coming after a Philistine
wedding ceremony. And so instead of telling us that Christ's coming is going to be based
on a Jewish wedding tradition, maybe they should say it's a Philistine wedding tradition
because that's the only place that we see it in the Bible. And I'm not going to get
my doctrine from an anti-Christ rabbi who doesn't even believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
You know the Bible is real clear that the rapture comes after the tribulation. Read
Matthew 24, read Mark 13, read Luke 21 instead of going to Jewish customs and Jewish fables
and commandments of men that turn from the truth. This is a Philistine wedding practice
of having a seven day feast. That's the only place I see it. I don't see it in Leviticus.
I don't see it in Numbers. I don't see it in Deuteronomy. I don't see God teaching this.
I see the world doing this.