If there is no marriage at the resurrection (Matt 22, Mark 12, Luke 20), what is the meaning of the pervasive marriage imagery inherent in Scripture?
Ec:3:20:
All go unto one place;
all are of the dust,
and all turn to dust again.
Ec:12:7:
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was:
and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
The 'marriage' needs to be defined a bit. When God created man in Ge:1 it was as male and female. The 'model' for that was the 'us' that was speaking in that chapter, God and the Holy Spirit. If Adam was 'not complete' until he and Eve were married then Jesus will not 'be complete' until He is 'married'. He found the woman He fell in love with as soon as He returned from the 40 days in the wilderness. She was a Disciple of John the Baptist at that time as she later became known to be 'the Beloved Disciple'. Mary of Bethany was the one at the cross that Jesus gave responsibility to for the caring of His mother. They would have gone to Greece during the exodus after Stephen was killed. All the Apostles stayed in Jerusalem until the scattering in 70AD.
Mary of Bethany is the author of the Gospel of John and Revelations and is the person that is most important in the 3 Epistles. Moses had God take away the breath of life at the age of 120 years. Since that is the age of Judgment Moses is able to receive glorification, Mary would also have been that age as she is the very first one from mankind that is resurrected after the two witnesses and she alone will stand beside Christ in a glorified body. The breath of life returns to God at the death of a person so she would have died and then experienced judgment and glorification would have taken place. The return she experiences is to be leading the way for the 12 Tribes as defined in Eze:37. Adam and Eve would stand in as 'her parents' and that would eventually include everybody that is part of the Re:20:4 resurrection and reign called the , 1 thousand year reign.
The 3rd vision of Fatima was the virgin Mary, that is the beloved Disciple rather than the mother of Jesus who was a virgin when chosen but not a virgin when she died, Mary of Bethany was still a virgin after she wrote Revelations and when she returns it is in a glorified body that Jesus had for the 40 days after the cross. All others behind her will have to go to the 'river' from Eze:47 to be glorified. The population of the earth during the 1,000 is the same from start to end and that is a 'learning period' most of the time. For Mary and the 12 Tribes it will see the Garden return to the 'Promised Land' as if sin had never taken place and that is how Jerusalem will appear at the time Satan and the other fallen angels are released from the Pit for their execution and being cast into the fiery lake.
That same population will live inside New Jerusalem during the new earth verses and they will be the 'teachers' of the ones that were not alive for that 'first day in the Kingdom of God'. (Isaiah:65).
The reference below is revealed as soon as she is mentioned, Christ then takes her alone to see a view they alone can see as mankind is inside the City at that point and Adam and Eve step out into a place that needs as much transformation that the garden did in Ge:2.
Re:21:9-10:
And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying,
Come hither,
I will shew thee the bride,
the Lamb's wife.
And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain,
and shewed me that great city,
the holy Jerusalem,
descending out of heaven from God,
Re:19:6-9:
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 thunderings,
saying,
Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
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 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.
Joe:2:15-21:
Blow the trumpet in Zion,
sanctify a fast,
call a solemn assembly:
Gather the people,
sanctify the congregation,
assemble the elders,
gather the children,
and those that suck the breasts:
let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber,
and the bride out of her closet.
Let the priests,
the ministers of the LORD,
weep between the porch and the altar,
and let them say,
Spare thy people,
O LORD,
and give not thine heritage to reproach,
that the heathen should rule over them:
wherefore should they say among the people,
Where is their God?
Then will the LORD be jealous for his land,
and pity his people.
Yea,
the LORD will answer and say unto his people,
Behold,
I will send you corn,
and wine,
and oil,
and ye shall be satisfied therewith:
and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:
But I will remove far off from you the northern army,
and will drive him into a land barren and desolate,
with his face toward the east sea,
and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up,
and his ill savour shall come up,
because he hath done great things.
Fear not,
O land;
be glad and rejoice:
for the LORD will do great things.
Joh:11:24:
Martha saith unto him,
I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
"This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church." (Ephesians 5:32 NIV)
Think of Mary as being the head of the Church as she is the one who had the visions in Revelations and that would include the 7 letters written to 'all Gentiles'.
Re:1:7:
Behold,
he cometh with clouds;
and every eye shall see him,
and they also which pierced him:
and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him.
Even so,
Amen.
