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The Unique Union of Christ (the incarnation of Christ) and taken up
and His Church the mountain in chapter 22 (the sacrifice
of Christ), we hear Abraham state, “I and
“To love and to cherish, to honor and to the lad will go yonder and worship, and
respect; from this day forward until death [both] come again to you” (22:5). Arriv-
do us part or the Lord takes us home,” ing at verse 19 we read, “So Abraham
stated Jack, gazing into the eyes of his returned.” Where is Isaac? Strangely, he’s
beloved. Who could ever tire of being wit- not mentioned at all in chapter 23 on the
ness to the sacred occasion of a Christian occasion of the death of his mother. If
marriage! What a thrill to peer through chapter 21 is a picture of the incarnation
this little window to a future day when the of Christ and chapter 22 the sacrifice of
glorious announcement will echo through Christ, following the order, chapter 23
the courts of heaven, “Let us be glad and and the death of Sarah can be viewed
rejoice, and give honour to him: for the as the setting aside of Israel (Abraham’s
marriage of the Lamb is come, and his [Jehovah’s] wife). With Isaac now absent
wife hath made herself ready” (Rev 19:7). (Christ in heaven) and Sarah having died
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As we draw this series to a close, we (Israel set aside), the unnamed servant
cannot do so without giving some con- (the Holy Spirit) is sent on a mission by
sideration to the unique association Christ Abraham (God the Father) to seek a bride
will enjoy with His treasured Church. If for Isaac (Christ). How fascinating that
we have seen that we will occupy the lofty Isaac only next emerges in 24:62, when
position as kings, priests and rulers with he comes forth to meet his bride. He takes
Christ, we now desire to note the exclusive her exclusively into the tent and loves
position as His bride. her. Surely a spiritual mind must see the
It has been well stated that the New Tes- parallel to Christ and His Church in the
tament is in the Old concealed and the Old NT. As we turn to chapter 25, the picture
in the New revealed, and this truth is none is complete. Isaac has his bride (Christ
more manifest than when we consider and the Church), Abraham (Jehovah) re-
the bride of Christ. Viewing the Garden marries (Israel restored), the Holy Spirit
stating in verse 5, “Abraham gave all that
of Eden, we could never have conceived he had unto Isaac.” What a beautiful pic-
Adam and Eve as a beautiful picture of ture of the Millennium. How wonderful
Christ and His Church except it were to observe everything in its correct order.
revealed to us in Ephesians 5. Likewise,
let us pause to consider the heartwarming The Unveiled Union of Christ
narrative of Isaac and his bride, Rebekah, and His Church
told out in Genesis 24.
Unarguably, Abraham is a clear picture Have you ever wondered why Paul,
of God the Father, with Isaac prefiguring having touched marriage so briefly in
Christ and the unnamed servant repre- Colossians (3:18-19), expands the teach-
senting the Holy Spirit. After Isaac was ing significantly in Ephesians (5:22-33)?
miraculously conceived in chapter 21 I suggest the answer lies in the fact that
the dominant theme of Ephesians is the
1 Bible quotations in this article are from the Church. Ten times in the section on mar-
KJV. riage (5:22-33) Paul explicitly references
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