"For your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is His name; and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel; he is called the God of the whole earth." - Isaiah 54:5.
"You shall no longer be termed Forsaken, nor shall your land any more be termed Desolate; but you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the Lord delights in you, and your land shall be married. For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,
so shall your God rejoice over you." - Isaiah 62:4-5.“When I passed by you again and looked upon you, indeed your time was the time of love; so I spread My wing over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine,” says the Lord God. ... You are an adulterous wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband." - Ezekiel 16:8 and 32.
"“I will betroth you to Me forever; yes, I will betroth you to Me in righteousness and justice, in lovingkindness and mercy; I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness, and you shall know the Lord. " - Hosea 2:19-20.
These are just a few of the Old Testament verses which represent a consistent thread of Old Testament teaching, depicting God as the bridegroom of his covenanted people. The later prophets, such as Hosea, lament the unfaithfulness of the bride, but promise that God will renew the covenant, and take his people, his wife, to himself again.
The New Testament, and Jesus personally, explicitly states that this is fulfilled in Jesus himself, and in the union of Jesus with his church, e.g.:
"And Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast." - Matthew 9:15
"You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before Him.’ He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is fulfilled. He must increase, but I must decrease." - John 3:28-30
"Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might [g]sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish." - Ephesians 5:25b-27
"Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife" - Revelation 21:9
Were these the only related verses and the only related theme in the Bible (whereas in fact there are very many others on both counts), it would still be quite sufficient to show that Jesus is explicitly presented as God manifest in the flesh, the covenant God of Israel now come personally to fulfil the Old Testament promises. He is not a man, or the most exalted created being, through whom God acts: he, himself, does the things that the Old Testament tells us that God personally does. The concept of God taking a bride through an intermediary who does the actual taking of the bride in the New Testament, as a fulfilment of the Old Testament promise, would be absurd. Jesus, and his apostles, explicitly taught that Jesus himself is God. He does the things that the Old Testament tells us God himself is going to come and do.
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