The consummation of the Lamb and the Bride is radically misunderstood. Yet Jesus clearly told us the core of how it will work. What we need is an understanding of marriage. We are betrothed to Yeshua—Jesus in the Greek. We have all responded yes to his question: “Will you marry me?”

So, what does that mean? It starts with Genesis 2:24, “Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh.” This is not about sex. It’s about becoming one. That’s what I miss, now that my wife got to go home.

What is the great difference between us now and us as we will be at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb? Now we are in the flesh, with all its clamoring for strokes and attention. Then, the flesh will be gone and with it all the fleshly lusts. We will have our new bodies that Paul spoke about,

“I tell you this, brethren: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Lo! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable nature must put on the imperishable, and this mortal nature must put on immortality.” 1 Corinthians 15: 50-53

This has already happened by the time of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

The consummation of the Lamb and the Bride was prayed for by Jesus

It was part of the last things Jesus said the evening before He was arrested. It’s a passage that is rarely preached and usually not considered. But it is absolutely glorious. In John 17, Jesus was praying for his disciples—those we know as the Twelve. Then He shifts, and He reveals the consummation,

“I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe in me through their word, that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory which you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one.” John 17: 20-22

That is our consummation. We will be joined into the oneness of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Somehow, as the Bride, we’ll have a special relationship with Yeshua in the midst of that oneness. What a husband He is!