[00:00:00] Welcome to Divine Stream Radio Podcast from the Book of Mysteries by Jonathan Kahn, The Kalaar. We journeyed to one of the Deys' tent villages with which the teacher was very familiar but one I had never been to before. Do you see the woman there, said the teacher, with long wavy hair dressed in brown and black? She's the bride. But she's not the same as the other.
[00:00:27] There's more than one bride among these villages and this one is at the end of her waiting. Soon will be her wedding day. Do you remember how to say bride in Hebrew? Keilah, I replied. Yes, said the teacher, but I never told you what it meant. The word Kalaar contains a mystery. It doesn't only mean bride. What else then? Calah also means the perfect one.
[00:00:55] The perfect one? But if, in the mystery, we're the bride and the bridegroom is God, shouldn't it be the bridegroom who is called the perfect one? That's the point, he said. We're born to be the bride, but we're not born as the bride. We're born imperfect and subject to imperfections throughout our lives. But we're to become the Calah, the perfect one.
[00:01:20] When we say yes to the bridegroom in the new birth, and we become perfect? Becoming a bride is about being joined to a bridegroom. So becoming the Calah is about being joined to God. The more we join our hearts and lives to God, the more we become the Calah, the perfect one. In him, and in our joining to him, is found our perfection. And do you know what else Calah means?
[00:01:50] It means the completed one. For to be perfect is to be complete. But how can we ever be perfect if we can only be completed at the end? The bridegroom looks at the bride and sees her as she will be. In the same way, God looks at you and sees what he made you to become. And so the bride must likewise see herself in the eyes of the bridegroom.
[00:02:18] You must see yourself in the eyes of God. And then let God complete his perfect work. For the works of God are perfect, even the Calah. The Mission Marry every imperfect part of your life to the bridegroom. Let him fill in all that is missing. See yourself in the eyes of his love as the Calah, the perfect one. Isaiah 62.5
[00:02:45] For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee. And as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee. Matthew 5.48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Ephesians 5.25-27
[00:03:08] Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.
[00:03:34] Revelation 19.7-8 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. The mystery of the Kalaar Thank you for joining me on Faith in Focus.
[00:04:02] Remember, these insights are inspired by Jonathan Kahn's The Book of Mysteries. Until next time, may you find strength in the revelation of his love.