[00:00:00] Welcome to Faith in Focus, from the Book of Mysteries by Jonathan Kahn, the Bride and Groom in the Marriage Chamber. I was thinking of the wedding celebration, I said. We left at the beginning, but it went on. Yes, said the teacher, for seven days. I would have loved to have seen some of it.
[00:00:24] That celebration is long over, he said, but there was another bride, the one you saw when I spoke of the Kala, and right now she's in the midst of her seven days. Would you like to see it? My answer was, of course, yes. So we journeyed to the tent village where the celebration was still in full bloom. It was evening when we arrived. We followed the sound of laughter and singing and made our way to the celebration.
[00:00:51] The Bride and Groom were inside a festive-looking tent made of thin white fabrics. The light inside the tent caused their shadows to appear on the tent walls. There were others with them, their family and friends, but only the silhouette of the Bride and Groom could be seen through the tent wall from where we were standing. What's happening? I asked. The Bride and Groom are surrounded by celebration, and yet are also to themselves,
[00:01:20] alone in the midst of the celebration. Up to this point, they've only seen each other in the midst of other things, mediators, rituals, families, villages, bridesmaids and groomsmen. But now, for the first time, they're sitting in each other's presence, and everything around them fades into the background. It's a picture of the end. Of the end? At the wedding celebration, when the Bride and Groom dwell in each other's presence,
[00:01:50] when the Bride sees the Groom with no more mediation. Up to then, we will have seen Him through other things, through His blessings, through His creation, His people and His working in our lives. But then, we will see Him without mediation. As it is written, In heaven there will be no temple, for God Himself will be our temple. And there will be no more need for the sun to give light,
[00:02:20] for God Himself will be our light. Then it will be as if it was only Him and us, only Him and you. Then you will see Him as He is, and always was, face to face. And everything else will fade away into the background, just the Bride and the Bridegroom, you and the one for whom you were brought into existence, alone together, as if for the first time,
[00:02:49] you and God in the Bridal Chamber, and nothing else. The Mission. Today enter into the Marital Chamber and dwell there with your beloved, you and God alone, and nothing else. Song of Solomon 1-4 Take me away with you, let us hurry, may the King bring me to his chambers. The friends, we will rejoice and delight in you,
[00:03:18] we will praise your love above wine. Song of Solomon 2-14 O my dove in the clefts of the rock, in the crevices of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet, and your countenance is lovely. 1 Corinthians 13-12 Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror, then we shall see face to face.
[00:03:46] Now I know in part, then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. Revelation 22-4 They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. Under that Hapa, thank you for joining me on Faith in Focus. Remember, these insights are inspired by Jonathan Kahn's The Book of Mysteries. Until next time,
[00:04:14] may you find strength in the revelation of his love. He is a father. Go, go, go, go, go. Thank you.