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On Friday April 29,2011, according to the mass media the “wedding of the century” took place.  Prince William married the lovely Kate  in a  glitz-and-glamor display  that cost an estimated  $34 million. The simple wedding gown  carried a price tag of $434,000.  And the two
wedding cakes rang up a bill of $80,000. As TV commentators gushed in typical fashion, the world witnessed the  make-her-an-honest-woman  wedding of  two very famous fornicators,
who had been unashamedly  living together in sin, in  defiance of God’s Holy Scripture (in what some
in the media called the “royal shack-up”).   (God, who never changes, or adjusts His commands to “modern times”, calls it  a sin to be living together as an unmarried couple.)   Such a visible couple should have made the correct choice of living an exemplary public life, knowing full well the young people influenced by their actions.  No amount of Bible verses read in a wedding ceremony substitute for  repentance, which should now be taking place.  Naturally,modern “sophisticated” people reject the word and concept of sin, but according to Isaiah, God says “My ways are higher than YOUR ways ” (Is. 55:9).     I Cor. 6:9 is pretty easy to understand as well , regarding God’s very serious view of  sin – “do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators,
nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, will inherit
the kingdom of God.” (If anyone disagrees with this verse, he can take it up
with God, but I can’t think of any debate that God ever lost !)     As
always, there are two ways of looking at things:  1.) The world’s way (I wouldn’t recommend that way, it leads to unfortunate
short and  long-term  consequences) and 2.)  God’s way ( I HIGHLY
recommend looking at everything through the lens of God’s Word ).   At any
rate, the gushing media was quite incorrect when they dubbed  this event  “the wedding of the century”.   The
true wedding of the century is yet  to come
and all  so-called “royal” or Hollywood  weddings will pale in comparison.   At Mt. Sinai, God proposed to His
bride.   –“ Then Moses went up to God,
and the LORD said, “This is what  you are
to tell the people of Israel: ⁴ ‘You yourselves have seen what I did
to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. ⁵
Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will
be my treasured possession. ..you will be for me  a holy nation.’ These are the words you are
to speak to the Israelites.”  (Exodus 19)
   Israel  (the mixed multitude  who had  left Egypt behind) listened to Moses and
accepted God’s proposal  --“The people   all
responded together, ‘We will do everything the LORD has said.’ So Moses brought
their answer back to the LORD.”   We must
remember that’ Israel’ does not just refer to Jews, but also to the wild
branches – Gentile Believers – grafted into the olive tree of Israel and
thereby comprising the Commonwealth of Yisrael. So Israel became betrothed to God, and now we  prepare ourselves as we await  the royal wedding .”Let us be glad and
rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his
wife has made herself ready. She has been given the privilege of wearing fine
linen, dazzling and pure." (The fine linen represents the righteous deeds
of the saints.)”( Rev. 19:7,8) About the reception we are told:   “Blessed
are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb. These are the
true words of God.”  Rev. 19:9.  Sorry William and Kate, I’m happy for you,
but  the true, and ultimate “wedding of
the century” is still to come.   Unfortunately, not everyone will receive an
invitation, as we can see from the  I
Corinthians  passage above (neither
fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,
will inherit the kingdom of God).  Many
people will be disqualified by their defiance of God’s Word and their unholy
living.  But, for those who get to attend
this great wedding and  the wedding
supper, those who are the Messiah’s bride,  they will be glad that they viewed  this earthly life through the lens of God’s
Word, and walked in obedience  according
to His righteous standards.