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Processional: The Marriage Supper
Oil on Canvas
84" x 96"
This monumental sized oil painting depicts a wedding processional symbolic of Christ's return for His church. Jesus used the traditions of the Jewish marriage ceremony which were well-known to the people of His day as symbols to describe His Second Coming.
After the betrothal, it was the father of the groom who decided when the groom’s preparations were sufficient and when the day and the hour would be when the groom could go get his bride. The procession would happen at night, and the friends of the groom would run through the street proclaiming, “The bridegroom is coming! The bridegroom is coming!” All during the time of the groom’s absence, the bride had spent in preparation for the wedding day.
The 5 wise virgins described in a parable of Jesus are seen with their lanterns, prepared for their Lord’s return. The groom’s friends announce His return. The wine glass is broken, symbolizing a covenant that cannot be changed again. Easter lilies are in full bloom, and roses are thrown in celebration.
Unlike the time when the couple became engaged and the groom went to the house of the bride to ask for her in marriage, this time the groom met the bride in the street, not all the way to her home, and took her back to the father’s house where the great wedding feast was to take place. Likewise, when Jesus returns, he meets His bride in the air, not quite at her home, to take her back to His Father, to Heaven, where the great Marriage Supper will someday take place, when all believers will be taken to the presence of God.
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