The promise of the Father - מ
The normal mem מ is formed by joining two letters at the top: the kaf כ, representing the Son of God, and the zayin ז, representing the bride.
The significance is that the Father chose the bride ז for the Son כ. He arranged the marriage. As a metaphor it can represent the Father, or the covenant made with man since the beginning (the promise of the Father).
The Father
John uses the mem מ as 'the Father'. [1] He explains the metaphor of the consonants in heaven 'shamayim' שמים as the Father מ, the Word ר, and the Spirit ש. He does not speak of them in order, but in priority. Nevertheless we know the the shin שrepresents the spirit be cause it 'hovers' over the face of the waters' [2]: The word for heaven ש-מים contains the word for waters מים.
One of the most important choices one can make is the choice of a spouse. How is it that the Son of God permitted his Father to make it for him?
The Father-God is that invisible someone who permeates all. He is like the water to the fish and the air to the bird: We will never see him. The Son-God is the very same God who chose to be made of the same stuff we are so that he could reveal himself and teach us. They are the same God. [3] The Son is the exact representation of the substance of the Father. "I and [my] Father are one.". [4]
Bride chosen
The theme of the bride being chosen by the Father starts with Adam and Eve.[5] God not only chose Eve, but formed her for Adam.
Abraham (by his proxy servant) chose Rebekah for Isaac. [6]
Judah chose a bride for two of his sons: Er and Onan. [7]
You are chosen by the invisible God to be a companion to his visible manifestation. God wishes to dwell with men. [8] [9] [10]
Promise of the Father
The arranged marriage happened in the beginning. Remember how we said that the meaning of Hebrew words is made up from the combined metaphor of its letters? Because the letters are true, the combination of the letters are true.
The word for 'in the beginning' is bereshith בראשית. Hidden within it is the covenant 'berit' ברית with man 'aish' אש at the center. The lie of the world is that God is an angry God who is just looking to squish anyone who has fun. But from the beginning he has chosen you to be his companion. He has made a covenant with you. He knows your flesh would make you a god. That's why the symbol for the bride, the zayin ז, has the name spelled out זן meaning prostitute. He did not choose you because you are good. He chose you to make you good.
References
- ↑ 1Jo 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
- ↑ Ge 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
- ↑ Heb 1:3 Who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
- ↑ Joh 10:30 I and [my] Father are one.
- ↑ Ge 2:21 ¶ And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
- ↑ Ge 24:3 And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
- ↑ Ge 38:6 And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name [was] Tamar.... Ge 38:8 And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
- ↑ 2Ch 6:18 But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
- ↑ Ps 68:18 Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, [for] the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell [among them].
- ↑ Re 21:3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God [is] with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, [and be] their God.
