Passover = Proposal?

[blackbear4110]

One of my favorite songs is "Beloved" by Tenth Avenue North. Mike Donehey (lead singer) did a video journal about the song, explaining the meaning behind the lyrics (I actually watched the video journal first before I had ever heard the song. Then I went and listened to the song afterward, falling in love with it because of the meaning first explained).
The video was really interesting, and Mike gave an explanation about the Passover supper Jesus had with His disciples, saying that by asking His disciples to drink the wine and eat the bread, He was essentially asking them to marry Him (and then we are later given an example of the church and body of believers being the bride of Christ).

I tried to do some looking into that, but I haven't found anything that supports or disproves this. Does anyone have any links or material of some sort that talks about the customs of Jesus' day, whether it proves or disproves Mike's view his song is based on??
I would love to do some further study on this.
Thanks!

ps
Since I'm a newbie I can't post links, but you can find the video journal on YouTube.

 

[Davy]

Hi blackbear4110.

Mike Donehey's explanation about the Passover supper Jesus had with His disciples, saying that by asking His disciples to drink the wine and eat the bread, He was essentially asking them to marry Him, is basically correct.

In the Parable of the marriage feast, in Matthew 22:2-6, Jesus said: "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son. And he sent out his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding feast, and they were unwilling to come. Again he sent out other slaves saying, 'Tell those who have been invited, "Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and my fattened livestock are all butchered and everything is ready; come to the wedding feast."' But they paid no attention and went their way, one to his own farm , another to his business, and the rest seized his slaves and mistreated them and killed them." (NASB)

To put it simply. The "kingdom of heaven" is referring to God's kingdom, and the "King who gave a wedding feast" refers to God himself. "A wedding feast for his son," refers to Jesus Christ, the Son of God. In another illustration, Jesus said: "Then the kingdom of the heavens will become like ten virgins that took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom." (Matthew 25:1) Jesus here refers to himself as the bridegroom who is about to be married. The bride is not a single person but a composite person who represents the Nation of Israel, as Jesus was first of all sent to preach to the lost sheep of the Jews, God's Nation. Unfortunately, as in the Parable of the marriage feast, they did not want to form a bond with Jesus, in fact, as a nation, the vast majority did not want anything to do with him, and eventually killed him. However, those who did believe Jesus was the Christ, the Son of God and followed him, like his apostles and who joined him in the passover meal, Jesus made a special covenant with them to become kings and priests with Christ in heaven to rule over the earth. As Revelation 5:10, (NASB) states: "You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God; and they will reign upon the earth." All those who belong to this new covenant group become Jesus' heavenly bride class. So taking the emblems of wine and bread do symbolize being part of this bridal class. So Mike Donehey is correct.

However, here is an interesting point: If all those who are part of the bridal class become a kingdom of priests and reign upon (or over) the earth, who are they ruling over, if everyone goes to heaven? This is referring to the 1000 year reign of Jesus and his bridal class over the earth and mankind who live on it after Armageddon. That is until at the end of that millennial reign when Satan is once again let out to test those who survive at the end of this millennial rule. (Read-Revelation 20:1-8)