The Book of Revelation is an exceedingly mysterious and symbolic text; and I have never been convinced by any particular interpretation of its meanings.

It seems like a multi-referential code, understandable to an initiate of the time, no doubt; but whose ‘key’ has been (to a significant extent) lost. Consequently, guesswork is required, and results will be tentative…

Reading through its latter parts today, I was struck that the references to the Bride of Christ and the Marriage of the Lamb – which are usually taken to be wholly symbolical of Christ’s union with the City of God, the New Jerusalem, The Church, the Righteous or some such entity; may also have a literal meaning of an actual marriage to a specific woman.

Some of the detailed language seems to imply this:

19: 7… his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

From the perspective of Mormon theology, marriage is associated with the fullness of divine status; and it seems possible that the marriage being referenced here might also be the final coming of Jesus Christ into full divinity equivalent to his Father; that is with the fullness of creative potential including the capacity to have spirit children…

Tentative… but I suppose I am always ‘on the look out’ for such references to the marriage of Jesus Christ – since it seems impossible that he (among all men, of all men) would not be married…

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