Departure of the Groom
Once the marriage covenant was sealed, the bridegroom left his bride to go to his
father’s house to prepare a wedding chamber. He would be gone for up to twelve months.
In John 14:2-3, Jesus said “In My Father’s house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself; that where I am, there you may be also.”
Perhaps a better translation of the word ‘mansion’ in this verse is ‘room’. For in the time Jesus walked among us it was the custom for the bridegroom to build a home for his new bride as an addition to his father’s house. The son would not know when this addition was ready; his father would make that decision. The Bridegroom was not allowed to skimp on workmanship or materials used, all was to be done to ‘code’ as it were. Typically it was at least a year in the making, but was not considered ready until his father gave him his blessing and released him to fetch his bride. That is why Jesus said in Mark 13:32-33, ‘But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father’
Our Bridegroom has gone to prepare a wedding chamber for His bride. It is the ‘chamber’ of our heart. When the Father has pronounced it prepared He will return to us. John 14:3; ‘and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
In Matthew 9:15, ‘Jesus said, “Can the friends of the Bridegroom mourn as long as the Bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the Bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.’
While we wait for the return of our Bridegroom/King, we need to stay faithful, watchful and spiritually alert. This is the hour to pray and fast!
1 Peter 4:7 says, "But the end of all things is at hand; therefore, be serious and watchful in your prayers."
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