Shekinah Unveiled
Rediscovering the True Bride of Christ
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Although the presupposition that the Church is the Bride of Christ is a prolific dogma which has been widely held to throughout much of church history and is fiercely proclaimed in the twenty-first century by many scholars, ministers, and laity alike as though it were a biblical precept, it actually owes its origins to pagan heresy and mysticism which infiltrated the church over the centuries, and needs to be totally abandoned since it is entirely contradicted by the Scriptures which make clear that it is utterly impossible for the true Bride of Christ to be either the Church or Israel.
The reader(s) may rightly ask the questions, “So what?” or “Why does it matter whether or not the Church, or Israel, or someone or something else entirely is the Bride of Christ?” The answer to these two intrinsic questions is that it matters because the Bride of Christ’s identity affects multiple core doctrines of the faith such as the Imago Dei; Marriage, Sexuality & the Family; Sin; Christology; Ecclesiology; Eschatology; Judgment; Bridal Theology; and Theology Proper; the last of which is the bedrock upon which Systematic Theology itself is founded and therefore is the fountainhead from which all of these other attendant doctrinal categories are derived. Because of this we can observe from the above list of doctrines that the very heart of Christianity is affected by the identity of Christ’s Bride.
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Many Christians believe and have been taught that the bride of Christ is the church, and this presupposition is widely held by scholars, ministers, and laity alike as though it were a biblical precept. Yet this view actually owes its origins to pagan heresy and mysticism that infiltrated the church over the centuries. In fact, the scriptures tell us who Jesus will marry—and it is neither the Christian church nor Israel.
Shekinah Unveiled examines and irrevocably dismantles the ages-old traditions that maintain that the church is the bride of Christ and that Israel was Yahweh’s wife. Author and theologian John Whitman proves, from scripture, who the true bride of Christ and the wives of Yahweh are, and he explains why it matters to know the identity of the bride of Christ.
Knowledge of the true identity of the bride of Christ affects multiple core doctrines of faith—the imago Dei, marriage, sexuality and the family, sin, Christology, ecclesiology, eschatology, judgment, bridal theology, and theology proper. And because the latter is itself the bedrock upon which not only systematic theology but each of these other attendant doctrines are founded, the very heart of Christianity is affected by knowing the identity of Christ’s bride.
About the Author
John Whitman attended Andersonville Theological Seminary, where he received a number of theological degrees: an associate of biblical studies (2011), a bachelor of theology (2012), a master of theology (2013), and a master of divinity (2018). He is currently pursuing his doctor of ministry degree, and he is a licensed expositor of the scriptures who uses his theological and language training to proclaim God’s Word without compromise.