A BRIDE OF YESHUA COMES OUT OF BABYLON
The bride for Isaac was taken from Abraham’s homeland in Mesopotamia (Babylon) and the city of Abraham’s brother, the city of Nahor. In Genesis 24:10 Nahor was the brother of Abraham (Genesis 11:27). The city of Nahor was located in Mesopotamia (Babylon). God’s Bride is seen as coming out of Babylon to the city of God, Mount Zion. God’s call to His Bride is to come out of Babylon and follow Him to the spiritual promised land. In Genesis 24, Rebecca leaves Babylon and marries Isaac and departs to go back to the land that God promised Abraham. In Revelation 18:2, 4, God pleads with His people to leave Babylon as it is written: “And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the Habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird … And I heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues.”
Therefore, the marriage of Isaac to Rebecca who lived in Mesopotamia, the city of Nahor, which is Babylon is a spiritual picture and is prophetic that God’s Bride will be taken out of Babylon, a term for the world’s system, to become the Bride of Christ. He arrives at her town at Evening – Signifying the soon coming darkness (tribulation) before the night.(Day of the Lord)
LOVING KINDNESS AT THE WELLS OF LIVING WATER
The servant does arrive in outside of Nahor at evening with ten camels. Genesis 24:11 He brings the camels by a “well of water” at the time when women (the bride) “go to draw water” (the outpouring of God’s Holy Spirit.)
This is a prophetic spiritual picture of God pouring out His Holy Spirit upon His Bride. The timing of the spiritual latter rain is evening and the world will soon be experiencing its (night) darkest time in history (the tribulation).
He prays: – And he said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and show kindness – Chesed unto my master Abraham … and let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink . . let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou has showed kindness – Chesed unto my master. And it came to pass before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebecca came out …”
The word kindness is the Hebrew word, “Chesed.” The Hebrew word, “ Chesed “ is also translated in other parts of the Bible as “favor, goodness, mercy, and loving- kindness”. This is the same word that described Ruth and Boaz describing her kindness to Naomi and Boaz response to her kindness. The Gentile Brides hallmark and qualification is Chesed. Ruth 2 v 10: So she fell on her face, bowed down to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor Chesed in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?” 11 And Boaz answered and said to her, “It has been fully reported to me, all that you have Chesed done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you have left your father and your mother and the land of your birth, and have come to a people whom you did not know before. 12 The LORD repay your work, and a full reward be given you by the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge.”
Let us look at a few examples of how God will bestow “loving kindness” “Chesed” upon His Bride. In Hosea 2:19-20, God betrothed Himself to His Bride in loving-kindness “And I will betroth thee unto me forever: yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in “loving-kindness = Chesed”, and in mercies. I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shall know the Lord.”
God shows mercy/loving-kindness Chesed to those that love Him and keep his commandments (Exodus 20:6, Nehemiah 1:5, Daniel 9:4) The throne of Yeshua is established in mercy/ loving-kindness Chesed (Isaiah 16:5)
The voice of the Bride is the voice that declares that the mercy/loving-kindness – Chesed of the Lord endures forever (Jeremiah 33:11) Therefore, just as God bestowed loving-kindness Chesed upon Eliezer, the servant of Abraham, by leading and directing his way so that he could find a bride for Isaac, even so, God grants and bestows loving-kindness Chesed upon and toward His precious Bride.
Spiritually, the “well of water” represents the outpouring of God’s Holy Spirit. The Bride of Christ will have the outpouring of God’s Holy Spirit and His anointing upon her life “at the time that women (the bride) go out to draw water.”
The Bible tells us in Isaiah 12:2-3 that God’s people will “draw water” out of the wells of salvation.
John 7:37-39, Jesus tells us that the river of living water is the Holy Spirit.
In Isaiah 44:3 “For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon your offspring.”
James 5:7-8, “Be patient, therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient, establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draws nigh.”
Typology: Revival before the Day of the Lord.
Joel 2:1, 28-29 “Blow ye trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand … and it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.”
In the midst of this mighty outpouring of God’s Holy Spirit upon His Bride, the earth will be experiencing its darkest time in history. In Isaiah 60:1-3 it is written:
“Arise shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.”
