---
title: "The Bride"
category: "theology"
description: "Four weeks on the church as the bride of Christ: betrothed, set beside Babylon the harlot, married at the marriage of the Lamb, and in the city called the Bride."
tags: ["bride-of-christ", "church", "revelation", "dispensationalism", "audience/teaching", "small-groups"]
draft: false
primary_passage: "Revelation 19:6-9"
series:
  cut: topic
  sessions:
    - study: israel-and-church/bride-of-christ.md
      why: "A betrothed bride and a prepared place: what the sources say of Jewish betrothal, and what they do not."
    - study: last-things/the-harlot-and-the-bride.md
      why: "Babylon the great prostitute beside the Bride, and the call to come out of her."
    - study: israel-and-church/wife-of-the-lamb.md
      why: "At the marriage of the Lamb the bride is called His wife: Israel restored, the church married."
    - study: last-things/new-jerusalem.md
      why: "The city called the Bride, coming down to the new earth."
date_created: 2026-10-22
date_modified: 2026-10-22
ai_provider_models:
  - anthropic/claude-opus-5.5
---

# The Bride

**In one sentence:** Christ has betrothed His church to Himself and gone to prepare a place, and
Scripture sets her beside Babylon the harlot until the marriage of the Lamb, so you can live now as
one promised to Him.

The weeks run from the betrothal to the city.

## The weeks

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