Jesus the Bridegroom: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told

As a Protestant, I loved this. The themes in scripture that are woven into its tapestry from Genesis to Revelation, are, in part, what give the Bible both its authority and beauty. Years ago I read a work by the late J. Sidlow Baxter called The Master Theme of the Bible in which he traced the theme of the Lamb of God throughout the scripture. I reme. Presenting an Ever Clearer Picture of The Jewish Roots of Christianity Mark Every Christian should read this book. This book is an easy read and is hard to put down. You will find the light being shed on subjects concerning the meaning of Jesus words and how they relate and are an integral part of Jewish history. Knowing how all the pieces of the puzzle fit together is but one of the main obje. An Excellent And Insightful Book On A Vital Subject I have enjoyed listening to Dr. Pitre on "The Son Rise Morning Show" and generally find his comments and insights to be very good and helpful. This book is right in line with that. Dr. Pitre writes in a very understandable, easy to follow style. The reader will never "get lost". He begins by showing the rich Old Testam

In Jesus the Bridegroom, dozens of familiar passages in the Bible - the Exodus, the Song of Songs, the Wedding at Cana, the Woman at the Well, the Last Supper, the Crucifixion, and even the Second Coming at the End of Time - are suddenly transformed before our eyes. In this thrilling exploration, Pitre shows how the suffering and death of Jesus was far more than a tragic Roman execution. In Jesus the Bridegroom, Brant Pitre once again taps into the wells of Jewish Scripture and tradition, and unlocks the secrets of what is arguably the most well-known symbol of the Christian faith: The cross of Christ. To be sure, most Christians are familiar with the Apostle Paul's teaching that Christ is the "Bridegroom" and the Church is the "Bride." But what does this really mean? And what would ever possess Paul to compare the death of Christ to the love of a husband for his wife? If you would have been at the Crucifixion, with Jesus hanging there dying, is that how you would have described it? How could a first-century Jew like Paul, who knew how brutal Roman crucifixions were, have ever compared the execution of Jesus to a wedding? And why does he refer to this as the "great mystery" (Ephesians 5:32)? As Pitre shows, the key to unlocking this mystery can be found by going back to Jewish Scripture and tradition and seeing the entire history of salvation, from Mount Sinai to Mount Calvary, as a divine love story between Creator and creature, between