It is good to see ElShaddai Edwards blogging again, at He is Sufficient. And he has written an excellent post on the marriage of the millennium.

Now the marriage of the month is, I suppose, going to be the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, on 29th April. Here in the UK we are having a public holiday to celebrate – but I will be working, because it is a good day for my current temporary work. I can imagine that some would want to bill this royal event as the marriage of the millennium so far, although I would put forward a different suggestion.

But the wedding ElShaddai is writing about is not that of William and Kate, and it will have no rival in the next thousand years, or indeed forever. It has its similarities: a royal prince marrying a commoner. It is the marriage of Jesus Christ with his church, as described mainly in the Book of Revelation.

ElShaddai links the wedding of the Lamb with teaching on the millennium. For him, the millennium is the time between the announcement of the wedding and the actual ceremony, when the guests are invited and the bride is made ready. For the details read his post.

ElShaddai avoids tying this in with events in the real world. But I suppose this is most easily interpreted with the millennium as the church age, the current age, at the end of which Jesus will return to be with his bride. This would then be a kind of postmillennialism, but without the triumphalism sometimes associated with this teaching.

There is certainly a lot to think about here – but we shouldn’t allow it to distract us too much from our primary task of proclaiming the kingdom of God and inviting people to take their part in the marriage of the millennium.