So in the 25th chapter of Matthew, we are told that those wise virgins, who had oil in their lamps, and thus were “ready” to meet the Bridegroom when He came, “went in with Him to the marriage.” And that the Son of Man, or the Lord Jesus Christ is here denoted by the Bridegroom, is evident from its being said immediately after, “Watch, therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of Man cometh.”
The apostle also, in his second letter to the Corinthian Church, 11: 2, says; “"For I have espoused you to one Husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.”
Now in Is. 54: 5, Jehovah saith to the Church, by the mouth of his prophet, “Thy Maker is thy Husband; Jehovah of Hosts is his name." So also in Jer. 31: 32, it is said concerning “the house of Israel,” by which is denoted the church, “They brake my covenant, although I was an Husband unto them, saith Jehovah.” (See also Hos. 2: 2, 19, 20. Jer. 3: 20.)
Thus we find that Jehovah is declared in the Old Testament to be the Husband of the Church, and the Lord Jesus Christ is spoken of in the New as standing in the same relation; He is called the Husband and Bridegroom, and the Church His Wife and Bride. The obvious conclusion, therefore, must be, that Jesus is Jehovah; that, not two, but
