Bromley: ―Is the Bride in Revelation the Church or Israel?
“None other class of saved ones (besides the Church) could, with any appropriateness, be termed the Bride, the Lamb’s wife, because of the following considerations: ―
1. Israel is always represented as the married wife; the Church as the espoused one; the Bride only as the Lamb’s wife, after she is no longer on earth. Israel is the wife under divorce, and put away in the meantime, and to be received back on her repentance; and,
2 The word Lamb (αρνιον) is representative of rejection, and only the Church could suffer with Christ, and, as His affianced bride, occupy His place as rejected in this world. No other could be arnion’s (the rejected Lamb’s) wife; for in no other age was there a rejected Lamb to be rejected with.
3. Also as a third thing, the false bride—the harlot—is surely the harlot of this Christian period, not a Jewish adulteress; and if she be the Christendom harlot, then the true bride must be the chaste Christian woman, or there would be no contrast; for what is the false fornicating Christendom a travesty of save of the pure Church of God, that shall come out of its awful defection, as “the Bride, the Lamb’s wife”?
B. W. R, Hints on Daniel.