NT Text: Revelation 19:7-9
OT Source(s):
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Longitudinal Theme (Marriage and Bride)
Anchor Text: Ps 45:6-7 — Your Throne O God
Significance: "For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready... She was given clothing of fine linen, bright and pure" (Rev 19:7-8) consummates the royal-wedding scene that Psalm 45 — the Psalter's only wedding psalm — had set in motion: a divine King (Ps 45:6, "Your throne, O God"), a summons to "rejoice and be glad," and a bride led to the king "all glorious... her gown embroidered with gold... in colorful garments... with joy and gladness" (Ps 45:13-15). The connection is a thematic echo within the Marriage and Bride longitudinal theme, not a quotation: Psalm 45 supplies the royal-bridegroom-and-adorned-bride template, and the divine-vocative address of v. 6 identifies the King as one who is more than human — fulfilled in the Lamb who is worshiped as God (Rev 19:4-6, 10). The escalation is from one Davidic wedding to the eschatological marriage of the slain-and-risen Lamb, His bride now arrayed not in gold of Ophir but in "the righteous acts of the saints" granted to her. The telos is mutual gladness made final: the King anointed "with the oil of joy" (Ps 45:7) is the Bridegroom-Lamb at whose marriage the redeemed are summoned to "rejoice and be glad," so that the everlasting wedding shows Christ not merely as foretold King but as the desirable Husband whose joy over His bride is her endless satisfaction.