Who (or what) is the "Bride of Christ"?

[eHuman]

I don't know what translation you are using, but I don't know how much clearer that it can be than that.

The Hebrew lexicon based on KJV. (BDB and strongs)

The phrase "am married to you" is ba'al - to have dominion over, to marry, to rule over, to possess, or to own.
Not always meaning marriage, but always meaning dominion over.

Yes, and He called worshipping other gods adultery--again an allusion to His marriage to Israel.

Adultery is to marriage is what worshipping another god is to God. I get a different allusion, also supported by God's reference in the same book (as linked above) where He says He is a father to Israel. The allusion is, "It is like the Jews are married to God so don't commit adultery". As opposed to, "We are married so don't... When was the wedding? the feast? the consumation?

Not a big issue, another area we don't see eye to eye on.

All of that aside, I understand our relationship to Christ as His bride here on earth now, and in Heaven later.

What is the relationship of the Jews as the bride of God here on earth and then in Heaven?

 

[chimney55]

Adultery is to marriage is what worshipping another god is to God. I get a different allusion, also supported by God's reference in the same book (as linked above) where He says He is a father to Israel. The allusion is, "It is like the Jews are married to God so don't commit adultery". As opposed to, "We are married so don't... When was the wedding? the feast? the consumation?

Not a big issue, another area we don't see eye to eye on.

You're right. We don't see eye to eye on this. The Hebrew lexicons that you consulted gave you "to marry" but you prefer to use a different meaning. As far as the ceremony, etc, customs were different in the time of Abraham and the time of Jesus. God formed an everlasting covenant with Abraham and his seed through Isaac and Jacob. It was a 'one-sided' covenant in that Abraham did not have to promise to do anything. At the time, they did not do the big marriage feasts and, as far as consummation goes, you do realize this is a "picture" of God's relationship to Israel--just as the marriage of the church to Christ is a "picture" of the marriage relationship.

All of that aside, I understand our relationship to Christ as His bride here on earth now, and in Heaven later.

What is the relationship of the Jews as the bride of God here on earth and then in Heaven?

God told Israel that because of her infidelities that He would send her out of her land. But that He would take her back. She didn't even have to repent. He was doing it for His sake, not for hers, so that His name would be known in all of the nations. She came back into the land in 1948 in unbelief but she will still suffer for her adultery. Until she recognizes her true love and turns back to God and recognize that He DID send the Messiah for them and they rejected Him.

 

[Saintscruiser]

Amein, Chimney!