The purpose of this brief study is to explain the meaning of the phrase "marriage of the Lamb" and the significance of this marriage to signal the advent of a new heaven and a new earth. The terminology is demonstrably astronomical/astrological, and the vision fits in with the rest of the visions of John of Patmos.
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