26/11/2021
The Bridal Call June 1917
A message by Aimee Semple McPherson.
THE SOFT, SWEET, soul-stirring call of the heavenly Bridegroom for the bride, which has long been echoing down through the corridors of time, will soon be over, and the Bridegroom will have taken His bride away.
Today the call to the individual members who are to help complete this bridal body is still going forth. The invitation to the marriage of the Lamb is still extended. The soon-coming King is calling you to be ready to meet Him. Can you not hear His voice, as sweet as the rushing of many waters, calling to you?
He is saying, “Rise up, My love, My fair one, and come away.”
Oh, precious voice! How our hearts are stirred at its bidding!
“Rise up, My love, My fair one, and come away!”
Rise up from sin and sinning and come away to Calvary’s cross where Jesus’ blood can make the vilest clean. Rise up from doubts and fears and come away into the light of faith. Rise up from the chains of bo***ge and come away into freedom. Rise up from indifference, from slumberings, and halfheartedness. Rise up from a life of flirting with the world and dallying with the flesh, and come away to the chambers of the King!
Come away to a life of wakefulness and watchfulness, a life of separation and love, unto the soon-coming Bridegroom.
O dear ones, can you hear the bridal call?
Then rise up and come away. The King is coming! The words ring out from hearts bursting with the love of His appearing. The King is coming!
All heaven is preparing for that greatest of days, when they shall sing the song: “
The marriage of the Lamb hath come, and the wife hath made herself ready.”
All nations unconsciously are rushing to fulfill the last signs that are to immediately precede His coming for those who have heard and answered the bridal call.
The King is coming! The stars sing together, and the hills rejoice. The waves cry aloud, the rocks quake and tremble before the majestic, all-conquering approach of the King of Kings.
Lift up the hands that hang down. Strengthen the feeble knees. Dry the tear-dimmed eyes. Take courage, broken heart. The King is coming soon.
Soon the last bridal call will be heard, when the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and for the last time we shall hear the words, “Rise up My love, My fair one, and come away.”
Oh, glorious day! When those who have obeyed the call of yesterday and have risen up above sin and self shall rise up from the earth to meet Jesus in the air. Oh, what a rising!
What a coming away to be forever with the Lord.
Dear ones, are you ready if the King should come just now? Have you answered the bridal call?
Can you not feel His hand knocking at the door of your heart? Can you not hear His voice as He speaks? Oh, rise up and come away!
There is no time to waste or lose. He is near—even at the doors.