A Widow for Three Days

"Thus says the Lord:
“Where is your mother's certificate of divorce,
with which I sent her away?
Or which of my creditors is it
to whom I have sold you?
Behold, for your iniquities you were sold,
and for your transgressions your mother was sent away."
- Isaiah 50:1

"“If a man divorces his wife
and she goes from him
and becomes another man's wife,
will he return to her?
Would not that land be greatly polluted?
You have played the whore with many lovers;
and would you return to me?
declares the Lord.
- Jeremiah 3:1

"Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead..." - Romans 7:1-4

I saw more clearly today yet another reason for the death of Christ.
Israel was in spiritual adultery and had broken the covenant with God her Husband.
And could he take her back? Would not His righteousness be defiled? He held it not righteous for men He had created to take a divorced as a bride. How then, could the bride of Christ be a divorced woman? But the church stood as a divorced woman. She had broken the first covenant; she was an adulteress - ruined among her worthless lovers. And while her husband lived she could not remarry. Therefore, she must be made a widow.

And so her estranged Husband took on flesh, that he might die.
She had broken the old covenant, and so He did away with it...

"This cup is the new covenant in my blood"

And the church was three days a widow.

Then He arose. Israel's husband had died that she might belong to another - to Him who was raised from the dead. He was delivered to death for her sins and raised to life for her justification....and He entered into a new covenant with her.

The marriage awaits. It will be between two who died as one to a broken Old Covenant and live to be forever united under a better New Covenant.

And the rest is too precious for words...