And still more. The blessing of a Christian marriage is to be found in this, that a Christian, godly marriage will make the hope of eternal glory in Christ burn in your heart. Heaven is pictured to us as a marriage. Revelation 19 tells us that the marriage of the Lamb and of His bride shall have come. And that will be glory.
Earthly marriage pictures a heavenly and an abiding truth.
It pictures the perfect union of Jesus Christ and the glorified church. And that is why our marriages must pass away when the reality comes. There is in heaven no marriage of husband and wife. Earthly marriages do not continue there. That would make heaven earthly.