Hold Fast Until He Comes GR 819

In the New Testament the church is presented as the bride of Christ. And as the bride of Christ, the church is to maintain its purity and single-minded devotion to Christ in anticipation of the time when we shall be joined together in marriage to Him. Understanding that as what God pictures us as His people to be, and noting that His purpose is that we be a people devoted to Him in purity, we can understand that the program and plan of Satan will be to violate the bride, to corrupt her, to mar her purity and devotion to Christ and thus detract from the clarity and beauty of her testimony.