Jesus the bridegroom. We, who love jesus are the bride.
Last page of revelation, 22:17. He spirit and the bride say come. Jesus told the pharisees he is the bridegroom.

A jewish wedding in the time of christ. After the betrothel. The groom departs and goes back to his father's house.he then starts to build a extension onto his fathers house. This will be where they live. It might take a year, when the house-room is complete  he and his friends gather and make their way to the bride,'s house. The procession is loud , they come at niight and wake up the surrounding neighbours,  the bride has been preparing and waiting for the whole year? She expects the groom at any time. The groom snatches away the bride. She is veiled. For a week celebrations take place. Then the bride takes off the veil. They are married. They disappear into their neew dwelling. The celebration carry on.
John 14,2
In my fathers house there are many mansions, if it were not so,i would have told you. I go to prepare a place for YOU. And if i go to prepare a place for YOU, I will come again, and receive YOU unto myself, that where i am, there You may be also.

This world classes jesus as a religion, he is the bridegroom. The father,son and spirit.  We the bride are also trinitarian. Soul.body,spirit.
One family. In love. The bible is a love story between god and man.
If you look at dr zhivago, boris pasternak, the movie. Its quite a brutal tale, it stsarts out decadent, revolution, war, murders, a rape, torture,executions,prisons, icy landscapes, but fundamentally its s love story about a doctor and his nurse. 
Many atheists focus on the imperfect world, the outragious massacres and conflicts in the bible. They do not understand the plot.  Redemption and love. Out of world history comes millions of people who love jesus. The bride. Jews,chinese,americans,russians, all nationalities in love witth jesus. If you do not love jesus, you are not a christian.
Out of an imperfect corrupt world will come a bride, people who will populate heaven and eternity. Jesus has spent nearly 2000 years preparing our chambers and future. This is the perfect end.
YOU can be part of it, or you can remain an ungerminated seed. Dead inside. God calls out to every man, those that never heard his message will populate the millenium kingdom.
An imperfect world is messy, complicated. But the finished article is perfect in gods sight. 
We are in the final stages its midnight and the bridegroom will be here sooon. We have waited a long time. Yyou can be a late comer, there is no barrier, only your own jaded fears. Drop the lead and accept the love of god. Or you will be the left overs. The dead seed that never awakened.

The story of Ruth is of a Gentile bride she marries the kinsman redeemer Boaz. This is the story of the church. Its a template for salvation.
The story of hosea who buys back his **** wife.
These flag in the air chapters show us that god is forgiving. He wants us, knowing our pasts. God is very much like us. He hates and loves. He is not a statue.
People fear him, because he is not controlled. The sons of cain, need to control life, they build cities, industry, war machines, controllin and manipulating population by law and order, politics, religions. Finance.  Cain offered god the work of his hands. Able offered god the lamb, the template of salvation. Cain was ego, he knew a better way. His way. You talk like cain. God is your enemy. Until you defect, you will be at war with god. Thsts not smart.