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preparing bodies for burial. After Christ’s crucifixion we are told that His body was

prepared for burial and myrrh is especially mentioned.
I think it is significant in the description of this event found in the book of John that

it repeatedly states that Christ’s body was taken away and prepared. The Bride is a remnant

portion of the body of Christ, and, as is seen in the book of Esther, a preparation with oil of
myrrh is an important part of her being made ready.

John 19:38-40

And after these things Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Yahshua, but a secret
one, for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Yahshua;

and Pilate granted permission. He came therefore, and took away His body. And

Nicodemus came also, who had first come to Him by night; bringing a mixture of
myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight. And so they took the body of

Yahshua, and bound it in linen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of
the Jews.

Myrrh, for the virgin bride candidates of the king, represented death as well. The one

chosen to be the bride of the king was to live for the king’s pleasure. She was to respond to
his summons with quick obedience. No longer was her life her own, she belonged to

another. Essentially, she was to die to her own life. In the same way the scriptures tell those
betrothed to Christ that they are no longer their own, “For you have been bought with a

price” (I Corinthians 6:20).

Death is the first step of preparation that those who would become the Bride of Christ
must go through. Salvation is not an end. It is a beginning. Our salvation was purchased

with the blood of Yahshua. The purchase price was exceedingly high, but it was paid. We
are now no longer our own. We must die to our own desires, goals, and ambitions. Christ’s

life must become our life, His will our will, His desires our desires.
This death process doesn’t come all at once, nor in a single moment of time. The

flesh’s desire to seek after self is firmly entrenched in our being. It takes considerable time

just to identify all of the ways in which we have sought our own welfare. Some forms of
selfishness are very subtle. The scriptures teach us that even our righteousness, that which