As I worked on this, I heard the voice in the roar "DO NOT HURT MY CHILDREN!" and He showed me Joel 3:16 "The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel."
Amos 3:8 "The lion has roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD has spoken, who can but prophesy?" The ROAR! The very frequency of its sound wave will cause the vibrations in the wedding glass to exceed the forces holding its crystals together until it finally shatters. In Jewish wedding tradition, the prayerful Breaking of the Glass is symbolic of the hope that your love for one another will be consecrated for eternity. "As this glass shatters, so may your marriage never break.
And so it is with God, the bridegroom. In the Hebrew Scriptures, the image of bride and bridegroom was used to symbolize the relationship between God and the people of Israel. He called His people to faithfulness to His teachings and declared His eternal love for them. This was then later adopted in the New Testament where Jesus was envisioned as the bridegroom sent by God as in Revelations 21:2 "And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband."
And now at long last I understand the beauty of the Lion of Judah paintings. In Jeremiah 12:15 “but after I uproot them, I will again have compassion and will bring each of them back to their own inheritance and their own country. 16 and if they learn well the ways of my people and swear by my Name, saying, “as surely as the Lord lives...then they will be established among my people...”
Because God is good, it does not always hurt when the light goes on.
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