Makerere Full Gospel Church presented an Easter Production; a play titled ” The Bride & Groom Ajja,” today April 4th, 2021.
The play represnted the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, which seems not much pronounced in peoples’ hearts.
It is always announced by various preachers, but many are not bothered. This time, in the play Ajja, the preacher simply tells them Ajja( meaning He is coming) and they all wonder, who is coming? In the end, they are caught up in sin when it is too late.
Ajja starts with a cast of 24 snow white dressed singers ( who represent the 24 living creatures that surround God on His throne , praising the Holy of holies.
The play is set in a background of restaurant, swimming pool, Spa and lounge and a hotel, which is named Glorious Hotel, where The Bride and Groom finally ushered in. It is a story of what is happening in the world; people are not taking serious the scriptures. Most people listen to preachers, but, instead they opt to act comedy skits and mimic the preachers.
In the Gospel of John, John the Baptist speaks of Jesus Christ as the bridegroom and mentions the bride. He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: thus my joy therefore is fulfilled.
The congregation watching AJJa in the church on Easter Sunday
The separation of the two opposed spiritual kingdoms, Satan’s and Christ’s, is signified by the rejoicing of the multitude in heaven at marriage supper of the Lamb (Revelation 19:7-9). This is in contrast to the wicked city in which the voice of the bride and bridegroom is no longer heard (Revelation 18:23).
So we understand that the bride of Christ is a figure of his kingdom or called out people which he, the Lamb, “purchased with his own blood”(Revelation 5:9-10,cf Acts 20:28,Colossians 1:13).
Within a lengthy lament over the wicked “Babylon” we notice this significant statement: “And the voice of the bridegroom and the bride will no longer be heard in you”.
On the surface, this statement is just a metaphor suggesting the loss of joy and celebration in the fallen empire. However at a deeper level it represents exclusion from the joy of fellowship with Jesus the Lamb, and his bride. This is the apalling consequence of wickedness.
