What does Abraham's servant getting a bride for Isaac represent?
Abraham's servant obtaining a bride for Isaac illustrates the Holy Spirit's work in this present age, drawing out or calling out a bride from among the Gentiles for the Son, Christ—the body of Christ. It also pictures Christ leaving heaven to call the bride up to meet Him in the clouds.
Les teaches that Abraham sending his servant into a far country, up into Syria, to get a bride for his son Isaac is a beautiful illustration of the Holy Spirit's work in this present age. The Spirit draws out or calls out a bride from among the Gentiles for the Son, for Christ, the body of Christ. Les also points out that Isaac had left the home tent and was out in the field at some distance from home when he met his bride coming from the far country. That is a beautiful picture of how Christ will leave heaven and will call the bride up and will meet Him in the clouds of the air. This illustration relates to the Old Testament program, which had no hint of this church age and had in mind God's program for Israel.
And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
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What does Isaac's meeting his bride in the field picture?
Isaac, after leaving the home tent and being out in the field, meeting his bride coming from the far country pictures Christ leaving heaven, calling the bride up, and meeting her in the clouds of the air.
Why did Abraham's servant go to Abraham's relatives instead of to the Gentiles in the Genesis 24 bride story?
The small point where this analogy breaks down is that Abraham's servant was sent to Abraham's own kinfolk, not to the Gentiles, because the Gentiles as such had not yet been isolated as a distinct group in Scripture.