Those that were dead still bear the hideous fatal wounds and marks of their death. They are not healthy glorious beings strumming harps... they are, in fact, a sorry lot. Some have a sword or an axe buried in some part of their anatomy. Some have been cleft in twain.
In a normal wedding ceremony, public vows are pronounced affirming love and fidelity. The words spoken before a gathered assembly are overwhelmingly positive and uplifting. Even the passing references to negative possibilities—“for better or for worse”—are couched in terms of respect and commitment. A wedding is a happy event.
In contrast, the wedding vows given at the Marriage of the Lamb are not happy at all.
Here, Yahweh and Yeshua paraphrase the 29th chapter of Deuteronomy, a curse-hurling “covenant” (marriage oath) that the twin gods make with their chosen 'bride':
"All of you are standing today in the presence of the Lord your God to enter into a covenant with Son of the Lord your God, a covenant the Lord is making with you this day and sealing with an oath, to confirm you this day as his son's bride, that he may be your husband. … Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the Lord our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. … The Lord will never be willing to forgive them; his wrath and zeal will burn against them. All the curses of the Tribulation will fall on them, and the Lord will blot out their names from the Book of Life. The Lord will single them out from all the peoples of the Earth for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law. … It is because this people abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of All, the covenant he made with them when he took them up to Heaven. Therefore the Lord’s anger burned against this land, so that he brought on it all the curses of the Great Tribulation upon them."
God’s covenant with his people is not sealed with a kiss: it is clinched with a curse.
Yeshua himself reaffirms these vile vows:
"Thus saith the Son of God, Cursed be anyone who does not heed the words of this covenant, which I commanded when I shed my precious blood upon the cross, saying, Listen to my voice, and do all that I command you."
The food at the wedding is chalky - bland, almost inedible, for the inhabitants of Heaven have no frame of reference for the Earthly culinary arts.