Prepare Yourself and Be Ready: Word from A Wise Teacher

By Carol Frye and Mary Jo Sagan

Now is your chance to prepare yourself and get ready! You may ask the question, "Get ready and prepared for what?"

The answers lie in the nine teachings of this book that will help you to grow in the knowledge of your future. It will influence your choices for the future. The first teaching is about the upcoming wedding that will take pla

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Release date: Mar 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9781685560966

Carol Frye

Carol Frye originated these lessons. She grew up in the church and was a teacher and an author. She taught knowledge and love for the Word to all ages. This is the last of her many sessions. She went to be with her beloved Savior on May 4, 2020.

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to Carol Frye’s mother, Naoma Averyt, who shared her faith with her daughter.

Train up a child in the way he [she] should go, And when he [she] is old he [she] will not depart from it (Proverbs 22:6).

Carol composed the following song, My Mother’s God:

Verse 1

When just a child, my mother told me of God’s love:

She said, For me, He died upon the tree.

Though days have passed and some have said that God is dead,

My mother’s God still walks and talks with me.

Chorus

My mother’s God is just the same today.

He has not changed, no matter what men say,

His word is true, and He still cares for you,

My mother’s God still lives, and He’s mine too!

Verse 2

Though times have changed since first I learned of mother’s God

I’ve found this true He never fails His own;

He’ll be my guide until this life on earth is o’er

And then I’ll be with God forevermore.

Introduction

Prepare yourself and be ready, you and all your companies that are gathered about you; and be guard for them.

Ezekiel 38:7

Have you ever had someone in your life, outside of your family, who poured their amazing love, knowledge, and guidance into you? A person who was a gift to you? A person who showed you that God is real? A person with God’s anointing? A person who taught you that God loves you and has a great plan for you? If not, you do now.

This book is designed to teach and prepare you for that great plan. The anointed teacher’s name is Carol Frye. She has now gone to be with God. God took her to be with Him on May 4, 2020, at the age of eighty-seven. She embraced God’s love at the age of five. She started teaching children as a teenager, then taught the young married and spent the rest of her life teaching hundreds of women. Carol always backed up what she taught with God’s perfect and true Word. God will always have the last word, for He is true to Himself. Carol loved sharing God’s love!

This was Carol’s last study. She wanted women to be ready for the extravagant return of Jesus Christ. It applies to the whole body of Christ, male and female alike, so that all will be ready. Carol had a Pre-tribulation viewpoint which has been discussed by many scholars over the years that will show up in this study. Whatever viewpoint is held (pre, mid, or post-tribulation), it all comes out to the same ending. As you read, expect to learn of God’s holy futuristic events and that of His son, Jesus Christ. They have a fantastic plan that involves our participation to be ready and waiting. Don’t be left out, be in the know: ready and expecting His return.

This book is co-authored by Mary Jo Sagan, who has had the privilege of assisting Carol in her studies for over thirty years. It is with loving obedience that she transcribed Carol’s work to meet the body of Christ. It is with hope and prayers that you find yourself in a closer walk with the threefold Godhead.

Lesson 1: Wedding Preparation

I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness, And you shall know the lord.

Hosea 2:20

Save the date! This has become a popular custom to send a notification to reserve a certain date for an upcoming celebration, especially weddings. The bride, the groom, and their families want to make sure that the invited guests are able to join them in the wedding celebration. They want each invited person to know that they are important and that they want them to attend and join the wedding celebration. They would like each invited person to make a commitment to join them on a certain day, at a certain time, and at a certain location. This is the same for the upcoming wedding in heaven. What wedding? you might ask. The wedding of all weddings! That is the purpose of this book so that every person is informed, prepared, appropriately dressed, and ready for the grand celebration. We will begin our pursuit in the last book of the Bible: the book of Revelation. John, one of Jesus’ disciples, is writing. He is also the author of the fourth Gospel, the book of John. This is the only book in the sixty-six books of the Bible that declares that the reader will be blessed by reading and hearing the Word of God. This is God’s message. Besides reading and hearing, we need to pay attention, take it to heart, and respond to it:

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants—things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John, who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw. Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near.

Revelation 1:1–3

Then a voice came from the throne, saying, Praise our God, all you His servants and those who fear Him, both small and great! And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, and the sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia! For the Lord God Omnipotent reigns! Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready. And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. Then he said to me, Write: ‘Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!’ And he said to me, These are the true sayings of God.

Revelation 19:5–9

John is writing about a miraculous time in heaven as he hears the Omnipotent (all-powerful) God speaking of a time to come. God wants each of His children to be aware of this futuristic event. It is to be a great time of rejoicing as the wedding is about to happen. We learn the bride is perfectly clothed and ready, cleansed and full of God’s glory. All who are invited and attend the marriage supper of the Lamb will be joyful and blessed. So we see that the host who has prepared the Wedding Banquet is God Himself, and the wedding takes place in heaven. The bridegroom is Jesus (the Lamb of God), and the bride is the church, Jesus’ righteous, pardoned followers. God has shown John such an amazing, beautiful, and exciting futuristic celebration.

Next, we will read part of Paul’s God-inspired letter that he wrote, while imprisoned in Rome, to the church at Ephesus. He gives a model for marriage by showing the sacrificial love that Jesus has for His church:

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Ephesians 5:22–31

So what does all this reveal? Paul is saying that Jesus is the husband, the bridegroom, and the head of the church. The church is the bride. Jesus is the Savior of the body of believers because He gave His life as payment for the wrongdoings of every human being. They have been forgiven, pardoned, and no longer guilty. Father God instructs the bride to be submissive to the husband and to Christ. The bride can do this because the bridegroom has His bride’s best interests in mind. He is trustworthy, so believers can trust Him completely. He is protective over His bride. In short, He has her back. Jesus tells earthly husbands in verse 25 to follow His example by loving His wife as Jesus loves the church, giving all that He had to give, even His last breath. Jesus, as the bridegroom, paid the price for His bride. He makes her His beloved. Verses 26–27 reveal that Jesus cleanses the bride to be sinless and holy. He makes the bride ready for her magnificent eternal future. Verses 28–31 explain that the bridegroom loves, protects, and nourishes His cherished bride, the church. She is part of His very being, and that the bride and the bridegroom are one. His Word has given us a glorious, beautiful view into His wonderful plan.

Jesus often taught the people by telling a story called a parable. A simple definition is an earthly story that His listeners could relate to that had a heavenly meaning. Another explanation is a short story that reveals some truth or moral lesson. Let’s look at an interesting parable of the Wedding Banquet in the Gospel message of Matthew:

Jesus spoke to them in a parable and said: The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who arranged a marriage for his son, and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding; and they were not willing to come. Again, he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and fated cattle are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding."‘ But they made light of it and went their ways, one to