The parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15:11-32 was manifested in the Church during the seven church ages. As the prodigal son prematurely wanted to do his own thing with the inheritance (Luke 15:12), so the antichrist spirit crept its way inside the Church, causing it to misuse the original apostolic Gospel that was given to it. The result of the son doing things his own way without his father’s blessing was that he wasted his inheritance and lost consciousness that he was the son of a rich and forgiving father. So the early Church, in falling away from its first love (Revelation 2:4), went from depth to depth to depth, and wasted what it had been entrusted with. It came into a state of spiritual amnesia under Nicolaitanism (Revelation 2:6), Balaamism (Revelation 2:14), and the Doctrine of Jezebel (Revelation 2:20), losing consciousness of what God’s original purpose was for it at the beginning of the ages.
In going from depth to depth, the prodigal son found himself feeding swine and eating pig food (Luke 15:15-16) after wasting his money on harlots (Luke 15:30). Likewise, the church was reduced to a state of disarray, having wasted itself by mixing with the harlotry of the false church, called “that woman Jezebel!” in Revelation 2:20. Rather than enjoy the high-quality food bountifully available in his father’s house, the son found himself without money in a famine, and in desperation found work feeding pigs and eating their food. So a mighty famine for the truth (Amos 8:11) prevailed during the Dark Ages, and the church found itself eating denominational pig food in a feeble attempt to stay spiritually alive.
But one day whilst feeding the pigs and eating their scraps, the son remembered that he had a father who would welcome him back and pull him out of the condition he had sunk into. The parable is a story of redemption, to bring a lost fallen son back to his original position. The father knew that his son was an attribute of himself, even as God knew that the elect during the seven church ages were attributes of Himself in need of redemption.
The breaking of the son’s spiritual amnesia and the restoration of his mind and thinking began under the message of Luther’s day, and would continue on under Wesley and Pentecost, reaching its full conclusion under the prophet’s message. It was a progressive restoration and a progressive revelation in the church ages of Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea. The son thought that he would return to his father as a servant (Luke 15:18-19), but the father received him back as a son. So the church thought of itself as simply a servant of God, but at the endtime, the revelation of the Marriage of the Lamb would come (Revelation 19:7), making known to the elect, that not only are they sons and daughters of God, but are part of the Marriage of the Lamb, being members of the Bride body.
As the son returned back, his father, seeing him a long way off, hurriedly ran out to meet him and embraced him (Luke 15:20), and put on him the best robe, a ring on his finger, and shoes on his feet (Luke 15:22). So the church, as it was coming back into the original Word image under Luther, Wesley, Pentecost, and the last days message, the Father Himself descended from Heaven (Revelation 10:1) with an open Book in His hand (Revelation 10:2). To show His children their names in the Book, to robe them with His Spirit and adopt them or place them back into the position He had in His mind of them before the foundation of the world. The father brought his son up into a higher understanding, a higher revelation, calling him no longer “church,” but “Bride!”