Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The Woman Forced to Flee Into the Wilderness, Part 3

We left our seven little men mourning for the death of Snow White. She is so beautiful they cannot bear to bury her in the ground, but instead build a glass coffin for her and one keeps vigilance by her side every day. Miraculously, she does not decay.

Then one day, a prince happens by and sees the glass coffin in the wilderness. He is struck by Snow Whites beauty and loves her. He wants to take her to his kingdom, coffin and all. .

This prince is, of course, Prince Charming. Charmed, I’m sure!

I think we do our young people a little disservice taking sacred stories and turning them into children’s picture story books. Every little girl now wants to be a princess and marry a handsome prince. Every little boy wants a sword and to slay a dragon.

These things are OK in and of themselves. It’s when we overlay these sacred and divine expectations on mere mortals that we start to get into trouble. The beautiful princess is not a real girl. She’s the representation of the Church, whom the Savior refers to has his “bride.” And now we know who the prince is - THE Prince, wonderful, counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Charmed. Enchanted. Once again, not of this world. He is the one who will inherit the “Fairy,” or kingdom not of this world. He is the Bridegroom.

Certainly every girl needs to aspire to be like Snow White, devoted, gracious, humble, virtuous. And every boy must aspire to be like Christ, strong, capable, filled with true love. But these attributes can take a lifetime to develop. When we start looking for a marriage companion we’re in our teens and early twenties. We’re pretty young. And the older I get the younger you all look! Someday I’ll write about ‘falling in love’ with mere mortals and the lie that it is. In the meantime, suffice it to say that adoration belongs to God and God alone.

There is only one Prince Charming, and He is Christ. There is only one Snow White, and she is an institution. The rest of us mortals get sick, look awful in the mornings, do things our spouses don’t like, and occasionally rise above ourselves with God’s help. So to any young person who may be reading this, I encourage you to stop looking for the divine in another person. Get rid of any and all pedestals, grab a normal, good person by the hand, and start running, with both feet on the ground, toward the Celestial Kingdom where Prince Charming and Snow White are waiting to receive you.

Isn’t that what the Book of Revelation is all about! It’s about restoration and salvation and the redemption of Christ.

And it’s about True Love. There is only one who loves truly, Christ. He wrought the atonement because He loves us. This is an unconditional love. Your resurrection is assured. The way of salvation is open to you if you will walk that road. But that is a topic for another day. Let’s finish up with Snow White.

In all our Fairy Tales, only the Prince can awaken Snow White, or Sleeping Beauty. Only he can rescue Cinderella. She stays in obscurity, or in a deep sleep, until he arrives to awaken her. Therefore, only Christ can bring his Church out of obscurity. No one else can do this. When we get to Sleeping Beauty, we will learn that many have tried and failed.

The prince has his servants pick up the coffin of Snow White and carry it on their shoulders. As they travel, these men stumble over a bush. The coffin gets a severe jolt. The bit of apple is dislodged from her throat and she comes to herself. Suddenly, there is the prince. “I would rather have you than anything in the world. Come with me to my father’s castle and you shall be my bride.”

Here it is, the Wedding Supper of the Lord. This is what the millennium is all about. Christ and his Church are finally brought together, never to be parted.

“And they lived happily ever after.” Remember, this statement does not apply to mortal marriage. Marriage is work. The happily ever after is the Celestial Kingdom where we are reunited with our Father in Heaven, whole, complete, pure. Perfect!

So what happens to the vain queen? She thinks her victory over Snow White is complete. Then, one day, she gets an invitation to attend the wedding feast of the prince of the neighboring kingdom. She dresses in her finest and approaches the mirror with her question. She is informed that though the queen is fair, the bride is a thousands times more fair than she. She rails and curses, but goes to the wedding anyway, out of curiosity and is shocked to find Snow White. The prince knows everything about the queen and when she arrives, the prince has prepared a pair of red-hot iron shoes for the queen to dance in until she falls down dead.

Thus comes to an end the whore of all the earth, that great and abominable church that sets itself up with finery, scarlet, gold and every worldly thing (see Revelation, Chapter 17). It’s those red-hot shoes that get her, which the Prince has prepared.

And the earth shall be cleansed by fire!

And there ends the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Next week (finally): Sleeping Beauty: The Apostasy.