In the Millennium, Apart from Christ and His Bride - the Saints, Will There Be Other People There?
1) Direct Answer
Yes. Besides Christ and His Bride, there will be other people on earth in the Millennium—saved survivors from the nations who enter as subjects of the Kingdom, and the sealed servants of Israel. The wicked dead do not appear until after the thousand years.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- The Bride: Revelation 7:9-17 shows the white-robed multitude; Revelation 20:4 shows them living and reigning with Christ a thousand years.
- The rest of the dead: “But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished” (Revelation 20:5). So the rest of the dead are not present in the Millennium.
- Nations present under Christ’s rule: Jesus promised His overcomers would “rule them with a rod of iron” (Revelation 2:26-27; see also 19:15). There must be nations to rule.
- Surviving nations come to worship: “Every one that is left of all the nations… shall even go up… to worship the King” (Zechariah 14:16-19). That shows mortal people, not the glorified Bride, coming year by year.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- If only Christ and the glorified Bride were on earth, there would be no “nations” to rule and no yearly pilgrimage to worship the King. Yet the Bible says the overcomers rule nations, and surviving nations come up to Jerusalem. Therefore, there will be other people—mortal subjects of the Kingdom—living under the righteous reign of Christ and His Bride.
4) Reinforcing Statement
So, the order is clear: Christ the King, His Bride reigning with Him (Revelation 7:9-17; 20:4), and the rest of th dead reserved for the judgment after the thousand years (Revelation 20:5, 11-15).
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The choosing of a Bride
65-0429E §50
Notice, now. She could not have but one husband, because woman was made for man and not man for woman. That whole five hundred women was just David's wife. It was a type. When Christ sits on the throne in the millennium, His bride will be, not one person, but it will be tens of thousands---the bride, all-in-one. And David had many wives as individuals, but only all of them together was his wife. Like the whole body of believers is the bride of Christ, because it's she, the woman. He was the man. Now, we were made f...
Who is this?
59-1122 §19
Now, they believed His Word to be the truth. So they believed that He kept His promises. So they gathered themselves together and waited outside the gate. And the city went on with their ritualistic ceremonies, the religious worshippers of the city. The unbelievers went about their tasks; the religious people was at the temple doing all their ceremonial worship as they was celebrating something that happened back in Egypt. But the believers were on their toes watching for Him to come. Oh, there were many in the cit...
Future home of the heavenly Bridegroom and the earthly Bride
64-0802 §209
While it's going through the millennium it's going through its sanctifying process, but still must be burned. See? Which the blood redeemed the people, it showed its memorial ... the price is paid that thousand years. But then it has to be cleansed by fire just like you were his delegates of this city---the delegation. So, if you die or if you live, what difference does it make? If He comes today or it comes a hundred years or a thousand years, I'll only rest till my change comes.
Church Ages, part 2: The Patmos Vision
60-1204E §3
Now there's another question here that was given me last evening: "Brother Branham, are the five foolish virgins of Matthew 25 counted as the Gentile remnant? I understand that the five foolish virgins were saved, but have to go through the great tribulation period. Is this correct? If so, what will be their final destination? Could they be the sheep which are divided from the goats in Matthew 25:2 ? Pretty good theologian, according to what... I think it too, that they are the remnant. The sleeping virgin is the r...
Questions and Answers, Part 3
64-0830M §82
Now, the next thing left is the translation of the church, the return of Moses and Elijah, the millennium reign upon the earth with the bride and groom for a thousand years, and then the judgment bar, and then a total annihilation of sin. It'll never be no more at that time. Now, not the... See, the seals never ended time. Time or seasons until after the millennium. No! It'll still be time until after the millennium.