Is There Going to Be Preaching During the Millennium and to Who?
1) Direct Answer
No. There will be no Gospel preaching for salvation in the Millennium. The door of mercy is closed by then. The last preaching before that age is to Israel during the tribulation by the two prophets who seal the 144,000. In the Millennium Christ and His Bride rule; the Word goes forth from Jerusalem as law and judgment, not as an altar call.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- The close of mercy: “He that is unjust, let him be unjust still… and he that is holy, let him be holy still” (Revelation 22:11). Jesus also said when the Master shuts the door, those outside cannot enter (Luke 13:25; see also Matthew 25:10–12).
- The last prophetic ministry to Israel is before the Millennium: the two witnesses preach 1,260 days, turning the hearts of Israel, and the 144,000 are sealed (Revelation 11; compare Romans 11:25–27).
- The Millennium itself is a reign, not an evangelistic campaign: “They lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years… they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years” (Revelation 20:4–6). Ruling with “a rod of iron” shows government, not Gospel invitation (Revelation 19:15; 2:26–27).
- Kingdom instruction, not conversion calls: “Out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem… and he shall judge among the nations” (Isaiah 2:3–4; Micah 4:2). That is the King’s Word administering righteousness over nations.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
Preaching is for repentance while the Blood is on the mercy seat. Once the door is shut and Christ takes His throne to rule, destinies are fixed. The Bride is glorified; she needs no preaching. The 144,000 were already sealed under the prophets. The nations that are spared are governed and taught the King’s law, but it is not a call to salvation—judgment and peace are enforced by the reigning Word.
4) Reinforcing Statement
Now is the day of salvation. The Millennium is the rule of the King and His Bride, not another chance to respond to the Gospel.
Ask a Follow-up Question
What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
Reconciliation through fellowship with God
56-0120 §28
Men ought to take consideration of these things. People... We walk around here on the streets here in Sturgis and all other cities of the world, as if we were going to live here forever, not knowing what time God will require our soul in a spur of a moment. Oh, we should take inventory and check up quickly. And when we see the time a coming... One night this week, or the Sunday afternoon, I want to speak on The Junction Time, and prove that these great signs and wonders that you see taking place now is only the ind...
Questions and Answers
54-0515 §145
Now, it's just like my foot; one of them say, "I'm going this way," the other one say, "I'm going back this way." Now, what are you going to do? The hand said, "I'm going to go up," and the other one's going around this way. What kind of a shape is the body going to get into, see? But, now, if the mind here says, "Foot, Move forward, both of you. Hand, you go with them. Head, you stay straight. Arms, you do the same," everything walking in harmony. Now, when I get there, I haven't used my arms. Now, the foot's done...
Abraham's grace covenant
61-0317 §60
how they sat there. Now wait. What's He doing? He's showing to Abraham this ... what He's going to do to the ... Abraham's seed. Now what was he on the road? After Abraham ... after he'd been justified, sanctified, filled with the Holy Ghost in types and shadows, and had been placed, then He came and He was giving a sign that the end was at hand. He come down to destroy the wicked, sinful world of Sodom. Is that right? Now remember, Jesus said (Do you believe Him?) ... Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, s...
The resurrection of Lazarus
53-1122 §12
Now there's postmillennium, premillennium, no millennium. If you say, "Well, I don't believe in any at all." That's all right, we're still brothers. We're brothers just the same, but I just kind of believe there's going to be that reign. That God ... I wish I had time to get into it, I talk on it this afternoon, how that He unfolded, and then folds right back again. How that God unfolded Him before the beginning of time, how He unfolded Himself out of great something that you'd see nothing, brought it into the Logo...
God making His promise
56-1209A §59
Someone, years ago when I first started preaching, they said, "Billy, you preach that and your church will be tore up." I said, "Any church that's tore up by old-fashioned gospel preaching ought to be tore up." That's right. That's exactly right. I said, "I'd preach it, if I have to lay on my stomach and drink branch water and eat soda crackers every day of my life and preach to four pillar posts of the church." I'd rather do it and tell the truth and have favor with God than preach to ten thousand people and eat f...