Will the Bride Go Through the Great White Throne Judgement and Be Judged?
1) Direct answer
No. The Bride will not stand at the Great White Throne to be judged. She has already passed from judgment into life and will be with Christ in that hour.
2) Scriptural explanation
- John 5:24: “He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
- Romans 8:1: “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.”
- Revelation 20:6: Those in the first resurrection “shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years,” and “on such the second death hath no power.”
- Revelation 20:11-15 shows the Great White Throne after the thousand years, where the dead are judged.
- 1 Corinthians 6:2-3: “Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? … we shall judge angels.”
- Revelation 3:21: The overcomer sits with Him in His throne.
3) Simple clarifying logic
Now notice, the White Throne comes after the Millennium. By then the Bride has already been caught up, united to the Bridegroom, and has reigned with Him a thousand years. The Scripture says the saints will judge the world, not be judged with the world. The Bride’s sins were judged at Calvary; she stands justified. She may appear at the judgment seat of Christ for reward and placement (2 Corinthians 5:10; 1 Corinthians 3:13-15), but not for condemnation at the Great White Throne.
4) Reinforcing statement
It’s not the Bride on trial there; it’s the rejected Word judging the unbelieving. The Bride is with the Judge.
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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.
The End-time Sign Seed
62-0319 §12
That's what the bride has done with the world---united with the world with her creeds and things, and denied the Word of God, saying, "Days of miracles is past. There's no such a thing as the baptism of the Holy Spirit." And where's she at now? Divorced. Just ... Jesus' bride had done the same that Jehovah's bride did, and the same thing that Adam's bride did. Yes, just exactly. The Bible said, "... the mouth of three witnesses let every word be established." There's three churches, three brides. All of them done t...
The choosing of a Bride
65-0429E §64
Now, look at the so-called bride chosen by man, and compare the spiritual to the natural of today. A modern Jezebel bewitched by her Ahab, Max-Factor beauties and everything. Look at the church: the same way, but a prostitute to the Word of the living God. Big denominations, big buildings, big money, big salaries---all sold out. Men standing in the pulpit, endorsing that that's all right, and let them get by with it. Just deceit, that's all. Truly a blind Laodicean church age, just exactly what the Bible said would...
Future home of the heavenly Bridegroom and the earthly Bride
64-0802 §136
That's not just a story; that's the truth. That's what God said. That's what He's promised. That's what the bride goes to. Even the desert, He said, shall blossom, be a rose. Satan, sin, and sinners has gone forever. It's all done; blended into eternity and all that was perverted... That great archangel that set there one day, Satan, that did all this evil will be destroyed. Remember, the Bible said if that soul won't do as He said do, He will even destroy that soul. But you see, He can't destroy Himself and remain...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 7:E-84
...hey could not qualify for the first resurrection they must come up in the second which is a resurrection unto judgment. The ones who qualify for the first resurrection (the bride) are not in the judgment. John 5:24, "Verily, verily I say unto you, He that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life (that is, the believer is already the recipient of eternal life which he has in his possession now) and shall not come into condemnation (shall not come into the judgment, is what it really...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 9:E-51
Yes sir. The church is no longer the "mouthpiece" of God. It is its own mouthpiece. So God is turning on her. He will confound her through the prophet and the bride, for the voice of God will be in her. Yes it is, for it says in the last chapter of Revelation verse 17 "The Spirit and the bride say come". Once more the world will hear direct from God as at Pentecost; but of course that Word Bride will be repudiated as in the first age.