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?
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The Feast of the Trumpets
64-0719M §75
...ecumenical council of the world churches, the spirit of antichrist, upon both of them, bringing them to the slaughter, just like they did the other, in an hour to call the bride. How? Loosed in the ecclesiastical church, spirit. Loosed upon what? Not upon the denominations, upon the bride! But here you would get it; the bride will not go through that time. The Bible says not. The church will, but not the bride! Can't you see it? Ministers, can't you see that, brethren? You say the church has to go through the pers...
How can I overcome?
63-0825M §37
And now, he said, "How you going to type that? If that bride goes forth, goes up before she goes through the tribulation period..." Said, "I got Scripture that shows you that the church is in the tribulation period." I said..." "Just read the sixth seal. That's all. She's right there under the tribulation period." But find out just before that, the bride's done gone. She's in glory at that time; she has no purification. See? "He that believeth on Me has everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation or the j...
Questions and Answers, Part 4
64-0830E §48
QUESTION: Will the prophet of Malachi 4 be the one to call out the Gentile remnant of Revelation 7:9, even though they go through the tribulation period? No, no! After the Revelations 7, is where he seen the 144,000 sealed, and after that he saw coming up, coming back was that great number which no man could number which was the bride. It will have... Malachi 4 will be finished and the bride taken up, and then the ... this group of Elijah and Elisha return back to the earth for ... the church to go through the trib...
Abraham restored
61-0211 §41
Now remember, there is three classes always at the judgment. We find out the bride comes back with Christ. In Daniel, ten thousands times ten thousands came with the ancient of days. The judgment was set, and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which was the book of life. See, the sleeping virgin come up for the judgment. And the book of the ungodly was opened, and He separated the sheep from the goats. But the raptured church come back with Him. Jesus comes three times. He came first to redeem his...
Seals 6: The Fourth Seal
63-0321 §44
Now, we had symbols, and we've probed at it, and done very good sometimes, see. But we know it's moved right on. But now, in the last days we can look back and see where it has been. And then it's supposed to be done there at the end of the church age, just before the rapture. How anyone can get the church going through the tribulation, I don't know. But ... what's it got to go through the tribulation for, when it hasn't got a sin? I mean the ... I don't mean the church; the church will go through the tribulation....