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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Revelation, Chapter 4c Throne of mercy and judgement
61-0108 §44
Now, these elders sitting upon the throne with these crowns ... now the fifth verse, we're going to start: And out of the throne proceeded lightnings... ^^thunders^^... voices: and there ^^was ^^seven lamps ^^on ^^fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. Oh, I love this! Don't you? Oh, I just feel like my coat fits me, you know. I just... Oh, I mean in a spiritual coat, of course, you know. All right. "Out of the throne." Let's speak of this throne now for a few minutes. This was not a th...
Scriptural Signs of the Time
64-0410 §5
...octrine. I don't do that. I respect my brothers. But if you'll forgive me, let me just inject this just a moment. I---for myself personally---certainly I believe the church goes through the tribulation period; but not the bride. The bride goes home. See, God brings a bride out of a church, like He brought a nation out of a nation in Egypt, see. The bride... That's the remnant of the woman's seed. The elected---that's his business where He puts the pattern. But the remnant is what's cut off from the pattern. The wom...
Seals 3: The First Seal
63-0318 §51
Now remember, when He come, He come with his Bride. The Wife ministers to Her Husband. And ten thousand times ten thousands of thousands ministered to Him. Judgment was set, and the books were opened, and another book was opened which was the Book of Life. Not the Bride at all! She has done gone up and come back, and standing there in judgment of those generations that refused the gospel message. Didn't Jesus say "The queen of the south shall rise with this generation in her days of the judgment, and will condemn t...
Future home of the heavenly Bridegroom and the earthly Bride
64-0802 §117
or after time has been fulfilled. All sin is gone---taken away at the millennium, at the great white throne judgment---a type of the Holy Ghost. After the world is on fire and baptized, its baptism of holy fire from heaven; all sin is gone; all germs is gone; all devils is gone; all temptations is gone; all evil is gone (type now). Then what does God do? He can sit upon the earth (see), because all sin's gone.
Future home of the heavenly Bridegroom and the earthly Bride
64-0802 §63
..., Noah was a type of the remnant that's carried over---not the translated bunch. Enoch, one man, went in the rapture before the flood came, showing that the church does not go into the tribulation or anything around it! Enoch was translated---one man! Oh, the church may be a number but the bride is going to be a very small group---that'll make up the bride. Now, the church may be a great number, but the bride, you see... Compare eight with one. Eight times less will be the bride than the church. "And if the righteo...