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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Jehovah-Jireh, part 3
64-0404 §44
What'll take place one of these days? They're going to say, "Now, you know, here we are over in the tribulation period. I thought that the church was to be raptured up before the tribulation period." That's the truth---not the church; the bride. The church goes through the tribulation period; but not the bride. No, sir. She's redeemed. She has nothing to be purified by---she's already pure. The Holy Spirit's come into her and purified her, and took away all the filth and glom of the world. And she believes that Wor...
The Seal of God
54-0514 §95
...e service to me. That sounds like an old-fashioned, Holy Ghost outpouring to me. Them people had been somewhere; they knew what to do when they seen the Lamb sitting on the throne. And one of the elders ... said unto me, What are these that are arrayed in white robes? and whence cometh they? Now, you knowed all the Jews, but where'd these come from? "All kindreds, tongues, and nations." Watch. And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest ... (I just don't know.) And he said unto me, These are they ... (that had that, I g...
The choosing of a Bride
65-0429E §66
They'd say: "That was a Jewish fable for years ago. Our church has the way." Wretched, miserable, blind, naked, and don't even know it. What a... And the Bible said that that's the condition that they would get into. How could a true prophet ever miss seeing it? I don't know. Drifting right into all of our churches everywhere, just look at it---just in a modern trend. The old whore and daughters of Revelation 17 giving to the poor, blind, miserable people her doctrine of theology, contrary to the Word of God. And t...
Revelation, Chapter 4c Throne of mercy and judgement
61-0108 §85
Now, these tribulation-period saints that come up, had went through great tribulation. The church will not go through the tribulation! Do you see? They was already in glory? And here's the tribulation saints, the sanctified ones that had... being it's mine and your fault, they had never heard the Word. If they heard it and rejected it, they went on to hell. They was cast out into outer darkness because they rejected the Word. But if they had never heard it, God's just. Tribulation period comes to them. Now notice j...
Questions and Answers on Hebrews, part 1
57-0925 §20
Like Mr. Bohanon said to me one time, said, "Billy, anybody would try to read the Revelations would have nightmares. Why," he said, "here's a bride down here on earth, and the dragon spurting water out of his mouth to make war with her." And said, "Then the same time that the bride is standing as the hundred and forty-four thousand" (Jehovah Witness doctrine) " on Mount Sinai. And at the same time the bride's in heaven." No, no, you're mistaken. There's three classes of people. See, that is, the rejected Jew, and t...