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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Seals 8: The Sixth Seal
63-0323 §42
...we are right close into that hour now. It could be at any time, see, because the church is just about ready to take its flight. But remember, when these things happen, the bride won't be here. Just remember, the bride's gone. She don't have to go through any of it. This is a time of tribulation of purification of the church. It's put upon her for her to go through it. Not the bride---He takes his sweetheart out of the way. Yes, sir! He has done redeemed her. See, it's kind of a... That's his own selection, his own...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 7:E-95
To understand this subject even more clearly it will now be wise to approach it from the standpoint of the church through the ages. Up until now we have been thinking in terms of the removal of the names of individuals. Now we want to consider, not the individuals, but the groups represented in the church. To do so we will liken the church through the ages to the wheat plant. A grain of wheat is planted to the end that a single grain of wheat will reproduce and multiply itself through a certain process during a cer...
The invisible union of the Bride of Christ
65-1125 §124
God had to open up those Seven Seals. Not in a denomination. I have always been against it. But out of the denomination He might take a Bride. Not a denominational bride, He couldn't do it. It's against His own Word. He opened those seven mysteries in there, that shows forth, brings forth, those things that have been hid since the foundation of the world, might be revealed in the last days to sons of God. They brought that forth now before the people that they see it. There you now ... to this undenominational brid...
Questions and Answers, part 1
54-0103M §88
Mr. Bohannon down here said to me, said, "I couldn't read that Revelation." Said, "There was the bride standing on the Mount Sinai." Said, "There was the bride up yonder in heaven." And said, "There was the bride, and the water ... dragon spurting water out of his mouth to make war with it." I said, "Mr. Bohannon, the thing of it is, you've got the wrong thing, calling it the 'bride.'" I said, "The Jews will stand on Mount Sinai, the hundred and forty-four thousand. The bride, correctly, was in Heaven with Jesus. A...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 7:E-62
The Promise To The Overcomer Revelation 3:5, "He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment: and I will not blot out his name out of the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His holy angels." "He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment." This is actually a repetition of verse 4, wherein is made reference to the few who have not defiled their garments. We used to have a saying years ago that no doubt was taken from this verse. It was, "Keep your skirts c...