QUESTION:
What is God's Bride Honeymoon?
ANSWER:
“And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” [Revelation 21:2]
“Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife.” [Revelation 21:9]
“We then see that when these last of Israel have been joined in love to the Lord, and the enemy has been destroyed, God will prepare His holy mountain, His new Garden of Eden for the bride and His and her attendants for the thousand year Honeymoon upon the earth. As Adam and Eve were in the garden and did not finish out the thousand years, now Jesus our last Adam, and His Eve (True Church) will fulfill all the plan of God.” [Church Ages Book 41]
“But Christ's little Virgin, Word, Flock, Bride, don't care for his knowledge. She keeps, him, free of him. What is... Now let's talk about Her, a minute. She waits for Her Lord and His Millennium Honeymoon, right, with the Word Groom, as She is the Word Bride.” [The God Of This Evil Age, Jeffersonville, IN 65-0801m]
“When Christ sets on the Throne in the Millennium, His Bride will be not one person, but it'll be tens of thousands, the Bride, all in One. And David had many wives, as individuals, but only all of them together was his wife. Like the whole Body of believers is the Bride of Christ, 'cause It's She, the woman. He was the Man. Now, we were made for Christ. Christ wasn't made for us.” [The Choosing Of A Bride, Los Angeles, CA 65-0429e]
“And at the end there will be one Lord Jesus, and His Bride many, singular. You get it? There was one David on one throne, one king (after God's Own heart) with five hundred wives. Jesus sitting on His Throne, hallelujah, in the Millennium, with a Wife; like it was at the beginning, created out of the earth, by the hand of Almighty God, in the resurrection, of many members.” [Marriage And Divorce, Jeffersonville, IN 65-0221M]
“The Millennium is not the new heavens and new earth. There will still be sin after the Millennium. The Millennium is a type of Noah going in the ark, and carried over, and brought Ham and them on the other side. And sin even come out of the ark. See? But Enoch, the translated one, was a type of the Bride that went up, not the one that was carried over. So sin will still be on the other side of the Millennium, but not during the Millennium. See? During the Millennium is peace. See? But sin will be dealt with the other side of the Millennium, and then time fades out.” [Questions And Answers, Jeffersonville, IN 64-0830m]
“Now, the next thing left is the translation of the church, the return of Moses and Elijah, the Millennium reign upon the earth with the Bride and Groom for a thousand years, and then the judgment bar, and then a total annihilation of sin. It'll never be no more at that time. Now, not the... Cease... The Seals never ended time. Time or seasons until after the Millennium. No. It'll still be time until after the Millennium.” [Questions And Answers, Jeffersonville, IN 64-0830m]
“The Bride, when she's taken from the church, then the church age will cease. Laodicea goes into chaos; the Bride goes to glory; and the tribulation period sets in upon the sleeping virgin for three and a half years while Israel is getting its prophecy; then tribulation sets in upon Israel; and then comes the battle of Armageddon which destroys all things. And then, the Bride returns back with the Groom for a thousand years, the Millennium reign; after that comes the white throne judgment; after that comes the new heavens and new earth and the new city coming down from God out of heaven. Eternity and time blends together.” [Questions And Answers, Jeffersonville, IN 64-0830e]
“Now, there you are, to the question awhile ago. See? At the judgment seat... Jesus, the church, the Bride, was raptured, went up into glory, and was up there and was married, returned back to the earth, and lived a thousand years.” [Questions And Answers, Jeffersonville, IN 64-0823m]
“We will have our glorified body right here on earth, eating, drinking, building houses, and--and--and living just like we do now for a thousand years. It's a--it's the Honeymoon of the Bride and Groom.” [Questions And Answers, Jeffersonville, IN 64-0823e]
“The time of the rapture will be the awakening of the dead and the get-togethering of the living, for--with the living, for the rapture to take place. Now, but the Bride... Now, see, one of them is a rapture way back here before the Millennium. And when the earth burns up is back here after the Millennium and after the white throne judgment. See? The Saints will be camped upon the breadth of the earth when Satan comes up around the beloved City and God rains fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them.” [Questions And Answers, Jeffersonville, IN 64-0823e]
“The church, the lukewarm, the anything outside of the elected Bride will go through the tribulation period. They will not raise in the first resurrection: "The rest of the dead lived not for a thousand years," just the foreordained, predestinated, elected Bride, God's own elections. "Who is it, Brother Branham?" I don't know? I can't tell you who it is, but I know it's going to be there, 'cause the Lord said they would. See? They are the ones that'll go up from the tribulation, but the rest of them will go through the tribulation, go down, and everything will be killed before the Millennium. Then the--the righteous shall come out in the Millennium and live a thousand years. And after the thousand years, then the great white throne judgment comes, and then the dead, both right and wrong is raised. And the books are opened, and the Book of Life was open; and the saints, the Wife and the Husband, set and judge the world. And there it comes to pass the saying: "And He'll judge all nations with a rod of iron." All nations shall stand before Him there, and He'll judge them with the rod of iron. He'll separate the sheep from the goats and say to the goats, "Depart," and the sheeps, "Come, ye blessed of My Father." [Questions And Answers, Jeffersonville, IN 64-0823e]
“The one who goes in with Jesus now. How do you get into Him? By one Spirit; and He is the Word. You become part of Him. What part of Him are you? The Word that's living of this hour, recognizing. You'll walk out with Him in the Millennium. That's when you walk out. Notice, not a new generation. A transplanting! “Help us, Lord. If there is one here... that's called to this Wedding Supper of the Lamb, this thousand years of Millennium reign, and to then enter into the City after the Honeymoon is over. The Millennium is merely the Honeymoon. Then She, the Bride, takes His... Bridegroom takes His Bride Home. It's Hers. Her Bridegroom; His Bride. Oh, He's gone to prepare a House, since He's become engaged. May we be true to Him Who is the Word, for He is the Word. Regardless of how others try to sass us, keep us away from It; Lord, draw me nearer. “For sometimes I grow homesick for Heaven, and its glory I There shall behold; what a joy that will be when my Saviour I see, in that beautiful City of gold!” The future Home of the Groom and Bride! He is coming back... [Blank.spot]... to the Wedding Supper; it's going to be three and a half days. Then return again, in the Millennium, on our Honeymoon. And then He--He's going to bring the City into view. Like the bridegroom taking the bride to her surprise, how the little bride stands there in awe as she looks at her future home! And by faith, today, Lord, we see it yonder. It'll be right here on this earth. You promised it.” [The Future Home Of The Heavenly Bridegroom And The Earthly Bride, Jeffersonville, IN 64-0802]
“Then the Bride will come to be with the Bridegroom, and the Bridegroom with the Bride; and then the great Millennium, after the whole world is destroyed by atomic power. And there will be "a new heavens and new earth," shall live forever.” [The Feast Of The Trumpets, Jeffersonville, IN 64-0719m]
“Remember, all that Life will be gathered right into the Grain, for the resurrection, but the stalk must be burned. The rest of it; the husk and all, must be destroyed, and it will be. Don't trust in your, them denominations. You stay in the Word, the Life, God and His Masterpiece. Then what is it in the Millennium? Christ and His Bride, back in the garden of the Millennium. Amen!” [The Masterpiece, Jeffersonville, IN 64-0705]
“Everything travels in a three, with God. God is perfected in a three. First coming of Christ, to redeem His Bride; second coming of Christ, to receive His Bride; third coming of Christ, with His Bride, to rule in the Millennium. Everything runs in a three.” [The Voice Of The Sign, Denham Springs, LA 64-0321e]
“All these things are attributes of God, just so that in the--the end, the Bible said, Jesus said, "You will know that I am in the Father, the Father in Me; I in you, and you in Me." It's God becoming tangible. Your own wife, you and your husband, is just a shadow, a negative of God and His Wife, the Church.
See, it's just God's attribute being displayed in shadows and types, like the Old Testament was to the New. See? Then in the end, it all winds up, God tangible. God in Christ, tangible, made flesh, dwelt among us. And in that great Millennium to come, God in the form of Christ, sits upon the throne of David; and the Church, His Bride, Husband and Wife together.” [Sirs, We Would See Jesus, Dallas, TX 64-0304]
“Heavenly Father, we thank Thee, this morning, for the Blood that makes us brothers. We thank Thee for the Son of God Who gave His life, that we might be one with Him in this great Kingdom upon the earth, the Kingdom of Heaven that's to be established. "We're looking for that glad Millennium day, when our blessed Lord shall come and catch His waiting Bride away," the little Bride Tree. He is that Tree that was in the garden of Eden; the Bread of Life. So is His little Wife a tree, the Bride Tree of the last days. Where, everything has tried to bring, but the great powers of God prunes the branches off, that the fruit might ripen. Grant, Lord, that we can be included in that. Give us Eternal Life.” [Paradox, Bakersfield, CA 64-0206b]
“Then, we can see that the Marriage Supper is at hand. Now, if I never see you again, remember, the Marriage Supper is at hand. And then the Kingdom according to the promise is ready to be issued in, the great Millennium, the taking up of the Church, and the destroying of the wicked. And the world, under the Sixth Seal, to be purified by volcanic, to take all the corruption and sin of the world and to mold her out again, and bring forth a bright new Millennium for the age that is to come. When, we see all these, great threefold revelation: God in Christ; Christ in the Church; the Kingdom coming. Adam and Eve redeemed back to the Garden of Eden, in the representation of Christ and His Bride, and then the Kingdom is going to be restored according to His promise. Praise be to God! Now, by the revelation of the threefold mystery, the secret, and by the personal vindicated Word by His original Headship!” [Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed, Jeffersonville, IN 63-0728]
“In the time of the Millennium, it's Israel that's a nation. The twelve tribes is a nation, but the Bride is in the palace. She's a Queen now. She's married. And all of the earth shall come into this city, Jerusalem, and shall bring the glory of it in there. And the gates will not be shut by--by--by night 'cause there won't be any night. See? The gates will always be open; and the kings of the earth (Revelations 22) bring their honor and glory into this city, but the Bride is in there with the Lamb.” [The Sixth Seal, Jeffersonville, IN 63-0323]
“God makes Hisself perfect in three. He makes Hisself perfect in "Father, Son, Holy Ghost," three offices of one God. He makes Hisself perfect in "justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost," come perfect, works of grace. He makes Himself perfected in three comings: first time, to redeem His Bride; second time, to receive His Bride; third time, in the Millennium with His Bride. And everything is perfected in three's. And seven is the worship number of God. God is worshipped in seven, completed, now perfected and completed.” [Blasphemous Names, Jeffersonville,, IN 62-1104m]
“Where is that one that's going to sow that seed for that end-time church? Where is that ripening seed, that promised Elijah? And immediately after his days shall the great tribulation set in and burn the earth. And then at the return of the church and the Bride, the Bride and Christ shall walk out upon their ashes in the Millennium, when the earth is purified by fire. And there they shall reign. And the heathens that's never heard the Gospel shall be raised in that time, and the sons of God will be manifested. If he's to reign, he's got to have something to reign over; he's got a domain. "And they ruled and reigned with Christ," and Christ ruled with a rod of iron the nations. Then the Gospel... Then the manifested sons of God with the authority just like He had when He was here, see, there will come the Millennium in that reign, see, upon the ashes.” [Questions And Answers, Jeffersonville, IN 62-0527]
“When the Tabernacle is erected, the resurrection has come, the Jews has returned, Christ and His Bride has come, the Jew, the 144,000 are sealed, the Millennium has taken place, there will be an anointing when the most Holy Place will be anointed, the Holy, holiest of holies, and the most Holy, when... The most Holy Place is a sanctuary where God lived between the Cherubims, and this time Christ will set in the most Holy Place with the anointing upon Him. And they'll need no sun there, for the Lamb in the midst of the City shall be the Light. The sun will never go down in that City, as old Uncle Jim used to say. And it never will, because Christ will be that Light, the anointed One. And the King will come and take His throne for one thousand years to reign.” [The Sixfold Purpose Of Gabriel's Visit To Daniel, Jeffersonville, IN 61-0730e]
“Now, after this the Bride appears. After the seventy weeks, the Bride appears in Revelations the 19th chapter, the 1st and the 16th verse. She arrives with her Bridegroom, the mighty King. Oh, my. I don't know whether we're going to get it all or not. Just got it so... Let's just read part of this anyhow. Here's where the Bride will come, after this. See? After the Millennium sets in, then Christ comes back with the Bride. Right. One to sixteen in the 19th chapter... “And after these things...” After this tribulation, after the Woes, after the Seals, after the Plagues, after the casting out of Satan, after the setting up of the Millennium.” [The Sixfold Purpose Of Gabriel's Visit To Daniel, Jeffersonville, IN 61-0730e]
“But He will not be on earth now, the Messiah will not be on earth until the Millennium sets in. See, see? 'Cause the church, we're caught up together to meet the Lord in the air. He never comes to the earth. He catches His Bride away.” [Questions And Answers, Jeffersonville, IN 61-0112]
“And we find out that the coming of Christ is in a trinity. He came first to redeem His bride, comes next to receive His Bride, comes next with His Bride, as King and Queen, to reign through the Millennium. You know that. Everything is in a trinity. And we're in a trinity, we have a mortal body, a glorified body, or, I mean, a celestial body, and then a glorified body. Three stages brings us back to our perfection again like in Eden.” [Abraham, Yakima, WA 60-0803]
“Now, fill them with the Holy Ghost while they're in the room. Give them power and stand them at the gate where we're watching for the coming of that glad Millennium day when our blessed Lord shall come and catch His waiting Bride away. We're watching for it, Lord. May they be numbered with that group. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.” [Who Is This, San Jose, CA 59-1122]
“He's on His road now, I believe, left the ivory palaces, coming down through to receive His Bride. Then we are caught up in the air to meet the Lord. Is that right? Then we go in for the wedding like Isaac did to Rebekah. And then, when they came out from the wedding ceremony he was possessor. And then when Jesus comes again with His Bride, to reign on the throne of David, His Father, in the Millennium, He will come with Her then as King and Queen.” [Redemption By Judgment, Jeffersonville, IN 54-1114]
“There'll be three advents of the Lord Jesus: The first, to redeem His bride, when He died for her; Second, to receive His bride, when He comes for her; Third, with His bride, for the Millennium. And there'll be three advents. And one of them is passed, and the signposts are showing that we're near the second advent of the Lord Jesus. We've tried everything. We've had all kinds of "Big Four" meetings and--and so forth. And the world... Well, communism still sweeps, and the people's minds unsettled and we're just at the--we're at the climax, that's all. We're just a bound to come to the end.” [The Great Coming Revival, Chicago, IL 54-0718a]
“There's three comings of the Lord, you know that. There's three of everything in the Scripture. Three is God's perfect number: Threes, sevens, twelves, twenty-fours, forties, fifties. But three times He came: once to redeem His Bride. He comes the next time, we meet Him in the air, to receive His Bride. He comes the next time in the Millennium with His Bride. That's after the Wedding Supper is over. We return back for the Millennium.” [The Angel Of The Covenant, Phoenix, AZ 54-0301]
“Jesus returned with ten times ten thousand, ministered to Him. You remember him saying, "Is it not a small thing for you to take... or an uncommon thing to take your business and your troubles to the law, when know not that the saints shall judge the earth?" The saints judge the earth. Hallelujah. I think of that, my. To see Him coming yonder with the Blood-washed after the Millennium, the redemption and the redeemed of all ages standing in His Presence, the Blood-washed Bride.” [Questions And Answers, Jeffersonville, IN 54-0103m]
Bible References: Revelation 21:2, Revelation 21:9
[Answer provided by Bro. Ken Andes, Minister, Blaine, Washington, USA]