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AFTER THE MILLENNIUM
Pastor Charles Holmes
05-10-2009m
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.2_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0823E
1010-Q-284 284. Question: Brother Branham, where will the Bride be when the earth
explodes and burns up? Will it be in a place like the children of Israel were in Goshen when the
plagues fell? Will the Bride be on earth while this takes place? If so, where? And will the Bride
all be in one place at the time of the rapture?
The Bride, when the earth explodes... 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. All right. Now,
that's Scripture.
1042-Q-322 Brother Branham, I would like to know about the millennium. Is it after the
marriage supper, or--or is it on earth, all about it. I do--don't understand about it.
Well, brother or sister, it's hard for me to understand it, myself. But only thing I can say is this:
that the marriage supper comes before the millennium.
1045-233 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.
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.ON.THE.HOLY.GHOST_ JEFF.IN COD SATURDAY_ 591219
As I have said, that's right. That's according to the Bible. That's the teaching of the Scripture.
Not to--not to go to heaven... Because the Holy Ghost filled people is the first resurrection the
Elect. And the remnant of those... The rest of the dead live not for a thousand years. After the
millennium, then the second resurrection, the great white throne judgment. See? That's exactly
Bible order.
THE.FIRST.SEAL_ JEFF.IN MONDAY_ 63-0318
150-2 {225} Now, just seventy weeks was determined, perfectly, as Daniel said that
Messiah would come and would be cut off in the midst of the week. And Jesus prophesied
three and a half years. Now, in the middle of this three and a half years of Daniel, in the middle
of it He was cut off. And now the last part is the tribulation period where the Gentile church is...
Oh, this is great. Now, don't...?... The Bride goes in with the Groom, then after the
millennium, walks out upon the ashes of the wicked.
150-3 {226} Let me show you something here, just, while we've just got it in mind, let's just
show you what it says, what the Bible says. And we can't deny this being the Word of God. If
we do, then we're infidels. See, we got to believe. You say, "I don't understand it." Neither do I,
but I'm looking for Him to reveal it. Look.
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For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud... (like the
Americans and so forth)... yea,... all that do wickedly, shall be stubble:... (It's going to burn.)...
and the day that cometh that shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts,... it shall leave them
neither root or branch.
150-4 {227} How you got a eternal hell in there then? See, it's the last days when these
things are being revealed. There's no place in the Bible says hell's eternal. To--to have... To be
in a eternal hell, you'd have to have Eternal Life to stay there. There's only one form of Eternal
Life, and that's what we're struggling for. Everything had a beginning has an end. Hell was
created for the devil and his angels, and will be consumed and done away with. Right. See?
But when this takes place, it neither leaves them root or branch.
But unto them that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness rise with healing in his wings;...
ye shall go forth, as a--grow up as calves of the stall.
And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in that
day that I will do this, saith the LORD of hosts.
Where's the wicked going to be after the tribulation? Ashes.
Remember... the laws of Moses..., which I commanded... him in Horeb for all Israel, with the
statutes and judgments.
Behold, I will send to you Elijah the prophet before the coming of that great and dreadful day of
the Lord:
151-1 {229} Amen. Here's the Old Testament closing out like that, and here's the New
Testament closing out with the very same thing. How you going to keep it away? Then, look, "I
will send to you Elijah the prophet before that day comes:"
And he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to the
fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
There you are. That's the Word of the Lord. He's promised it. It must come.
THE.FIFTH.SEAL_ JEFF.IN FRIDAY_ 63-0322
370-1 {290} And they said, "Well, why--why can't we go back to the Kingdom right now?"
The Jewish Kingdom is to be set on the earth, you know. John said the Kingdom in heaven
(See?), to be set... Now, this is the Kingdom of the Gospel (You see?), but the Kingdom of the
Jews will be preached by these--these two prophets. So notice the--the--the kingdom of the
earth here. The Kingdom of heaven is preached by the Jews--or to--I mean, to the Gentile. The
Kingdom of--here on the earth is to be set up in the millennium, after the millennium to the
Jews. Now, notice. Notice this now. Here while they--while they are preaching (See?) before
these--these prophets ever arrives on the scene, these Jews that had to die under Eichmann
and them, is... each one of them that's predestinated is given, by grace, a white robe. Amen.
Each one of them given a white robe... Notice now what happened? As soon as that takes
place...
But during this time, why, see what happens is the Gentile Bride is selected in the seven church
ages and goes up, and when it does that way, all these Jews that's martyred along there,
because of blindness (laying under the altar) God comes over and says, "You see what it was?
Now, I'll give each one of you a robe."
They said, "How long, Lord? Are we going in now?"
Said, "No, no, no, no. Your fellowmen, the Jews, has got to suffer a little bit yet. They got to be
martyred like you was martyred. The beast has got to get them when he breaks his covenant."
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.ON.THE.SEALS_ JEFF.IN 63-0324M
488-3 {199} 16. What happened to the born again believers who are in the various
denominations but not in the Bride of Christ? What happens to them?
Well, I think we explained that awhile ago. See? They go into the tribulation. They are martyred
in the tribulation, come up in the last after the millennium for their judgment (See?), because
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the Bible said that the rest of the living... the rest of the dead lived not until the thousand years
was expired. Then there was a resurrection, and then come forth the both just and unjust and
was judged by Christ and the Bride. He came to the earth with ten thousands times ten
thousands of His saints (Is that right?), His Bride.
Judgment was set, the books was open... Books was open, and another Book was opened,
which is the Book of Life. He separated from there the goats from the sheep. Is that right? That
had nothing to do with the Bride. She was standing right there in judgment with her Queen--the
Queen and King together.
488-4 {201} He came with His saints; ten thousands times thousands ministered to Him: His
wife; then judgment was set. And then the sheep was separated from the goats. (You
remember the other night me bringing that little meditation, so you'd understand it, "The
Cowboy Meditation"? See? There you are.) No, they are... That's the...
They the--the--the church, the people that's in denominations that are--are genuine Christians
who's receives the message... And they will never see it. It'll never be preached to them. And
those in a mixed crowd (who it is preached to), it'll go right over the top of their head unless
their name was on the Lamb's Book of Life. That's right.
But they will be good people, and they'd be raised up again and given trial, and be judged by
the very group that preached to them. Don't you know the saints will judge the earth? They'll be
preached to. See? They'll be preached to by the very same people witnessed to them of the
message to come out of it. See? (I hope that explains it. I've got so many here that...)
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.ON.THE.SEALS_ JEFF.IN 63-0324M
517-3 {365} 44. After the rapture of the Bride, when does the church that had to go through
the tribulation period stand judgment? (It don't stand judgment.) Is it before or after the
millennium? (For the church... Oh, I beg your pardon; pardon me ever who wrote this.) When
does the church that... After the rapture of the Bride, when does the church that had to go
through the tribulation period stand at the judgment? Is it after or before?
After. The rest of the dead live not for a thousand years that didn't go with the Bride. Let's see.
THE.FUTURE.HOME.OF.THE.HEAVENLY.BRIDEGROOM.AND.THE.EARTHLY.BRIDE_
JEFF.IN V-3 N-5 SUNDAY_ 64-0802
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Now, perfectly, Noah was a type of those carried over. Remember, when Noah come
out, Ham was with him. Sin was still in there. Sin went right on over, through the ark. Unbelief,
doubt, went over in the ark, carried above the judgment. But Enoch went higher than the ark,
he went on into the Presence of God. But Noah went through and come out, and there was still
sin; type of the Millennium, of the world's condition.
124 The Millennium is not the end of it. There will still be time after the Millennium. The
Millennium is a space of time; but, not the New Earth. No, indeed. Notice, in that, we'll get to it
after a bit.
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Notice, it was also upon this eighth day. Last day, feast day of the tabernacle, notice
after that, after the last feast day, after the last Church Age, after the last complete seven days
upon the earth, after the Millennium, that this Holy Convocation comes.
216 Remember, this is feast of tabernacles, tabernacles, "gathering places." Amen! Where,
"In the Millennium," the Bible said, "they shall build houses; they shall inhabit."
217 But in the New Earth, He has already went and prepared the place. It's built. We have
nothing to do with the building of it. Amen. Eternal! Oh, I just love that Word! My! A Holy
Convocation, the eighth day. Which, is only seven days. Then on the eighth day, which comes
back to the first day again, comes right back to the first day, the eighth day is a Holy Convo-...
Convocation.
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Watch this City; earth, take up its abode on earth. Now you can plainly see as I said,
the... this change, the earth must be changed. It cannot have It like this. The church could not
go... Or, the world could not go right on, after the Millennium, without being changed. See? To
have such a Place in it, it'll have to be changed.
363 Just like, we must be changed by His holy Fire, to condition and make a place for Him to
be contained within us; that is, the Holy Ghost.
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Notice now, there will be plenty of room in the New Earth. Uh-huh. See, plenty of room!
It'll be renovated, that's true, by Fire, but there'll be no more sea. Notice, the City is fifteen
hundred miles square.
365 Now listen real close while we draw these dimensions. I want to erase the blackboard,
just a moment. [Brother Branham erases his previous illustrations--Ed.]
366 Here is a deep revelation from God. Here, I'll just stop here. None of these other... I'll
bring the rest of this up, the Lord willing.
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Notice now the earth is... Well, you turn over into the Book of Revelations, you can see
how he measured it by the cubits and by the furlongs. Twenty-three hundred... So now we find
out that the--the City is measured, "fifteen hundred miles" square.
368 You know how far that would reach? I measured it off, this week. It would reach from
Maine to Florida, and from the eastern seaboard to six hundred miles apast, west of the
Mississippi. In other words, half of the United States, just for the City.
You say, "There ain't no room."
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When the sea is gone there will be, 'cause pretty near four fifths of it's in water. That
right? The explosion dries up the sea, erupts the earth. Oh, my! Remember, fifteen hundred
miles square, what a City! And, but, remember, the sea is gone.
370 "And the breadth and the height are the same." That would make it fifteen hundred miles
this way, fifteen hundred miles that way; fifteen hundred miles; the length by the breadth by the
height. Fifteen hundred miles, think of it, transparent gold. And the City had a wall around it.
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Now, now, that doesn't necessary mean, by being equal... It said, "And the walls and
the foundation were equal," that doesn't necessary mean that it's a cube or square. There is
another geographical measure, that the dimensions are the same, that is, a pyramid.
Foursquare, "lieth foursquare," and the walls were the same.
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Let me draw it. [Brother Branham draws illustrations on the blackboard--Ed.] See:
length, breadth, height. We're going to get into something, as sure as the world. See? Notice,
the dimensions of this angle is exactly the same, all of them, length by the--by the height. There
is another measure, the pyramid, that proves it.
373 This, being this a way, would answer exactly Enoch's sign in Egypt, the pyramid. Would
it? Enoch, before the antediluvian destruction, when justification was coming in, he brought
forth a sign, and in this pyramid is seven steps going to the king's chamber. Watch on the
seventh step, if you ever studied the dimensions of the pyramid, what comes out to take the
oncomer, to introduce to the king. Watch whose station that is standing there, and you'll see the
day you're living, in the pyramid.
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.3_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0830M
1092-142 Time never ceased until the... This must be a post-millennialist or something that
asked the question. Because see? We got a thousand years after the church has gone home
and comes back upon the earth. Then time ceases in the new heavens and new earth.
Now, 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
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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.
And now, the opening of the Seven Seals that was given by the Holy Spirit, the Seven Seals
only was to make known what had been left off in the dispensations behind us.
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.3_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0830M
1093-147 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.3_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0830M
1093-Q-340 340. Does the millennium have to do with the one thousand years? Could it not
be a generation?
No. A generation allotted in the Bible is forty years. But the Bible said, "And they lived and reign
with Christ one thousand years." It will be one thousand years upon the earth, 'cause one
thousand years upon the earth is only counted a time, for parable like to God, as one day. One
thousand years upon on the earth is only one day with God, as God counting time. How many
understands that now?
So it's that Sabbath day when the church will no more labor against sin. And Satan is bound for
a little season, a thousand years, 'cause his subjects is all in hell, and his... The church that's
on earth is redeemed and right in the Presence of Christ, so he has nothing he can work on. So
it's not a chain, as I said, a log chain; it's a chain of circumstance; he has nothing he can do.
He's helpless and hopeless, just waiting for the resurrection of the subjects; then they're
separated as the sheep from the goats.
SATAN'S.EDEN_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-20 SUNDAY_ 65-0829
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Remember, here not long ago, I was teaching you on the Seven Trumpets, the feast of
trumpets, and so forth. And I said, "There is a eighth-day festival." So, the seventh day would
be the last, that would be the Millennium. But there is an eighth-day festival; which, if it was the
eighth, and there's only seven days, would make it the first day again, come right back to the
first day. Then, after the Millennium is over, then there will be an established Eden again. God's
great Kingdom will be taken back. Because, Jesus fought it out with Satan, in the garden of
Gethsemane, and won back the Eden; which, He's gone to prepare in Heaven, to return again,
up in Heaven. He said, "Let not your hearts be troubled."
SATAN'S.EDEN_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-20 SUNDAY_ 65-0829
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When He was here on earth, He said, "You, you Jews, you've believed in God. Now, I
know I got a bad name," He said. "And they say I'm this, that, the other. But, you've believed in
God; and as you've believed in God, believe also in Me." He was God, manifested. See?
"Believe also in..."
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"In My Father's house are many..." Or, "In My Father's economy, in My Father's plans is
many palaces. I'll go to prepare a place." Look how long it is, fifteen hundred square miles! Say,
where's it at? He has gone to prepare it. He is Creator. He creates all that gold. The streets are
transparent. He is Creator. He is making a place. Over in Revelation 21, he said, "And I John
saw the holy City, the New Jerusalem, descending from God out of Heaven."
168 "There was no more sea; the first heaven and first earth was passed away." What
was our first heavens? Was the Millennium. What's the first earth? Was this. It'll be
renovated. Just like it was baptized by Noah, in the days of his preaching; was sanctified
by Christ, as He sprinkled His Blood upon it; and be renovated, take all the germs and
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everything off of it, in the renovation at the end, with a Fire baptism that'll kill every
germ, every sickness, every disease, every filth that was ever on the earth.
169 She'll burst forth, and come forth a New Earth. "And I saw a New Heaven and a New
Earth. First heaven, this first earth, was passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John
saw the holy City, the New Jerusalem, descending from God out of Heaven." There God will be
with His true attributes, sons and daughters, where He can fellowship with them in holiness,
with their eyes blinded to any sin. There'll never be no more sin from there on.
THE.WORLD.IS.FALLING.APART_ ALBQ.NM FRIDAY_ 63-0412M
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How many sins was committed in this city last night? Wasn't it better when the coyote
howled down through the desert here, and God looked upon it, when the old Hopi or Navajo
went through here on his trellis? Then look at this filth, and just gaum, and--and traditions and
politics. And it's a bleeding, nasty mess that stinks in God's nose. He'll... corrupted, before Him.
134 He'll blow it to pieces, some of these days. And He'll burst forth the earth, and she'll
renew herself with volcanic eruption. And there'll come a Millennium then, where the righteous
will walk out upon the ashes of the wicked, according now, Malachi.
THE.VOICE.OF.THE.SIGN_ TULARE.CA V-22 N-12 FRIDAY_ 64-0214
127 Let me tell you, it's about that time when God always raises up something on the scene,
to condemn it. He did it in the days of Ahab. He did it in the days of John. He promised to do it
again in the last days, and He will do it! It's such a time that we're promised of this, at that time
that we are going to see Malachi 4 fulfilled, exactly what He said it; a sign of the coming
judgment, burning fire that will destroy all the unbelief, and the righteous will walk out upon the
ashes of the wicked. It's promised. It's prophesied. It's THUS SAITH THE LORD. It's got to be.
What's his Voice going to do, when this man comes on the scene? It's going to be revealing
Jesus Christ's promised Word. That's exactly the only thing it can be, for the Bible said, in
Hebrews 13:8, "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever." Right.
But in Malachi 4, He said, "Just before the great and terrible Day of the Lord shall come, when
the whole earth will burn like a oven, and the righteous shall walk out upon the ashes of the
wicked," that's the Millennium, "I'll send Elijah the prophet." And what will he do? "He will
restore the faith of the children back to the apostolic fathers," back to the Word. He'll have to be
a prophet. "I'll send him." He'll be thoroughly identified. His nature will be the same as Elijah's
was, exactly. His Message will be right on that line. He'll condemn, tear down. No fellowship, no
cooperation, no nothing, but he'll have THUS SAITH THE LORD.
Malachi 4, when he comes, then the earth is going to be burnt, and the righteous walk out upon
the ashes, in the Millennium, and we never did that after the coming of John. But it will be after
the coming of the last-day messenger that will return the hearts of the people back to the
original Gospel, the Faith of the early fathers, the kind they had at--in the new Church at
Jerusalem.
Malachi 4 is promised, a--a seer to come forth with a voice. Not Malachi 3 now, "Send My
messenger." Malachi 4 now. Don't get them confused. Cause, you do, you'll miss it. Malachi 4
was not Malachi 3, "I send My messenger before My face." But, Malachi 4, when this
messenger comes, the world is to be burned, and the Millennium sets in. "The wicked is
burned, is ashes, and the righteous walk out upon the ashes of them." That never happened in
the days of John. See? Malachi 4! And watch, there's to be a sign, and that sign must be a
Scriptural sign.
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Did He promise in Malachi 4, what He would do in this last days? And immediately after this
would come fire, and burn up the unbeliever, and the righteous would walk out upon the ashes
of the unbeliever. That's right. Well, we're right here at the door.
Or, right after his Message, there will be a time when the world will burn, and the righteous will
walk out upon the ashes.
84 Now, to some theologian that might be listening in on a tape, somewhere around the world,
if you think that that was John, remember, then, the Scriptures is wrong, for the world did not
burn after John's message. Jesus did not come and take the people in the Millennium; but He
has promised to do it after the Spirit of Elijah comes upon the earth again.
And then what would happen? According to Malachi, He will burn the earth again, and the
righteous (in the Millennium) will walk out upon the ashes of the wicked. Is that right? See?