WE SHALL ALWAYS BE WITH THE LORD AFTER THE RAPTURE!

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The doctrinal teaching that the saints that are taken to Heaven in the Rapture will not live on the Earth during the Millennial Rule of Christ is not true at all. In fact, the Scriptures teach that Christ will reign on the Earth from Jerusalem, and we are to reign with Him! Furthermore, Scripture says that - after the second stage of the First Resurrection at the Rapture - we are to always be with Him! Let me explain:

The Word of God tells us that the City of God in Heaven known as the heavenly New Jerusalem is going to descend to the Earth after the New Heaven and New Earth are created, and it will be the home of all believers one day (See John 14:1-3 and Revelation 21:1-4). So the Bride of Christ and the Wise Virgins that are to be taken up to Heaven in the Rapture are going to dwell therein. However, the Bible makes it clear that all those who are taken to Heaven to stand before Christ's Judgment Seat that is described in 2 Corinthians 5:10 and Revelation 7:9-17, and who attend the Wedding and Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven introduced in Matthew 25:1-13 and described in Revelation 19:6-9, will return with Christ because they are to remain in His presence forever! As it says in 1 Thessalonians 4:17: “Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus WE SHALL ALWAYS BE WITH THE LORD.”

In the Parable of the Ten Virgins recorded in Matthew 25:1-13, the five Wise Virgins accompany the Bride and the Bridegroom, and enter the Heavenly realm. This realm is behind the door they go through to attend the Wedding, which is in the Bridegroom's Father's House in Heaven. This is why it was customary for weddings to take place in the parent's home in Ancient Israel. The Wedding party full of resurrected saints is allegorically described as cleanly dressed in pure white garments to show that they have taken on the righteousness of Christ, and are a new creation in Him. Their pure white clothes are first revealed in Revelation 7:9-10, where it says “After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, CLOTHED WITH WHITE ROBES, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, saying, ‘Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!’”

These same saints clothed in white are to return with Christ at the end of the Great Tribulation. This is revealed in Revelation 19:14, where it says: “And the armies in heaven, CLOTHED IN FINE LINEN, WHITE AND CLEAN, followed Him on white horses.” Together with Christ, these immortal saints will serve as priests and kings during the Millennial Rule of Christ. As it says in Revelation 20:6: “Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.”

These resurrected saints appear in Heaven after the first Six Seals are opened. This is partly why I believe that they are taken to Heaven in the Rapture at the time of the opening of the Sixth Seal. In fact, Revelation 6:16-17 says that the first portion of the Wrath of God will be unleashed when the Sixth Seal is opened. Furthermore, 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 and 1 Thessalonians 5:9 says that the saints are not subject to God's Wrath, and are to be delivered from it by their Lord and Savior.

So do not be fooled into believing that the resurrected saints will stay in Heaven, although life will be very pleasant there! As I have shown in this article, Scripture uses the symbolic purity of the white clothing of the resurrected saints to say that they will return to the Earth when Christ comes to vanquish the armies of the wicked at the Battle of Armageddon. It also clearly says that these immortal saints will reign and rule with Christ as priests and kings until the Millennium is over. Therefore, the New Jerusalem - which is described as a massive city with 12 gates and 12 foundations in Revelation 21:9-27 - will likely be empty, and will be awaiting the Bride and Wise Virgins to return to living in it when the Millennial Kingdom ends.

MARANATHA! Yahshua our Messiah

is coming to rescue His beloved saints very soon!

So keep looking up!

With Love and Blessings,
from Helena Lehman of
the Pillar of Enoch Ministry
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WHAT IT MEANS TO BE THE BRIDE OF CHRIST, ESPECIALLY FROM A MAN'S PERSPECTIVE

~*~ Revelation 19:7-9 ~*~  “Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.” 8 And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. 9 Then he said to me, ‘Write: “Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!” And he said to me, ‘These are the true sayings of God.’”

Over the years, several men have told me that they are uncomfortable with thinking of themselves as the Bride of Christ in her role as the Wife at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, which is described above. This is an understandable thing in light of the Bride's role in an ordinary marriage between a man and a woman. But our relationship with God is so much more complex than any ordinary intimate human relationship.

In fact, in reference to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, the terms Bride and Bridegroom are not gender-specific terms. Instead, they relate to dominance and submission, as well as intimacy. We are in submission to Christ, who is dominant over us in authority, just as Adam was over Eve (See Ephesians 5:22-33). In their subservient roles under Christ's kingship, believers are to serve one another in love, not regarding their worldly roles as important or meaningful in relation to their current and future roles in the Kingdom of God. Indeed, gender roles are no longer important within the Body of Christ, for no matter what our race, social status, occupation, or gender is now, we are all to be considered as equal and one in Christ, without specific gender roles in the Kingdom (See Galatians 3:27-29; Colossians 3:9-11).

Even our existence in the presence of Christ after the Rapture is described in the terms of a Wedding Feast and a Marriage because we will be intimately connected to our Messiah and King, our Heavenly Father, and the Holy Spirit continually during and after the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Scriptures that shed light on our role in this sacred marriage can be found in the Parable of the Wedding Banquet found in Matthew 22:1-14 and the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins found in Matthew 25:1-13.

In the Parable of the Wedding Banquet, the original wedding guests, who were the descendants of the Israelites, refuse to come to the wedding because they reject Christ or the Bridegroom as their Messiah or Savior. Therefore, the Master of the Feast invites new wedding guests that are seemingly chosen at random after the chosen wedding guests, who were the Israelites, failed to attend. These new guests are described as both good and bad people, and all but one of then is wearing a wedding garment. This garment is the white robe of the saints, and it signifies baptism with the Holy Spirit, which comes after we are covered by the blood of the Lamb through belief in Christ. So those cast out of the wedding banquet into the Outer Darkness, which signifies the Great Tribulation, are bad people that are not born again, and whose sins are therefore not forgiven.

In the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins, the good and bad guests of the Parable of the Wedding Banquet appear again. This time, however, the good guests are described as the Wise Virgins that attend the wedding feast with the Bridegroom when He comes for them because their oil lamps representing the fruits and gifts of the Holy Spirit are full. But the bad guests are described as Foolish Virgins that do not have the oil of the Holy Spirit in their lamps, and are therefore to be left behind to suffer the Great Tribulation.

As shown in the contemporary Jewish Wedding photograph attached to this article, there are male and female attendants to the bride and the groom, and male and female distinguished guests at a Jewish Wedding, and surely the Marriage Supper of the Lamb will be no different. Among the Jews and the Gentiles, those who served and loved the Wise Virgins or Attendants to the Bride and Groom will come from the Two Houses of Israel that are Jewish Judah and Gentile Ephraim. Therefore half of the Wedding Chapel will be filled with the Messianic Jewish guests of the Groom, and the other half of the Chapel will be filled with the Christian guests of the Bride from among the Gentile nations.

For the Bride, attendants to the Bride and Groom, and the wedding guests that attend the wedding, their joy will be complete in that each one will experience a new and powerful form of intimacy with God. This intimacy will manifest itself in such incredibly wonderful ways that we simply can't phantom it all now. This is because we have nothing in the range of current human experience that can compare with it in the measure of inexhaustible satisfaction and pleasure it will give each of us on a daily basis.

This intimacy has nothing to do with sex, but everything to do with a continuous and limitless source of familial love, friendship, wisdom, knowledge, joy, fulfillment and comfort being exchanged freely between God and His beloved servants. As such, our intimate connection to God the Father and His Son and Spirit will be the most powerful and fulfilling force in our lives, and it will last forever - without end!

When the Bride of Christ is viewed as the genderless focus of a much bigger event where men will be in the Bridal Party and among the invited guests, men in the Body of Christ should be looking forward to this Wedding in Heaven as much as the ladies are! ;-)

If you find this bit of instruction helpful, please share it - especially with the godly men in your life!

Get Ready! Yahshua is coming for His Saints very soon! 

May Yahweh God bless you all, and Maranatha! 

Your Sister in Yahshua
Helena Lehman of the
Pillar of Enoch Ministry
Ministry Blog: http://pillarofenoch.blogspot.com 
Ministry Web Site: http://pillar-of-enoch.com

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From more important information about what it means to be

the Bride of Christ, please read the following article:

THE BRIDE OF CHRIST 
ESCAPES THE HOUR OF TRIAL!

http://pillarofenoch.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-bride-of-christ-escapes-hour-of.html

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Photo Credit: Seattle Tennis Club Wedding Photography - 

Laura and Ezra exchange vows in a Jewish wedding

ceremony in a Sunday wedding at the Seattle Tennis Club

Seattle Tennis Club Wedding Photography Web Site:

http://eyeshotphotos.com/2010/04/03/seattle-tennis-club-wedding-photography/

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