The Millennium

There are some who believe that we really can’t understand what the millennium will be like. There are others who claim that in it there will be no sin, no death, etc. and that the Bride will rule over the heathens that never heard the gospel before. Every doctrine must be based on the Bible. I want to give you some key quotes from Brother Branham that help us come to a scriptural conclusion of the millennium.

Many times Bro. Branham just gave the key to understanding a subject without going into details and when we go back to the Bible we can see the whole picture. Here are some key quotes to understand more about the millennium:

:Yet, Noah was a type of the remnant that’s carried over, not the translated bunch.”^[1]

“And Enoch, of course, was the–a type of the raptured group of the church. And Noah is a type of the carried over or the elect of the Jews that will be carried through the tribulation period. And we’re now living in that day.”^[2]

119 † Now watch. Description of the Temple that is to be built in the Millennium. Now, anyone, any reader that knows that from Ezekiel the 40th chapter until about the 44th chapter is nothing in the world but the Millennium Temple being erected on earth (anyone knows that. See?), when the glory of the Lord fills it and so forth like that.^[3]

Here is a list of things discussed in Ezekiel 40 to 44.

there is a temple with walls around it
priests
temple worship and sacrifice
rules about garments
rules about drinking wine
rules for marriage
rules regarding how to handle dead bodies
rules about sin offerings
rules about meat offerings, etc.

This shows there is death, marriage, child birth, etc.

130 † Let’s take now what will take place during that time. Oh, do you love it? Let’s turn to Isaiah 65 just a minute. Just too good to skip by. It’s just too good to leave. Might be a little hot, but let’s just keep moving.

Isaiah 65, listen what will take place during that time. And just ask yourself, sinner friend, if you’re–if you could afford to miss this. Isaiah 65, let’s begin with about the 17th verse. Listen, everybody, close now. This is during the time of the Millennium when the most Holy is anointed.^[4]

132 † Jerk right back here again, and Isaiah speaking again at the 11th chapter, the 1st verse to the 9th. Listen what he says here again when he’s–catches the vision after he sees the women, the way they’ll be acting in the last days…?… Isaiah 11 to 1.^[5]

123 † 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.^[6]

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 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.^[7]

146 † Now, as some great theologian tried to corner me on that, he said, ‘Brother Branham, you–God someday will give you the secret of those Seven Seals. Those Seven Seals will be something that we’ve never learned yet, that it’ll be something that’s not even in the Bible.’ No, no. It won’t be that, because if you do, that would make it a… If I told you that, I’d be a false prophet, because (You see?) this Word… There… Everything that’s–that’s… The whole revelation of Jesus Christ is all completed in this Word. See? And if the Seven Seals pertained to the seven churches, it had to be already past, because we’re in the Laodicea church age… And the Seven Seals was only revealing what they had left off back there, and it opened up what they had left: what Luther left, what Wesley left, and all the reformers, and Pentecostals, and down to the present time.^[8]

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.^[9]

These are simple keys to understanding. We cannot take, “the earth completely burned” and then say the bible is wrong in another place.

Here are the keys gathered from these verses:

Noah is a type of the remnant of the Jews that are carried over the tribulation period. They are carried over the tribulation not translated.
Ezekiel 40 to 44 applies to the millennium. Therefore, we can read Ezekiel 40 to 44 and we can draw a picture of what takes place in the millennium.
Isaiah 65:17 to the end applies to the millennium. So we can read and understand what is written to say there is the picture.
Isaiah 11:1 to 9 applies to the millennium and therefore we can read and understand what is contained within it to draw a picture of the millennium.
There is still sin in the millennium.

You can find several quotes that tell us that sin is destroyed during the millennium. That is right, sin is destroyed, sin does not run rampant in the millennium; but there are still sinners in the millennium. Christ and his bride rule with a rod of iron and therefore we understand that sin is dealt with swiftly. Instead of the prince of the power of the air governing and inspiring and making sin more and more widespread, Christ is reigning, and the earth is full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. The main spirit influencing people (though they are sinners) will be the Spirit of God not the spirit of Satan, for Satan is bound for 1,000 years. As in our country when godliness and the word of God were some of the main influencers we had less crime, less open rebellion against the principles of God and this was under sinful leaders. What will happen when sinless and immortal leaders, that cannot be tempted or fall into error, lead perfectly and the whole earth is filled with the knowledge of God? As Bro. Branham said, sin goes right on over, BUT sin is destroyed. They are both true.

2 Peter 3:10 “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.”

The Day of the Lord is at the end of the tribulation when Christ returns to the earth. The heavens shall “pass away” it means to be “regenerated” the word “melt” means to be loosed or undone. Notice, Isaiah 24 speaks of this same event and the result of it.

Isaiah 24:1-6 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. 3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word. 4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. 5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

Zechariah 14 speaks of Armageddon, the day of the Lord and the results of what happens during that period of time. I will list the entire chapter for you to read and then draw a few points from it.

Zechariah 14:1-21 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. 3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. 4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee. 6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: 7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light. 8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. 9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one. 10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king’s winepresses. 11 And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited. 12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour. 14 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance. 15 And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague. 16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. 17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. 18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. 19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. 20 In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD’S house shall be like the bowls before the altar. 21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.

This is the day of the Lord when all nations gather together to destroy Jerusalem during the battle of Armageddon. It goes through the terrible wrath of God upon the world; and then in verse 16 it shows that there are people that are “left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem.” There are people that survive the day of the Lord and go into the millennium alive. Notice what the LORD speaks to Noah after the flood came upon the earth.

Genesis 8:21-22 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

God says that he will never again smite any more everything living as I have done. This illustrates that he will not even kill everything, down to just eight people. There will be people left from all the nations that came against Jerusalem and the 144,000 will survive and make it through the tribulation period into the millennium. Natural people, living on a natural earth, ruled by immortal saints.

Some folks try to make these verses contradictory, “The elements shall be melted with a fervent heat” is not incompatible with “few men left” and “those that remain of the nations that gathered together against Jerusalem” and “neither will I again smite any more every thing living”. All these statements are true. So why did God say “neither will I again smite any more every thing living”? Was he telling a lie just to please Noah? They are the same scriptures inspired by the same Holy Spirit. All of them are true!

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