Answer: To this question I always give the same answer: When the Lord comes I will ascend to Glory together with all the saints. Each coming of the Lord is a reality, it is in person, a bodily presence. The term “par ou sia” in itself means coming in bodily presence. As long as the Bride Church is on earth, the Bridegroom has not yet come. When the Lord comes as Bridegroom, the dead in Christ will rise first and we, the living, shall be changed and together we shall be taken up to meet the Lord in the air (1. Thess. 4:13-18). There is absolutely no promise in God’s Word that Christ would come and be on earth with us for a period of time before the rapture takes place. In fact, we are warned, “… then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not!” (Mt. 24:23). For it is written, “… as the lightning cometh out of the East, and shineth even unto the West, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” (Mt. 24:27). There is also no promise that His descent would start at the time of the opening of the Seals or that the mercy seat would change into the judgment seat at that time.

The unscriptural teachings are based on misunderstandings and misinterpretations. Brother Bran-ham said, “It’s the message going forth first, the living bread of life, bringing forth the Bride … It’s a message to get the people together. A message comes forth first. Now is lamp-trimming time. Rise and trim your lamps. What watch was that? The seventh, not the sixth, the seventh. Behold the Bridegroom cometh. Raise and trim your lamps!” Notice, how the Holy Spirit led from 1. Thess. 4 to Mt. 25, where we read about a cry at midnight. It is a wake-up call, for all ten virgins fell asleep. And according to verse 10, those who are ready when the Bridegroom comes will go with Him to the marriage supper. We can read about the marriage supper in Rev. 19:1-10. Anyone who is separating wedding from marriage should first read Mt. 22, where the words wedding and marriage are alternately used seven times for the same event. The marriage and the wedding supper take place in heaven (Rev. 19:1-10), not on earth. The Bride Church from all the ages will be present at the wedding supper, along with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the redeemed.

Answer: To this question I always give the same answer: When the Lord comes I will ascend to Glory together with all the saints. Each coming of the Lord is a reality, it is in person, a bodily presence. The term “par ou sia” in itself means coming in bodily presence. As long as the Bride Church is on earth, the Bridegroom has not yet come. When the Lord comes as Bridegroom, the dead in Christ will rise first and we, the living, shall be changed and together we shall be taken up to meet the Lord in the air (1. Thess. 4:13-18). There is absolutely no promise in God’s Word that Christ would come and be on earth with us for a period of time before the rapture takes place. In fact, we are warned, “… then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not!” (Mt. 24:23). For it is written, “… as the lightning cometh out of the East, and shineth even unto the West, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” (Mt. 24:27). There is also no promise that His descent would start at the time of the opening of the Seals or that the mercy seat would change into the judgment seat at that time.

The unscriptural teachings are based on misunderstandings and misinterpretations. Brother Bran-ham said, “It’s the message going forth first, the living bread of life, bringing forth the Bride … It’s a message to get the people together. A message comes forth first. Now is lamp-trimming time. Rise and trim your lamps. What watch was that? The seventh, not the sixth, the seventh. Behold the Bridegroom cometh. Raise and trim your lamps!” Notice, how the Holy Spirit led from 1. Thess. 4 to Mt. 25, where we read about a cry at midnight. It is a wake-up call, for all ten virgins fell asleep. And according to verse 10, those who are ready when the Bridegroom comes will go with Him to the marriage supper. We can read about the marriage supper in Rev. 19:1-10. Anyone who is separating wedding from marriage should first read Mt. 22, where the words wedding and marriage are alternately used seven times for the same event. The marriage and the wedding supper take place in heaven (Rev. 19:1-10), not on earth. The Bride Church from all the ages will be present at the wedding supper, along with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the redeemed.