15 For this reason they are [now] before the [very] throne of God and serve Him day and night in His sanctuary (temple); and He Who is sitting upon the throne will protect and spread His tabernacle over and shelter them with His presence.
Once again Jesus tells us that these people, the people who are dressed in white and washed by His Blood, are before the Throne, not that they are seated in the Throne with Him. Jesus also shows us that He will protect them and shelter them. The Bride of Christ is Jesus’ actual Body, so let me ask you, what does Jesus need protected from? There is no weapon that can harm Jesus and there is no weapon that can harm us, Romans 8:37. But we are told that these people need protected. The only reason that they must need to be protected is because they are not the Body of Christ. These people that fill up eternity are our guests, just as Matthew 22:10 teaches. These people have been raised up and they have been given back their flesh and flesh needs protected, or in other words, flesh needs provided for.
We are shown later in Revelation that the New Jerusalem will have a River flowing through its middle and along its shores will be twelve manner of tree’s, bearing twelve manner of fruit, for the healing of the nations, Revelation 22:2. These people will have flesh that will need provided for and we are shown that they will be. The Bride of Christ, or the born again, have never been of this world, even though we have been in the world. We are not in need of the healing that the nations will need. Jesus bore our sins and sicknesses and by His stripes we are healed.
Repeatedly we are told that these people will serve our Father from before the Throne. The born again will be transformed to be just like Jesus when He returns, 1 John 3:2. Our bodies will be as our Lord’s body is and we will rule, or serve, these guests who have not been transformed to be just like Jesus. Jesus ever lives to intercede for people and we are one with Him, Hebrews 7:25. So we too will ever live to serve. We will be used for all of eternity to serve an uncountable number of people.
Now think about this: the number of people who have ever lived can be counted. I Googled it and it is estimated that around 107 billion people have been born on the earth. So we can count the number of people. But, Jesus tells us that we cannot count the number of guests that serve our Father from before the Throne. The only way for this to be True, is if people continue to be born for all of eternity and they all live forever. Our Father told Abraham that his descendants will be as the number of the grains of sand of the sea, Genesis 22:17. All of the people who have ever lived only would amount to a very very small portion of the number of grains of sand. So according to our Father there is going to be far more people and the only way that can happen, is if these people continue to live and have children forever.
You may be thinking to yourself: but Jesus said that no one is married or given in marriage in eternity? That is not what He actually said. Jesus said that only those who have been resurrected will not be given in marriage, Matthew 22:30. Jesus never says that the living, who never have to be resurrected, cannot stay in their marriage and continue to have children, who will have children, for ever and ever.
In Revelation 20 we are told about Judgment Day and in Revelation 20 Jesus only talks about the dead being judged. He never tells us that the living will be judged, only the dead. There are going to be millions upon millions of people alive at the end of the Millennial Reign of Christ when the Judgment Day occurs. These people will have been married and having children during the thousand years of Christ’s Rule. So why would they ever stop? Our Father will end death for them, take away all pain, and sorrow, Revelation 21:4. Jesus will extend His Tabernacle over them and they will never see death and there will be a population explosion! Jesus’ Blood will be applied to them and they will continue to have children and our Father will fulfill His promise to Abraham that his descendants will be counted as the number of grains of sand of the sea.
Our Father will also fulfill His promise to Jesus and allow Him and His Bride to serve these guests forever.
And there shall be no more night; they have no need for lamplight or sunlight, for the Lord God will illuminate them and be their light, and they shall reign [as kings] forever and ever (through the eternities of the eternities). Revelation 22:5
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