The Kingdom of the Bride is a story on the end times. As an exposition on the last days of our planet and the Second Coming of Christ, it represents a blending of the old and the new. The intermingling of the traditional and the novel is what I believe makes this book unique amongst all others on the subject of prophecy.
Much of the confusion I believe that pervades other books on eschatology--the study of the last things-- most of which reflect the present day evangelical teaching on Christ's return, stems from a misunderstanding of two things. First, from what is actually meant by the term the Consummation (which literally means completion), and second, from what is meant by the term the Day of the Lord. The prophetic view presented in this book is quite simple. The Kingdom of the Bride takes the elementary historical view that the Consummation, or the climax of human history, will be brought about on a literal, final day, referred to as the Day of the Lord, in which the Lord Jesus Himself will return from Heaven to rescue those who believe in Him.
Resultantly, Christ's Second Coming is presented as a single, stupendous event. Coincident with His return on that day--also called the Last Day--will be the resurrection of the dead, the rapture or translation of living believers, the final judgment of the living and the dead, the ultimate victory of life over death, the destruction of our present world and universe, and the creation of a new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. Any prophetic system that teaches otherwise ignores the scriptures. This view, called Amillennialism (meaning no millennium) pervaded the church for well over fifteen hundred years both before and after being established as Christian doctrine by the renowned early church father Augustine. It was also vigorously defended against the premillennialists (those who teach of a 1000 year earthly reign of Christ after His Second Coming) by the Protestant reformers Martin Luther and John Calvin. Amillennialism still is a central tenant of the Roman Catholic Church and many of the mainline Protestant denominations.
In regards to the new, this book introduces a revolutionary new paradigm on end time eschatology, one I call "Kingdom Amillennialism," that builds upon the classic amillennial thought of Augustine, Luther and Calvin. Kingdom Amillennialism says there will be an appointed season of time after the great tribulation and the destruction of the Antichrist and before the Christ's Second Coming and the end of the world. During this epoch Christ's Bride, the church, will reign upon the earth. For it is written of her, "then the sovereignty, the dominion, and the greatness of all the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Highest One" (Dan. 7:27a). Henceforth, The Kingdom of the Bride represents a monumental paradigm shift from the premillennial, and particularly from the pretribulational, teachings that pervade the evangelical Church today. It is my desire that all who read The Kingdom of the Bride will gain fresh new insights into the prophetic scriptures and the drama that is presently unfolding before them, a drama that will climax with the soon return of the Son of God for His beloved Bride. I sincerely hope this will likewise serve to inspire all to a new level of devotion in serving their Master, the beautiful Bridegroom, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Martin Bachicha is an adept scholar of Biblical Prophecy and has appeared on national radio and television programs including The American Freedom Network. He and his wife Helen make their home in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he works as an engineer for Intel Corporation. A native of Albuquerque, he has previously worked for IBM Corporation as an engineer and computer and manufacturing industry consultant. He holds Masters degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Robotics from the University of New Mexico and in Engineering Management from Colorado State University. He also has attended graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley. As a Computer Industry Consultant and Systems Engineer he is qualified to write regarding the role the Transnational corporation will play in the end-times. The Kingdom of the Bride is his first book.
