[guitarplayer1953]

OK but what are they? They are not the Bride the Bride is in heaven, they are not the church the church is in heaven. What are they? They are not New Jerusalem that descends that has been fitted together out of living stones. So what are they?

How can people who are living stones (saved) who have the seal of the Holy Spirit not be the Bride. God says He is not a respecter of persons and all saved persons are the elect of God but these people who are saved during the Tribulation. The only logical and biblical answer is that we all will meet Him in the air, some dead, some alive. Because the word says all not some and then more it says that when He appears that He will gather all of us together.

So either Christ come back at the 7th (last) trump after the tribulation prior to the wrath and gathers all of His body His Bride, or the doctrine of the two part rapture and 2nd comings creates a class of believers that is not found in the bible who are not the Bride who are not the Church who are not the New Jerusalem.

As my original question who are they under the two part rapture and 2nd coming?

[Quix]

I don’t understand this . . . fierce urge to find a label.

They are . . . SAVED, OVERCOMERS . . .

and, seems to me, part of The Bride.

The millenial reign of Christ will have mortals who’ve survived Tribulation . . . the meek who inherit the earth.

Won’t at least a portion of those also be SAVED IN CHRIST?

What would you call those folks?

I don’t think “toadstools” would quite fit.

[marbren]

Maybe invited guests at the wedding feast.