metmom,
I thought so, too, until recently.
However, Revelation 3:12, speaking to The Church in Philadelphia, says (in part): “The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God.”
Later, in Revelation 21:9-10 we see:
“Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.
In Revelation 21:22 we see:
I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
So we see that the church (at least The Church in Philadelphia) is made to become a pillar in the temple, and the temple is the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb. The church becomes part of the bridegroom.
The wise virgins are The Church in Philadelphia and the martyrs. The foolish virgins are believers, but are not yet ready to enter heaven. They are left outside, presumably in The Great Tribulation.
I suspect that The Bride is a remnant of Israel that Yahuah (God) will take for his son, Yahusha (Jesus), in order to fulfill the covenant he made with Abraham centuries ago.
The whole problem is that people that can’t grasp the simple truths of the Word are stuck in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John which are Jewish books and fit in the Jewish dispensation.
The truths of the Word (or should I say the mysteries) are all revealed by Paul, the apostle of the Gentiles to whom was granted to explain church doctrine.
We simply can not force Jesus’ teachings to Israel - which are all millennial truths - upon the church. Now that is not to say we can not apply them and be blessed by living Kingdom principles . . . but throwing a person body and soul into hell is not something that will happen during the church period (but it will definitely occur during the millennium).
What folks are doing is reading other people’s mail and thinking it was written to them.