The way to clarify the issues is to look at the gathering for the wedding in Heaven, at the groups that will be there, not just The Bride and The Savior. BUT there will be on one there without the ‘garment, which is interpreted the Grace of God in Christ. So, of the Wedding gathering how many groups do we identify, besides the Bride (the Church, the ekklesia growing since the end of Daniel’s 69th week,taken out before the seventieth week gets going)?
But, the “church” did not exist until after the death of Christ. The Ecclesia are the believers in Christ.
For the Old Testament believers, their faith was accounted unto them as righteousness. In other words, GOD deemed their faith in GOD to be sufficient to allow their spirit to enter into Paradise (prior to the time of Christ), where they awaited the Messiah who would take them on into Heaven.
Joseph, Jesus’ earthly father, was waiting in Paradise for Jesus to arrive. I can barely imagine Joseph’s excitement to see the little boy he helped to raise enter into Paradise as the Messiah.