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Jesus told the thief 'This day thou shalt be with me in Paradise'. In 1Thess4 we read that 'even so them also who have died in Christ will God bring with Him, and the dead in Christ will rise first, then we who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord IN THE AIR. So shall we ever be with the Lord.'

In Revelations we read that the dead who have died during the Tribulation will rise from the dead and have bodies which can marry and be given in marriage. And they will meet the Lord ON EARTH, not in the air. Those who are alive unto the end, the time Jesus sets foot once again upon the Earth and walks the valley of Meggido, those alive ones will also be around during the 1000 years and will be marrying and giving in marriage. They will be those OF ISRAEL who have come through the Great Tribulation or are resurrected from the dead at the end of the Great Tribulation.

To understand these things by to whom they are aimed you must be into Zach 14 and Isa 65, not just Matt 24. The first 69 weeks of Daniel are solely for the Jews. The seventieth week is FOR THE JEWS. Between the 69th week and the 70th week is the Church Age, and the Church Age ends with the Rapture of The Church, the body of Christ made so by the indwelling of the earnest of our inheritance, the Holy Spirit.

We do not have prophecy specific enough to know how much time elapses from the Rapture until the revealing of the man of sin which starts the 70th week of Daniel. But it will not be long, I am convinced, because the man of sin will come with great signs and lying wonders, bringing the people (left after the Rapture) together to clean up the mess which a sudden disappearance of perhaps a billion will cause (planes without pilots, falling from the sky; cars, buses, and trains without drivers, etc.).

To begin to understand the prophecies of the end times, the Rapture, and the Second time Jesus sets foot on the Earth (at Mount Olivet), you must be versed in Zacharias, and Isaiah, and Daniel, and Matthew, and Luke, and Thessalonians, and Corinthians, and Genesis, and Revelations.

The Bible teaches by addressing certain passages to certain people. There is one teaching that we can apply to all people though, that no one comes unto the Father but by Jesus, for Jesus is in the Father and the Father is in Him.

There will be no Jew or Gentile in the Heavenly Kingdom except they come by Jesus. The 'saints' who die in the Tribulation period of Daniels seventieth week will be resurrected ON EARTH, with bodies that can be married and give in marriage and have children. The Saints who are Raptured back in 1 Thess 4 will be given glorified bodies which do not give or are not given in Marriage. At the end of the thousand years, THEN a great Judgment occurs and glorified bodies are given to those found written in the Lambs Book of Life. Those seen in 1 Thess 4 are given glorified bodies at the Rapture so they will not be standing for judgment at the end of the thousand years.