What About The Rapture?

[LindaR]

The Bride isn't split. The Bride is the Church (born again Jews and Gentiles) The Bride will be "caught up" to meet the Lord in the clouds...this "catching up" is called "The Rapture" (1 Thess. 4:13-18). After the Bride is "caught up", there will be a 7 year tribulation period when God will pour out His wrath and judge those "left behind" on the earth. Those "left behind" to face God's wrath and judgment are those who rejected Christ's gift of salvation. It will also be the time when God will fulfill His program for Israel (the 70th week of Daniel...Daniel 9:24-27). After the 7 year tribulation (3 1/2 of whichi are called the Great Tribulation, or time of Jacob's trouble [Jeremiah 30:7]), Jesus Christ will return to this earth to save Israel from the armies of the world which come against her at the battle of Armageddon (Zechariah 12-14; Revelation 16). The "remnant" who are saved out of the tribulation will enter into Christ's earthly 1,000 year reign from Jerusalem.

The Bride/the Church is God's HEAVENLY people...redeemed Israel (which is a total different entity than the Church) are God's earthly people.