I meant it doesnt necessarily mean it's the raptured church. That view is commonly used to prove the rapture, that the church must be in heaven since the 24 elders are in heaven and represents the church. Butl no one really knows the identity of the 24 elders, whether it is literally 24 chosen people , or only symbolic, of the whole church. The 24 elders don't have to be the raptured church, they could be people who have long died such as old testament levitical priests or maybe the 12 apostles, who knows. It's sort of counter productive to use that idea to show a worldwide church rapture as it is only 24 elders anyway, - not a mass multitude of people. And these 24 elders are not in their soul state they appear to be glorified, and probably the first fruits to God. As I or someone else said before, we have to read a lot into the scripture to get a pre-trib rapture view. In this case, we have to assume that 24 elders means the whole church and that being the whole raptured church. But it's still only guess work all the same.