highlighted above was your response that they WILL HAVE TO BE MARTYRED...though in your other statement referring to the tribulation saints that they are believer that Christ saved them...
as pointed out to you...the apostles were martyred and there is no difference if some were martyred today or in the future... All believer shall be saved...and we are members of that one body...today or even in the future...
thus separating them is separating other members of the body.
Never a person will marry a city...and Yet God said:
Isa 62:5 "For just as a young man marries a maiden, so your sons will marry you; and just as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God rejoice will over you.
Isa 62:6
"Upon your walls, Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; all day and all night they won't remain silent. You who make mention of the LORD, take no rest,
A city with a new name:
Isa 62:2 The nations will see your vindication, and all the kings your glory; and people will call you by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will bestow.
Rev 3:12 I will make the one who conquers to become a pillar in the sanctuary of my God, and he will never go out of it again. I will write on him the name of my God, the name of the city of my God (the new Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God), and my own new name.
and here is your Bride
Rev 21:2 I also saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.
I think you may have missed a very important part about this verse:
and they were told to rest a little while longer until ⌊the number⌋ would be completed ⌊of⌋ their fellow slaves and their brothers, who were going to be killed just as they had been
See what you missed....This statement is a figure of speech:
They were told to Rest a little while longer....Rest as the state of being dead...
proven by the following statement...until the number would be completed.(number of dead)...Who were going to be KILLED as they had been...
NO Resurrection YET..
RIGHT, I missed NOTHING, the First Resurrection is two-fold. The Church-age Saints get their resurrected, glorified bodies, just prior to the Seven Year Tribulation Period; and the Tribulation Tribulation Saints get their resurrected, glorified bodies, at the very beginning of HIS Millennial Kingdom. THE CHURCH, represented by the ELDERS is in heaven, who are all in their glorified bodies, while the Tribulation Saints are only in their human Spirit and/or Soul. WHAT'S TO MISS ? ? ?
I have said several times, that the Bride of Christ is comprised of genuine Believers of the Old Testament Times, the Church-age, and the Tribulation martyred Saints. You apparently are not reading all of my posts, and only assuming you know what I meant by what I said.
I quoted the very verse you did to verify that geniune Old Testament Believers were part of the Bride. I quoted the fact that Christ is the head of the Church just like the husband is head of the wife, to prove that the Church is part of the bride. and I quoted that the Tribulation Saints also received the fine white linen robes of a bride, to prove that they too were part of the Bride. I pointed out that the New City Jerusalem is the the dwelling place of the Bride, NOT the Bride herself, because the BRIDE speaks and calls others to
COME, to the Lord; and a CITY cannot SPEAK.
So what is your point, other than you are totally misunderstanding what my beliefs are?
THERE IS ONE POINT I HAVE NOT MADE YET, that absolutely PROVES that the Bride has to be Called Out to go to Heaven prior the the Beginning of Antichrist's SEVEN YEAR COVENANT OF PEACE with Israel.
Matthew 25:13 (HCSB)
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“Therefore be alert, because you don’t know either the day or the hour."
When Antichrist makes His SEVEN YEAR COVENANT OF PEACE with Israel, THAT WILL BE ALL OVER CNN AND OTHER TV NEWS CHANNELS. So I can then TELL YOU what Day is exactly 3.5 years from the signing of that TREATY, and what Day is the exact END of that SEVEN YEAR PEACE TREATY, ruling out mid-Trib and post-Trib theories. I absolutely believe GOD is one hundred percent accurate, when HE is giving a prophecy that involves a specific amount of TIME. YES, Antichrist breaks the Peace Treaty three and a half years into it and that too will be all over the NEWS, but THAT DOES NOT CHANGE HOW MANY DAYS GOD GIVES ANTICHRIST TO REIGN. IT WILL END at exactly Seven Years to the day.
THEREFORE, the Bride of Christ, has to be Called Out before the Signing of Antichrist's Peace Treaty with ISRAEL; for the prophecy about NOT KNOWING THE DAY OR HOUR TO BE TRUE.
How do I know that GOD is that ACCURATE when HE prophesies about TIME?
John 2:4 (HCSB)
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“What has this concern of yours to do with Me, woman?” Jesus asked.
“My hourhas not yet come.”
Daniel 9:25-26 (HCSB)
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25 [/SUP] Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince will be seven weeks
{49 years to rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple.} and 62 weeks
{434 years.}. It will be rebuilt with a plaza and a moat, but in difficult times.
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26 [/SUP] After those 62 weeks the Messiah will be cut off
{killed on the Cross.} and will have nothing. The people of the coming prince will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come with a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations are decreed.
JESUS CHRIST, being GOD in the flesh, KNEW exactly what HOUR that decree was made.