Yeah, well then, explain why the word "Ekklesia/church" is abruptly missing from the entire narrative of the events of wrath. As I said, the mention of the church in Rev.22:16 is outside of the narrative of God's wrath at the closing of the book. It is addressed to the church because we are the one's who are to proclaim the information within the book of Revelation.
Oh it's there, you just can't see it, because you are against it. There is a veil over your eyes. I see it, Nehemiah6 sees it, and many others see it and understand it. The "voice that sounds like a trumpet" is synonymous with "the trumpet of God" found in Paul's detailed account of the church being "caught up" in I Thes.4:16.
In the same way that God will resurrect the dead in Christ from all over the world to where He descends. He will also change the living in Christ all over the globe, meeting those who will have just resurrected, with the entire group meeting the Lord in the air. Then according to John 14:1-3, the Lord will take the entire church back to the Father's house to those places that He went to prepare for us. Why would you think that gathering everyone world-wide would be a difficult thing for God to do?
The above is a prophet allusion to the gathering of the church, with John standing in for the church. Obviously the Lord has not revealed this to everyone. John being told to write "what you have seen, what is now and what will take place later" divdes Revelation into three phases:
What you have seen = Everything that John saw and wrote from Rev.1:1 - 1:19
What is now = Represented by letters to the churches, which also represents the entire church period
What will take place later = What will take place after the "what is now," i.e. after the church period.
The "what must take place after this" is synonymous with the "what must take place later" in Rev.1:19, which is everything that takes place after the "what is now" i.e. everything that happens after the church period has completed and which is why the church is never mentioned after the end of chapter 3 or anywhere within the narrative of God's wrath.
Rev 22:8I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I had heard and seen them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had been showing them to me. 9But he said to me, “Don’t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your fellow prophets and with all who keep the words of this scroll. Worship God!”10Then he told me, “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this scroll, because the time is near.11Let the one who does wrong continue to do wrong; let the vile person continue to be vile; let the one who does right continue to do right; and let the holy person continue to be holy.”
12“Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done. 13I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.14“Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. 15Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.16“I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you[SUP]a[/SUP] this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.”
The church that was promised to rule with an iron scepter is part of the tribulation church. The only church that were protected from the tribulation is the church of Philadelphia and they remained here on Earth. So, that promise was true and we see them in Rev 21:5 ruling with christ. What we don't see, is the group that flew off before tribulation and were promised to be with Christ forever.
Rev 19. About the church in heaven- as early as Revelation 6, we see tribulation saints in heaven and are also given white linen, so your point proves nothing. In fact, the saints in revelation 19 are tribulation saints, can you prove me wrong?