Dear Doves,
 
Matt 25:1
"At THAT TIME the Kingdom of Heaven will be like --"
This present time is "THAT TIME" the Scripture is speaking of:
 
 "--like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom."
We can interchange the word "virgins" with the word 'Christians' without changing the meaning of the Scripture.
 
Fifty-percent of them were "wise" and passed through the rapture "door", and the fifty-percent who were "foolish" got "shut out" or left-behind. The "wise virgins" are representative of the 'Bride of Christ' WHO WILL BE raptured, while the "foolish virgins" represent the left-behind Christian church members who will enter into the great tribulation. The fate of a "great multitude" of them is described in:
Rev 7:14
"These are they who have COME OUT OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION; they have washed their robes and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb".
 
We, as individual 'Christians' and a member of 'His Church', MUST ALSO be included in 'His Bride' if we are to be raptured BEFORE the tribulation begins. Otherwise we will be the LEFT-BEHIND Christians and enter the "great tribulation" to be "tested" as described in:
Rev 3:10
"-- the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world TO TEST THOSE WHO LIVE ON THE EARTH".
 
The 'tribulation saints' described in ( Rev 7:9 ) are those left-behind church Christians who pass their "test" and COME OUT OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION. The 'Bride of Christ' is raptured to Heaven Pre-tribulation, and is NOT subjected to the "tribulation test".
 
Come Lord Jesus!
 
Bruce Warner