Before I comment on who I believe will be leaving in the Rapture, I would like once again to list briefly the reasons why the 10 virgins are not candidates for the Bride of Christ:

1) No translation of the original Greek, for the word translated "virgin" in the King James, no where is the word translated as "bride."  The translations that I      know of have the word translated as "virgins" and "bridesmaids."

2) Matt. 25:1 compares the 10 virgins to "the Kingdom of Heaven," not to potential candidates for the Bride of Christ.

3) The Groom isn't coming to marry 5 wise virgins.  He is coming for His Bride, which had already happened in this story.  If the virgins were the bride, why didn't Jesus say 2 virgins, one wise and one foolish?  One wise virgin is all that would be needed to represent the Bride.

4) A bride knows who she is.  She's already engaged to the Groom!   When the Groom comes for the Bride, He is not going to take time to see if she comes out to meet Him with enough oil in her lamp, and then decide if He wants her!  That decision has already been made!  When He comes for her, He is coming to take her away to marry her.....simple as that!

5) The virgins have control of how much oil is in their lamps, with the ability to let the oil run completely out.  The Bride, on the other hand, is sealed by the Holy Spirit.  He is in her to stay, and He is in her in His totality.  You can't have a portion of the Holy Spirit in you.  He is not made up of parts!  Nor do we have the power to break God's seal.  We can't cause the Holy Spirit to disappear from within us.  He is sealed within us by God. 

 

Now about the Bride and the Rapture.  Let's not forget that the Bride is also known as the Body of Christ.  And God has been forming Christ's Body/Bride since the original Pentecost.  When a person is born again, they are sealed by the Holy Spirit as a permanent member of the Body/Bride.  The Holy Spirit is the "glue" that holds all the members of the Body together. 

We don't have to be anybody special or do anything special to be a member of the Body....we just have to want to be!  And once we tell God we want to be saved, then He saves us and seals us into the Body of Christ.  We are there permanently.  We can't unseal ourselves.  And when God creates something, He creates it perfect.  And if it becomes corrupt, He will perfect it because its His.  He won't add a member to the Body, and then if the member becomes corrupt, sever him/her from the Body.  That would make our sins more powerful than His ability to keep us sealed!!  Each member is added to the Body to stay.  And if the member is a legitimate member (truly born again), then no matter what corruption might creep into it, God will deal with that corruption with the ultimate goal of perfecting the member. 

The Body of Christ is being formed, from Pentecost to the Rapture.  The moment of the Rapture, the Body/Bride will be complete.  The complete Body of Christ has members.....like our bodies.  Someone has to be a finger, someone has to be an elbow, someone has to be a toenail.  And just because a finger has a greater function than a toenail, doesn't mean that the toenail is not a necessary and worthy member of the Body.  We are all members of the Body of Christ....everyone who is truly saved from Pentecost to the Rapture.  And when the Rapture occurs, the entire Body/Bride is going to go!! 

 God is not going to take pieces of the Body/Bride to Heaven and leave others down here to experience God's wrath.  Jesus' body experienced God's wrath on Calvary.  And that was sufficient.  God has no reason to put Christ's Body or any part of it through God's wrath again.!!  And to say that certain members of the Body have to suffer through the Tribulation is to say that what happened to Jesus' body during the crucifixion procedures was not quite enough to please God. 

As members of the Body/Bride, Jesus presented His body to be bruised and beaten and crucified on our behalf.  And at Calvary, ALL of our sins, as members of the Body of Christ, were washed away.

When Christ comes for His Bride, the entire Bride will be going!!  Everyone who has been truly born again from Pentecost to the Rapture will go!!  No part of the Body/Bride will be left behind!!  If you are a toenail, and perhaps even an ingrown toenail, you are still going with the rest of the Body!! All members are worthy!!  And our worthiness comes from God's grace!!  What rewards each of us receive once we are there is a different story. But we are all going if we are truly saved.