Currently Jesus is involved judging His churches and those that are listening to what the Spirit is saying to them are separating themselves from the dead churches and taking on a new identity – The Bride. When Jesus finishes judging the whole Body of Christ and The Bride has been removed – The Rapture. The Church age will end, Antichrist is revealed and God begins dealing with The Nations – Great Tribulation.
At the end of The Great Tribulation Jesus will return with His saints and those who are alive and remain will be caught up to meet him in the air, changed to participate in His return. Those believers who remained in the dead churches and did not separate themselves and make themselves ready for The Groom’s return will go into The Great Tribulation to be purified and made ready for Jesus’s Second Coming. The whole basis for the Rapture is found in the parable of the Ten Virgins. Those that are ready and those who are not. Because God loves those that belong to Him, He warns them to listen and obey. Those that obey – He rewards. Those who do not He corrects. Listen to what The Spirit is saying to The Churches in The Body of Christ and obey – repent, be separated, holy and get dressed for the Wedding – time is short. As The Churches are judged the Bride is being called out. Jesus is not looking for a revived Church but a spotless Bride, blameless and without wrinkle.  A whole new Identity.
Doug L