Zechariah ch14 states that the LORD will not destroy everyone.
Behold, the day of the Lord is coming,
And your spoil will be divided in your midst.
For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem;
Then the Lord will go forth
And fight against those nations,
As He fights in the day of battle.
And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives
And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
Isaiah ch2 states the same:
For out of Zion shall go forth the law,
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
He shall judge between the nations,
And rebuke many people;
They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
And their spears into pruning hooks;
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
Neither shall they learn war anymore.
Revelation chapter 20 states the same:
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him,
so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.
That would be the wheat that is left. The wheat put into the barn. That would represent the nations left, but the tares are burned up. The wheat is redeemed from the Nations. Not that Adam's dead flesh is left. But the wheat is not the glorified church in Paradise. The wheat populates the nations. The sheep are the 12 tribes of Israel, not the church. The church was removed while Jesus was on His way to the Mount of Olives. Zechariah 14 is the same event as the 6th Seal in Revelation 6.
That all happens before the 7th Seal, and even the first Trumpet. The Trumpets are the separation of the sheep from the goats. The Sheep are redeemed, but not as the church. They are the firstfruits of the Millennial Kingdom.
You all miss the point the church is removed first. They have been being removed for the last 1993 years, starting with the thief on the Cross, and all the OT redeemed from Abraham's bosom. You know the part where the dead in Christ rise first and no living human can prevent them from entering Paradise, not even with false doctrine that states they cannot enter Paradise physically until only God knows when. Of course God knows when. God declared the thief on the Cross would physically enter Paradise that day. Seems missled human theology does not know when.
God used the term, "that day". God did not say the thief would enjoy Paradise "several thousand years from now". The thief was waiving a palm branch and the first to serve God day and night in that heavenly temple.
"After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;"
That group started at the Cross, and have come out of the last 1993 years of great tribulation. As opposed to the firstfruits of the Millennial Kingdom who come out of the Trumpets and Thunders called the Great Tribulation, or Jacob's trouble. The sheep are Jacob. The goats are Jacob, and the trouble is because only a third of Jacob is redeemed out of Adam's dead corruptible flesh. I don't see half the church as ever getting it right after the 6th Seal.
"Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you,
I know you not."
Get that? 50%, all those post people are not known by God any more. The pre-Jacob's trouble left at the 6th Seal. Those post people are these.
"And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."
That does not mean God has memory issues. That means those virgins were never redeemed. They thought they were, but when they went away looking for oil, during the Trumpets and Thunders, they ended up just stuck in the winepress of God's wrath. They thought they had that post judgment ability to make it out. Now all they have going for them at the 7th Trumpet is perhaps they will chop off their heads. Only God knows that, even though God already said He did not know them, so how will God know if they chop off their heads, if God already declared they did not exist? Quite a post conundrum to this waiting and seeing what happens view on the book of Revelation.
The wheat and the sheep, along with the 144k are on those horses in Revelation 19, that is if they had to wait 42 months. They populate the earth in the Millennium. No one is on the earth, except those waiting on the battlefield with the mark. There is not a group of post everything hiding out in caves somewhere. The church was glorified in the 5th Seal. The sheep redeemed in the Trumpets. The wheat harvested in the Thunders. Even some were beheaded in Satan's 42 months. But no one exists, because God claims they don't exist, still waiting out somewhere on the earth. If they do exist, they are as well as dead.
