So who and what are they? Please tell me where do they fit in since they are not the Bride they are not the New Jerusalem.
That’s a pretty huge non-sequitur, to me.
Seems like you arbitrarily have decided that they are not part of The Bride.
Is it your fantasy that when God says . . .
THOSE WHO CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED . . .
THAT THOSE . . . who are thusly saved . . . at whatever point you arbitrarily decide the cutoff point is . . . miss out on being any part of THE BRIDE?
And how do you support THAT in Scripture?
How is it that you have arrived at the fantasy that ALMIGHTY GOD does
NOT
have the power nor authority to declare every SAVED person
REGARDLESS OF SEQUENCE OR TIMING OF THEIR BEING SAVED
AS PART OF THE BRIDE?
And when did ALMIGHTY GOD invite you to limit HIS options in the matter?
They are not the NEW JERUSALEM?
Uhhhhh . . . . OOOOOOOOOK . . .
They are not New Chicago either.
They are not Disney World either.
They are not a Mack Truck either.
They are not a Humvee either.
They are not a 747 either.
They are not an ocean tanker either.
They are not a cruise ship either.
Therefore?
1 Pet 2:5 5 you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Jesus said these statements in the Revelation of Christ.
Rev 3:12 12 "He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. And I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name. (NKJ)
Rev 21:2 2 Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. (NKJ)
Here is what Jesus said of the saints. He does not say they are guest of the Bride and the Groom but are the New Jerusalem. They over came they endured to the end. Yet the doctrine of the rapture has made saints something other than what Jesus said they will be and that is wedding guest or some second class saint.