On the Suffering and Glory of the Bride:

Does the Bride get battered and bloody during the Great Tribulation? Yes. Just as the Bridegroom Himself was battered and bloodied. Both Head and Body endure (and overcome) an "hour when darkness reigns." There is an ultimate, eschatological Cross for the Bride to bear, so that the desire of Paul may be fulfilled in us: "I want to know Him...and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings."

The "fellowship of sufferings" will be a key component of the Bride's intimacy with Jesus. But Paul's teaching is wider than that:

"that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead."

-Gabe Cali