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Re: your posts 154-156, 159, 164. They are just inferences, my friend, inferences. Fond theories of men read into the scripture. To single out, which seems to you, to be most compelling, God’s wrath. It is INFERRED that Christians cannot possibly be in the tribulation because it is the day of the Lord, God’s wrath. Since that is a major cause of concern to you, from this post-tribbers take on what ahead of us:

The seals are an overview of what’s ahead of us, the rise of antichrist going forth to conquer, with wars, famines, pestilences, following in his wake (the first four seals), the great tribulation (seal five), the day of the Lord (seal six). All predicted by Jesus in Matt. 24, but with no gathering of the elect until verses 29-31, on the contrary Jesus has Christians continuing to preach the gospel, enduring in their faith until the end, vss 13,14.

Unless you are unrepentant, like the FRoman Catholics are with their Mariolatry, which you are a champion about here on the RF, then the wrath in the trumpet are not directed at you, Rev. 9:20, 21. Likewise the unrepentant in the vials, who have taken the mark of the beast, Rev. 16:2, etc. None of the wrath in the seals, trumpets, or vials, are directed at the faithful, but rather the unrepentant.

True, the elect must endure great persecution once the antichrist comes to power, but that has been the lot of the elect all along, beginning with Cain and Abel its been this way, nothing new there, the end time, with its seals, trumpets, and vials, is designed to bring people to repentance. God is “not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance,” 2 Pet. 3:9. A great number will, Rev. 7:9, 14.

As to the great day of God’s wrath, the day of the Lord, the cosmic signs signal its arrival, and Jesus places those signs “immediately after the tribulation of those days,” Matt. 24:29-31. THAT is the wrath of God the elect escape. Not the wrath of man, we must endure it. The rapture, the gathering of the elect, takes place at that time.