You said — The agony of death during the tribulation will be no different than it was during The Dark Ages or Hitlers rampage. What more can be done to us that wasn’t done to them? Why weren’t they taken out, what makes you so special that you should be?
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There’s a difference between Satan’s wrath and man’s wrath — as compared to God’s wrath.
Note that God’s wrath could not be delivered upon Sodom and Gomorrah, until the angels had taken Lot, his wife and daughters out of the city. And note that Abraham “negotiated” with the Angel of the Lord (of whom it is said to be the pre-incarnate Christ) about sparing those in that area (due for destruction at the direct hand of God), if there were 50 righteous, no 45 righteous, no 40 righteous, and so on.... :-)
All the wrath of God, that he has held back from the beginning, at the time of the Garden of Eden, will be “fully dispensed” and completed, at this time. It’s *that* (which has not ever been delivered before in the history of the world), that those Christians of just before the Tribulation, will be spared from — and not those things of Satan’s wrath and/or man’s wrath, which has occurred throughout history, time and time again...
Another way to think about this, is that the church is the “Bride of Christ”. Our God and Savior, Jesus Christ is the groom, as portrayed in the Bible.
Now, you would have the Groom, beat his bride “black and blue”, full of bruises, battered and beaten to an inch of her life — before he marries her...
In our contemporary world that we live in, we call those “grooms” or “husbands” — wife beaters and maniacs...
I guess you would have Christ, as the groom be a wife-beater... LOL..