I totally agree with your post. Although in one area, my understanding is that the 'he' spoken of 2 Thess. is the Church the Body of Christ, the ONE NEW MAN that Paul speaks of. Hence, the word "he" in the removing before the Antichrist is revealed. Paul did speak of the Body of Christ in the masculine. And the Body of Christ is indeed holding back the wrath of God, in that we are now ambassadors for Christ, calling all men to be reconciled to God through the finished work of Christ.
Either way, we will not be going through the tribulation. We are promised to be kept from God's wrath upon this world.
I can see what you're saying about the body of Christ, but the passage says that the person "restrains" the Antichrist from coming to power, and after He takes Himself out of the way, then Satan's guy can come on the scene. What is being restrained is the Antichrist, not the wrath of God.
There is no one on earth, aside from God Himself, who has the power to restrain Satan and evil. The Antichrist can't make his appearance until the Holy Spirit removes the Church in which He dwells, and His ministry of restraining evil, from the earth.