[The scriptures do NOT support anyone being removed before the tribulation. We will be sanctified and protected during that time but when Christ truly returns (trumps, all eyes see Him, etc) He will rapture us and immediately destroy the earth.]
Again, search the Scriptures. The body of Christ will be removed from the wrath of God precisely because they are the bride of Christ by grace through faith and are saved from wrath by Him, the church will be raptured and the Lord will work with Israel during the 7 year tribualtion to bring them to the knowledge of Jesus Christ as Messiah and God Almighty the Father will use the anti Christ himself to do His strange and mighty work during this period of 21 judgements, also known as the time of Jacobs trouble. Those who will be protected will be Israeli Jews who will flee into the wilderness where God will prepare a place and protect them from the man anti christ, the servant of Satan whom the world will adore and worship by recieving a mark in their hand or on their forehead.
At the end of the 7 year tribualtion, God the Father will send Jesus Christ to rule and reign on the earth for 1000 years as King of Kings and Lord of Lords and He will rule in His seat in Israel.
Then Lord Jesus will deliver up the Kingdom to God the Father and then Revelation teaches that the enemies of God during the 1000 year rule will return yet again under Satan himself, who will be realeased for a short time to deceive them again, who will surround the camp of the Saints, probalbly Jerusalem, and God Almighty will send fire from heaven that will burn the whole earth as described by the apostle Peter. This will be followed by the new heaven and the new earth with new Jerusalem descending from heaven itself, the work of God by Christ Jesus, where the saved saints and God will live in forever.
Search the Scriptues and you will see that it is truth indeed.
Kindred,
I HAVE searched the scriptures. You’ve hit on exactly what the problem is with those that believer we get raptured secretly and early; a misinterpretation of what WRATH means. Wrath is God’s destruction, not the tribulation. He raptures us before he destroys the earth. It’s clear in the scriptures that this is so.
We have been living in tribulation since the beginning of time and God has never removed any of us. Those that have died are still ‘asleep’; dead.