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.
Enoch and Elijah were “removed.”. Many are of the opinion that they will be the two winesses of Revelation.