Christ did speak of the days of the coming of the Son of Man as being like the Days of Noah. You had Noah and his family being whisked off the earth followed by Earth’s destruction. Christ described the conditions of the Days of Noah as being just like they will be when he comes. Like the days of Noah the chosen get whisked off to some place safe while God pours down his wrath on the unrepenting Earth. But the Bible says even those days are cut short lest all life be totally destroyed...meaning a lot of the unsaved but unmarked as well as those who managed to come to faith during that horrific time will be left to repopulate the Earth when Christ rules out of the new Jerusalem that comes out of heaven according to Revelation.
Now as to a rapture time period, I always felt it could occur any time from the Ezekiel 37-38 war right up until the Beast commits the Abomination of Desolation(the one Christ was hinting at, the one spoken of in Revelation...not the one in 72 AD or so done by the Romans). Heck it could be even just before Armageddon and the widespread destruction taking place on Earth at that time. I base that thinking on the fact that Revelation speaks of souls who had been martyred by the Beast system by the bushel load who purified themselves, overcame the Beast by their faith and by their testimony and by their refusal to take his mark. The wording in Revelation is very specific and it suggests a whole lot of Christians being killed by the Beast at that time. Did this happen after a rapture, when folks realizing that what their ol’ grannies said was true and they come to realization that they had better get saved even if they get killed for it? Or is there a whole lot of interesting stuff going on with the Church and the Beast before said rapture occurs? I have a strong notion about the rapture occuring at the time of the resurrection of the 2 killed witnesses, when God says(in perfect KJV, hah hah) “Come up hither!”, and when they do so, the entire company of remaining saints and all of the resurrected in Christ go up at that same time.....but hey it’s just a personal notion.
“Like the days of Noah the chosen get whisked off to some place safe while God pours down his wrath on the unrepenting Earth.”
Right. God DESTROYS the earth with a flood. Nobody lives. He didn’t remove Noah; He sanctified by telling him to build the ship.
This is what I mean by confusion over what the word ‘wrath’ means. Many thing the tribulation period is the wrath and it is not. It’s God’s ultimate destruction.