GREAT POST. God has given us very few keys as to timing. We are not appointed to wrath but to salvation. So before wrath is obviously correct.
“[T]hat day shall not com except there come a falling away first, and that may of sin be revealed . . . . “ II Thess 2:3.
God has carefully crafted His description of the timing and the events so that careful readers who get to the end conclude that it is not possible to know even very much about the times and the seasons. An “hour when you think not”.
The Rapture will not happen until the Church the Body of Christ is COMPLETE. When the Holy Spirit baptizes the LAST person, who believes and accepts the Gospel of the GRACE of God for his/her salvation, into the Body of Christ,then and only then will Christ come for the Church the Body of Christ. There is no reason for us to remain after the Body is complete. And BTW that is a SPIRITUAL BAPTISM that the Holy Spirit performs to place us into the Body. Not physical. It has NOTHING to do with water. It is spiritual.