On the subject of God sparing the righteous from His wrath during the Tribulation, I was reading Genesis 18 where Abraham is pleading with the Lord to spare the city of Sodom from His righteous judgment and destruction because of their great evil. He was bargaining with Him that if 50 righteous could be found, then 45, no, make that 40, on second thought make it 33, then 20, down to if
10 could be found with the whole city God agreed that He would not destroy it. Abraham said of the Lord:
Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked? What if there are fifty righteous ones in the city? Will You really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous ones who are there? Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?” (Genesis 18:23-35)
Of course, even that number wasn't found and Lot, Abraham's nephew and his family would be spared and they were hurried out of the city by the two angels the Lord sent right before He rained down sulfur and brimstone and annihilated the city and all the inhabitants. But what struck me was that God would NOT treat the righteous the same way as the wicked. He would not kill the righteous with the wicked. The Tribulation will be such a time where God's righteous, holy wrath is brought down upon the evil, God-hating world and God will have removed His elect, His righteous ones before then. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? Yes, He shall.
Deuteronomy 32:4
He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He