Your question is in relation to God's ability and to protection of God's people during the time when God's wrath is poured out onto the world.
Your question was not in relation to the rapture.
It's related to the rapture in the sense that I'm asking why it would be necessary to for the rapture to occur before any of God's wrath is poured out. As I said before, I can understand the need for it to happen before the final wrath of God is poured out upon the entire earth by way of fire coming down on the entire earth when Christ returns (2 Peter 3:10-12), but I don't see any reason why it would need to happen before that. God could protect His people from any wrath that occurs before that while we're still on the earth.
I was pointing out to you that during the time when God's wrath is poured out onto the world, there would be a large number of martyred believers - which is not because that God is incapable. The rapture will have happened before then.
There's no reason to think that God should protect believers from being martyred. He can if He wants, but it's not something we should expect Him to do. Believers have been martyred ever since Abel was killed by his brother Cain. But, when it comes to His wrath, we know it's never intended for believers. So, we should expect that believers would be protected from His wrath. And my point is that the only time when we would need to be taken off the earth to be protected from His wrath is when His final wrath comes down at the return of Christ (as described in 1 Thess 5:2-3 and 2 Peter 3:10-12) and not any time before that.
You keep coming back to the same issue of questioning God's capability, and not acknowledging that during the time of God's wrath that there will be a large number of believers martyred.
What do the martyred believers have to do with what I'm talking about? Nothing. I'm talking about God's wrath. Stop trying to change the subject.
It doesn't say "final" wrath in 1Thessalonians5:9-11. In that passage, it is indicating the rapture is before the time of God's wrath beginning.
You need to look at the context. What wrath did Paul reference previously in that letter?
1 Thessalonians 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that
the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then
sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child;
and they shall not escape.
This is the wrath that Paul referred to that the rapture will precede. It doesn't have to say "final" wrath in 1 Thess 5:9 because the context shows that it was the final wrath of God that he had in mind.
Peter wrote about the same wrath and made it quite clear that it will come down on the entire earth.
2 Peter 3:10 But
the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night;
in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
This is the wrath that the rapture precedes. Nowhere does scripture teach that the rapture precedes any other wrath besides this wrath that will come down on the entire earth on the day Christ returns.
