The misled and the fearful who don't want to believe the truth, grab for straws to justify escapism.One of the more common misconceptions that we hear is, "We are not appointed to wrath, so Christ will come before the Great Tribulation and take us home. Then those remaining shall go through God's wrath." This, of course, is taken from the book of First Thessalonians, Chapter 5...

Verse 9. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
10. Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

    Remember when God commanded Moses to smite the waters of Egypt while the children of Israel were there? Were they affected by this? No, they were not. and who got the credit? God did. What about the rest of the plagues? Were the children of Israel taken out before they came about? NO. And who got the credit and glory for their safety? God did.

    Paul said that Christians were not appointed to wrath, but to obtain salvation. He did not say they would be removed. In fact, he defined the difference between deliverance and removal in II Timothy, 3:11...

11. Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured ; but out of them all the Lord delivered me.

    Remember, in St. John 17, verse 15, Jesus said:
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

    Further, in verse 20, he said...
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;

    All Christians in this day believe on Jesus through the recorded word of the apostles. That means that the prayer he prayed was all inclusive. In other words, he was talking about all Christian believers.