All you presented was adding your own words upon God's words in order to prop up your cause.
Truth is very simple and easily received when your heart seeks Truth.
1 Thess 4:13-18 - There are only two groups of Saints
1st Group = the dead in Christ, whom Jesus brings with Him = these are the Saints in Heaven right now and continuing
2nd Group = the "alive" meaning physically alive on earth = we who remain = on earth unto His Second Coming
We call this simple English language structure written for children to understand.
I agree. It's so easy to understand when we do a simple search on the words persecution, tribulation, affliction and trouble in the New Testament.
WRATH
God's wrath has been poured out upon people and nations over the course of human history, but it has not necessarily been poured out upon the whole world in each case (for example: Exodus 15:3-7).
JUDGMENT
God's wrath being poured out upon a people is always a judgement, since it is always produced by God’s burning anger, but it’s not always a final judgement nor is it always a universal judgment:
A final judgement did not come upon Jerusalem when the wrath of God came upon the city at the time Jerusalem was destroyed by the armies of Babylon, but a final judgement did come upon Babylon (Jeremiah 50:13) when the wrath of God came upon the city a few decades later.
Hundreds of years later, Jesus prophesied about another judgement that was to come upon the people of Jerusalem, and He mentions this judgement as coming about as a result of God’s wrath:
"But woe to those who are with child, and to those suckling in those days! For there shall be great distress (ἀνάγκη anánkē) in the land and wrath (ὀργή orgḗ) upon this people." (Luke 21:23).
Notice the above is not called tribulation in the above verse, but
wrath.
UNIVERSAL JUDGMENT
The first time in the Bible that we read about humanity being universally judged is in the account of the flood in Genesis, when only the elect (Noah and his family) were saved.
The last time we read about humanity being universally judged is in the Revelation, where we read about fire coming down from heaven and destroying the armies of the rebellious nations who had surrounded the camp of the saints (Revelation 20:9).
1 Thessalonians 5:9
"For God
has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ."
Romans 5:8-10
"But God commends His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by His blood,
we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life."
TRIBULATION AND GREAT TRIBULATION
Here are ALL New Testament references to tribulation experienced by non-Christians:-
1. Of all who do evil: Romans 2:9.
2. Of the world as repayment for bringing tribulation upon the saints: 2 Thessalonians 1:6.
There are no other New Testament mentions of tribulation as the experience of those who are not Christians.
TRIBULATION AND PERSECUTION EXPERIENCED BY CHRISTIANS
Persecution Of Jesus: John 5:16
Of Christians: Matthew 5:10-12; John 15:20; Acts 22:4; Acts 26:11; 1 Corinthians 4:12; 1 Corinthians 15:9; 2 Corinthians 4:9; Galatians 1:13 & 23; Galatians 4:29; Galatians 5:11
Of the woman who gave birth to the Messiah: Revelation 12:13
Tribulation Of apostles or Christians:
Matthew 13:21 (Parallel: Mark 4:17); Matthew 24:9 & 29 (Parallel Mark 13:24); John 16:33; Acts 11:19; Acts 14:22; Acts 20:23; Romans 5:3; Romans 8:35; Romans 12:12; 2 Corinthians 1:4, 6 & 8; 2 Corinthians 2:4; 2 Corinthians 4:8; 2 Corinthians 4:17; 2 Corinthians 6:4; 2 Corinthians 7:4-5; 2 Corinthians 8:2; Ephesians 3:13; Philippians 1:16; Philippians 4:14; Colossians 1:24; 1 Thessalonians 1:6; 1 Thessalonians 3:3-4 & 7; 2 Thessalonians 1:4, 6-7; 2 Timothy 1:8; 2 Timothy 3:11; 2 Timothy 4:5; Hebrews 10:32-33; 1 Peter 5:9; Revelation 1:9; Revelation 2:9-10, 22; Revelation 7:14.
Great Tribulation (Greek: mégas thlîpsis)
Mentioned only three times in the New Testament:
Great tribulation mentioned as the experience of Christians in Revelation 2:22 & Revelation 7:14:
Revelation 7:13-14 "And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of mégas thlîpsis (great tribulation), and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb."
Revelation 2:21 "Behold, I will cast her (Jezebel) into a bed, and them (those Christians) that commit adultery with her into mégas thlîpsis (great tribulation), except they repent of their deeds."
Great tribulation is first mentioned by Jesus in the Olivet Discourse: Matthew 24:21 (parallel Mark 13:19) *
Matthew 24:21-22 (Parallel: Mark 13:19-20):
"for then shall be mégas thlîpsis (great tribulation), such as has not been since the beginning of the world to this time; no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days should be shortened, no flesh would be saved. But for the elect's sake, those days shall be shortened." (Also see Matthew 24:9).
* Luke 21:23 uses the words great distress and wrath to describe what was to come upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem (not the word tribulation):
"But woe to those who are with child, and to those suckling in those days! For there shall be
great distress [anánkē] in the land and
wrath [orgḗ] on this people."
In Luke 21:20-24 Luke is writing about what Jesus said regarding the wrath of God that the inhabitants of Jerusalem would face when armies gather against the city and destroy the city, but the tribulation or persecution of the disciples of Jesus in the days leading up to the coming of the Son of man is mentioned in Luke 21:12-19; Matthew 24:9-10; and Mark 13:9-13; and their redemption (ending their tribulation), is mentioned in Luke 21:25-36; Matthew 24:29-51; and Mark 13:24-37.
The elect
Matthew 24:9-14 talks about the tribulation of the disciples of Jesus (the elect) and the fact that the gospel of the Kingdom must first be preached in all the world as a witness to all nations.
Matthew 24:15-22 tells the disciples that when they therefore see the abomination of desolation stand in the holy place, they should flee Judea, because this will be a time of great tribulation (Matthew 24:21), but the days will be shortened for THE ELECT'S sake.
Matthew 24:23-24 warns that false Christs and false prophets will appear showing great signs and wonders, so much so that if possible, they would deceive even THE ELECT. This is the second time the appearance of false prophets is mentioned. The first time is in Matthew 24:11.
Matthew 24:29-31 tells us of Christ sending His angels to gather HIS ELECT immediately
after the tribulation of those days.
The entire New Testament hardly suggests a pre-tribulation rapture. Calling the wrath of God "the great tribulation" is a complete and utter misnomer to begin with.