I agree with what tomwebster said here....
John 3:13 text you refer to has absolutely nothing to do with the subject of your OP. You are taking it totally out of context.
I think the believers will go through tough times, but not through the worst.....when the Earth is destroyed with fire. 2 Peter 3:12 as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat. Isaiah 24:19 The earth is broken up, the earth is split asunder, the earth is thoroughly shaken. Isaiah 34:4 All the stars of the heavens will be dissolved and the sky rolled up like a scroll; all the starry host will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like shriveled figs from the fig tree. Micah 1:4 The mountains melt beneath him and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.
What exactly is God's wrath? Is it not the destruction of the Earth, and the judgment of ungodly people and their being thrown into the lake of fire?
2 Peter 3:7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.
2 Peter 3:11 Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives
I do want to bring up that in Romans we can read about "the wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness." See Romans 1:18. Read more how God's wrath is being revealed: how their foolish hearts are darkened (Romans 1:21); How God gives people over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another (Romans 1:24); How God gives them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. (Romans 1:26-27); How God gives them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity.......
Romans 2:5-10 But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. [sup]
6[/sup] God “will repay each person according to what they have done.”[sup]
7[/sup] To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. [sup]
8[/sup] But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. [sup]
9[/sup] There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; [sup]
10[/sup] but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.
I think that many who think there will be a rapture before things get bad are in danger of falling away.
When the dead are resurrected and the those alive are changed into their resurrected bodies when Jesus comes....will meet Jesus in the air. 1 Thessalonians 4:16, and 1 Corinthians 15:52...in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
We see in 1 Corinthians 15:52, when the dead are raised....it will be at the last trumpet.
Matthew 24:32 And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
Maybe the wrath of God will happen to those on Earth after the dead in Christ are resurrected and those alive are given new bodies, and after we are safe with the Lord in the air. See Joel 2:11...
Joel 2:11 The LORD thunders at the head of his army; his forces are beyond number, and mighty are those who obey his command. The day of the LORD is great; it is dreadful. Who can endure it?
I do not see anything strange about being safe with Jesus while the Wrath of God goes upon the Earth.
1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 for they themselves report what kind of reception you gave us. They tell how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, [sup]
10[/sup] and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead—Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath.
Read about the wrath Jesus is going to rescue us from........
Revelation 6:16 They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the
wrath of the Lamb!
Revelation 6:17 or the great day of their
wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”
Revelation 11:18 tells us about God's wrath and the time coming to judge the dead....
Revelation 11:18 The nations were angry, and your
wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your people who revere your name, both great and small— and for destroying those who destroy the earth.”
Revelation 14:10 they, too, will drink the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his
wrath. They will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.
Revelation 14:19 The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God’s
wrath.
Revelation 15:1 [
Seven Angels With Seven Plagues ] I saw in heaven another great and marvelous sign: seven angels with the seven last plagues—last, because with them God’s
wrath is completed.
Revelation 15:7 Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the
wrath of God, who lives for ever and ever.
Revelation 16:1 [
The Seven Bowls of God’s Wrath ] Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go, pour out the seven bowls of God’s
wrath on the earth.”
Revelation 16:19 The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his
wrath.
Revelation 19:15 Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.” He treads the winepress of the fury of the
wrath of God Almighty.
Revelation 20:11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence, and there was no place for them.
Revelation 20:13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what he had done
Matthew 25
“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. [sup]
32[/sup] All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. [sup]
33[/sup] He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
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34[/sup] “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. [sup]
35[/sup] For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, [sup]
36[/sup] I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
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37[/sup] “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? [sup]
38[/sup] When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? [sup]
39[/sup] When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
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40[/sup] “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ [sup]
41[/sup] “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
So far, from what I can understand from the scriptures......Jesus will come at the last trumpet. All will be raised, the righteous and the unrighteous. The dead will rise first, then those still alive will be given a new, resurrected body. We, the believers will meet Jesus in the air. God's wrath will be poured out on the Earth. Then the Earth and sky will flee from His presence. Then each person will be judged.
John 5:28-30
Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice [sup]
29[/sup] and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned. [sup]
30[/sup] By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.