Answering the Rapturists: Divine Protection from the Wrath of God During the Tribulation

Rapturists search the book of Revelation for any hint of when the "rapture" happens. Chapter 1? Chapter 4? Chapter 7? Yet the book of Revelation is clear that the Resurrection happens at the second coming of Christ in chapter 20 and it even states that this is the "First Resurrection."
The rapturists then claim that despite what the Bible says that Christ must return for a "secret catching away" of his church seven years before His second coming because "we are not children of God's wrath."
In this sermon the scriptures address this question. It is true that God will not pour out his wrath on Christ's church and yet according to Scripture the church will be in this world during the tribulation. This sermon is about God's purpose in Christ's church enduring to the end, through all the persecutions of the Antichrist for the glory of God and to defeat the enemy through the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony.