Rapture

Rapture

The dictionary definition of rapture is: the state of being carried away with joy, love etc.. ecstasy.
The dictionary definition of tribulation is: Great misery or distress as from oppression.

I want you to know that what I’m writing is just my opinion from reading and studying that I’ve done.  I’m open to hearing other opinions.  
     
This is what I believe;  2 peter 2:5 says, “If He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on it, ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness and seven others; if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;  and if He rescued Lot a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by lawless deeds he saw and heard)”  Peter went on to say, “IF this is so then the Lord knows how to rescue Godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment while continuing their punishment.”
     
Out of that scripture I got that God protected or, in other words, guarded, Noah; that is He took care of Noah  and his family while they went through the flood.  
     
On the other hand, He rescued Lot or delivered Lot (To set free or save from evil) out of the city before he burned them down.
     
Peter goes on to say, “God will rescue us from the coming wrath.”  Not protect us through it, but rescue us from it.  Wrath also means punishment.  
     
Paul also confirms this in 1 Thessalonians 1:10, “And to wait for His son from Heaven, whom He raised from the dead- Jesus who rescues us from the coming wrath.”  Again, Jesus will rescue us, not protect us through the wrath.  
     
Now 2 peter also talks about trials and in Revelations 3: 10, Jesus says, “Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth.”
     
We are to be taken out, or rescued from the wrath, or trial that will be coming, which is the tribulation.