When a person dies in Christ they are with Him for to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord, which Jesus said the thief on the cross shall be with him in paradise that day.
Which there are souls under the altar in heaven asking Jesus when will He avenge them, and he said when all the saints on the earth are with Him which they are awaiting their glorified body.
There is 2 resurrections one of the saints before the millennial reign of Christ, and one of the dead after the millennial reign of Christ.
God loves all people but He has to end sin on earth one day so He is allowing the world 7 years to have their way, and cause all people who do not love Him to follow the New Age Christ/antichrist, and when they do He will end sin on earth.
As long as the world has salvation available to them then the saints will remain on earth to represent the truth.
Paul said let no person deceive you by any means for the gathering of the saints unto Christ will not happen until there is a falling away first which is the condition of the world in response to the Gospel which they stopped the preaching of it on a world wide level all nations governments complying.
And the man of sin claims to be God for it allowed the devil to be able to rule them through the New Age Christ.
For the first three and one half years the world has salvation available to them so the saints will remain on earth.
Which the wrath of God is not in the first half for it is the same as now with salvation being offered to the world.
At the end of the first three and one half years the transgressors are come to the full, and the New Age Christ claims to be God, and the people that follow him will worship Lucifer believing he is a god, and an alien, that will cause mankind to have peace, advance, and evolve, which they talk about the return of the gods.
Salvation is no longer available to the world.
Now the saints can be resurrected to be with Jesus.
But the beast makes war against the saints and prevails against them.
And they are given in to his hands for three and one half years.
And when they shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people then all things are finished.
Which then comes the end when the Son shall deliver up the kingdom to the Father, and then He will put down all power, authority, and rule.
The beast has power over all nations, kindreds, and tongues, so the wrath of God is not there.
Since God is giving the world their way to go against the truth the saints will remain on earth for the 7 years for if not then how did the world go against the truth for 7 years.
And the wrath of God is not in the 7 years period because God is giving the world their way for that time.
The wrath of God does not happen until the end of the 7 years period, and the saints removed from the earth.
The resurrection is in the future to get all the saints off the earth, and then Jesus will put down the earth.
The Bible says there is 2 resurrections, and blessed is the person that is caught in the first resurrection.
After the resurrection they cannot be saved for Jesus said they were a hypocrite, or they did not accept the truth, and it is at the end of the 7 years period.
2Ti 2:16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
2Ti 2:17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
2Ti 2:18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
When the pre-seven years resurrection, or the mid-7 years resurrection does not happen it will overthrow the faith of some people.
Also it testifies that the resurrection did not happen up to that point after Jesus died.
And it calls it the resurrection and in more than one place.