Hello Tanakh,
"After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back its four winds so that no wind would blow on land or sea or on any tree. "
If you would just read the scripture, it tells you right in the verse where the angels are standing, which is on the earth, and where the winds are that they are holding back, which is also on the earth.
"Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, brothers,2not to be easily disconcerted or alarmed by any spirit or message or letter presuming to be from us and alleging that the day of the Lord has already come."
The "coming of our Lord" and "our being gathered to him" are the same event. For 1 Thes.4:16 states that the Lord will descend from heaven and the dead in Christ will rise first and then those who are still alive will be changed and caught up. i.e. His coming is to gather us. This is not the same event of when the Lord returns to the earth to end the age. When that event takes place the church, which will have previously been gathered, will return with Christ, following him out of heaven riding on white horses. As I continue to tell you, the gathering of the church and the Lord's return to the earth to end the age, are two separate events.
Two things here, one, you are not taking into consideration that there will be the great tribulation saints who are introduced in Rev.7:9-17 who will be here during the time of tribulation. Those who will have come to Christ after the church has been gathered, which is why you never see the Ekklesia/church beyond Rev.4 onward.
And two, you are not understanding that, those whom the angels are gathering in Matt.24:30, are gathering living people who are still in their mortal bodies, who will have made it through the time of God's wrath until Christ returns. Matt.24:30 is not representing the resurrection of the dead and the living being changed and caught up. These great tribulation saints along with the woman Israel, will be those who repopulate the earth during the millennial period.
As I have said so many times, if you have the gathering of the church taking place at the same time that the Lord returns to the earth, then you have the church going through all of the seals, trumpets and bowl judgments, which makes up the entire wrath of God. You continue to exclude this information and more from your exegesis.