When you are waiting in line for them to take your head...I hope you talk this brave then...that is when many will fall and take the mark....
I won't be here Meggido! This is the difference between those trusting in the Lord's promises that believers are not appointed to suffer God's coming wrath, that Jesus rescues us from the coming wrath and that he promised to keep believers out of the coming time of God's wrath.
Believers should be prepared to go through trial and tribulation, even unto death. But we should be confident that we will not go through God's coming wrath. Big difference between the two.
By expecting to go through God's wrath, you are not trusting in the promises of the Lord:
"They tell how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead—Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath."
"But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
"Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you out of the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth."
Before you say it, believers are not appointed to suffer any wrath, whether the wrath that is coming via the seals, trumpets and bowl judgments nor the wrath at the final judgment.
And the reason is because those who have faith in Christ have been credited with righteousness and have been reconciled to God.
Yes, believers are subject to trials and persecutions which come at the hands of mankind and the powers of darkness. But believers are not appointed to suffer God's coming wrath.
Your error is not making a distinction between the two.