Only the ones who die before those days come.
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man (Luke 21:36).
Your example supports my position. Notice "accounted worthy to escape all these things." The escape will be the Lord appearing and removing His church from the earth. Since the wrath of God will come upon the whole world, there would be no place to escape to while being here.
It won't be "forced" on these:
And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus (believers in Christ that you said would not be around for the mark), and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years...This is the first resurrection (Revelation 20:4-5).
Those above that you quoted under the alter at the opening of the 5th seal, will be those who die during the first 3 1/2 years, which prior to the mark becoming mandatory. Not only that, but you have misapplied scripture with those under the alter vs the great tribulation saints, who will be killed during the last 3 1/2 years.
The first resurrection is described further by Paul:
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven...and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with him in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17).
I respectfully disagree with you.
I agree with the plain teaching of the scriptures.
The first resurrection is made up of phases or stages, as follows:
* Jesus the first fruits of the first resurrection
* The church at the Lord's appearing
* The male child/144,000 (caught up)
* The two witnesses
* The great tribulation saints
All of the above belong to the first resurrection. The error that people make, is that they interpret the word "first" as meaning "only" making it the only resurrection.
The church is the next phase of the first resurrection, with the male child and two witnesses being resurrected and caught up in the middle of the seven years and with the great tribulation saints who died being resurrected after Jesus returns to the earth to end the age.
These are all apart of the first resurrection. It's just that the "first resurrection" is only used to describe the resurrection of the great tribulation saints and so people automatically think that this is the only resurrection that takes place, which is false.
The resurrection of the dead and the living being changed and caught up, is referring to the church being caught up. Where Rev.20:4-6 is in reference to the resurrection of the great tribulation saints which takes place after the Lord returns to the earth to end the age. Both of these resurrections, one taking place prior to God's wrath and the other taking place after God's wrath, belong to the first resurrection.