That's yet ANOTHER BIBLE SCRIPTURE you don't know, just what the "wrath" of 1 Thessalonians 5:9 is about...
You're going to get a FREE BIBLE LESSON about that "wrath" right here, IF you pay attention...
1 Thess 5:1-9
5 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
Apostle Paul is speaking of the SIGNS of the events of the END leading up to Christ's future coming to gather His Church, and punish the wicked and deceived. Those at the Church of Thessalonica Paul had no need to cover all that, because he said they already knew them (those future events written in The Old Testament first).
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
On the 6th Vial of Revelation 16:15, Jesus warned His Church that was still not yet gathered, that He comes "as a thief", and for His to keep their garments (of white), lest they appear spiritually naked in shame. That is PROOF FROM LORD JESUS, that His coming to gather His Church had not happened yet at that 6th Vial!
Your false pre-trib rapture preachers instead claim Jesus gathers His Church by the time of Rev.4, and then they say stupid things like the Church is not mentioned after that in Revelation. Well, Jesus is speaking directly to His Church in that Rev.16:15 verse within the 6th Vial timing! And that reveals once again the pre-trib rapture doctrine is a LIE against God's written Word.
3 For when they shall say, "Peace and safety"; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
When who... says that, "Peace and safety"? the wicked and deceived during the coming "great tribulation" time. Daniel 8 and 11, and Revelation reveal the Antichrist ("little horn") will come to power as king over all nations, and destroy USING PEACE; and even that craft will prosper by his hand. Thus the deceived will be claiming that "Peace and safety" has come for the whole... world once that false-Messiah appears on earth first to work that false peace, and great signs and wonders and miracles.
And when the symbolic "thief" (representing the surprise of Christ's coming in the clouds), it will be then that "sudden destruction" will come upon those who will be claiming world peace and safety!
That means the false pre-trib rapture authors like Hal Lindsay and Tim LaHaye have it all wrong, as they are NOT aware that the time of the "great tribulation" is going to be a time of WORLD PEACE AND SAFETY, yet a false peace, all per God's written Word. Those authors, like you, are instead spirutually drunken on the false pre-trib rapture ideas of men, and don't really know what God's Word teaches about the END.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
Per Paul, Christ's faithful Church are NOT be deceived by those events. The "day of the Lord" which Paul links to the day of Christ's coming to gather His Church, is to be recognized within the ballpark of events leading up to Christ's future return on the last day of this world. Christ's Church is not to be deceived by these events. Thus those in Christ are NOT... to be spiritually asleep about these events like those claiming "Peace and safety" will be. And thus knowing about the "times and the seasons" from God's Word is how the faithful Church reveals they do heed and keep what God's written Word says, instead of men's philosophy being used to twist His Word.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
There it is, Paul uses the idea of spiritual drunkeness for the deceived that will claim that "Peace and safety", their not knowing what the time of the end they will be in.
Right now we are in what Jesus called "the beginning of sorrows" in Matthew 24. That is NOT the "great tribulation". The "great tribulation" starts with the coming false-Messiah showing up and placing the "abomination of desolation" IDOL in a new Jewish temple in Jerusalem (Matt.24:15). Today's Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem have to build their 3rd temple first before that will happen.
When that false-Messiah does show up in Jerusalem, playing GOD, Rev.13:4-8 reveals ALL nations will be under that false one for 42 months, which is the latter 1260 days period of Daniel's symbolic "one week" of Daniel 9:27, and with the placing of the abomination per the Daniel 11:31 Scripture. That Rev.13 Scripture also reveals that false one will be given power over Christ's saints for that 42 months, and that means Christ's Church STILL HERE ALIVE UPON THIS EARTH.
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
KJV
Finally, that "wrath" that you ill spoke of, since the false pre-trib rapture preachers wrongly teach that above "wrath" is Satan's wrath, when IT IS NOT. That "wrath"above is GOD'S CUP OF WRATH POURED OUT ON THE 'LAST DAY' of this world, on the final 7th Vial of Revelation 16! That... is the "sudden destruction" Paul spoke of that will come suddenly upon those who claim 'peace and safety', i.e., that the NEW WORLD ORDER has finally come and is completed!
Guess where... in God's Word those Truths about the END were first written? Not in The New Testament, but in The Old Testament, like in the Book of Isaiah which includes a section of Chapters that some Bible scholars call 'The Apocalypse of Isaiah'. God gives strong details of how the wicked and deceived will be fooled about the events of the very end when the "sudden destruction" comes upon them on the "day of the Lord", which is the last day of this present world. And that is where... Apostle Paul is pulling from in this 1 Thess.5 chapter.