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Yes, through Christ believers escape God’s wrath—presently, later during the Day of the Lord, and in eternity.

The trouble with modern eschatology is the failure to distinguish the Day of the Lord from the Great Tribulation as well as Daniel’s seventieth week (sometimes referred to as the “tribulation period”).

The Great Tribulation immediately precedes the Day of the Lord.

The tribulation period (Daniel’s seventieth week) begins with worldwide peace and worldwide deception. See Revelation 6:4 and Matthew 24:4-5.

The Great Tribulation begins with the abomination of desolation, in which the antichrist breaks his 7-year peace treaty with Israel by desecrating the third temple. See Matthew 24:15-22.

This event also must precede the Day of the Lord. See 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4

The Day of the Lord does not begin quietly or subtly like Daniel’s seventieth week. Rather it is accompanied by sudden destruction and the outpouring of fire from Heaven by the Holy angels. See 1 Thessalonians 5:2-3 and 2 Thessalonians 1:8.

Nor is it a time in which man exalts himself as antichrist does in the ultimate act of pride and rebellion at the abomination of desolation in which he declares himself to be God. See 2 Thessalonians 2:4 and Isaiah 2:12.

An event unique in human history will mark the end of the Great Tribulation and the imminence of the Day of the Lord: a simultaneous eclipse of the sun, moon, and stars. Note that this event comes AFTER the Great Tribulation but BEFORE the Day of the Lord:

Joel 2:31 (NKJV)
The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD.

Matthew 24:29 (NKJV)
Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

Rather it is accompanied by sudden destruction and the outpouring of fire from Heaven by the Holy angels.

The sky rolls up like a scroll, men hidden in the earth call for it to fall upon them - I don't think there will be any confusion when this day actually arrives. This is when the rapture will occur, IMHO, at or around the opening of the seventh seal, before the trumpets sound, but I could be wrong.

These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

"Who have come out of", literally means out of the midst of the "great" tribulation, before the final aftermath. Exactly when, I'm not too sure.