Good morning Outlaw,
you're asking about beyond the rescue and beyond Armageddon, yes?
We can be trusting of people - become conned now and then, go home and weep a little and carry on the next day a little wiser - or we can distrust everyone and so never be conned; but it is less painful to be conned once or twice by others than to con ourselves every day with paranoia, and everyone around us will see the damage. We have all had questions like yours - I certainly did - but they just prevented me from looking either ahead or around me properly.
You can answer your question yourself, with a little thought... would you like to try?
God could have prevented Mankind from usurping His authority over the earth, but instead let us learn for ourselves that we would bring about our own demise. Well we're learning that, if reluctantly, and He will intervene; it will be hard to imagine how anyone could disbelieve in Him when they see that, or could feel that He is not benevolent. That kind of experience changes people - whatever their demeanour, whatever their distrust beforehand.
His rescue of us marks the start of the return to what the earth should always have been - it has to reach its fruition, because like it or not we do not own the earth: it is His - see the Prodigal Son illustration. It will not be filled with reluctance, nor frightened people as at church, but with people cared for by their Father Who - cruelly - has been deprived of that role since we took independence from Him. Armageddon come because those who will want independence will fight implacably to take everything, which is the nature of independence: it does not settle for what it has.
But others - you mention both gays, those who do not feel much for God, and so on - are bound to be influenced by the benevolence of those years; don't we all draw close to things which are good for us? Besides, is someone just gay, or are they a many-facetted person who expresses some of their love in that way toward some people? Do you know how many people have left interests behind because they find something better? - not through injury, or demand, or censure, but because they find and choose something which moves them forward? Sexuality is one thing, being an artist another, being a novelist, or a teacher - and I loved to teach, but do not now - when we find something better, then that becomes our foremost defining characteristic.
When we look ahead for answers - asking a God we do not believe in to have shown a perfect plan - it helps to consider how some of His more imminent actions will affect us first, before postulating on those far ahead. We might just have a clearer view that way.
