Doug,

I was able to understand what you mentioned regarding those of us who are alive and remain at the time of the blessed hope.

You had also mentioned:

Since the beginning of the Church Age many believers have died who were living in disobedience

to God's will and not ready to meet Him as He would have preferred them to be.

Millions of Christians, over the past two millennia, have gone on to be with the Lord.

They are not "buried alive", as some groups would have us heretically believe.

Rather, they are with the Lord, now:

II Corinthians 5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

Of those millions, considering the ones that you mentioned, not living as the Lord would have preferred, what about them?

Would their bodies remain in the ground?

Would they not enjoy the full resurrection, as their brethren, who also passed but lived as the Lord preferred?

The dead in Christ rise first:

I Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

The dead in Christ will be raised incorruptible:

I Corinthians 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

So, what happens to the ones mentioned, that did not live as the Lord preferred?

Would they never have resurrected bodies?

They can't go through the great tribulation, as mentioned:

"made ready" through the fires of Tribulation to prove that their faith is saving faith

Therefore, they cannot even receive resurrected bodies at the end of the great tribulation, either?