As Christians, we better be prepared for the possibility of going through the tribulation. I believed in a pre-trib rapture because of teachings I heard on the radio, until @bluerthangreen showed me scripture verses that indicated the rapture could just as easily take place at the end. We see many verses urging Christians to be faithful to the point of death. Our ancestors went through things like this in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. Who are we to think we will avoid it? God has not appointed us to wrath, but He has appointed us to a measure of suffering. And that suffering will do its good work in us, if we allow it to.