Whatever God’s plan and purpose for us, you can guarantee that “being in the midst of it” will be required.
One of our pastors, in talking about Revelation and the rapture picked out a verse in Revelation and said something like - “I know I just said don’t pick and choose verses - but right there is the verse where it is speaking to Christians to be strong and steadfast through it all. This is one of the reasons why I don’t believe that the rapture will take us up before all of the bad stuff happens. When has God EVER removed his people from hardship in the world? He wants us in the middle of it as His witnesses.”
Of course the following week, another pastor during Bible study talked about their views and verses and how the faithful would escape during the rapture.
Me? I have no idea, and don’t concern myself with it. I got enough to worry about trying to stay strong and faithful in today’s battles against Satan.