The entire "left behind" is dangerous fiction and the fiction that "the tribulation will be in the future" ignores the tribulations like the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, the Eastern front horrors, etc. etc.
As I had mentioned, our church did a series on Revelation - 6 to 8 weeks I suppose. Sermons and Bible studies. Our family was (and still is) going through some trials, so it was a very timely series for me. Trials that I truly believe are being prodded on by Satan.
It was amazing that in spite of all of the tragedy and horrors that Revelation speaks of, the main thing that I took away from it is that God is on His Throne and is Sovereign. And that He IS in control, that He loves those that are His, and that Evil will be defeated and justice served.