What if there was no pre-Trib Rapture?
The wars came as expected; what you didn’t anticipate was that they’d affect you as they did. With all the prepping, you figured you were good for the long haul. You’d hunker down and wait out the Tribulation – what there was of it that you believed would actually happen; after all, most of Revelation was symbolic and not literal – because that’s what you knew God intended. But the lawlessness was worse than you thought. Since you were rural, you were safe. Only you weren’t.