But many of the comments that follow aren't so hot.
The business of Armageddon results from a fundamental misunderstanding of Evangelical Christians' views regarding Armageddon. That Battle, according to most Fundamentalists, will occur at least 1007 years from now...counting down from the moment of "The Rapture". (The preceding statement based on the fact that most Evangelical Christians and Fundamentalists are Dispensationalists who follow the eschatology of Tim LaHaye and Left Behind, Hal Lindsay, H.R. Ironside, M. R. DeHaan, Moody Bible Institute, etc.)
I don't know a single fundamentalist Evangelical who believes this. There are a lot of messed up ideas out there.
Sort of like someone who does a book critic of a NYT best seller, without ever reading it, but what he thinks it says.
Forget about "actual" theology, if you had read the NYT best seller Left Behind, written by Tim Lahaye, who you mentioned, you'd realize that his views and the views of the others you mentioned, are that Armaggeddon happens at the end of the 7 year tribulation period, not at the end of the millenial reign.
I was brought up with the teachings of the rapture, but as I've gotten older and studied scripture for my self, I never see the rapture mentioned. But the tribulation and Armaggeddon and the millenial reign and the final judgment all most definetely are.
Throughout history God has protected his people (Jews or gentiles) but has never removed them completely from tribulations.
A person who focuses on a rapture, focuses on escaping terrible times. The person who focuses on end times focuses on time running out for the great commision.
The person focusing on the rapture if it doesn't happen isn't prepared for what follows. Meanwhile a person focused on end times is prepared even if there is a rapture.