When I first became a Christian in 1981 I joined an AG church and was, by default, a Pre-Trib believer. Then I bothered to study it on my own. I became “mid-Trib”, which is more accurately described as “post tribulation, Pre wrath of God”.
But unlike most pre-trib believers I know, I understand that NONE of us really knows for sure. Just as nobody saw Jesus coming the way he did. NOBODY.
We are no different. We are no more “special”, though we are saved. :)
All this apocalyptic stuff is fun to study, but it is there for us to know when it happens, not to “predict the future”.
My dad has been a fundamentalist, conservative Baptist preacher for 65 years. He says he's a pan millennist, it will all pan out in the end.
It is sold like fire insurance by many churches. Always has been. Or, better yet, like frequent flier miles to be taken on your trip. I suggest we don’t wait for Messiah to gather us up, but we prepare the way for his coming. Don’t look up in the clouds, search your heart and let him in. Entire lives have been wasted by “waiting” for his return.