I am currently reading a book "Great Controversy" or something like that, which goes through church history, especially during the protestant reformation. Although there are times God clearly protected men from those trying to stop them, God seems to frequently use men's unwavering faith in the face of unbelievable persecution to lead people to Him. In that respect, "we lose", but ultimately we definitely win.

Since everyone here is mentioning, I am definitely a pre-trib believer. I think it best fits what the Bible explicitly says as well as matching his character.

I don't understand people today being amill. I used to not understand how the things predicted in Revelation about the Tribulation could come to be. Today, all of the technology necessary to make it a reality exists. A rapture of His followers, followed by the wrath explicitly described in Revelation, followed by a return of the church and the millenial reign makes perfect sense. I can understand the amill beliefs for people in much of the past because Israel was no more, and it was impossible to see how people could see what was happening across the globe, buying and selling could be controlled, and people could be tracked.