One of the key biblical doctrines that still has not made a full recovery from the Middle Ages of history is the concept of a divinely planned and guided challenge of adversity contained within a God-composed journey of faith, which beneficially separates the believer from debilitating self-sovereignty.
The Christian church must experience some portion of Daniel's seven-year tribulation. This viewpoint does not adversely affect our blessed hope, or undermine the doctrine of imminence at any time of an immediate rapture of the church, or call into question the purity of God's love for us (Psalm 34:19).