When the Rapture never came

Americans are often citing verses about the rapture with the idea they will be delivered from persecution in the last days.  For fourteen hundred years Muslims have been burning churches and slaughtering Christians for whom the rapture never came.  Even in our day Christians in Muslim countries are having their throats cut, burned to death, raped and sold into slavery while western Christians live in a fantasy world of video games and Hollywood fiction.  And many talk big words of faith and power yet they have never been to a third world country where they would be killed for being a Christian.  It is easy to talk big until the fire gets turned up.