I know it is very confusing but I believe Satan is using his servant Putin to set the stage for the Antichrist to come forward with "peace and security". He will create a situation that the entire world will see as catastrophic so when the Antichrist comes on his white horse to confirm the covenant they will embrace him. People will hear and see what they want to.
Think of the Earth as having a title deed, there is a long history of mortgages on this title and it began with pretend kings on a white horse promising the world but delivering war, famine and plague. So when Jesus comes to claim ownership of the Earth we have to go through this title history, hence the Antichrist rides forward.
Now before all this gets real bad we'll have the rapture, however, it will be far fewer people than most think so yes, people will disappear, but it probably will be less than 1%. There will be a lot of deplorables that are missing but very few dignitaries, officials, talking heads, government officials, etc so the propaganda machine can move along at full speed.
Now what is amazing is all this can take place in the next 6-7 months.
You'll know if this is true if you see a miraculous victory by Israel over Russia and some guy promising to let Israel rebuild the temple.
It also appears that the rapture takes place six months before the tribulation begins. Anyway it seems all kinds of great things will take place this March.
This is what is also fantastic about this story, it seems the first rapture follows a great victory like we saw in Esther defeating the evil Haman. We have seen this battle going on for some time but should come to a conclusion this month.