Why will there be survivors after the Tribulation?
There will be survivors after the Tribulation because history demonstrates that even the most catastrophic events always leave some survivors. Just as people survived Hiroshima and the San Francisco earthquake, survivors will be scattered across the planet from every nation at the Tribulation's end.
Les teaches that no matter what kind of catastrophe people go through, there are always some survivors. He illustrates this with Hiroshima, where a woman at ground zero survived because the exploding library books buried her and the paper insulated her from the radioactive power; she was totally burned but survived. He also recalls the San Francisco earthquake when the freeway collapsed, and rescuers found survivors. So it will be at the end of the Tribulation: there are going to be survivors scattered around the planet from every nation. Les then invites his classes to estimate what "a few" means, personally thinking of something less than five percent.