I am going to tell you straight up that my understanding has changed as I attempted to write this. Two things stand out in my mind:

Who decided that they were finished? Revelation 11: 7,8

Of the two witnesses.

Revelation 11:5-6 LITV

GENESIS CHAPTER # 1

You challenged the concept of the tribulation being judgment, referring back to the seals and the plagues of Revelation as if they were some separate entity. You also told me that you spend little to no time reading the old testament, so here is the underlying problem.

I think an attempt at establishing what this time we call the tribulation is, is in order.

WHY DID JESUS CHASE AWAY THE BUSINESS MEN FROM THE TEMPLE?

The layman's ideas of Origin depend on his/her exposure to "science" and/or "religion".