And please, in your response to metmom, don’t even try to say it was Darby and Margaret Macdonald.
We can only know for sure after the fact but we could be in the tribulation already. So many things about the present situation resemble end time prophecy but there are many who say “these are just foreshadowing for worse things that will happen later.” Will people keep saying this as the world descends further into sin, chaos and despair? At what point do you reach the “real” end time? This is perhaps why nobody knows the date, not from a lack of signs, but this continual ebb and flow — you could have certainly made a case for the approach of the end time from 1939 to 1945 yet as far as we know, Jesus did not return after that and certainly there was no event like “every eye shall see him,” he could only have returned in secret.
Personally I think it quite possible that all signs are being verified which perhaps makes this a rather soft tribulation but evidently one without a rapture since here we all are.