Key Question: Wouldn't the Final Judgment be greater than the Tribulation?
In this framework, the Tribulation is described as the most intense suffering in human history. However, the Final Judgment is not usually described as a prolonged period of earthly suffering. Instead, it is a decisive judicial event where all humanity stands before God.
The Tribulation involves wars, famine, persecution, cosmic disturbances, and global upheaval over time. It is experienced in history.
The Final Judgment, however, is portrayed as instantaneous and eternal in consequence rather than temporal suffering.
Comparison Thought: A fire that destroys the entire earth and ushers in eternal reality is not necessarily "more intense time-wise" than a seven-year tribulation—it is categorically different in nature.
The Tribulation is the climax of earthly history. The Final Judgment is the transition into eternal states.