Context is important to understanding the tribulation and the abomination which makes Jerusalem desolate.
The Sign to Flee Jerusalem’s Destruction:
18
“When therefore you see the abomination of desolation, which was
spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not in
the holy place (let him who reads understand), that is to say, when
you see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that her
desolation is at hand.”
19 “Then let those who are in Judea
flee to the mountains, let him who is on the housetop not go down to
take out things that are in his house, and let him who is in the
field (countryside) not return back to take his cloak.”
20 “For
these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be
fulfilled.”
21 “But woe to those who are with child and to
those who are breast feeding in those days!”
22 And pray that
your flight be not in the winter, neither on a Sabbath,”
23
“For then will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the
beginning of the creation which God created, until now, no, nor ever
shall be, for there will be great distress on the land, and wrath to
this people.”
This is not about world judgment, but the judgment on the land and people of Israel who rejected the Messiah. This was the judgment Jesus wept over that would affect Judea and Jerusalem after which the surviving Jews would be taken captive and shipped off to foreign nations as slaves.
Luk 21:24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.