I haven't said anything about numbers on this thread yet. I said that when a storm is near, you can tell it's near if you are awake. (If you're not awake, that caliber of storm will wake you when it begins anyway.)
The 3 1/2 years of the great tribulation don't start until the religious institutions are being dissolved. It won't be just the WTBT$, it was also be the Catholic Church and the other churches. It will be a process that takes several months. That is part of the timeline that is recorded in the Bible with "numbers". If you want to look up those scriptures, you can find them on this clip:
Although the Bible is clear that the great tribulation will be 3 1/2 years long and it is also clear about certain specific events that take place during that time, it does not tell us when that time of great tribulation begins. But you can see that the governments are about to dissolve religious institutions. You don't need some prophet to tell you that. Go research WTBT$ and Pennsylvania. Go research New Zealand and religion and abuse, or CSA in the Catholic Church.
The WTBT$ will be dissolved soon. So will the other religious institutions. That will signal the beginning of the 3 1/2 year tribulation Jesus foretold. The UN will have more power for three and a half years to try to rule the world without the interference of clergy and religious institutions. The UN will fail miserably. Then God's Kingdom will intervene and replace the UN and all the other governments.
These are not my "numbers". They are from God's Word.