Hi. Before, during and after the tribulation. All the way up to the gathering of the elect. Because we see many of these events now. i.e. Rumors of war, famine etc. but we're not in the great tribulation. Jesus speaks of the abomination of desolation as a future event. So he couldn't be speaking of Antichious, of having fulfilled that. Titus Couldn't have been the antichrist, because 1John 2:18 was written after temple destruction. It speaks of THE antichrist as someone to come in the future.
So IMO Matthew 24 speaks of events leading up to the tribulation, during the tribulation to the gathering of the elect.
A couple of main observations.
The anti-Christ(s), plural, are evil/wicked resisting to God, spirits. aka DEVILS.
The dragon, the beast and the false prophet are all spirits of devils as well. See Rev. 16:13-14 where this is clearly spelled out.
IN understanding the above, we may also look at another event in the scriptures where Satan spoke from a man's mouth, that being Peter.
Was Peter then the beast, the anti-Christ, the false prophet, the great dragon?
No. It was in fact Satan speaking from Peter's own lips. It would be ignorant to claim one was the other or vice versa, just as it's equally ignorant to think any of the wicked spirits involved are the same as the people they PAWN, such as in Peter's case OR such as looking for some or any person to be the "same as" those wicked/evil spirits.
It's a waste of time to look that direction. People who do so are looking for the seen when the unseen is entirely more obvious. That these are the workings of devils in the flesh.
I could write on this at length, but in the Hebrew gamatria the number 666 means covering. Who is the covering cherub/messenger in the O.T?
Uh, yeah, it's the covering of the power of darkness, the power of Satan over the flesh.
Ezek. 28:
13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
14
Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: