Vanderhoven : ".. see the "polus/much tribulation" of Revelation as referring to what Christians experience all over the world as a result of their faith in Christ. What Jesus said would happen to true Christians--"
I heard that explanation ~ 30 years ago from an "apostate" and pass judgement on that. I was here evaluating the WT version on it's de-merits, and even a comparing of these elements do not end up. That is why the deeper and longer wt tries to make the facts match their fiction, the deeper they get balled up.
Now stretching the coming of the GT to 2075, and putting it outside the life span of the last generation.