There is another option. The A of D and the tribulation happened back in 70 AD and the Beast of Rev 13 is future. I don't see anything to link them together.
In Revelation 7:3 the phrase "till we have sealed all the servants of our God in their foreheads" in opposition to the verses Revelation 13:15,Revelation 14:9,Revelation 19:20,Revelation 9:4 ect.
so considering there are two separate groups, one who have the mark of God and those who have the mark of the beast. the wrath of God is poured out on those who have the mark,name,worship the image ect. but it is not given to hurt(wrath) on any of these who have the mark of God in their foreheads up to a point and then it is permitted to kill those who refuse to worship the image (Rev.13:15,Rev.11:7,)
It is interesting that the beast that ascends out of the "pit" is the one who makes war on the ones mentioned in Rev.11:7 and overcomes them and kills them. In Rev.9:4 the locust ascend out of the pit also but in verse 4 they are given to hurt(not over come/kill) but only those who do not have the seal of God in their foreheads so they torment who?
Now in Revelation 17:8 there is another who ascends out of the pit and in Revelation 20:2-3 the devil is in the pit and ascends out of it after the 1000 years. So one ascends out in Rev.9:4(but torments those who DON'T have the mark of God),The one in Rev.20:2-3 ascends after the mill. and then there is the one from Revelation 17:8 that ascends out of the pit before the 1000 years/mill. so the only one that ascends "out of the pit" and is permitted to kill those with the mark of God is the one in Rev.17:8.
So two of these that ascend out of the pit are before the 1000 years and one is after. Now at the time the Revelation was given approx.ad60-96 the beast in Revelation 17:8 is in the pit(hasn’t' ascended yet) and so if at that time he had not ascended out yet then he had not yet killed the ones in Revelation 11:7 which brings us to approx. ad70.
Now the premise of thinking is that the ones involved in the destruction of Jerusalem in ad70 were killed because the abomination of desolation had been seen/set up and after they saw it Matthew 24:15 then there would be an great tribulation, Matthew 24;21. So if the sacrifices continued to July ad70 and then ended,then the tribulation of those days are before/prior to anything being set up if it was something set up by Titus/Rome after the temple was destroyed.
There was a man named Johanan ben Zakai who in ad68 was smuggled out of Jerusalem in an coffin who went to Vespasion when Vespasian was still a military commander at his camp and Titus his son was not yet over the campaign in Jerusalem. Zakai foretold to Vespasian that Jerusalem would fall and that Vespasian would be the Roman Caesar afterwards Vespasian granted him several wishes because of this. Zakai had himself smuggeled out of Jerusalem because the Zealots had replaced the priest with other priest in the temple but as of ad68 the sacrifices were still ongoing in the temple. So there was nothing in history up to the point of ad68 that was looked at as polluted or AoD before Jerusalem was surrounded nor up to it's final days. After this point in time Vespasian left Titus in charge and Legio X Fretensis was sent to Jerusalem and the siege began so nothing was set up by Rome before this point so the AoD in the other option is still left open as to it's fulfilment unless someone can show it in history.
