I'm encouraged! You got that just about perfectly right. All you missed is that Jesus (God) has been passing judgements all through the thousands of years we have been in existence......... He's not just waiting for a Big Whomping at the last day.
Actually He is.
Isa 13:
9) Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10) For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11) And
I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12) I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
Dan 12:
1) And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and
there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Also, Philistia, Moab, Ammon, Ethiopia, and Assyria will all be laid waste, not just Jerusalem (Zeph. 2:4-15).
There are just so many prophesies about the coming Tribulation... I don't see how you can dismiss it so easily.