There is a concept known as "convergence". That means you don't simply look at one factor, you look at multiple factors all converging together.
My thesis is similar to that saying "Normal isn't coming back, Jesus is". Only I am more precise. I believe the Covid Pandemic was a prophetic fulfillment from the book of Joel giving us a 7 year countdown to the tribulation beginning.
Although the tribulation is primarily for the harvest of the believers, it is also the opportunity for the Antichrist regime to rule. Therefore I look at the technology required to implement a global currency worldwide without any spot not covered with their service.
To do that you need Starlink. They expect to have complete global coverage by the end of 2028. Therefore I expect they will have a full mandate on the Mark of the Beast by the end of 2028. However, prior to that you will need a famine that necessitates the use of a draconian ration system. You wouldn't have that if you had a bad harvest in 2028 because the food we are eating in 2028 was harvested in 2027. So we need a bad harvest in 2027. Now based on the pattern in Egypt with Joseph, I expect seven good years to precede the seven lean years of the tribulation. We know that the black horse of famine is one of the four horses of the apocalypse which rides at the start of the tribulation. Now we know that 2027 will be a bad harvest due to the price/shortage of diesel and fertilizer. However, even though it is currently guaranteed to be bad, it is not yet guaranteed to be "Biblical". I believe the tribulation begins with the judgment on the Great Babylon which falls in one hour and plunges the entire world into chaos and a "Biblical crisis" when the biggest superpower on the planet has a complete collapse in one hour.
So then a guaranteed famine is converging with the technology being ready for the Mark of the Beast to be implemented and that is converging with the red horse of the apocalypse, the horse of war, with threats of nuclear war being bandied about.
But even if we have two years of famine before the mark of the beast is implemented, we can expect that the image of the Beast and the "worship" of the beast takes place at the start of the tribulation. Recently Trump said we can't call AI artificial intelligence, we have to call it "Super intelligence" because he is giving it personhood similar to how corporations have been given personhood. AI just recently passed the Turing test which means an image that AI projects can decieve the majority of humans into thinking it is "human". Hence it can now pass for "the image of the Beast". So that technology has also converged.
But we are also seeing lots of civil unrest globally. This is essential because the way you deal with global unrest is you declare a state of emergency and this helps you implement dictatorial rule. So if the plan is to use the unrest in France and other countries to implement a dictatorship, well you wouldn't wait 12 months, you would have to act relatively soon, in a matter of days or weeks. So the white horse of the antichrist deception controlling the media with censorship, shadow banning, etc. is also converging with the other two horses. The weaponization of treason is definitely one of the tools of this form of dictatorship and Trump live streaming the execution of a man convicted of treason is designed to send a message to the country, and so that is also converging.
Now the fourth horse of the apocalypse is the plague. Propaganda manipulating the populace, war, and famine are all very valuable tools to coerce the majority of people to take the mark of the beast. But from the pandemic we know that the most effective tool is the plague. We know some people will have food stored up and so the famine will not impact them. We know that many people don't trust the government after the last pandemic and so they will not be manipulated. But we also know from the New Testament that family members and friends will be turning people in who did not get the mark of the beast. Why? They wouldn't do that because of the famine, or because of the war. They would do that because of the plague, accusing anyone who didn't get the mark of putting everyone else in danger. However, this time the plague cannot be like Covid. People are going to want to see people dying horrific deaths like that with Ebola. If they are puking up blood and dying on the sidewalk there will not be any debate. Right now we have seen a very big spike in Ebola in the Congo. However Ebola is not that transmissible. The spread can be controlled with quarantine. However, if you mix Ebola with pneumatic plague you would have something extremely transmissible and extremely deadly.
But so far all of this convergence is only pointing to the start of the tribulation to be "soon" (weeks or months away). However, the current events concerning Noah's ark comes at an extremely interesting time. The Noahide conference is the first week of November. If they confirm prior to that as front page news being blasted from all the major media that they have confirmed Noah's ark on the mountains of Ararat that will both shock and confound the world. If Noah's ark is true then how should you respond? Should you believe Jesus and the Christians who say the end of the world will be as "the days of Noah"? Antichrist as to short circuit that with implementing the Noahide laws which would make the worship of Jesus a crime punishable by death.