But the English Standard Version does in fact say, "These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation." Some will argue, I'm quite sure, but there is no real difference.
Technically in the Greek it is "the great the tribulation" because they used an article before both the noun and the adjective. But one can remove both of the articles, because they are not necessary in English, unless of course one has a theological bias, and trying to define this tribulation past the point it is actually referring to. We do not place articles in front of most adjectives, except in this case, because some want to get the right "great" emphasized.
Except none of The Great Multitude came out of The Great Tribulation. If this were true, then your two pre-trib posters are actually post tribulation, like every other poster arguing a post trib position.
I would argue that the tribulation of those days in Matthew 24 are not talking about some great short tribulation, just like Revelation 7 is not talking about some great short tribulation. The church is not defined by a bunch of post trib people gathered in a few months.
The church is defined by people coming out of great tribulation since the Flood of Noah's day. Noah escaped great tribulation, no? Jesus told his disciples in Matthew 24, the church would have tribulation from the time He left the earth, until He returned. So great tribulation and the tribulation "of those days" is not limited to a short Great Tribulation that some modify with the article "The". The word being modified is the adjective "Great", not "The Tribulation". Great tribulation promised to the church has been ongoing for 5,000 years. And the Great Multitude is people gathered as the church for those same 5,000 years.
The Cross allowed physical access to Paradise, as Adam's descendants were banned from the tree of life by God. Since the Cross they have had physical bodies and access to the tree of life physically. They have been serving God day and night in that heavenly temple. They are redeemed as symbolized by washing their robes in the blood of the Lamb that was available since the Cross physically. It was available spiritually, as the OT redeemed waited in Abraham's bosom by faith. Revelation 2:7
"He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God."
Was that true in the first century, or did they have to wait for 2,000 years? Did the thief on the Cross go to Paradise that day, where the tree of life is. What good is the tree of life just sitting there with physical fruit, if you all don't think they had physical bodies to enjoy that fruit? Was that a physical tree planted in a physical garden? Did God transplant the tree, or move the whole Paradise to heaven, and that was the city Abraham looked for, in heaven, not on earth? Some point out there is also a heavenly mount Zion there like the physical mount on physical earth. All these ethereal souls floating around naked on a physical landscape, does not make any sense. Jesus did not leave His physical body on the earth.
"For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."