Interplanner
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The end of 31 does not talk about cataclysm. It simply talks about a gathering of souls.
("souls" is my presumption)
In addition, it does not give a beginning or an end to the process.
The whole verse is a statement that something will happen with a goal in mind and eventual consequences.
"He will send..."
If we read it correctly, it is not necessarily sequentially connected to the other verses in the way verse 29 begins; "Immediately after..
Or even verse 30 which begins; "And then shall..."
It is entirely without a time/sequence anchor.
I think that there are parts of the rest of the chapter that revisit the Judean 1st century dilemmas: certainly the flood analogy, because Dan 9 refers to such a comparison.
(To all interested in the AofD: this is the 2nd reason why I don't bother with Dan 11 or 12 about the AofD. #1 is the expression starts as the rebellion that desolates in ch 8; #2 only Dan 9 has the flood comparison, picked up by Jesus.)
And the destruction of Jerusalem is locked into time by Lk 23's 'babes-who-become-adults' and see it.
I just happen to notice, though, that 'right after' the DofJ, the setting is universe wide.