It seems to show a good economy, a time like now, not perfect, but in general. A time when people married as the days of Noah, but a time when people also shed marriage and other things. The times of Noah said it was a time of violence, looking at today we see terrorist activity and harsh things taking place in our family's . Also it seems to show life going on in absence of major wars. You might say, well life may go as usual in the Great Tribulation.
Lets look at what eating is like in the tribulation period.
It appears early in the tribulation period a man works a whole day just to put a loaf of bread on the table as a denarius was a days wage for the average man. This would not include all other needs for normal life. Looking further in the tribulation period in Rev. 16-17, it states no one can buy or sell without the mark of the beast. It will be a horrible time for believers living in this period of time. For those who take the mark are doomed to all eternity .