>>> Given your definition of judgment, they would know that judgment would occur within seven years.
I can only assume you are referring to vengeance, since that is what they are asking God about.
Also, keep in mind that in heaven, there is no real sense of time... there are no clocks or calendars.. no days and nights to go by.... so the martyred tribulation saints are asking for a relative sense of how soon God would send Jesus and the saints back to earth to defeat Satan at Armageddon.
Look at God’s answer... “a little while longer UNTIL the rest of the saints are killed as they were”.
God’s answer is not in any “time frame”... it’s vague and relative to a concept that doesn’t have much meaning there.
I would liken their query unto God to children in the back seat of the car asking “Are We There Yet??????”