The Mock Tribulation: Rehearsals, Rituals, and the World’s Exhale

The Mock Tribulation: Rehearsals, Rituals, and the World’s Exhale

 

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Monologue:

We stand at a threshold where prophecy, ritual, and politics collide. The world is weary — seven years of fire, disease, war, and loss have drained the breath out of nations. People are desperate for relief, for anything that feels like closure. And just as scripture warned, it is at that very moment of exhaustion that a counterfeit peace is offered, wrapped in ceremony and applause, as if the signing of a treaty could redeem the human soul.

 

Look carefully. This is not just geopolitics. This is ritual. The Revelation sign in 2017 set the stage. Three and a half years later, conflict flared. Six years later, the Gaza war erupted with unrelenting force. Each stage felt like a mock trial run of tribulation, conditioning humanity to sigh in relief at the promise of resolution. But when the world exhales its breath toward agreements and accords, that breath does not rise to God — it is siphoned away, harvested by powers who long to be worshiped in His place.

 

The prophets warned us of this deception. Jesus said false Christs and false prophets would arise, performing signs to deceive even the elect. Paul said the man of sin would come with lying wonders. Revelation speaks of a beast who mimics the Lamb, calling fire from heaven, staging a liturgy of false peace. These are not random headlines; they are rehearsals, a counterfeit tribulation preparing the world to adore a false messiah.

 

And while Western churches sleep, the Ethiopian canon has held a witness we ignored. In Enoch and Jubilees, the watchers are condemned for bending the cycles, for crafting counterfeit covenants, for turning jubilees into prisons. Ethiopia’s testimony tells us what we now see: that the law of God can be mirrored and mocked by those who twist times and seasons.

 

So here we are. The world will soon be invited to worship peace itself — not the Prince of Peace, but the altar of political survival. They will call it justice. They will call it necessary. But if it demands our breath, our awe, our worship, and does not return that breath to God, it is an idol. And idols always betray those who bow to them.

 

Tonight, I ask you to see through the pageantry. To refuse to exhale your worship into false treaties. To give your breath back to the One who formed it in the beginning, when He breathed life into man. Our peace is not negotiated in halls of power; it is sealed in the covenant of Christ’s blood. Every other altar is false, and every other peace is fragile.

 

The question before us is simple: when the world breathes out in relief, where will your breath go? To the treaties of men, or to the throne of God?

 

Part 1: The World Weary of War

 

The past seven years have not been ordinary years. They have been years of upheaval, of breath stolen from humanity in wave after wave. The pandemic that locked people in their homes was not only a public health crisis — it was a ritual of fear, teaching us to inhale dread every morning and exhale obedience every night. Economies staggered, freedoms were curtailed, and people lost their sense of place. That alone would have been enough to exhaust the soul. But then came the fires, the floods, the wars.

 

In 2021, the streets of Jerusalem erupted and Gaza shook under rocket fire. The conflict lasted just eleven days, but it scarred the world’s memory. That was 3½ years after the Revelation 12 sign — a tremor that signaled what was to come. Two years later, in 2023, the horror of October 7 shattered any illusion of security. Thousands dead, families broken, entire neighborhoods erased in days. What followed was not a war measured in weeks, but in years of blood, siege, and famine. Gaza became a symbol of what tribulation looks like, even if it was only a mock trial of what is still ahead.

 

And in all of this, the people grew tired. In America, in Europe, in the Middle East itself, there is a palpable sigh that runs through society: “Just end it.” When the human heart is this weary, it no longer hungers for truth; it hungers for rest. And that is when the enemy strikes — not with bullets or rockets, but with false solutions. Because when people are desperate, they will worship whatever promises relief.

 

The Bible warns us of this dynamic. When Israel was crushed under foreign rule, they often turned not to God but to alliances, to treaties with Egypt or Babylon, hoping those covenants would save them. Isaiah thundered against such bargains, calling them “a covenant with death” (Isaiah 28:15). The people tho