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

Cause Before Symptom - With Your Host James Carner

In this episode, “The Mock Tribulation: Rehearsals, Rituals, and the World’s Exhale,” we trace a deliberate choreography: a 2017 marker ritualized into a prophetic timetable, 2021 and 2023 as successive rehearsals of tribulation, and modern diplomacy presented as theatrical peace that harvests the world’s exhausted breath. Drawing on Scripture, the Ethiopian canon, historical case studies, and media theory, the episode argues that treaties and photo-ops can function as false altars—siphoning worship and legitimizing power without repentance or restitution—and issues a pastoral call to refuse the quick exhale, demand enforceable justice, practice corporate lament, and keep our worship for the true covenant in Christ.