Received April 5, 2026; Published April 7, 2026 – Download PDF:  04.05.26.The Lord’s Choke Hold at the Strait of Hormuz.AND.President Trump’s Humiliation.V1.2

Introduction

The title I have chosen for this article brings a personal sense of grief and distress.  As the Lord moves to humble the nations through His judgments, He has been speaking of the time when He would humble President Trump and his cabinet.  Every fiber of my being does not want to see what the Lord appears to have in store for President Trump, and it is deeply abhorrent to contemplate.  I appreciate what he has and is doing for our country as he and the talented members of his cabinet fight to right the wrongs of open borders, fraud, and financial waste to the level of billions, as well as fighting for justice against liberal judges who continue to allow hardened criminals to roam our streets.  For all his imperfections, I can’t help but love the man.

However, in these times, as the Lord reveals what He plans to do, I look back to October 2013, when He confronted me and said, “You must surrender America to Me to do what I must do.”  I knew immediately that He would bring judgment upon America, the one thing I had hoped could be avoided.  The memories of that revelation have flooded in since the Lord began speaking to me about the humiliation He would cause President Trump to endure.

In the area of a person being humbled, the Bible has a good deal to teach us.  Most of us remember Proverbs 16:18 (NASB95):  “¹⁸ Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before stumbling.”  And Proverbs 11:2 (NASB95): “² When pride comes, then comes dishonor, but with the humble is wisdom.  Pride brings a man low (Prv 29:23), and that is what the Lord has revealed to me twice, regarding President Trump and his cabinet.

The Lord revealed the following in the prophetic vision I released on October 6, 2025, in the article The Lord Will Tear the Peace Plan to Pieces & The Time of Great Instability –

This is the season for the nation of Israel and for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be exalted by the Lord in the earth.  The Prime Minister will be exalted far above President Donald Trump.  President Trump and his cabinet will be humbled, if not humiliated, before Israel and before the Lord.  The relationship between Trump and Netanyahu will be put in the order it is intended: Prime Minister Netanyahu will disciple/mentor President Trump, not the other way around.  This will be the great humbling of President Trump, and it is of the Lord.

This was followed by details concerning what appeared to be the economic destabilization of the United States that would sweep the country.  Every community, town, suburb, city, county, and state would experience what the Lord would cause to emanate out of Washington, D.C.  This is judgment coming from the Lord, which He has repeatedly revealed would come to our country.  Even though I am surrendered to what the Lord intends to do, I am greatly distressed and grieved to think of it.

Great men in the Bible have experienced varying degrees of the Lord’s discipline, leading to their humiliation.  As I began to contemplate and pray about this article, the account of King Nebuchadnezzar quickly came to mind.  The Lord released a dream to the king, the account of which is found in Daniel chapter 4.  Knowing Daniel’s gift of interpreting dreams, King Nebuchadnezzar relayed the dream to him, seeking an interpretation.  Daniel is immediately appalled by what the dream meant (Dan 4:19), crying out, “My lord, if only the dream applied to those who hate you, and its interpretation to your adversaries!”  I relate to Daniel in that I have no desire to see President Trump be judged and humiliated.  King Nebuchadnezzar’s pride had reached heaven, and as a result, the king would lose his mind, be driven from his place of authority, and live among the animals to eat grass and to be drenched with the dew from heaven (Dan 4:24-26).  This was the judgment of the Most High so that Nebuchadnezzar would “recognize that He is ruler over the realm of mankind and bestows it on whomever He wishes” (Dan 4:25b) and “…that Heaven rules” (vs 26).

I would submit that this is a message not only for President Trump, but for me, the Church, our nation, and every nation on earth.  The Church seems to have lost its recognition that the Lord rules over her – Jesus, in, by, and through His Spirit, stands in authority over His Church.  He is the One all of His leaders and disciples are called to hear and obey.  Jesus warned His disciples of their dependence upon Him –

John 15:4–7 (NASB95)

⁴ “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. ⁵ “I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. ⁶ “If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned. ⁷ “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

In order for us to abide, we must humble ourselves by keeping our hearts tuned to the Scriptures, asking for eyes to see and ears to hear what the Spirit of the Lord is doing and saying, so that we might obey Him rather than frustrate His will by working in rebellion.  If we are to see His kingdom come and His will to be done on earth, we must hear His voice and unconditionally surrender to His will.  Living a life of rebellion, which stems from not hearing His voice and obeying, ultimately leads to being cast into hell – the ultimate judgment and humiliation.

We dare not move on from our study without considering Christ’s experience of humiliation and shame.  He was rejected by His own, scorned by Jewish religious leaders.  He was unjustly condemned to death by Pilate, and then mocked, beaten, stripped, and crucified by the Roman guards.  Jesus, the Son of God without sin, whom Paul said is “the power of God and the wisdom of God” (I Cor 1:24) died for our sins.  To the Philippians, Paul wrote of Jesus’ walk of humility:

⁶ who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, ⁷ but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. ⁸ Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Not just to the point of death, but death on the cross as a means of humiliation by public display to deter others from committing crimes against the state[1].  Jesus modeled to us the life of humility we are called to walk in.

In testing the vision I received this week, it is clear that it fits with previous visions, with additional, specific revelation.  The first was released on March 11, 2020, titled “Prophetic Bulletin: The Lord is Shaking the Heavens & the Earth (Global Economic Collapse)”.  I wrote about how the Lord revealed that His intention was to attack the global economy, which He has been doing systematically since the plague, known as the COVID-19 pandemic, swept the globe in early 2020.  In this vision, I also saw that trade between nations would be severed, bringing severe economic hardship to all nations.

In October of 2025, I released a vision titled “The Lord Will Shake the Earth”.  The Holy Spirit revealed that the shaking He was bringing would be severe.  When we add the revelation from the vision titled “America’s Last Warning”,  I heard the following words directed to America, confirming the severity with which the Lord is moving globally:

This is your final warning, for the judgment will be severe.  The host of heaven will be released against you, for you have not humbled yourself or repented.  This is your last warning.  Devastation will come to the West Coast and flow to the East Coast; devastation will also come to the East Coast and flow to the West Coast; from the south to the north and from the north to the south.  The Lord Himself has commanded it, and He will bring it and release it, until you cry out for forgiveness, and then the Lord will forgive, but not until then.

 The judgment that will be released is designed to break your pride and to bring humility.  Pride comes before a fall.  America, you will surely fall until you acknowledge that the Lord of hosts is God and there is no other.

 I then saw the Lord standing before me, and He impressed me again with the severity of the judgment that is coming to America.  Make no mistake, the judgment will come in great severity.

I refer you to our website at www.joshuarevivalproject.org for additional prophecies that continue to confirm the Lord’s intention to judge the nations as He watches the level of their wickedness increase.  Time and again, the Lord has warned the nations, but they refuse to listen to His voice.

Within this framework of understanding, testing the current vision with what the Lord has revealed over the years, I turn to what the Lord revealed this past Sunday, fully aware of the distress it may cause you, as it has caused me.

The Prophetic Vision

The Lord said, “You are witnessing what I am doing in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz.  The world will continue to experience My choke hold at the Strait.  It will continue to be severe, because I am pouring out My wrath on the nations at that chokepoint; it is of Me.  For if the nations will not bow down to Me, they will bow down to that evil that is there to keep that Strait closed.”

“President Trump will continue to be amazed at the fact that the Strait of Hormuz is not open, because I, Myself, have closed it and will continue to cause a chokepoint there.  For I make the straight ways crooked, and as the world wants to walk in crooked ways, they will find crookedness there.  (MCB Note:  The Bible reveals that “the integrity of the upright will guide them, but the crookedness of the treacherous will destroy them” (Prv 11:3).  The psalmist expands this thought, saying “²⁶ With the pure You show Yourself pure, And with the crooked You show Yourself astute [lit. twisted] (Ps 18:26)).  It will not be a straight way; it will be a crooked path – and so the world is on a crooked path.  Either the nations bow down to Me, or they will bow down to the wicked one – there is no void.”

The Lord then commanded me to continue to watch and keep my eyes on what He will do in the Strait of Hormuz.

The Holy Spirit then revealed, again, that He will humble President Trump.  He will be humbled concerning the Strait of Hormuz.  This is the beginning of a downward path of humiliation that the Lord is taking President Trump on.  I then saw a time of judgment on either side of President Trump.  The Lord is leading him on a very narrow path to strip him of his pride.  Both the President and his cabinet will be dismayed.  This is a very hard word for me to deliver.

The Lord then warned me to be very sensitive to what He reveals in the coming days.  It should be clear that this is a time to pray for President Trump and his cabinet members.  As the Lord deals with our leaders, so He is dealing with us.

Mark C. Biteler

[1] Elwell, Walter A., Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible, Baker Book House, 1988, pp. 555-559.