Let me put it this way. We see how the corona virus affects peoples lives, travel, trade, and the stock market. When tribulation comes it will likely be a time where there's multiple bad virus' circulating the globe - war in the Middle-East and beyond - top that off with a huge earthquake and multiple jihadist attacks across the world....THAT is the tribulation!
I know it may be difficult to grasp what our Lord Jesus meant about 'the end' in Matthew 24:6, but the time of "great tribulation" is what time He was pointing to. He contrasted wars and rumours of wars happening meaning 'the end' is not yet. So what's the opposite of a time of wars and rumours of wars? Peace.
And world peace is what the Daniel 8 Scripture is pointing to with the coming false one. It even says craft will prosper by his hand.
Peace and safety is also what Apostle Paul pointed to in 1 Thess.5 when the "sudden destruction" comes upon them; that destruction is about God's consuming fire that will end this present world. Just prior to that, they will be saying that, "Peace and safety".
This is also shown in the Revelation 11 Scripture after God's two witnesses are killed with their dead bodies left laying in the street in Jerusalem. The world will send each other gifts it says, i.e., big party.
You say tribulation will NOT be a bad time for the deceived and wicked. It seems to me that they're the ones that take the brunt of the last days judgments!
There will be the plagues God will do through His two witnesses. But the time for the deceived world will be with the Antichrist causing peace and safety, like the Daniel 8 prophecy shows, and like Apostle Paul showed for the end in 1 Thess.5.
So it of course will not be a perfect peace like how it will be when our Lord Jesus returns.
What I want to know is - what verse - where do you come up with the idea that the tribulation is a time of world peace?
1 Thess 5:2-3
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
KJV
Paul was pulling from the OT prophets like Isaiah about that day of "sudden destruction"...
Isa 29:5
5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
KJV
The idea is of course, that the deceived will instead be saying, "Peace and safety" just prior to that destruction. This is why Paul said in the next 1 Thess.5:4 verse that we are not in darkness, that that day should overtake us 'as a thief', meaning we are supposed to be watching the events leading up to that day, opposite of what the deceived are thinking.
Dan 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
KJV
The world dictator is something dreamed up. There is no way ONE man has the power to unite and govern every nation on earth, and it's also dreamed up that someone would somehow unite the world's religions! These beast - the 7 headed and ten horned ones - the two horned beast - the 10 horned ONE headed one.....are NOT global!
You're right there is no FLESH man that could ever unite the whole world under his power. It won't be a flesh born man. It will be Satan himself, coming to OUR dimension to play God in Jerusalem.
Have you not read Revelation 12:7-14 about his future casting out of the heavenly, there being no more place found there for him? There are only 2 different dimensions of existence written of in all of God's Word. There is this earthly one we live in, and then there is the Heavenly one where God and the angels are, and also in a place of separation in that Heavenly dimension is where the abode of the wicked called hell is. When Satan and his angels are booted out of the Heavenly in the last days, there is only one other place he can appear. It is in OUR dimension, upon this earth.
And we can know for sure that casting out is still future, simply because the Revelation 12:7-14 Scripture includes the idea of the power of Christ coming in the Heavenly once Satan is booted down to this earth. And also, mention about saints in the last days is also given with that, linking to those to be delivered up at the 5th Seal of Rev.6.
It's time for brethren to quit playing religion and start actually believing God's Word as written.