"The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.... And there ("there" is a mistranslation; more accurately, "they", the seven heads) are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth (horn), and is of the seven (horns), and goeth into perdition." (Rev. 17:8,10,11).
The beast of Revelation has its own head, and seven others. The heads represent kingdoms or empires, the first five having lived their lifespans long ago: 1) Nimrod's early apostasy of lawlessness, promiscuity, and occult spiritualism at the Tower of Babel--that Satan has perpetuated until the new world order can revive it in toto, 2) Neo-Babylon, 3) Medo-Persia, 4) Greece, and 5) Imperial Rome. "One is", 6) Papal Rome was represented by the beast (empowered by, and persecuting for, the Dragon/Serpent) being providentially left in a wilderness, where it was previously seen in Revelation 12, having lost the war in its last effort to destroy the woman (the woman being Christ's bride, the church in the wilderness). Left to die in the wilderness is the same picture of Azazel ("the scapegoat" (Lev. 16:10)) in the inhospitable, burning, 130F desert, taken there to die (Leviticus 16:21,22), which also typified the end of Satan in the "lake of fire" (Rev. 20:10).
Simultaneous to the Roman Papacy receiving its deadly wound by the Protestant Reformation's Bible and Napoleon's General Berthier, Protestant America was being born. Protestant America then put a stop to the accelerating progression of Satan's restoration to Nimrod's gigantic and wicked departure from the righteous and beautiful world established by Noah.
But, Protestant America lost its Reformation first love for Jesus and for His straight testimony. Lulled into a permanent stupor by the seeming endless stretch of land to the Pacific Ocean, and hoping in earthly prosperity and plenty, Protestant America failed at its test from heaven in 1844 (seen in the first trumpet of the Revelation chapter 8 seven trumpets).
Then, during a grace period, came the testing message of the seventh-day Sabbath, and the Protestant denominations abrogated the Law of God (seen in the second of the seven Revelation trumpets). Satan could then move them to blasphemously claim the precious promises of Romans 8 without being subjected to the struggles with condemnation in Romans 7:9-25. A profession of faith in Jesus was their pretext for excusing them from all further condemnation by the "word of God", which "is quick [pointed], and powerful [going straight to the conscience], and sharper than any two edged sword [spiritual scalpel]". (Heb. 4:12).
Protestantism's new lawless/hopeless gospel led to the final imbuing of Satan's familiar spirit in Protestant hearts (seen Revelation trumpet 3). And it ended in their loss of status as heaven's lighthouse to the world (seen in Revelation trumpet 4). Now the fifth trumpet could begin to rank apostate Protestant America among the heads of Revelation 17's beast that was (the Ham-Cush-Nimrod coupe that sought to take down Noah's Jehovah ordained government of family, faith, self-sacrificing mercy, and lawful justice), is not (since the Spirit of God moved Shem and his elders to crush that coupe), yet is (as the wounded, yet healing, beast that ascended from its bottomless pit entombment during the fifth trumpet).
Consequently, from the bowels of our new country, which has departed from its original charter of American states that had been united under the two little lamb-like horns of Republicanism and Protestantism, arose a pompous king of kings. We were speaking verbatim the arrogant sentiments of ancient Israel, just before their conquest by Babylon.
"Wherefore say My people, We are lords; we will come no more unto Thee?" (Jer. 2:31).
The '49 Gold Rush further changed the spiritual and moral fabric of the post-colonial, liberty-loving, experiment of a Protestant Republican Democracy. And THE UNITED STATES, a corporate chief seventh head of the pagan dragon-like beast, came into being.
Simultaneously, the Protestants who passed the 1844 test were busy nailing down the distinctive doctrines that finished the full recovery of the truths given to the apostolic church. Now, in the fifth and sixth Revelation trumpets, the intoxicating Mark of the killing beast or the tonic Seal of the living God, would constitute a race that would compete for souls. Both powers would make full and final captives of lost souls first in Protestant America, then in Catholic Europe, and finally unto the uttermost world religions and governments.
So, where are we now in the post-1999, sixth Revelation trumpet? More and more it's appearing like the seventh head of the beast is moving into the beast's eighth head, the original, gigantic, Nimrod-like satanic apostasy that attempted to destroy Noah's government of a patriarchal, fatherly, biblical religion separate from the civil state, representative, democratic Republic.
We are seeing the systematic takedown of the world's Protestant, premier, U.S. Constitution of freedom, and its liberated nation of Protestant Americans. But it's simply the transition of the Revelation 17:11 short-lived, sixth woe, seventh empire of the beast into a horrendous brave new world ridden of any parental upbringing of children happiily protected by mothers who desperately care for their beloved flock, into normal, innocent, confident, and trusting, young adults.
Rather, the state will own the children. The Jesuit state will abduct all the children--which are the Creator's property. Child sacrifices, pervasive pedophilia during the first seven heads? We haven't seen anything yet. What is coming is total spiritual death to young people, Protestant youth, for the ultimate, complete demise of Protestantism's spiritual truth in the human race. This tormenting of the fifth trumpet locusts, while child protective services have existed, will eventually turn to the complete absence of such protection. Then we will reap what we have sown.
"But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.... Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long; and there shall be no might in thine hand." (Deut. 28:32).
The full fallout of the Covid plandemic is progressing toward a Great Depression Era-style financial collapse just in time for the added government funding burden from monetarily showing mercy to a mass migration of pretended poverty stricken Latin Americans. Like a professional actor in a play, our Catholic president is beholden to heed the hypocritical appeals of his pope to remember the poor. How can he not obey the promptings of his conscience? So what if he takes down his nation's economy! We can't expect him to divorce his religion from his job! And what can stop the chief executive? A Catholic Supreme Court? But, what can we pray to God for, after we have not "hearken[ed] unto the voice of the Lord [our] God"? Not until we are humbled into the dust, our pride moldered in the grave, will our God hear us.
Out of the rubble of the coming nightmare will arise a modernized, very sophisticated, immaculate repeat of Hitler Germany. Hitler's Inquisition 80 years ago was far from a failure. It was only an experimental model of the new techno-Inquisition of high tech torture that we are about to experience. But out of that will come the Latter Rain. A humbled, wiser church will awaken from its slumbers. And after that refreshing from the presence of the Lord the Inquisition will redouble it's claim to dominion until the close of probation. Wars will ravage the planet.
Afterwards, in Jacob's troubles, the wise 144,000 virgins must be baptized with Christ's baptism by fire, and drink Christ's cup of woe. All the previous tests they have passed. Therefore they can endure the final persecution that will include a darkened sense of Jesus' near presence in a world filled with habitations of devil's and holds of every foul spirit. The skies will be filled with drones and space will be filled with satellites.
At least for "one hour" (Rev. 17:12).
But that doesn't assume literal time, or that the one hour uses the day/year principle. No, this first time of trouble will last longer than two weeks. Maybe two years; maybe three and a half years. But, Babylon's one hour subjugation does sound reasonably short. It will finalize the sixth Revelation trumpet/second woe cause of infinite seriousness toward the promised curses of Deuteronomy 28, and the fulfillment of Revelation 11:7-11.
"And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity." (Lev. 26:38-41), then God will awaken.
And He will remember His covenant with His Protestant Reformation. They will again hear His voice in their souls.
The 144,000 wise virgins will come to terms with the almighty justice of their holy Father in heaven. I believe that the scattering of American constitutional rights and the desolating of the old world order will be the cause of the agonizing and pleading with faces pale and perspiring that Early Writings spoke of. But they will have had the extra Spirit in their souls because they had already been earnest in striving to receive the straight testimony of the Spirit of Prophecy prior to this first big test.
"And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. (See Ephesians 2:8; Colossians 1:13; Revelation 5:9,10.) And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them." (Rev. 11:12).
"And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with Him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.
And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth." (Rev. 14:1-3). Their sins are blotted out.
Their spirit is joined hard to the Lord in a nuclear force-like bond "one Spirit" (1Cor. 6:17). They are sealed in justification. The reconciled God accounts them as never having been unfaithful or disloyal to His eternal kingdom. Like their beloved Intercessor, neither did they ever fail nor were they ever discouraged; and now they perfectly obey. And like their Intercessor, they magnify the Law, and make it honorable in their new, temperant, love for their neighbors and enemies, alike.
"And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven." (Rev. 11:13).
"Said the angel, 'List ye!' Soon I heard a voice like many musical instruments all sounding in perfect strains, sweet and harmonious. It surpassed any music I had ever heard, seeming to be full of mercy, compassion, and elevating, holy joy. It thrilled through my whole being. Said the angel, 'Look ye!' My attention was then turned to the company I had seen, who were mightily shaken. I was shown those whom I had before seen weeping and praying in agony of spirit. The company of guardian angels around them had been doubled, and they were clothed with an armor from their head to their feet. They moved in exact order, like a company of soldiers. Their countenances expressed the severe conflict which they had endured, the agonizing struggle they had passed through. Yet their features, marked with severe internal anguish, now shone with the light and glory of heaven. They had obtained the victory, and it called forth from them the deepest gratitude and holy, sacred joy.
I heard those clothed with the armor speak forth the truth with great power. It had effect. Many had been bound; some wives by their husbands, and some children by their parents. The honest who had been prevented from hearing the truth now eagerly laid hold upon it. All fear of their relatives was gone, and the truth alone was exalted to them. They had been hungering and thirsting for truth; it was dearer and more precious than life. I asked what had made this great change. An angel answered, “It is the latter rain, the refreshing from the presence of the Lord, the loud cry of the third angel.”
Great power was with these chosen ones." Early Writings, p. 270,271.
"The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly. And the seventh angel sounded..." (Rev. 11:14,15).
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