The Roaring Lion: Prophetic Decision on the Bohemian War

at the time / when he began to fight with the saints / namely from the Year of Christ 1605 1605 marked a period of increasing tension in the Habsburg lands, leading toward the religious concessions of 1609 and the eventual outbreak of the Thirty Years' War. onward / until this very day / For he was overcom[e]
according to his mystery through the blood of the Lamb / namely / when the Es[tates]
of the Kingdom of Bohemia nevertheless obtained / against his and his [followers']
[resistance] and will / the free Exercise of Religion original: Religions Exercitium; this refers to the legal right of Protestants to practice their faith, a central issue in the Bohemian Revolt. / over which Sa-
tanas became so angry / that he afterwards began his fight anew
in such a manner / as I have shown and witnessed through God's grace in the First Part from
the Revelation of John / namely / when he [Satan] began a fight
in the heaven of the Church here on earth / where he was nevertheless overcome in his [followers]
and cast out of heaven / as the
Signature of the Book of the World has shown us with its signs.
But finally when he had become completely indignant / he did not re-
lent / until his will was fulfilled / and he had completely overcome the saints of God with his fierce
Beast / and also [overcome] them / the saints / as the members of Christ
and has completely crucified and killed Christ in his saints / ac[cording to]
the prophecy of Daniel 7, 4 Esdras 7, and Revelation 11, 12, and 13. A[s]
it stands today in my dear fatherland, the King[dom of]
Bohemia.

But let it pass, dear person / when Satan now thinks / he [has]
killed Christ along with all his saints / nail[ed them] to the cross
and thrown their corpses onto the streets / as if [they]
should never rise again / See / then the Giant shall break forth / [or rather]
the Lion from his thickets / who goes out with fury / after his prey / an[d]
will break through both to the right and to the left / so that no [one]
will be able to resist it. For although the LORD / who holds judgment [over]
all flesh / has begun to make his wrath felt by those / who are [called]
after his name / and has heavily punished us poor Bohemians specifically original: in specie, along [with]
all members and saints of the Lamb / for the sake of our gr[eat]
sins / since we have well deserved his wrath / Yet he will [again]
be gracious to us all / not for our sake / but for the sake of h[is]
name / so that it is not profaned / nor blas[phemed] by the godless. He will turn back to us again / look upon our misery [and]
cast down the high towers / that ruled over the saints / [in]
a great slaughter / so that they must fall / Isaiah 30. and this wil[d]
happen shortly.

But so that all the world / the pious and the godless, may once more reco[gnize]