The Roaring Lion: Prophetic Decision on the Bohemian War

abyss and goes into perdition. It is described that it was, and will come again from the abyss; it is also described with its eight kings and ten kings, and explicitly named how it has power over all peoples on Earth—a dominion which truly no empire has ever held except the Roman, especially before the Turkish Empire The Ottoman Empire, as no man can deny. But there is not much to dispute here, for whoever the Beast is in Daniel Referring to the fourth beast in Daniel 7, that is also the Beast in the Apocalypse The Book of Revelation. For just as it is described in Daniel—that it blasphemes God, and destroys and overcomes His saints—so too is it described here in the Apocalypse, according to all circumstances and concordances, to say nothing of the timing and the other clear interpretations which I have, through God's grace, explained elsewhere in sufficient order. Therefore, just as the beginning was described, so also the end of the Beast is described in Daniel, Esdras The prophet Ezra in the apocryphal book 2 Esdras, and the Apocalypse; namely, that it shall be destroyed through the coming of Christ and burned with fire, or cast into the fiery pool The Lake of Fire.

Now that we know who and what the Beast is, and how it is distinguished from the Turkish Empire in its time, power, and authority, as well as its end—since the Turk will not be burned but will perish on his bed with pain—we must also consider and truly test who the Woman and the Whore is who sits upon the Beast. Meanwhile, the Estates of the Union The Protestant Union, a coalition of German Protestant states and Princes need not concern themselves with this at all. For although they previously belonged to the Beast and received their fiefs Land or rights granted by a lord in exchange for loyalty from it, the Empire has now been divided Year 1619. as I have clearly proven elsewhere through God's Grace. And the Princes of the Union, with their head and General FREDERICK Frederick V of the Palatinate, known as the "Winter King," who accepted the Bohemian crown in 1619, sparking the Thirty Years' War, have nothing to do with that cursed Beast, which has as its general the Dragon (who is the Devil, the old Serpent and Satan, and who leads the whole world astray). But the General of King FREDERICK and his followers is the great Prince Michael with his heavenly host in the name of the Lamb Jesus Christ. Therefore, what belongs to the Dragon does not concern the Saints of God. There is a very great difference between the Devil and his own, and Christ and His own; Christ will Himself give the fiefs over the kingdoms of this world to His princes and kings, who now stand alone and have been removed from the kingdom of Satan. But the kingdom of the Devil He will root out along with all weeds, so that He may begin His kingdom, wherein shall be peace, faith, love, and justice—