The Roaring Lion: Prophetic Decision on the Bohemian War

abyss and goes into perdition. It is described that it was, and shall come again even out of the abyss; it is also described with its eight kings and ten kings, and expressly named as having power over all nations on Earth—a dominion which truly no empire has ever held except the Roman, especially prior to the Turkish Referring to the Ottoman Empire, which was the primary external rival to Christian Europe at the time. Empire, as no man can deny. But there is not much dispute there, for whoever the Beast is in the Book of Daniel, he is the same in the Apocalypse original: "Apocalypsi"; the Book of Revelation.; for just as it is described in Daniel—that he blasphemes God, destroys His saints, and overcomes them—so it is also 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, by God's grace, explained clearly enough elsewhere. Therefore, just as the beginning is described, so also shall the end of the Beast be described in Daniel, Esdras original: "Esdre"; referring to the apocryphal books of 1 and 2 Esdras, which contain popular apocalyptic visions in the 17th century., and the Apocalypse: namely, that it shall be destroyed by the coming of Christ and burned with fire, or cast into the Lake of Fire.

When we now 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 in his bed with pain—then we must also consider and properly 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 Protestant German states formed in 1608 to defend their rights against the Catholic Holy Roman Empire. and the Princes need not take this upon themselves at all; for though they previously belonged to the Beast and received their fiefs from the same, the Empire has now been severed, in the Year 1619. As I have clearly demonstrated elsewhere by God's grace, the Union Princes, with their head and General Frederick original: "Friderico"; referring to Frederick V of the Palatinate, the "Winter King," who accepted the Bohemian crown in 1619, sparking the Thirty Years' War., have nothing to do with the cursed Beast, which has as its general the Dragon (who is the Devil, the ancient serpent, and Satan), who leads the whole world astray. But the General of King Frederick and his people is the great Prince Michael with his heavenly host in the name of the Lamb. 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 the weeds, so that He may begin His Kingdom, wherein shall be Peace, Faith, Love, and Justice.