Hi Jim,
Quite simply, the "time of trouble" is part and parcel of the 1st beast of Rev. 13.
Rev 13:1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
This 1st beast is the same seven headed beast we find in Revelation 17:3 It is a scarlet colored beast full of names of blasphemy having seven heads and ten horns,
Rev.17:9 And her is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sitteth.
And there are seven kings, five are fallen,
At the time John gave this prophesy the seven kingdoms had falllen that were all connected by Commerce and religion. They were Egypt, Israel, Babylon, Persia and Greece.
He then says" one is." that one is Rome.
Then he says and" the other is not yet come".
That one that was yet to come appears to me to be the United States of America.
Rvelation 17;11 And the beast that was and is not, even he is the eighth and is of the seven and goeth into perdition.
To me that 8th beast is the wicked kingdom of Israel That was destroyed by Rome and has been revived since Friday May 14, 1948 .
They cannot be separated. The "little horn" comes with that beast, they too cannot be separated.
The little horn is Eze 21:25 And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity [shall have] an end,
Dan. 12:1
]And at that time shall ]Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
This is what we are headed into now that the government of Israel and its commercial activity is back on the world stage with nuclear weapons, "the abomination that maketh desolate".
Rev. 12:7-17
[And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels...And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him...Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time
Matt. 24 (Mark 13)
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand)...For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs ("pseudochristos"; singular), and false prophets ("pseudoprophetes"; singular), and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
The decption is the Frankist Messinaic Judisism of Shabbatai Zvi, In his early youth he attended a Yeshiva under the veteran rabbi of Smyrna, Joseph_Escapa . He was considered by most Jews as the Messiah until September 1666, when the Sultan of Turkey threatened him with torture unless he converted to Islam. He relented and most of Jewry abandoned him. But not all. A core of his followers kept their messiah alive and kicking hard.There was an outward reality and an inner reality. Once the followers accepted the concept of paradox, they would be able to keep on believing in Shabbatai Zvi...An inner circle of his followers accepted the explanations and continued to believe in Shabbatai the Messiah.
The Shabatai followers continued their hidden life in the Turkish sect of the Donmeh, whose activities continue to this day, as reported extensively this year, even by the staid Jerusalem Post. One of the Donmeh followers was Jacob Frank, who would transform Europe and the world into a Shabbataian hell barely a century later. [/S
The Donmeh now converted the Shabbatain Purim into an annual orgy, when members exchanged spouses for a ceremony called "extinguishing the lights." The Donmeh justified their Purim orgies, and their regular practise of sharing wives and engaging in other sexual activities, by citing biblical precedents.
Frank (1726-1791) was born fifty years after the death ofShabbatai Zvi, he deserves to be regarded as Shabbatai's true successor According to Frank, engaging in sexual orgies now became the means to purify the soul from its sins. Debauchery became therapy...Frank convinced his followers that the only way for their special form of Judaism to survive was for them to outwardly]become Christians, just as the Donmeh had descended into the world of Islam...In February, 1759, the Frankists told the Church they were ready to be baptized...The Frankists promised to deliver 5000 new Christians from Poland,
The Frankists also became involved in international political intrigue, and sent secret emissaries to the Russian government and the Eastern Orthodox Church offering to help in the overthrow of Poland and the Catholic Church..
By 1786, Frank suffered temporary financial problems, and moved his court to Offenbach, near Frankfurt. There Frank's money problems were somehow solved. The source of Frank's immense wealth is not clear. He may have used his movement's system of secret messengers and clandestine cells to engage in the constant political turmoil involving Austria-Hungary, Turkey and the Balkans.
Frankfurt was the birthplace of both the Illuminatti and the Rothschild empire. When Jacob Frank entered the city, the alliance between the two had already begun. Weishaupt provided the conspiratorial resources of the Jesuit Order, while the Rothschilds contributed the money. What was missing was a means to spread the agenda of the Illuminatti and that the Frankists added with their network of agents throughout the Christian and Islamic worlds.
What we have here is the Synagogue of Satan in action. and it begins in Smyrna
Moses Dobruka (17531794) was a nephew of Jacob Frank, the founder of the Frankist sect who claimed to be the Jewish messiah. Dobruka was an alchemist, freemason, writer, and poet. In 1773 he converted from Judaism to the Catholic faith and took the name of Franz Thomas Schönfeld. In 1778 he was elevated to nobility in Vienna, becoming Franz Thomas Edler von Schönfeld. Together with Ephraim Joseph Hirschfeld, who did not convert, he became one of the main conspirators of the Knights of St. John the Evangelists for Asia in Europe, a secret society of freemasons, which was much talked about in Germany and Austria between 1783 and 1790, not least because it was the first German-speaking fraternal order to accept Jews.
Rev 2:9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and [I know] the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but [are] the synagogue of Satan.
Dan. 9:I And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Rev. 13
the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority...And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast...And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast.
The beast is the government of Israel.
For the beast to rise, the Dragon/Little Horn/ Pseudochristos/Pseudoprophetes has to be here de facto.
Dan. 7:7-8
After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
Eze 21:25 And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel,
whose day is come, when iniquity [shall have] an end,
With love in Christ
brother daniel
