The red dragon with 7 heads 7 crowns and 10 Horns is a picture of
Satan and his papal agents
This is a picture of the Satan controlling the papacy which rules over the Ten (separate) Horns
After the Second Coming when Jesus has come "as a thief in the night" there won't be 7 more minutes let alone 7 more years of any power shifts.
Armageddon takes place 1,000 years after the Second Coming at the Resurrection of the Damned when the wicked rise and surround the City. "God and Magog" are symbolic for the wicked of all ages. There is no climactic battle going to be fought by China, Russia, N. Korea against the Jews - total nonsense. The only "Jews" that have anything to do with the fulfillment of end times prophecy is "the Israel of God" - the Christian church.
The Whore riding the Beast is the final, fullest depiction of the papacy controlling secular governments that positively no one should miss. Just as Baal high priestess Jezebel controlled King Ahab, so the papal apostasy "Babylon" church controls "the kings of the Earth" governments, as well as the "merchants of the Earth" economic systems.
The 7 Kings represent "kingdoms" as does the Beast represent the papal "kingdom" which are:
- Babylon
- MP
- Greece
- Pagan Rome
- Papal Rome
- Bottomless pit beast of Luciferian secret societies ("is not, yet is") - seemingly mortally wounded papacy is actually alive, operating behind these papal-controlled societies for interim world control
- Image of the Beast ("not yet come") - apostate Protestant Jesuit sympathizers unite church/state
- Papal NWO ("eighth, of the 7") - final satanic confederacy in full public view just before Jesus comes
The 7th Trumpet began sounding in 1844 at the end of the 2,300 Days (years) prophecy when High Priest Jesus entered the Most Holy Place in the antitypical "Day of Atonement" and began cleansing the heavenly sanctuary, which even the Jewish Encyclopedia says is the "day of judgment".
Jesus is physically on earth as the Prince to come. That is when the 70th week is finished.
You put all your trust in the Catholic church, and none in what John actually wrote.
God is going to destroy life on earth as we know it at the Second Coming, but that is not the end. There is a thousand years left with Jesus physically on the earth.
Satan is the 8th kingdom, not mankind. Satan is the dragon, not mankind. Man has just been riding along with Satan since Babylon. But when Satan is actually in control, the whole world will know who Satan is, and he is not the pope.
John wrote these future 10 kings have no kingdom, so they are not any of the nations we currently recognize.
"And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast."
These leaders will not even be recognized until after the Second Coming. They only have an hour of glory along with Satan, after the Second Coming.
Your interpretation of the 7th Trumpet is so far removed from the Word of God. Even most other posters, erroneously interpret Paul and the 7th Trumpet as being the actual Second Coming, not hundreds of years prior to the Second Coming.
The ten toes are the 5th Kingdom and stopped being relative at the Reformation. The ten toes are not the ten horns in Revelation.
When John states the first 5 have fallen that means they are historically in the past. We are way past the Reformation, over 500 years past. The 6th kingdom is not the "is not what is". This is Satan per John:
"And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition."
Plain English says the 7th head is the beast that was, is not, even the 8th. If you only have 7 heads, but 8 kingdoms, then the 7th Kingdom in not one of the dragon's heads at all.
Satan was not Babylon.
Satan was not Medes and Persians.
Satan was not Greece
Satan was not Rome.
Satan was not the ten toes.
Satan is not even the 6th kingdom.
Satan is the 7th head, always was, has no authority, so is not a kingdom, until the 8th kingdom, the 42 months of AoD after the Second Coming.
The ten horns have power one hour with the beast, Satan as the 8th kingdom.
The 6th kingdom never became a one world dictator in the sense the world has recognized this one world dictator, because the church has been a kingdom and mountain in Christ filling the whole earth, giving the 6th kingdom it's mortal wound. You have totally left out the effect of the church as if the papacy and apostasy has totally wiped out the church, instead of the way the dream given to Nebuchadnezzar actually was stated.
"Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces."
"and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth."
Nothing in there that Rome and the papacy would still have governmental authority after the Reformation. Yet some of the church seems to have conceded to Satan and still see the papacy as some threat. Jesus never stated the church would have an easy go.
"Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved."
The church would come out of great tribulation, and has for 1994 years. But Daniel literally told Nebuchadnezzar that the church would totally wipe out these first 5 kingdoms and fill the earth, but was not supposed to be a one world governmental dictator. Jesus never said one had to live for thousands of years. Each generation would have to be faithful until they finished their task on the earth, and not give in, in their last days, even at the point of martyrdom.
Jesus said that after the Second Coming would many be physically gathered in Jerusalem for judgment, while still in Adam's dead corruptible flesh. So there is time after the Second Coming, not this remote judgment for hundreds of years you erroneously teach.
"When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him,
then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:"
The verse does not say has been picking and choosing for hundreds of years prior to the Second Coming.
Jesus was physically on the earth as Messiah for 3.5 years from baptism to the Cross, then was cut off for the Gospel's sake. As Prince to Come, Jesus as King will physically be on the earth for the last half of the 70th week. The 70th week is Jesus. You may not like a gap, but "being cut off", certainly indicates a gap of time, as the "Prince to come" is after the "cut off" part.
At least Jesus as the 70th week is implied in Daniel 9, not some 2300 years. The day year principle is not necessary in Daniel 9, because in the Hebrew, neither the terms "day" nor "year" are explicitly expressed. The term "week" is used which can be a set of 7 years or 7 days depending on context.
God is saying I gave you 70 years to cool off, now I am giving you 70 weeks until I visit you and restore you completely. Then the mystery "monkey wrench" was thrown in there as per Paul and his understanding that the 70 weeks were placed on hold, until the fulness of the Gentiles came in, and Israel would be partially blinded before the promise in Daniel 9 would become a reality.
I am not saying the Reformation was good or bad. That is just the historical time frame when the ten toes were destroyed, and the 5th kingdom, became past history. If you refuse to see that is when the church expanded like wild fire, that is your historical blindness, with your head in the sand of papacy as some existential threat. John said 5 have fallen. They do not relate to anything written in Revelation, past an historical nod, as having happened already. You can call the ten toes whatever you want. How Europe portrayed itself in the 16th century is no longer relevant today.