300AD, and most likely to 450AD is covered in the 'little horn' verses from Da:8. They are the ones that cover Rome as being the Gentile rulers of Jerusalem.
The kingdoms from Da:2 are Neb as covered in Da:4, the silver has 2 kings and it is covered in Da:5 and 7. The brass is covered in Da:8 and it starts off with Alex from Greece and the General that ended up with Jerusalem is still part of Grecia. The next ruler was whoever took over from Greece and lost rule to Rome in 63BC. Rome was the kingdom that came to rule around the world as mentioned in De:2 and Rome was the army in the Luke:21:24 prophecy that was the start of a period called 'the time of the Gentiles' and in that time the Gospel is to be taken to the 4 corners of the earth. Re:11 picks it up when the trumps are about to sound. The first 4 trumps are for the last Gentile rulers over Jerusalem and the world falls under the rule of the iron from the iron/clay kingdom on the day the 5th trump sounds, 1260 days from then the 7th trump sounds and that is the day their rule comes to an end. Jerusalem is protectes by the two witnesses so the only time Satan can control Jerusalem is in the 3 1/2 days they lay dead in the street.
The falling away from the truth was in the last line of the verses that apply to all that Rome was involved in in these few verses. On the greater scale the 70 weeks was the last events leading up to the completion of the bruise to the heel from Ge:3:15 as that is what Jesus was referencing when He said. 'it is finished.' moments before death.
The 'hindrance' to being gathered is the prophecy that was given, there had to be a falling away from the original teaching and the sitting on a throne in Jerusalem after the two witnesses have been killed. (that is a window of 3 1/2 days as the vials is Satan's destruction and that takes only a few hours after Jeus raises them from the grave.
Da:8:9-14:
And out of one of them came forth a little horn,
which waxed exceeding great,
toward the south,
and toward the east,
and toward the pleasant land.
And it waxed great,
even to the host of heaven;
and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground,
and stamped upon them.
Yea,
he magnified himself even to the prince of the host,
and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away,
and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression,
and
it cast down the truth to the ground;
and it practised,
and prospered.
Then I heard one saint speaking,
and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake,
How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice,
and the transgression of desolation,
to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?
And he said unto me,
Unto two thousand and three hundred days;
then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
Rome is that special direction from Jerusalem, the bolded part is the RCC getting the Bible in the Greek and the Hebrew and then they 'improved it' by creating the Latin Bible. That is when the truth bit the dust. The rest of the verses would be better in a post that covers the 70 weeks passage as well as the 4 Gospels as they are the bruise to the heel event that is the 'sacrifice' words in the above reference.
Re:18:8:
Therefore shall her plagues come in one day,
death,
and mourning,
and famine;
and she shall be utterly burned with fire:
for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
That's all well and fine until you have to blend in this requirement and it is a prophecy repeated in an NT prophecy that makes it a future event even in 100AD which is when Revelation was finished. The abomination in this case would be the false throne which is the image mentioned in Re:13.
Da:11:31:
And arms shall stand on his part,
and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength,
and shall take away the daily sacrifice,
and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.
M't:24:15:
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
The counting is:
1=Neb
2=Darius
3=Cyrus
4=Greece
5=Intermediate
6=Rome (1 that is as she is the Gentile king in Luke:21:24 and Gentiles rule until the unknown day)
7=Satan as the falling star of the 5th trump
8=Beast from the Pit, and angelic being that was a king on earth before the flood.
Prophecy:
Jude:1:14:
And Enoch also,
the seventh from Adam,
prophesied of these,
saying,
Behold,
the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
History:
De:33:2:
And he said,
The LORD came from Sinai,
and rose up from Seir unto them;
he shined forth from mount Paran,
and he came with ten thousands of saints:
from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
Yes, that would be at the end of the wheat harvest in Sept. December would have been when He was concieved and that is when God enters a name in the book of life.
No, and yes. If the last king is active then what is 'time is short' in relation to that theme?
Re:12:12:
Therefore rejoice,
ye heavens,
and ye that dwell in them.
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.
Do my best.