The historicist method of interpreting the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation is at the very base of not only the Adventist prophetic understanding but at the root of Protestantism.
Yet what we see in the Christian world today is an attack against the Historicist interpretation and an undoing of Protestantism. There is a reason this is so.
500 or so years ago there was a very important reformation that allowed light to flood upon the world.
It was precisely about breaking free from a system that turned the living water of the gospel into worm wood and that had obstructed the light of truth from shining upon the world.
It was a return to scripture and the true gospel of salvation that was to go into all the world.
God had his ambassadors all over Europe --Luther, John Knox, Tyndale, and a little later also in America, a land of freedom where truth could be freely followed and obeyed , with powerful preachers like George Whitefield, John Wesley, and William Miller.
However, the system that had controlled the Christian world for centuries, locking away truth and promoting its worm wood polluted water for doctrines in the place of the gospel's water of life, was clearly portrayed and warned against, in those prophecies!
The historicist interpretation of prophesy clearly revealed to the world that this Roman ecclesiastical power was anti-christ sitting as if he were god over God's church.
Those reformers, though they didn't all agree on all their theological points, were united in several key points.
1. The Bible is God's Word of Truth! Not man's traditions and philosophies.
2. Christ is our only Savior, Mediator and Lord, who alone brings us salvation.
3. The pope is the anti-christ as revealed in prophecy.That did not make the papacy happy.
With great energy and determination they set out to CHANGE the prophecies. The bible was now available to the people to read for themselves, so somehow, they must change those prophecies so they could not expose their identity as the anti-christ. They must get rid of the historicist method of interpretation. Their sacraments had to be embellished and preserved, their priesthood had to be elevated higher.
They organized "orders", the most aggressive being the Jesuits, to rewrite prophecy, and propagate their message, to persecute and reduce opposition, and influence with whatever method they could devise to destroy Protestantism and bring the world back into anti-christ's fold.
Today they have pretty much succeeded. The whole world is looking up to the papacy as the great spiritual leader. Government officials from the nations are bowing before him.
NOW THINK AGAIN OF THE TRUMPETS
Will this future interpretation of the trumpets point people to God?
Where will it lead people who lack the foundation and who hear this teaching that the trumpets are all future happenings of terrible, supernatural and disastrous trouble sent by an angry God to make people repent?
Where will they go to repent?
To what will their repentance, triggered by fear, lead?
Who is the angry one who brings this destruction and terrible time of trouble?
Are the trumpets outlining this future trouble, or is the trouble all part of the seventh culminating trumpet that defines the nations as being angry and destroying the earth, just before the second coming?
Who will be accused of causing the trouble?
""Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has but a short time." Revelation 12:12....
The wrath of Satan increases as his time grows short, and his work of deceit and destruction will reach its culmination in the time of trouble. [GC 624)
"destructive power ... will be exercised by evil angels when God permits. There are forces now ready, and only waiting the divine permission, to spread desolation everywhere. {GC 614.2}
" It will be urged that the few who stand in opposition to an institution of the church and a law of the state ought not to be tolerated"
Those who honor the law of God will be accused of bringing judgments upon the world, and they will be regarded as the cause of the fearful convulsions of nature and the strife and bloodshed among men that are filling the earth with woe. GC 615
So yes, Satan wants the nations to forget the historicist interpretation of prophecy, so he can use those prophecies (and the futurist interpretation of trumpets will suit him just fine) to corral people into his counterfeit system. Corral them into the very system (the system wounded in 1798 by but now healed and powerful) that those trumpets warned against.
It's the third angel's message -- no rest for those who look to this system for deliverance, though most of the world will go there.
In the last days, the pressure to repent and turn to the Catholic coalition will be tremendous. Repent of rebellion against the church supposedly containing the keys of salvation. Yes there will be a terrible time of trouble and with all the "chastisements" and disasters lashing across the land, (all of which are also predicted by Marian apparitions and others) will be used to urge people to repent of their rebellion against the "church". Will people know that the ones offering sanction and acceptance through their sacraments, are actually the anti-christ, not the real Christ at all?
The historicist understanding lets people know exactly what powers to fear and resist.
The counterfeit, with all deceivable power, will use fear and super natural signs and wonders to compel all into their "fold".
The time to seek truth, repent and surrender our lives fully to our Savior Jesus Christ is NOW. The trumpets have been sounding their warning, all through Christian history. For those who come to the last time of trouble unprepared it is too late.
