Ballast resitor

ok got the car started with jumper on, (no ballast),started up with a hard miss, check the timing marks to make sure it was not jumping (steady as a rock,) car was run for about 15 mins still had the hard miss,but i noticed that with the light still on #1 it would go off then on then off after about 10 sec, check #3 cylinder looked normal.change wires around at cap and plugs still the light would go and on like before,still had hard miss,check other cylinders and they would do the same as #1 was doing,on and off. no pulsate like there was no current in the wires at all,then like clock work the engine started to die,it was like each cylinder was losing current from the distributor, check the coil wire to ground no spark. now this is with the jumper wire,the hard miss is new never had after cool down with ballast hooked up,this is nuts to me i feel that I'm some what educated on my car but this is driving me nuts, thanks for any help even if you tell me to stand on one foot and dance a jig i would try it.