Recently I came across a paragraph in the CNN opinion articled dating November 20, it read "[I]
This is how great institutions crumble: Not just by inertia and excuse-making for the decay, but because a small handful of people decide that doing maximum damage-whether actively or through inaction-is justifiable if it is to their immediate benefit".
[/I] This aroused my thoughts on how previous world powers crumbled. How did they lose their relevance? Think of Sumerians, think of Akkadians, to the Pharaohs, how couldn’t they have not survived through ages?
To answer this kind of questions requires historical view of events that led to their rise and there fall. To start my quest, I took a shortcut to youtube and watched short clips of their historical assertions. Of truth, their endings seemed innevitable. Much of the remaining chronicled texts of ancient geoploitical arenas can be found in the Greek and Jewish records and other ancient literature. One of them is the Bible (Atheists keep calm, hear me out).
The Bible notably have about 8 kingdoms, past, present, and the future. Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persian, Grecian, Pagan Roman Empire, and Papal Roman Empire. I said 8 kindoms but here there are 7, the next one will be for you to jugde. Egypt and Assyrian declined the same time, vanquished by Babylon, with their last active war in the Battle of Carchemish 605BC, Babylon empire was later crushed by Medo-Persia at the Battle of Opis by Cyrus the Great in 539BC. Grecian empire took over Persians, divided into four at the death of Alexander The Great, with there dominace ending in the Battle of Pydna ushering the Pagan Roman Empire in 168BC. All of these a historically significant.
Now, let me take you through the Biblical Context. All their fall was predicted and forewarned through prophecies. First Egypt (and Ethiopia), her demise was pronounced in Isaiah 19 predicted in the 20th chapter that Assyria would take them captives. For Assyria, her divine Judgement was pronounced in Isaiah 10 and the Babylon would destroy it utterly which came after a long war at the Battle of Nineveh (2 Kings 23:29-35). As for Babylon, not only their end was predicted but also who to alienate them was mentioned in name, 70 years before his birth. Isaiah 13:17-20 prophesied that the Medes would eventually wipe Babylon never to be inhabited again (of today, Bablyon lies in ruins). Thereafter, Grecian empire and the Roman empire were highlighted through Nebuchadnezers dream.
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How was this accurate? How does his dream leads us to today “kingdoms”? Lets have a look on the explanation given to him by Daniel. " Thou O king is the head of gold, and after thee shall come another but inferior…"Daniel 2:37-43 Here the four kindoms are mentioned; Babylon, of pure gold also known as “glory of the kingdoms”, then Medes and Persians - represented by two arms one bigger than the other, then came the belly bronze, represnting Grecian empire, and the two feet representing Roman empire (which was divide into two later (Eastern/Byzantine and Western Rome). The feet are the nations that broke out thereafer in 538AD ending the Roman Empire.
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Now there remains one power not explained here; The Papal Rome, from whence did it come from? The Bible predict another power, very diverse from the other ones. First it comes forth from the ten kingdoms (ten feet) Daniel 7:20 rooting out three kingdoms (Heruli, Ostrogoths and Vandals) and its characteristics is of a religious power (Daniel 7:21-26). Historical contexts fits perfectly to papal Rome whiched reigned till 1798 when the Napoleon took captive Pope Pius and occupied the papal states. The papal Rome exists today but has no political power, it is now refered as " A dealy wound which has healed" brought back to active limelight through a historic pact by Mussolini and Gasparri(1929).
Do we then have blueprint to the future? Or were these just a shear coincidence? Now we have seen the 7 kings altogether, who is the eight?
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
Revelation 17:10-11
If the prophecies are true, then yet we will another powerful Papal power. And thus, it is necessary to know that the powerful nations exists rightfully. Only their demise is their own.