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|The Holy Roman Empire which ruled in supreme power from 538 to 1798, exactly 1,260 prophetic days/literal years, religiously claimed to be Christian but employed pagan rites. When the Apostle and Revelator John wrote these words in cir. 95–96 A.D., five pagan kingdoms were gone: Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, and Greece. The one standing in his day was Pagan Rome, eventually to be succeeded by Constantinian proto-Papal Rome to briefly last from the fourth century until the Holy Roman Empire's rise in the sixth century solidified by the Code of Justinian granting supreme power to the Papacy.
|The Holy Roman Empire which ruled in supreme power from 538 to 1798, exactly 1,260 prophetic days/literal years, religiously claimed to be Christian but employed pagan rites. When the Apostle and Revelator John wrote these words in cir. 95–96 A.D., five pagan kingdoms were gone: Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, and Greece. The one standing in his day was Pagan Rome, eventually to be succeeded by Constantinian proto-Papal Rome to briefly last from the fourth century until the Holy Roman Empire's rise in the sixth century solidified by the Code of Justinian granting supreme power to the Papacy.
A pseudo-Futurist viewpoint among renegade historicists, particularly Adventists but also other Christians, contends that with the healing of the beast's wound (Revelation 13:3) corresponds to the Lateran Treaty of 1929 whereby Fascist Italy restored the Papal State, the five Popes were the "five are fallen," John Paul II was the "is," and Benedict XVI was the "will continue a short space" because he resigned.
A pseudo-Futurist viewpoint among renegade historicists, particularly Adventists but also other Christians, contends that with the healing of the beast's wound (Revelation 13:3) corresponding to the Lateran Treaty of 1929 whereby Fascist Italy restored the Papal State, the five Popes starting at 1929 were the "five are fallen," John Paul II was the "is," and Benedict XVI was the "will continue a short space" because he resigned. This of course assumes that John's vision was looking into a time period between 1978 and 2005, the reigning period of John Paul II.
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