The history of the world is full of war and terror, one kingdom rising to another's demise, however few people realize that a Divine hand was involved in every aspect of our history. Thus many peculiarities have occured which have shown this to be the case. The Creator has been active ascending empires to glory or descending them to humiliation. Even before Jesus, the Lord helped the Israelites become a powerful kingdom, only to bring them down when they left Him, over and over again. This is an on going theme in the Old Testament. Therefore the same follows for us, the gentiles. My theories come from my education of the history of the world and the Bible, especially the Old Testament, and finally but most important, my faith in the Lord. If you don't like them, that's too bad.

Western and Easter Roman Empires (Byzantine Empire)
After the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Roman Empire continued as one but by the late 200's it started to be divided between the East, Greek speaking empire and the West , Latin speaking empire. Each under it's own emperor. Emperor Constantine founded Constantinople as the "New Rome", where he ruled the entire empire. These two empires continued to grow apart culturally, economically and religiously slowly. In 325 Roman Emperor Constantine convened the First Council of Nicaea to address the problems raised by heretical Arius, an Alexandrian Priest who professed that Jesus Christ was created by God neither quite human nor quite divine. Thus the Nicene Creed was developed to help the laymen have a basis for Christian belief.[2] And all was good until second Ecumenical Council in 381. That's when Christianity opened the door to Babylon/queen of heaven worship (forbidden in Jeremiah 7:18) and hurt the Western Roman Empire but doomed the the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine) with two clever and wicked women further discussed below. This council changed a portion of the creed to read from the following: "who for us men, and for our salvation, came down and was incarnate and was made man;" to "who for us men, and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and was made man."[2] Thus according to this wicked creed, the Holy Spirit was of the Virgin Mary...instead of from God as the Gospel in the Bible clearly states.

Soon after, during the fifth century God caused the barbarian foederati to rebel against Rome, their leader Odacer deposed Emperor Romulus Augustus in 476. And further divided the two empires. While the Western Roman Empire was ailing and seeking military and economic help from the Eastern Roman Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire was flourishing. During the 600's the schism continued to grow due to the rise of Islam which occupied the Mediterranean. Thus, the Western Roman Empire had been reduced to papal states, and cut off from the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) completely. Pope Stephen II turned to the North for help from the Frankish ruler Pepin. Under these dire circumstances the papacy and it's states fell under Frankish influence culminating in the pope crowning Charlemagne Emperor of the "Holy Roman Empire." However, he failed to get recognition from the Byzantine Emperor who considered himself the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire. This resulted in resentment for Greek culture, literature, theology and politics. Now even theology was different between the East and West. The west was mired in political and military confusion, their education suffered and was limited to clergy, while the East, wealthy and well educated, flourished in learning.

Thus schisms continued in religion, with the west's view of Christ on the cross as a victim, while the East viewed his glory over death in the resurrection. Furthermore, the West talked about redeeming sinners, while the East talked about the deification of man.(newage doctrine) Another religious difference was the inclusion of icons in the church, hundreds of them. It started in the 200's with pictures of persecuted martyrs and soon they became more than just pictures. They were venerated and those illustrated were called saints. Moreover, the Virgin Mary and Jesus had icons. And soon people were praying to the saints/Virgin Mary of these icons. However by the 700's controversy began over the icons as a few bishops began to talk against the icons due to their conflict with the Ten Commandments in the Bible, e.g. Exodus 20:4 "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them...". Thus those arguing against icons and their destruction were known as iconoclasts. Byzantine Emperor Leo III (717-741) was a supporter of iconoclasm.[1] And about 726 (or 731), ordered his soldiers to destroy the icon of Christ over the palace gate in Chalke. But a group of women kicked the ladder from under the soldiers feet. This lead to riots and many women becoming martyrs. Yes Greek women are big time icon lovers (harlotry of idolatry - God talks about it all over the Bible.) I know this unfortunate behavior all too well, my mom is a big time icon lover. She has about 30-50 of those satanic things in their house. [*]

However it took an act of God, an underwater volcano erupted in the Aegean Sea causing tidal waves and a cloud of volcanic ash that darkened the sky and effecting Constantinople, to cause the "fear of God" to come upon the emperor. Emperor Leo III preached sermons against icons. [1] Emperor Leo's son, Constatine V carried the torch of his father's iconoclastic beliefs and works. In 754, he assembled 338 bishops for the council of Hieria from all over the Byzantine Empire and condemned the venerating and making of icons (idols). Unfortunately, his great success was due to only calling bishops that supported iconaclasm. Thus a great persecution broke out against the iconfiles, especially a lot of monks. And between 762-775 was known as the "decade of blood" due to the continuous persecution against the iconophiles.

It took a woman, Empress Irene (reigned 780-802) to call a council "the rightful Seventh Ecumenical Council" which unfortunately confirmed the veneration of icons, not to be worshipped but honored. Fortunately, Leo V the Armenian from 815-843 continued the battle against icons.

Unfortunately, once again it took a woman, Empress Theodora, after the death of her husband Theophilus, interestingly an iconoclast, to reinstate icon veneration/idolatry on the first day of lent (originally "women weeping for a pagan god, Tammuz", hated by God in Ezekiel 8:14). The church even made her into a saint, with of course an icon and her feast day Feb. 11.[4] Hence, with Empress Theodora the Empire was doomed by God Almighty as in 1453. Why? Because the iconofiles corrupted the Lord's church with idols with such mediators between God and man as the Virgin Mary and hundreds of saints. I suppose this is why Apostle Paul told in his letter to Timothy in the Bible: 1 Timothy 2:12 "And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence." Moreover In Rev. 2:18 could Jesus Christ have been talking about this Empress (probably named for) as well as an earlier Empress bearing the same name, the wife of 6th century Emperor Justinian: Empress Theodora. Well consider this paragraph from Wikipedia and Thanks to three writings by Historian Procopius, "Some scholars believe that Theodora was Byzantium's first noted proponent — and, according to Procopius, practitioner — of abortion; she convinced Justinian to change the law that forbade noblemen to marry lower class women (like herself). Theodora also advocated the prohibition of killing adulterous women, and the rights of women to be socially serviced, helping to advance protections and delights for them; and was also something of a voice for former prostitutes and the downtrodden. (She closed brothels and created convents where the ex-prostitutes could support themselves.[6]) [Does this not sound like the ritual harlots forbidden by God in the Book of Moses, Deuteronomy 23:17 and in many other places in the Bible?] She also helped to mitigate the breach in Christian sects that loomed large over her time;"[5] Procopius writes that she was a courtesan (and, according to other sources, firstly a prostitute [5b]) and briefly served as the mistress of Hecebolus, the governor of Pentapolis, by whom she bore her only child, a son. There was a downside to her repertoire as well; Procopius also repeatedly notes her lack of shame and cites a number of scenes to demonstrate it, and also the low regard in which she was held by respectable society. Theodora as Empress was associated with the cause of Monophysitism, often acting as an advocate on their behalf." "Theodora died of an unspecified cancer before the age of 50", [5]

Okay with that information provided consider what Jesus Christ said to the church of Thyatira: "Revelation 2:18-23 “And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write, ‘These things says the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet like fine brass: “I know your works, love, service, faith, and your patience; and as for your works, the last are more than the first. Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent. Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds. I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works."

You see this is why God let the Western Roman Fourth Crusade, influenced by jealous competitor merchants in Venice who were financing the crusade, and used the failure to restore deposed Emperor Isaac Angelus and his son Alexius, as a reason to sack and pillage Constantinople for three days in 1204. Thus they raped and ravaged women, murdered anyone that got in their way, stole all valuables from ancient museum art works to church valuables, they even destroyed whatever they couldn't carry away, e.g. burned libraries, many ancient and contemporary writings, museums, etc.[1] "Rev 2:23 And I will kill her children with death..." Finally when the Byzantine Empire didn't repent, then the Lord caused the Pope to provide them no help against the Turks unless they returned under his authority, which was not going to happen. Thus in 1453, Constantinople fell to the Turks. The Turks took Hagia Sophia, the Orthodox Church's highest church and turned it into a mosque and museum to this day. Although Greece finally got it's independence in 1821, it was not until after WWI and the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire, that Greece was able to regain much of it's former territory that it has today. To the present day, Greece has not regained Constantinople (Istanbul) and will probably never regain the rest of Asia Minor/Anatolia, (Turkey), since we are in the endtimes and Turkey is a strong illuminist state behind her Muslim and secular facade. This is the Wrath of God. Thus while the Byzantine Empire was taken out by God's Wrath, the Catholic Kingdoms flourished but only because they contained the seeds of reformation that led to the establishment of Protestantism, a form of Christianity more Biblically based.

God with The Spanish Empire

The Spanish escaped the hand of the muslim world through their providence in God Almighty and unrelenting prayers for deliverance, much like the ancient Israelis. Thus God sent Western Roman Catholic crusades to rescue them. From that time on, the Spanish started to flourish and become a progressive power willing to finance expeditions that no other kingdom would. One such expedition was Christopher Columbus' expedition for new routes to India, in 1492. Thus they opened the door to the new world and it's riches.

God's divine hand in handing Mexico to the Spaniards and His Judgment upon the Aztecs.

In 1521, with only a few hundred men, Hernando Cortez of Spain, took control of Mexico by destroying the Aztec Kingdom which consisted of millions. How did this happen? A few hundred years before Cortez landed on Mexico's beach, an Aztec priest had seen a dream of the Aztec demise by a god. The description fit the description of Cortez, he was white, differently dressed, and had a very strange body (they had never seen a horse, thus Cortez on a horse was seen as a single horrific figure.) Thus with this well known prophecy among the Aztecs, not to mention the Aztec conquered indians who were severly oppressed by the Aztecs, once word spread of Cortez, these conquered indians all too quickly joined Cortez to overthrow the Aztecs. Cortez's army grew to 50,000. News of Cortez quickly reached Montezuma, the ruler of the Aztecs, who did not know how to act towards Cortez. Should he welcome Cortez to avoid his wrath or fight him? He let him in to his detriment. Soon the Aztec empire was ruled by Cortez, and all it's gold was packed and sent to Spain in the big Spanish galleons. The Aztecs became enslaved and abused by the Spaniards daily. [8]

God's Judgment on the Aztecs?

Why did God allow such a horrible turn of events on the Aztecs? The answer involves their religion, first they did not worship God, they had other gods, demonic gods, but worst they did something that God hates: human sacrifice. They murdered humans on their fancy temples daily. They would tear their heart out and let their blood run and decapitated body tumble down their temple stairway. At one time they were sacrificing people for 48 hours straight, the blood did not cease to run down their temple stairway. And to think that our well fed people of Christian heritage, here in the USA and Europe want to give glory to the Aztecs as victims of the Western World. Nevermind all those poor indians from other tribes that they murdered in their sacrifices and ruled with an iron fist. Why did they do these sacrifices? Their demonic gods called for it in order to assure them continued rule, good harvests, etc. Doesn't that remind you of harvest celebrations of today, e.g. Halloween. Thus God sent a people to destroy and enslave their kingdom very wicked, the conquistadoras, Cortez.

God's divine hand in handing South America, i.e. Peru to the Spaniards and judgment upon the Incas.

Such successful ventures were heard all over Spain, and wet the appetites of Conquistadors to a frenzy, dreaming to get their chance at the new world's gold like Cortez. And with no regard to human life. One such conquistador was Francisco Pizzaro. When a gold shipment was captured in South America by the Spaniards, they quickly figured out that it was tax money going to a powerful empire in the south. Thus in 1532 Francisco Pizzaro got his chance to lead an expedition from Panama to Peru. Now in all his wisdom, Pizzaro had about 250 men with him much like his predecessor Cortez. And to his blessing, God had already decimated the 20 million population of the Incas down to 10 million from desease: smallpox, brought to them by none other, the Spaniards. One more thing Pizzaro had working for him, they were in the midst of a civil war. The king had died from smallpox, and to make matters worse, his two sons were warring over the empire. Hence all along the way to Peru, Pizzaro noticed signs of an advanced civilization and also signs of battle. He saw battalions of soldiers returning and fancy roadways. Thus when Pizzaro finally reached the winning son's army, they looked at the valley below to see soldiers as the sands of the beach.

Scared and outnumbered, Pizzaro took his few men and retreated to a building nearby. There they brainstormed as to what they should do. They finally came up with a plan. Invite the son to meet and dine with him a feast. Now the plan was when he came to have a priest greet him and present him with the Living Bible and attack and take the prince once he gives back the Bible. Now the prince took 8,000 unarmed men and went to visit Pizzaro. What possessed this wicked and accomplished warrior prince to go unarmed to an unknown visitor, Pizzaro, could only be explained by God's power. Nevertheless, the prince reached Pizzaro, and was greeted by the priest and handed the Living Bible and told it was living. The Prince looked over the Bible and muttered that it didn't talk. He then dumped it on the ground. At this, all of Pizzaro's 250 men went wild and attacked the 8,000 men and for a couple of hours managed to chop them all down, thus seizing the prince. The prince was obviously caught off gaurd and spent the next few days trying to convince pizzaro to release him for a room filled with gold in return. Pizzaro agreed and soon gold flowed from all over the Inca Empire. However, Pizzaro's men kept taking gold out of the room at night thus not allowing the room to fill. When the prince got suspicious, they accused him of being antichristian and decided to burn him at the stake, disregarding his pleas that he wanted to convert to Christianity. Then they seized his empire, the rest can only be described much as the Aztec empire, enslavement, abuse, murder and total robbery of all their gold. Is this what one may call luck? Happening twice with the two empires of the new world? All the wisdom of the Incas and they didn't hear what happened to their enemies in the North, the Aztecs? Perhaps Wrath of God would be more suitable.

God's Judgment on the Incas?

Yes much like the Aztecs, the Inca Empire also worshiped demonic gods and not the Creator, that required human sacrifice. This brought God's judgment upon them by using a wicked people known as the conqistadoras who regarded gold but not human life much like themselves.

Why did God leave the Spaniards and the Catholic Church.

God did not continue supporting the Spaniards for one great reason: they tried to stop the reformation and came head on against God. The Catholic church had become very corrupt and occultic/satanic by the 15th century. Here are some of their acts very well listed by www.cuttingedge.org ministries "THE BIBLICAL APOSTLE PETER VS THE PETER OF ROMAN CATHOLICISM" They have a lot more information on the Catholic Apostacy, not to mention how the Catholic Church has totally disregarded what their first Pope, Peter said in the scriptures: “Forasmuch as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.” 1 Peter 1:18-19 Yet in 1546 Roman tradition was placed on the same level as Scripture. Catechism #97
"Here are just a few examples of the continual evolution of pagan practices brought into the Roman Catholic Church, starting in 310 A.D.:

Prayers for the dead were introduced in 310
The lighting of candles in 320
The worship of saints about 375
The mass was adopted in 394
The worship of Mary began to develop about 432
Priests began to assume distinctive robes in 500
The doctrine of purgatory was introduced in 593
Worship in Latin (since repealed 1962, but reinstated 2007) was mandated in 600
Claims to Papal Supremacy took firm foot in 606
Feasts in honor of the Virgin Mary began in 650
The custom of kissing the Pope's foot was introduced in 709
The worship of images and relics was authorized in 788
The invention of holy water was about 850
The canonization of saints was formalized in 993
Feasts for the dead were introduced in 1003
The celibacy of the priesthood was declared in 1074
The dogma of Papal infallibility was announced in 1076
Prayer beads were introduced in 1090
The doctrine that there are seven sacraments was introduced in 1140
The sale of indulgences began in 1190
The wafer was substituted for the loaf in 1200
The dogma of transubstantiation was adopted in 1215
Confession was instituted in 1215
The adoration of the Wafer began in 1220
The Ave Maria was introduced in 1316
The cup was taken from the laity in 1415
Purgatory was officially decreed in 1439
Roman tradition was placed on the same level as Scripture in 1546
The Apocrypha was received into the Canon in 1546
The immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary was announced in 1854
The doctrine of the papal infallibility was proclaimed in 1864
The personal corporeal presence of the Virgin in heaven in 1950"

In the 6th century satanists practice in their rituals putting Jesus on the cross, but the Catholics had been doing this discusting act by having Jesus Christ on the cross continuously in their Mass since 394 AD. I guess they never studied what Apostle Paul wrote in Hebrews 6:6. Even the verse points accurately 6:6 that this is against God. Thus the verse explains that nailing Jesus on the cross again is considered holding him to public shame. This obviously escapes both the Catholics and the Greek Orthodox, who love to wear the crucifix, Jesus Christ on the cross.

1128 Pope recognized the Order of the Templars, a deeply satanic group and precursor to the satanic Masons (Don't believe me, read the masonic encyclopedia of Albert Pikes writings and Albert Mackey.)

The Catholic Church tried very hard to shut up the Word of God.
1229 Inquisition in Toulouse forbids the reading of the Bible by all laymen, God wants His Gospell read throughout the world. 1252 Inquisition starts to use torture instruments. Forbidden in the Bible. Spain becomes the forefront in inquisition. Beginning in 1480 King Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain appoint inquisitors against heretic converted Jews. Soon after the Spanish inquisitors are used against the reformation being first in burning protestants at the stake in 1543. Then continue in other Catholic countries during the reformations of the 15th century. Thus the Catholic Church and her kingdoms, including Spain killed millions with their inquisitions.
1501 Burning of books against Catholic Church authority ordered by Catholic Bull order.
1517 Martin Luther begins reformation in Germany by protesting against the sale of indulgences by Catholics by posting on door of Palast Church in Wittenburg. Jesus Christ said forgiveness is God's . Thus the Catholic Church became a "den of theives" just as Jesus described the Temple in Jerusalem and overturned tables and chased out the money changers. (See Matthew 12:13-14 & John 2:15)
1520 Pope Leo X excommunicates Luther.
1527 reformation in Sweden
1528 reformation in Scotland,
1531 Henry becomes head of Church of England
1532 reformation in France (John Calvin)
1536 Pope authority declared void by British Parliament.
1543 First Protestants burned at stake by Spanish Inquisition.
1553 Mary of King Henry VIII becomes Queen of England.
1554-1558 Brief Catholic restoration in England,
1586 the Pope promised the Spanish money to invade England.
1597 second Spanish armada attacks British only to be scattered by storms also.

Thus Catholic Spanish Empire reduced by God, while the British Empire was lifted up.

Thus by a wicked King Henry VIII and for the wrong reasons, Britain switched to Protestantism. Despite all the Catholic countries which wanted to annialate Britain, (much like the muslims want to annialate the Israelites.) none were able to hurt it. In 1586 the Pope promised the Spanish money if they attacked England. And in both 1588 and 1597 when the Spanish, who were rich with gold stolen from the indians in the New World, went to war against Britain with their big fancy Spanish galleons and promised money from the Pope, they were going to annialate Britain but God raised a hurricane against the Spanish and wiped out most of their armada thus saving Britain and cementing it to empire status. Britain was a success from then on and even with it's decline, the torch extended to the USA, Babylon. Why? Because both countries, especially the latter, were filled with people that were bent on serving God without corruption of faith as the Byzantine and Spanish Empires did by not following neither what Jesus Christ nor His Apostles wrote.

America lifted up by Britain to be the new policeman

Thus with the fake decline of the British Empire, more evident in World War II, America picked up the torch of world power by coming to the rescue of Europe from Nazi Germany. Then with the Marshall Plan, the USA cemented it's political and economic status by helping Europe out of it's famine and locked it in to US company contracts and economic trade. Now what are the sins of America. There are many as with every empire: 1. Washington Dc was designed by Masonic/illuminist architect L'enfant from the start with the Hermetic principle "as above so below", featuring the goat's head of Mendes in the street layout, the masonic compass, pagan statues and imagery all over the city, including cities all over America, the Statue of Liberty - is a likeness of the goddess of ancient Babylon, rendering the USA Babylon the Great of Revelation 18. Afterall we're the biggest importer in the world...Rev 18:11 “And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise anymore..." Another evil America did, caused by the sabbatians, was to reject every opportunity to rescue Jewish people from the concentration camps, worse even children were turned away. Here are some other abominations and acts of rebellation against God. However, with the 1963 decision to take God out of our schools and again in 1973 ruling in favor of abortion in Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme court has since and continuously taken God out of every facet of public life. Even removing the Ten Commandments from our courthouses. Whereby Justice was synonymous with truth and righteousness, now it has become synonymous with the semantics and loopholes. Thus our Christian (and masonic) legal community of the early 20, 19 and 18th centuries held justice to mean the search for truth as Jesus Christ said in John 7:24 "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge with righteous judgment." This was always evident in all the masonic founding father's writings, e.g. Thomas Jefferson. You see these justices of that time believed in righteous judgment, e.g. finding the truth. However today's legal community is preoccupied with appearance, "is there a loophole." The worst part of this is that this kind of justice has been exported to the world community. Thus judges and lawyers nowadays have to fight their conscious: should I judge/support the loophole in the law or truth and what is righteous. But the liberals will argue what is right? Other wickedness that has been exported to the world community is through our largest export, entertainment (movies, soap operas, music, commercials, etc.) and drugs. Thus in this manner, America is furthering the goals of the New World Disorder: to destroy the family and cause turmoil amongst the average citizen, and destroy democracy.

Hence, we are already seeing that America is on the decline, because with all these acts it has left God, but has also become the Babylon in revelations 18. (Also see Isaiah 18) And our enemies are gaining and uniting against us, e.g. Muslim world, Russia, China. All these countries toghether are a very big enemy against the USA. All you have to do is read the daily newspaper and international newspapers and you can see that all this is true. Thus the next empire is the New World Order, which has been well described by the Lord in Revelations 13. This empire has nothing in God and is well represented by the number 13 of Revelations chapter 13, for it is the number of great rebellion against God. It will be destroyed without human means. Daniel 8:25, Revelations 19:19.

In conclusion, the Divine hand of God has been involved in exalting as well as humiliating empires. And through His Prophets, Daniel and John, God has profecied up to 2500 year in advance the new world disorder kingdom, it's one world religion and it's amazing despotism. And amazingly it's all happening daily in our newspapers before our eyes and it is the Will of God that it comes about for the seven years of the tribulation period. The final empire will be Jesus Christs empire and will last forever.