The modern nations of France, Germany and Italy were formed.

....................But there was no emperor at the time, but the office of the Empire in the mind of the world still remained.

..................................The Papacy had to decide which of these nations was to take the Imperial crown.





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Charlemagne's Empire didn't last long. Within a century it had fallen.

..................The Empire was finally dissolved, in the sense that the old realm of Charlemagne fell in 888.

.........But the Empire as an office didn't.

The year 888 is the birth-year of modern Europe.
France, Germany and Italy stood separately.

History shows that the center of Roman power returned to the West in 800 A.D.

......................But it's important to notice that the capital of this revived Roman Empire wasn't at Rome, although Charlemagne was crowned there. It's in a city in Prussia. It's worth remembering.

After several cenuries , circumstances developed which made it possible to restore the Empire of the West.

.................................In the year 800 A.D., the Pope crowned Charlemagne emperor of the Revived Roman Empire.

The idea of the Roman Empire continued to be established in the mind of the Church.

..............The Papacy planned and actually did restore the Empire to its former Imperial pattern.

.........This fact is emphasized by history.


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At the same time Imperial Rome was decaying, a new power was rising - the Papacy.

The Papacy, an ecclesiastical power, began to supercede the Caesars.

In the Fourth and Fifth centuries, the Western Empire showed signs of decay.

.............................War-like tribes from the north were causing devastation; though they tried to fight them off.

...In 476 A.D. the Imperial Rome passed into history.

History emphasizes the fact that the Roman Empire was always one and indivisible.

................................The Eastern Empire didn't come to an end when the Western Division fell; it comtinued for another 1000 years.

...............Not until 1453 A.D. did that form of Roman power cease to exist.

Rome was represented in the Image of Nebuchadnezzar by Two Legs indicating that the empire was to be divided.

...................This division took place almost a thousand years after the prophecy was given.

........................................The Empire became so huge that the ruling of its distant provinces was difficult.

.........So the Eastern or the Greek Roman Empire was formed.

Rome went through some political phases in its early existence.

...........In 27 B.C. it was proclaimed an Empire and Rome began to dominate practically all of the known world.

....................This Imperial form of Rome was the first phase of the Roman Empire.

History also shows that when any phase of Roman powers falls,
..............................it has a remarkable ability to rise again at a later date;
.......................................showing its historical persistence and a strange power to perpetuate itself.

To understand Rome and how its empire is to be restored, we must know prophecy and some of the history of Rome in the past.

................Prophecy reveals that Rome was to continue in existence in some form down through the ages and history bears it out.

The Seventh Trumpet has sounded
and the Seventh Vial has been poured out,
and a voice from heaven has spoken, "It is done."
Revelation 16:17

In Revelation 17 the Beast stands before Armageddon.

Revelation 17 is at the time of the judgment of the Harlot Woman.

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The Beast in Revelation 13:1, is before
.............................it is wounded unto death.

The Beast in Revelation 17, is after
........it has been wounded to death and healed.

..........This is the Beast that ascends out of the Bottomless Pit.

"And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundations of the world."
...................Revelation 13:8

The same is said of the Beast in Revelation 17:8

"And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not and yet is."

And again in Revelation 13:3

"And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded unto death; and his deadly wound was healed; and all the world wondered after the beast."

.............These references shows that the two Beasts are the same.