Empires – Insights into Bible Prophecy

An Idolatrous Conceit

January 1, 2025 David R Maas

‘Christendom’ is the idolatrous term used to invoke God to support national and political institutions, programs, agendas, and ideologies.

The English term ‘Christendom’ in popular usage refers to “that part of the world in which Christianity prevails,” either because most of the nation’s citizens claim to be “Christian,” or because a specific church is recognized by the State as its official religion. That nation becomes identified as “Christian,” it is one of the “Christian nations” of the world as opposed to the less enlightened peoples and cultures of the planet.

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Babylon, Beast from the Sea, Empires

The Recurring Empire

April 9, 2024 David R Maas

Not only was Babylon an ancient kingdom, but it also serves in Scripture as a symbol for the repeated attempts by kings and tyrants to establish regional and global empires and their inevitable destruction. The rising and falling of empires is as old as human civilization, and the phenomenon continues to this day as one presumed world ruler replaces another. Underneath its shiny exterior, it is always the same beastly entity.

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Empires, Kingdom of God, Politics

Fleeting Power

March 4, 2024 David R Maas

Despite human pretensions, History demonstrates WITHOUT EXCEPTION the impermanence of political power and governments. Rome endured for a thousand years, but that Empire fell all the same. Like life, political power is fleeting, and regimes often collapse quickly and unexpectedly when their allotted time expires. Only the “Kingdom of God” will endure.

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Beast from the Sea, Caesar, Empires

The Ancient Conspiracy

November 19, 2023November 19, 2023 David R Maas

History repeats itself. Its landscape is littered with efforts by tyrants and empires to dominate large populations if not the entire planet. An aggressor may experience success for a time, but so far, every self-appointed global leader has floundered in the end. The empires of Nebuchadnezzar, Alexander, and Caesar have all collapsed and been assigned to History’s dustbin. This raises the question: Why?

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Babylon, Beast from the Sea, Empires, Medo-Persia

A Theology of History

April 5, 2023 David R Maas

In the thirteenth chapter of Revelation, the “Beast from the Sea” is “GIVEN” authority over the “inhabitants of the earth” and the right to “wage war against the saints and to overcome them.” Satan’s imperial creature cannot wreak havoc against the church until he is authorized to do so, and only for the time allotted, the “short season.”

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