By the time of the end of the seals the world will have descended into a single worldwide government. The Antichrist will come to power as an extremely charismatic political world leader among the then ten individual divisions of the world either economic or geographic. The Scripture teaches that the Empire, the Fourth Empire, continues until the Messianic Kingdom. It doesn’t show a break. In actuality, the Empire that the Bible is talking about is something more generic than Rome. It is an imperialistic form of government which the Romans founded.
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