Have you ever heard the expression, “History repeats itself?” This saying applies in almost everything including matters of politics and religion. We live in a time and age where we are used to these two entities being separate and distant. However, in ancient times, politics and religion often became closely intertwined. This was demonstrated in Egypt, Babylon, Medo-Persia, and Pagan Rome, among other nations.
In Egypt, politics and religion became one when King Akhenaten declared that there are no other gods except for Aten, the sun disc. Babylon combined its civil power with religious authority when King Nebuchadnezzar ordered everyone to bow to the image of gold which he had made. King Darius, of the Medes and Persians, one time made a law requiring that everyone should pray to him for 30 days. In the Pagan Roman Empire, the emperor Caesar was regarded as a god. These are examples of how world governments, at the time, intertwined religion with their rule.
History repeats itself, so we can expect that a world power or government whose influence extends over the world, will eventually intertwine religion along side its civil power. This statement is not made on a mere assumption, or on the philosophical idea that history repeats itself. This statement is declared with the back up of Bible prophecy which predicts that religion will be forced with world wide civil authority. Which religion? Which civil authority? Revelation 13 gives us the answers.
In Revelation 13, there are two main beasts that are discussed. Some people think the beast is Islam, others think it is the Masonries, etc, but Revelation 13 gives specific identifying criteria so that there can be no mistake in identifying each beast.
In Egypt, politics and religion became one when King Akhenaten declared that there are no other gods except for Aten, the sun disc. Babylon combined its civil power with religious authority when King Nebuchadnezzar ordered everyone to bow to the image of gold which he had made. King Darius, of the Medes and Persians, one time made a law requiring that everyone should pray to him for 30 days. In the Pagan Roman Empire, the emperor Caesar was regarded as a god. These are examples of how world governments, at the time, intertwined religion with their rule.
History repeats itself, so we can expect that a world power or government whose influence extends over the world, will eventually intertwine religion along side its civil power. This statement is not made on a mere assumption, or on the philosophical idea that history repeats itself. This statement is declared with the back up of Bible prophecy which predicts that religion will be forced with world wide civil authority. Which religion? Which civil authority? Revelation 13 gives us the answers.
In Revelation 13, there are two main beasts that are discussed. Some people think the beast is Islam, others think it is the Masonries, etc, but Revelation 13 gives specific identifying criteria so that there can be no mistake in identifying each beast.
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