Four kingdoms ruled ancient Israel:
Babylon, Media-Persia, Greece, and Rome.
Rome was the last kingdom to rule ancient Israel and its western
empire ended in 476 AD, when Odoacer, a Germanic chieftain, deposed the last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus.
Also, in the midst of this reality, Jesus Christ the Messiah walked among people and ministered to their needs, died for the sins of human beings, and rose from the dead to return to heaven.
Also, in the midst of this reality, Jesus Christ the Messiah walked among people and ministered to their needs, died for the sins of human beings, and rose from the dead to return to heaven.
During His tenure, He said: “I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it” (Matthew 16:18).
Another kingdom would arise amidst the ten kingdoms that survived the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and would displace three of those ten kingdoms.
This kingdom would speak pompous words against God, persecute the church members that Jesus left on the earth, and change times and laws (Daniel 7:25). This power would dominate the world for 1,260 years. The Roman Catholic Church is the only world-wide power that meets this description.
The Roman Catholic Church placed the Bible beyond the reach of common people and interposed priests between God and the people, despite the apostolic teaching that there is now only one mediator, Jesus Christ, between God and man. (1 Timothy 2:5).
These priests instructed the people in doctrines that were not Biblically based. During “the 1260 year rule”, the Roman Catholic Church attempted to replace the church Jesus built on the rock.
Q: How and when did it start?
A: The Western Roman Empire fell in 476 AD but the Bishop of Rome remained a dominant religious figure. In 538 AD, Emperor Justinian, the ruler of the Byzantine Empire, declared himself to be a theologian and no longer a soldier.
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The quest for unification of the empire by unification of the church, the fever for church-building projects with his wife Theodora, the persecution of enemies of the church and heretics, his disdain with the Sabbath although his second name was Sabbatini, his support for suppressing any eschatological fever in line with the church fathers and Oecumenius (the name under which are transmitted several commentaries in Greek on the New Testament) and yet trying to build the ‘Kingdom of God’ on earth. All this indicates the problem 538 AD was for the Roman Empire and the Catholic Church.
Archaeological and historical original sources of Justinian and contemporaries of popes, biographer of Justinian and a commentator on Revelation (Oecumenius) are very revealing of these times and the shift or transition of what belonged to the Roman Empire handed over since 538 A.D. to the church and the papal function.
The Code of Justinian was a persecuting instrument. Justinian upheld the supremacy of the papacy.
He permitted, through the Council of Orleans, actions to be done on Sunday that Constantine had prohibited, such as travel, food preparation, and house-cleaning. In Novellae CXLIV Justinian instituted a Seventh-day Sabbath persecution.
He changed the times and laws ad hoc as his Novellae XLVI and coins of 538 A.D. (XII year) indicate. Private gatherings were persecuted. He had church-manual laws. He studied Systematic Theology on the nature of Christ and wrote homiletical rules for preachers. He gave text critical advice to Jews and condemned their doctrinal deviations.
However, this theological hobby of the ruler of the once mighty
The prophetic embedding of the 1260 days as “years” prophecies in both Daniel 7 and Revelation 12 definitely started in 538 AD."
Dr. Davis
