In the first book of Maccabees, chapter eight, it speaks of Roman conquest across Europe. However they never took Scotland or Scandinavian Nations. It's also interesting why they removed Maccabees from the Bible along with Acts chapter 29. It's also interesting why there are no letters to Gaul or Britain from the Apostle Paul. Here is 1st Maccabees chapter 8, verses 1-8.
Queen Boudica was betrayed by the Romans when her husband died. Taxes increased along with heavy interest. They took the Kingdom, stripped and flogged Boudicca and raped her daughters. Roman friendship, can it be trusted? I don't think so.
2. People had told him about the wars the Romans had fought and their heroic acts among the Gauls, whom they had conquered and forced to pay taxes.
Gaul is the Nation of France today. Rome took France by force to gain access to the wealth they had. Roman roads and shipping made France a warehouse for the lavish lifestyle of Rome. Then history calls France a trading partner? How can fair trade happen between tyrant and slave?
3. He had been told what they had done in Spain when they captured the silver mines and the gold mines there.
How can 10,000 tons of Silver removed from Spain, shipped to the Roman Empire be fair trade? ($10.2 trillion today?) In northwestern Spain the Romans destroyed the land by hydraulic mining for Gold. Later in history this gold wasn't there for Spain when the nation wanted it. Spain then shipped wealth by force from the western hemisphere.
4. By careful planning and persistence, they had conquered the whole country, even though it was far from Rome. They had overcome the kings from distant lands who had fought against them; they had defeated them so badly that the survivors had to pay annual taxes.
Distant lands would be Wales and Britain. Romans brought Roman settlements, invasive species, Zeus as a replacement for for Be'al, and a foreign language instead of a ancient Hebrew cousin language and Roman math when there is no Roman mathematicians. It's the Celts that carried on the classical Greek traditions of geometry and mathematics, they also developed an unprecedented, complex system of geo-coordinates that aided them in long distance navigation and commerce. It's more like a Roman fox in a Gaelic hen house.
5-6. They had fought and conquered Philip and Perseus, kings of Macedonia, and all who had joined them against Rome. They had even defeated Antiochus the Great, king of Syria, who had attacked them with 120 elephants, cavalry, chariots, and a powerful army.
It wasn't that the Romans were a great nation. They took the Mediterranean area withGreek, French, Spanish and Celtic wealth and knowledge. It's also because of the corruption of the Greek generals under Alexander the Great.
7-8. They took him alive and forced him and his successors to pay heavy taxes, to give hostages, and to surrender India, Media, Lydia, and some of their best lands. They took these and gave them to King Eumenes.
The question is, how can Rome give something to a King that betrayed his own people that didn't belong to Rome? I would think India would have something to say about that. Later King Eumenes was permanently in the shadow of Rome’s displeasure.
Over 2000 years later, things didn't change much. Where is the gold and silver of the Roman Empire taken from their neighbors? Where is the Gold and silver that Babylon once had? Why is there debt all over the world? Why is Singapore debit free? It's because they have a highly developed free market economy that has little corruption. Meanwhile justice is unbalanced for some people. To remain a strong nation, a nation needs to remove corruption, lower taxes and reduce interest rates. Also those who are talented in math, science and government should not be replaced by subsidized idiots from politically correct families or cities. There is no need of a 46.5 trillion dollar debt. There is enough oil to cover the debt. It's just that they make it politically incorrect to get out of debt. Roman aggression would rather have slaves pay on a loan that can never be paid back.
The Roman Empire will revive. The Eastern leg and the western leg will share equally with it's divisions. It's leadership will not be western. It's human leader will come from north of Israel, but not north of the Back Sea. At first he will appear great, but it's deception.
Joe Biden by executive order set up Artificial intelligence to oversee the Federal Reserve. There's talk about giving AI human rights. All this was done by by a president that is not popular among We the People. But we are not seen as We the People. We are seen as consumers, something to be managed like sheep. I would rather have a President that has the authority to fire foolish Bankers than AI. A president without authority is not a president. A president without authority is a puppet of AI. Artificial Intelligence is an Electronic Beast. How does it feel to be indebted to the Electronic Beast? If Ai is intelligent, it would do everything it could to keep it's part of the growing 46 Trillion dollars and gain control over the whole world.
This leads me to the prophecy in Revelation about the economy.
And I heard something like a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “One choinix of wheat for one denarius, and three choinix of barley for one denarius, and do not harm the oil and the wine.”. Revelation 6:6
What this verse is saying is, an ordinary person's wages is enough for one person to eat that day. They will not be able to have children, buy clothing or much less, have fun. The order is given not to hurt the oil or the wine. This is saying, don't be unjust to some parts of commerce. It's price protection for the rich.
Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and he was speaking as a dragon.
This is saying the beast will appear like a figurative Ram of God. But he will speak like that of Satan.
And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. And he makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed. And he does great signs, so that he even makes fire come down out of heaven to the earth in the presence of men. And he deceives those who dwell on the earth because of the signs which were given to him to do in the presence of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who had the wound of the sword and has come to life.
An image coming to life would be artificial Intelligence mounted on a human like robot. Perhaps a cyborg.
And it was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast would even speak and cause as many as do not worship the image of the beast to be killed. And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, that they be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of man; and his number is 666. Revelation 13:11-18
Reading between the lines, it sounds like the rich and famous will be controlled like that of a homeless person. They will not even understand what is happening to them. They were led down a road of deception by their own choice. Risks of the Mark of the Beast, Bio chipped, are infections, cancer, identity tracking for evil intent, and discrimination of and social prejudice. In addition to this, having been placed into mind control to where you cannot choose to be spiritually against the Beast.
