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2520 Years of World History
2520 Years of World History
(Not an exhaustive outline)
[ 1480 BC or 1450 BC Thutmoses III defeats the alliance of Canaanite
kingdoms at Megiddo - Egypt becomes world power until c. 900 BC. Begins
the 'Time of the Gentiles' (8 Gentile world empires which were to arise
in future world history), and which will be brought to an end in the
final eschatological Battle of Armageddon.
884-612 BC Assyrian Empire ]
742 BC Isaiah's prophecy to Ahaz
723 BC Hoshea prisoner of the Assyrians. Fall of Samaria (Israel) Beginnng of the first 2520 Year period to 1798 AD.
677 BC Manasseh prisoner of the Assyrians - Southern kingdom (Judah)
comes under control of the Assyrian Empire. Beginning of second 2520
Year period ending in 1843/4 AD.
[ 612 BC Fall of Nineveh to Babylonians. End of the Assyrian Empire.
606-539 BC Neo-Babylonian Empire
586 BC Nebuchadnezzar conquers Jerusalem, plunders and destroys the
Temple, and took many captive into exile in Babylon. (70 years exile).
539-332 BC Medo-Persian Empire ]
539/8 BC King Cyrus conquers Babylon and decrees the return of captive
nations, including the Israelites, to return to their own countries from
Babylon.
457 BC Artaxerxes' Decree to rebuild Jerusalem (Ezra-Nehemiah) Beginning
of the 2300 Years and the 490 years appointed to Israel.
[ 332-168 BC Grecian (Hellenistic) Empire. Later divided into 4 separate kingdoms after the death of Alexander the Great.
168 BC Antiochus IV Epiphanes (Syrian Seleucid Empire) plunders and
profanes the Temple. Bans Jewish religious practices and transforms the
Temple into a pagan sanctuary of the Greek god Zeus.
c. 168 BC Maccabees and the Hasmonean Independence
63 BC General Pompey conquers Judea for Rome.
168 BC - 476 AD ROMAN EMPIRE (west) | 395AD-1453 Byzantine Empire (east)
c. 4-6 BC Birth of Jesus Christ
c. 37-4 BC Herod the Great.]
27 AD Christ's Baptism and public ministry
30/1 AD Christ's crucifixion
34 AD Stephen's martyrdom at Jerusalem - The Gospel goes to the Gentiles. End of the 490 years appointed to Israel.
c. 49 or 50 AD Council of Jerusalem
[ c. 54-68 AD: Paul's ministry to the Gentiles - missionary journeys
70 AD Destruction of the 2nd Temple at Jerusalem.
135 AD End of the 2nd Commonwealth
312 AD Battle of the Milvian Bridge - Constantine becomes Roman Emperor
325 AD Council of Nicaea - Christianity becomes the state religion in the Roman Empire.
330 AD Emperor Constantine moves the capital of the Empire from Rome to Constantinople in the east.
395 AD Theodosius I enforces Roman Christianity as the state religion
and prohibits other religions. Re-affirms Papal ecclesiastical
(religious) authority as the head of all the Christian churches.
476 AD Fall of the western Roman Empire - Romulus Augustulus abdicates.
Its former territory is partitioned up into 10 separate smaller Teutonic
Goth kingdoms. 7 of these went on to form many of the modern day
nations of Europe. The Papacy gradually acquires the political
supremacy and power formerly wielded by the Caesars over the next
centuries and was to become the successor of the Imperial government. It
had already gained the ecclesiastical (religious) supremacy in the
Christianized Roman Empire.]
496 AD Clovis, King of the Franks embraces the Papacy and Roman Church.
508 AD Clovis converts to Christianity (Catholicism)
533 AD Justinian issues the decree on Papal ecclesiastical supremacy. The Pope as head of the whole Roman Church.
538 AD Last of the three Arian Goth tribes in the west destroyed by
Emperor Justinian. Papal supremacy comes into force. Ostrogoths
expelled from Rome? Begins the 1260 Years of Papal supremacy and the
Dark Ages.
[ 754 AD Pepin defeats the Lombards and gives their territory to the Papacy (Treaty of Sutri). Papal States est. in central Italy.
800 AD Charlemagne and the Holy Roman Empire
1054 Great Schism between the Eastern Orthodox Church and Rome.
1099 Latin Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem (Le Royaume Latin de Jérusalem).
1232 Pope Gregory IX and Emperor Frederick II establish the Medieval Inquisition. Ad Extirpanda
c. 1100-1300s: Crusades against the Albigenses, Waldenses, Hussites and
Lollards, and others whom the Roman Church condemned as 'heretics', etc.
1415 End of the Hussite Wars. Roman Catholic Church Council of
Constance? condemns and burns Jan Huss at the stake as an heretic. Also
condemned John Wycliffe (posthumously).
1453 Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans. End of the Byzantine (E. Roman) Empire.
1492 Columbus discovers and conquers the Americas for the Spanish Empire
and the Papacy. (Treaty of Tordesillas and the Papal demarcation line
later?). The Papacy soon divides the world between the Spanish and
Portuguese Empires for conquest, colonization and conversion to Roman
Catholicism, so as to bring these newly discovered territories and
nations under Papal dominion, which they have remained under ever since.
1517 Protestant Reformation begins in reaction against Papal tyranny and
corruption, and ultimately to seek religious and political freedom from
Papist domination. The Waldensian church soon joins with the
Reformation in Switzerland. Protestants reject the (Religio-political)
authority of the Papacy, because it opposes the Gospel of Jesus Christ
and sets the Pope up in the place of God in the eyes of the whole world,
thus the Pope (a man) is to be obeyed as if he were God on earth. It
is these corrupt religious claims of the Papacy that it then uses to lay
claim to primacy and worldly political dominion over the all the
kingdoms of the world and to tyrannize over the consciences of all.
1540 Society of Jesus (Jesuits) established by the Pope and Ignatius
Loyola as part of the Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation to destroy the
Protestant Reformation, and to bring the kingdoms of the whole world
back under the political control and dominion of the Papacy.
1563 Council of Trent formally condemns the Protestant faith as heresy
and all Protestants as heretics according to the Roman Catholic Church.
It also reaffirmed standard Catholic dogmas such as Papal supremacy,
etc.
William Tyndale condemned by Rome and burned at the stake as an heretic
for translating the Bible into the English tongue. But much of his New
Testament translation survives in the later 1611 King James Bible.
Index Librorum Prohibitorum - The Roman Catholic Church bans the Bible.
1572 Massacre of St Bartholemew. Huguenot Wars begin as part of the
Catholic Counter-Reformation to destroy the French Protestants. The
Counter-Reformation had also instigated various other wars and the
Inquisition against Protestants elsewhere.
1500s-1600s Wars of Religion and Civil war. Expansion of the (Catholic)
Spanish and Portuguese Empires in the New World. The newly discovered
nations were to be conquered, converted and enslaved as a matter of
Papal and royal policy.
1618-48 Thirty Years War. 1648 Treaty of Westphalia.
1640s English Civil War
1640s? : Pilgrim Fathers leave England for America.
1660s?: Baptists Roger Williams and John Clark found Rhode Island.
1776 America founded. 1783-93: Constitution framed?
1789 French Revolution. ]
1798 General Alexandre Berthier takes Rome and exiles Pope Pius VI.
Papacy abolished by France, but soon restored by Napoleon (Concordat of
1801) and Pope Pius VII. End of the 1st period of 2520 Years from 723
BC (Northern Kingdom). Also ends the 1260 Years of medieval Papal
religio-political supremacy. (The world union of Church and State under
the dominion of the Papacy during the long centuries of the medieval
Christendom)
[ Concordat of 1801
1804 Napoleon crowned as last HOLY Roman Emperor and successor to Charlemagne.
1806 End of the Holy Roman Empire.
1815 Congress of Vienna restores the Papal territories to the Pope. ]
1843/4: William Miller and the end of the world.
1844: End of the 2nd period of 2520 Yrs (Southern Kingdom), from 677 BC. Also ends the 2300 Years of Daniel 8:14.
[ Later Chronological world history and Events:
1863: American Civil War
1870 End of the Papal States.
1870 The Papacy declares itself to be 'infallible' - the doctrine of
Papal Infallibility is decreed by the Vatican Church Council.
1914-18 World War I
1917 Russian Revolution and Soviet Union estalished.
1918 End of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. League of Nations established.
1922 End of the Ottoman Empire (1299-1922).
1929 Lateran Treaty est. the Vatican State in Rome as sovereign state. [ 1929+ VATICAN STATE ]
1933 Reichkonkordat (State Concordat) between the Hitler's Nazi
government in Germany and the Vatican. It was Hitler's first
international treaty.
1939-45 World War II
1945 United Nations, IMF and World Bank established.
1948 Israel est. after the War.
1949 NATO est.
1955 Warsaw Pact (Soviet bloc) est. in E. Europe.
1957 Treaty of Rome - EEC/European Union est.
1965 Vatican State joins the UN as permanent observer. Pope Paul VI
1975 UK joins the European Economic Community (EEC), fore-runner of the European Union (EU).
1975 Group of 7 (G7) world's wealthest nations est.
1984 US Reagan administration est. formal diplomatic relations with the Vatican.
1989: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II.
1989-91 End of the Soviet empire in E. Europe (Warsaw Pact nations),
paves the way for the political reunification of east and west.
1993 The EEC becomes the EU (Maastricht Treaty).
1995 WTO est. out of the old GATT organisation.
Dec 2000: Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Pope John Paul II.
2002: Introduction of the Euro single currency in 12 of the (then) 15 EU member states.
2004 EU +10 new member states. NATO +7 new member states, most from the
former Soviet bloc (Warsaw Pact nations). EU Constitution for the
political reunification and governance of the New Europe is signed in
Rome to replace the 1957 Treaty of Rome. (NATO-Russia Council est.)
2005: EU constitution is rejected in public referendums in France and
the Netherlands. Pope Benedict XVI succeeds Pope John Paul II to the
Papal throne.
2007 Lisbon Treaty replaces the rejected EU Constitution, and is
subsequently ratified by EU governments, by-passing public referendums.
Bulgaria and Romania join the EU.
2008 Global financial crisis and worldwide recession, but ongoing EU enlargement continues throughout the following years.
2010: Papal state visit to the UK. Pope Benedict XVI meets the Queen, PM
David Cameron and other UK political leaders incl former PMs.
Addresses Parliamentary politicians and past UK PMs.
2013 Croatia joins the EU? Pope Francis succeeds Benedict XVI. Both
NATO and the EU have 28 member states each at this time? The Council of
Europe has around 40 member states and association agreements with both
Russia (CIS) and the Vatican?
2015 Papal state visit to US - Pope Francis meets President Barack
Obama, addresses Congress and the UN General Assembly. Montenegro joins
NATO. ]
2016/7(?) UK to hold a referendum on its relationship and membership of
the EU.
800-1806 HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE
1957+ EEC / EUROPEAN UNION
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[ To the Future .... ]
20?? Russia to join the European Union and NATO soon? Turkey (incl.
Constantinople) is in line to join the EU pending future membership
negotiations. These would complete the political reunfication of east
and west.
2??? Jerusalem might eventually come under the political sovereignty of
the EU empire at some future point in time, perhaps by treaty agreement
or partnership agreement?
2??? America will issue the Decree.
The Protestant Reformation will fulfill the Great Commission, even as
they are opposed by the Papacy and a future world union of (the Roman)
Church & State under Papal control and authority. [Rev.14:6-12]
2??? A Future World Union of Church & State will be established
under the control and direction of the Papacy once it has regained the
height of its Religio-political supremacy and dominion over all
the kingdoms of the world, similar to what the Roman Church had
exercised during the medieval Dark Ages of Christendom and the Holy
Roman Empire, etc. This will be the end of the time of liberal
democracies (late 1700s+) because religious freedom and liberty of
conscience, as well as political freedom would be brought to an end
under Papist tyranny.
???? The final EU empire (=Revived Holy Roman empire) at the height of
its power and within the geopolitical and religio-political context of
such a future world union of Church and State will eventually destroy
the Papacy. (Precedent in the Papacy and the Empire). The Papacy will
not be restored again.
Completion of the 'time of the Gentiles' or the line of historical
succession of the eight Gentile world empires that were to arise from
the nations and kingdoms of the Old World.
[ 2520 Years ]
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1. EGYPT as world power c. 1480-900 BC)
2. ASSYRIAN EMPIRE (884-612 BC)
3. Neo-BABYLONAN EMPIRE (606-539 BC)
4. Medo-Persian Empire (539-332 BC)
5. Grecian (Hellenistic) Empire (332-168 BC)
6. ROMAN EMPIRE (168 BC-476 AD)
The PAPACY c. 325AD+ from the time of Emperor Constantine and the Council of Nicaea, arose as the supreme Ecclesiastical power
out of the Roman Empire, and as a political kingdom (754-1870 Papal
States and later 1929+ Vatican State). The Papacy is the 'Little Horn'
of Daniel 7 and the 'Mystical Babylon' of Revelation 17. It arose as
the Great Apostasy from within the Christian church and the old Roman
Empire and remains as the foremost Religio-political power in both the
church and the world at large. (The Antichrist arose as the Great
Apostasy and was to become the dominant power within the Christian
church and to endure almost until the end of the world; as opposed to
some future secular political world dictator sitting in a rebuilt Temple
of stone in Jerusalem(?) and ruling for but a very brief period of only
3.5 years). The Papacy will re-establish a future world union of Church
and State to enforce its own power and authority over the whole world.
The sword of the State will once again be in the hands of the
persecuting and corrupt Roman Papal Church.
7. HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE (800-1806)
8. EEC / European Union (1957+)
1776+ USA
( Some dates may need to be checked or are uncertain - DRAFT Chronological outline only and subject to change. )