Here's what I would pay good money for - and maybe an amillenialist ("now- millenialist") and/ or preterist would even deign to give it away for free... (if it's even possible, which it may not be)
I would like a blow by blow correlation of historical 66AD to 73AD to the sequence of events of Revelation. Such as, this thing happened at 66 AD, then the Romans broke the covenant in the middle of the 7, destroying the temple, then the Romans yada yada this, etc.
That would be useful.
Haha! You reminded me of those memes featuring Gary Cole from "Office Space" that always end with "That would be great."
But, I think I can help out with that some, as well as what I can discuss that goes well beyond 70 AD's Siege of Jerusalem by the Romans that more or less ended the Zealot Revolt. My understanding of the Siege of Masada was that it was 'mop up duty' by the remaining Roman legions still deployed in Judea. I have calculated rather carefully (as best I can) regarding history BEYOND First Century AD Judea, even to the point where I believe the actual Battle of Armageddon (Battle of Megiddo) was actually fought and won by the British over the Ottoman Empire in 1918, while the United States finished off Germany in Europe, given France was too weak to stand and fight without American reinforcements. The fall of the last Islamic caliphate, the Ottoman Empire, also meant that the nation which toppled the last holdout of the old Roman Empire at Constantinople had been crushed. Therefore, the British Empire broke the chain of foreign occupation over the Holy Land stretching back as far as the Jews' return from the Babylonian Exile. The United States, meanwhile, finished the job of destroying the Beast of the Sea, or what most of the monarchs involved had historically proclaimed to rule by divine right. Thus, Britain won the Battle of Armageddon; America crushed the Beast system in Revelation forever - but at a heavy price: Gog and Magog were now free to grow out of the shards of the crushed Ottoman Empire, and since 1948 after the British and French Mandates expired, the world has never seen the constant barbarity and warfare as we do now out of the Middle East. As a result, first the Soviet Union (yellow sickle and hammer) and later Russia (the Russian bear of Daniel 7:5) would begin to jostle for control over the Middle East's resources with the United States, who remains Israel's lone major ally. The rest of Gog and Magog, currently comprising the majority of the United Nations, is against both America and Israel. And Israel, recall, is completely surrounded by every nation mentioned in the Bible.
Recall too, that within 30 years of the British liberation of the Holy Land from over 400 years of Ottoman Muslim rule, the modern Jewish state of Israel was born (May 14, 1948). At that point, in my estimation, the Beast system that had existed in Europe had been destroyed for more than 30 years, with the new order that soon followed now leading to the rise of global order heavily influenced by what both the Books of Ezekiel and Revelation as 'Gog and Magog' through the following events: the Soviet Union; Ataturk's Turkey; Mussolini in Italy; Slavic nationalism, which gave birth to Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Hungary from the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, dissolved by Woodrow Wilson; the mess to come in the Middle East based on the poorly-constructed Sykes-Picot Agreement and Balfour Declaration by Britain and France; in 1929, the Lateran Treaty that resurrected the Roman Catholic Church as a geopolitical reality; and finally, the Third Reich, which arose from the national humiliation in the Treaty of Versailles ('the guilt clause'), hyperinflation, and the Stock Market crash of 1929.
World War I ended the Beast system by my estimation, which had been an ongoing conflict in Europe beginning with the Roman Church's expulsion by Constantinople (still the Roman Empire of old) in 752 AD, which two years later resulted in Pope Leo III crowning Pepin the Short 'King of the Romans' while standing over the alleged grave of the Apostle Peter through their arrangement known as 'the Donation of Pepin'. This was the point where the Beast of the Earth (the papacy) is born inside the 'the harlot', or Rome. 'Babylon' (perhaps France) and Rome would eventually form 'Babylon the Great' in my opinion beginning with the Avignon Papacy ('The Babylonian Captivity of the Papacy') in 1309, in which the pope and the French king (Henry II) came to dominate both European politics and clerical matters jointly until the death of Catherine De' Medici in 1589, who is remembered as one of the greatest killers of Christians in human history.
The 'mouth of the lion' (Revelation 12) and 'lion with wings' (Daniel 7:4) refer to first, the British Empire (which broke away as the first Protestant empire in history), which is history symbolized by 'the lion' in its heraldry. But most intriguingly are the wings of 'the great eagle' tied to the symbolism of Michael the Archangel in both Daniel 12 and Revelation 12 - the United States of America. The United States have historically been tied to the same eagle associated with the tribe of Dan, but which broke away from the Beast first with the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 (Spain was a Habsburg-ruled nation and as such, shared the same 'eagle' as did the German portion of the Holy Roman Empire), and by 1776, the British Empire herself. But if you look further at the heraldry of 'The Great Seal of the United States of America', you'll notice a couple of other items: in the right talon is the olive branch of peace, and on the right, the arrows for making war - both of which are symbolic of the Tribe of Joseph by way of Manasseh. America too possesses a 'Star of David' comprised of the 13 stars that are on one hand, tied to the original 13 Colonies, but too, the thirteen tribes (12 plus the two belonging to Joseph by way of Ephraim and Manasseh). Also, Daniel 7:4 refers to 'the legs and mind of a man'
accompanying the wings that broke away from 'lion beast'. France is often tied to the Tribe of Reuben, who is generally symbolized by 'a man', but here it could also mean that the wings mean that man is finally free to choose his own destiny, be that good or evil, in this rich 'wilderness'. Also in Ezekiel as well as Revelation 4:6-8, one of the four beasts of the earth featured on each angel is that of 'a man'. The others? 'An eagle', 'an ox', and 'a lion'. Since Britain is also commonly associated with an 'ox' (one of the 'royal beasts'; commonly associated with the Tribe of Ephraim) as well as 'the lion', it would suggest that perhaps these two nations which broke away from the papacy (Beast of the Earth) would do the most to end the evil 'Beast system' over time. And that they did, all the way to the end of World War II, the final horrible conflict to sweep away the horrible consequences that emerged from the mishandling of Germany and the Middle East through the Treaty of Versailles and the Sykes-Picot Agreement.
Recall, too: the Roman Catholic Church indirectly ruled most of the entire world on every continent, except Antarctica, by way of Spain and Portugal through the Treaty of Tordesillas, and France. Britain and America brought a halt to Rome's ability to colonize the world geopolitically by the beginning of the 18th Century.
The Roman Empire's actual collapse did not take place until the Ottoman Empire sacked Constantinople in 1453, seven days after a major lunar eclipse, and nearly 1,000 years after the beginning of Nero's reign. At this time, the last direct relative of the Palaiologios Dynasty (Zoe Palaiologina) would, within ten years, be married off to the Grand Duke of Muscovy, Ivan III, and her grandson, Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) would be named the first Tsar of Russia - and Russia, by this time, had assumed its role as the true political successor to the Roman Empire, or quite literally, 'The Third Rome'.
The Valois/Medici line of French rulers led to the destruction of not only the French monarchy within in 200 years (1789 was the beginning of the French Revolution), but in face the papacy as a political power broker by 1871. How does the Valois/De' Medici line tie into 'Babylon the Great'? Consider the following:
Catherine De' Medici's uncle, Pope Leo X, excommunicated Martin Luther following his issuing the 'Ninety-Five Theses'. Her father/Leo's brother was Lorenzo De' Medici, ruler over Florence. The Medici line was the latest political family in Italy to have 'bought' the long-corrupt papacy. After her father's passing, she eventually was raised by another pope/uncle, Clement VII, who arranged for her marriage to the future King of France, Henry II. But in 1547, Henry II died during a jousting match, and her eldest son (the future Francis II) was not competent enough to rule. She was a notorious patron of the occult (she kept company with the necromancer Nostradamus and was said to participate in early forms of the 'black mass' with Cossimo Ruggieri), had several enemies murdered through poisoning, brought the famed Medici family wine selection to France and used it through her 'Flying Squadron' (ring of spies comprised of prostitutes) to attain information from many of Europe's most powerful leaders, and manipulated all the Wars of Religion in France that led to the eventually partition of France (indeed, Paris) into three zones of influence (her son, Henry III; the future Henry IV; and Henry, Duke of Guise, murdered by Henry III) during the Wars of the Three Henrys. She died suddenly from pleuresy on January 5, 1589, and seven months later, he son was assassinated. Around 3 million Christians died because of her role in manufacturing the French Wars of Religion and the persecutions of Protestants in both France and the Netherlands at the height of the Reformation.
Here's the line of Valois/Medici, per Revelation 17:9-11. It no longer matters who 'have fallen', who 'once was, now is not', etc., because it has all already happened:
1) Francis II ('First Blood of the Line', died in 1560; formerly married to Mary, Queen of Scots)
2) Charles IX (Manipulated by Catherine to launched the first of the French Wars of Religion in 1562, as well as the St. Bartholomew Day's Massacre in 1572. He died childless, as had Francis II).
3) Henry III (The last of the Valois/Medici kings, he would carelessly lead France to its near destruction by way of unraveling the web of intrigues created by Catherine throughout the Catholic League [including Spain's Philip II and Henry, Duke of Guise] and pro-Huguenot forces under Henry IV [who ironically converted to Catholicism in order to become the first Bourbon King]. He died childless, seven months after his mother Catherine's passing.
Now, this is the remaining portion of the French monarchy within the House of Bourbon, tainted by Medici Blood:
4) Henry IV (Married another unscrupulous member of the House of Medici, Marie, and was assassinated in 1610. But because he did leave a direct heir, the line towards the fall of the French Monarchy continued):
5) Louis XIII (Grandson of Marie De'Medici; he is the first of the last line of French kings of the Bourbon Dynasty to lead to France's terrible fate in the late 18th Century due his bloodline being directly tied to the Medici line)
6) Louis XIV ("The Sun King", the most opulent ruler Europe has ever seen, having constructed the Palace of Versailles and, through nearly an entire reign of non-stop wars and his near extermination and expulsion of France's Protestant Huguenot population, the nation descended into financial ruin, leading to the French Revolution)
7) Louis XV (Great-grandson of Louis IV, whose legitimate sons and grandsons had all died by the time he passed away in 1715)
8) Louis XVI (The last absolute monarch [excluding the powerless Louis XVII, who never ruled; and Louis XVIII, who held no political authority beyond that of a figurehead] to rule over France's Ancien Regime, he was the eldest son of Louis XV, and 'the eighth head/king' who went to its destruction - quite literally by way of beheading beneath the blade of the Guillotine).
