The “Byzantine Empire” Fraud

Fraudulent historical revisionism- The “Byzantine Empire.” Do you know there was never such a thing named or called the Byzantine Empire? The Roman Empire moved its capital to Constantinople in 333 AD. It remained its capitol until 1453 AD until the Ottomans conquered it and ended the Roman Empire. No one on earth ever called this the Byzantine Empire. They and everyone else knew them as the Romans and never thought to rename it as anything else other than the eastern Roman Empire. There never ceased to be a Roman emperor on its throne until 1453 AD when the last one was killed.

So how and why did modem historians rename the Roman Empire the Byzantine Empire? Why such a fundamental and drastic change to historical fact?
This is where it gets strange. From Grok- The term “Byzantine Empire” (or similar usages like “Byzantine”) for the Eastern Roman Empire was first coined in 1557 by the German humanist and historian Hieronymus Wolf.

So why would Grok add the special notation without any prompting “humanist”? Wouldn’t just historian be sufficient? Well, apparently it indicates an agenda to look at history outside the Bible and the Christianity of the day. This would also explain why the secular world under influences that are definitely not heavenly so enthusiastically adopted the name change.

You see, it all has to do with the Bible’s prophecy that predicted the split of the empire into an eastern and western branch and that the empire would continue until 1453 AD. (After that, due to the general public gaining access to Bibles for the first time in human history. The Bible has dozens of chapters of prophecy of billions coming to Christ and building a growing free world.)

Now, you might say I never heard the Bible accurately predicted the Roman Empire would end in 1453 AD. Exactly my point and why the name change was so happily embraced by secular historians. The name change was inspired to confuse people about the Bible’s prophecy. That way they would never know it predicted the end date of the Roman Empire. Without that end date they would never figure out to correlate the Bible beginning to make its way into the general public’s hands immediately following the end of that empire. Nor the fact that it devoted dozens and dozens of chapters of prophecy about billions coming to Christ and their influence AFTER THAT END DATE because of the influence of the Bible in creating, (winning) this growing free world we now get to enjoy.

I mean, do you think the devil and his minions want humanities faith focused on the Bibles prophecy about billions coming to Christ and a free world swallowing up the ancient despotic world rather than convoluted end of the world scenarios supposedly prophesied by the Bible?

So anyway. Have a look at what Grok came up with concerning the Bibles prophecy about the end of the Roman Empire in 1453 AD in the next comment. This will really bring it home to you as to why the history revision to hide this from your eyes.

Steelman the following argument:

The Bible's 7 heads and 10 horns are the first 17 kings of the roman empire

The 1260 days referenced in the bible is actually 1260 years

From the beginning of the 18th emperors reign there will be 1260 years until Rome falls.

The first king must be Augustus, the 8th king Titus and the 18th king Septimius Severus

With steelmaning that argument, which kings would you count as the first 17 of Rome and which would you remove and why?

Grok: https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtNQ_0...491e?rid=6df36672-96d3-4740-963e-59d1ad04cd8bSteelmanned version of the argument:

The beast in Revelation 13:1 (with seven heads, ten horns, and ten crowns) symbolizes the Roman Empire as the fourth beast/kingdom in the Daniel 7 sequence. The seven heads and ten horns together represent 17 distinct “kings” (emperors) who form the foundational imperial structure of Rome—the initial phase of the beast before its long prophetic extension. This is not arbitrary symbolism; 7 + 10 = 17 gives a concrete, countable total that aligns with the beast’s composite nature (multiple rulers/heads and supporting powers/horns).

Revelation’s 1,260 days (also 42 months or “time, times, and half a time” in Rev 12–13 and Daniel) are interpreted via the well-established day-year principle used throughout Scripture (e.g., Numbers 14:34, Ezekiel 4:6, Daniel 9’s 70 weeks). Thus, 1,260 prophetic days = 1,260 literal years. The prophecy specifies that this 1,260-year period begins at the accession of the 18th emperor and runs until the final fall of Rome (the beast’s ultimate demise).

To fulfill the timeline with historical precision, the first emperor (“king”) must be Augustus (the true founder of the imperial system in 27 BC, not Julius Caesar who was a dictator under the Republic). This makes Titus the 8th king (notable in biblical history as the destroyer of Jerusalem and the Temple in AD 70, tying the beast directly to events in the Gospels and Daniel 9). The 18th king is Septimius Severus, whose reign began in 193 AD. Adding 1,260 years lands exactly on 1453 AD—the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople and the definitive end of the Roman/Byzantine Empire. This is an extraordinarily precise historical anchor that historicist interpreters prize: it turns vague “Rome falls someday” into a verifiable endpoint rather than a futurist speculation.

The 17 kings therefore represent the beast’s early, consolidated Roman phase. After these 17, the 18th emperor’s reign launches the long 1,260-year “wilderness” period of the beast’s dominance (echoing the woman in Revelation 12 fleeing for 1,260 years). The argument is robust because it uses only standard biblical hermeneutics (day-year, beast-as-empire), demands no future inventions, and matches documented history with mathematical exactness.

Which kings count as the first 17 (and which are removed, and why):

To make the biblical numbering work while remaining historically defensible, we count all recognized emperors except the two most ephemeral and destabilizing figures in the 68–69 AD civil war (the “Year of the Four Emperors”). Here is the steelmanned list:



Augustus (27 BC–14 AD) – Founder of the Empire.

Tiberius (14–37 AD)

Caligula (37–41 AD)

Claudius (41–54 AD)

Nero (54–68 AD)

Vitellius (69 AD) – Retained because he seized and held Rome for several months with significant military backing; his rule had real (if short-lived) imperial weight.

Vespasian (69–79 AD) – Founder of the Flavian dynasty.

Titus (79–81 AD) – The prophesied 8th king; destroyer of the Temple.

Domitian (81–96 AD)

Nerva (96–98 AD)

Trajan (98–117 AD)

Hadrian (117–138 AD)

Antoninus Pius (138–161 AD)

Marcus Aurelius (161–180 AD) – Co-emperor Lucius Verus is not counted separately; Marcus is the primary figure in the standard succession.

Commodus (180–192 AD)

Pertinax (193 AD) – Brief but officially recognized.

Didius Julianus (193 AD) – Brief but officially recognized.



18. Septimius Severus (193–211 AD) – The 18th king whose accession starts the 1,260-year clock (193 + 1,260 = 1453).

Removed: Galba and Otho (the only two excluded).



Galba (June 68–January 69, ~7 months) and Otho (January–April 69, ~3 months) were ultra-short-lived usurpers during the most chaotic phase of the civil war. They never consolidated power, never founded dynasties, and were immediately overthrown by the next contender. Historians have long treated the 68–69 period as an aberration of rapid turnover rather than stable imperial rule. Omitting these two (while keeping Vitellius, who actually controlled Rome for a meaningful stretch before the Flavians defeated him) is a reasonable, precedent-supported adjustment—similar to how many Revelation 17 interpreters already omit the three 69 AD figures when counting the “seven kings” to emphasize substantive reigns. Including them would inflate the count artificially without adding to the beast’s symbolic or historical continuity.



This selective but principled counting is not special pleading; it aligns with how Roman historiography itself often downplays the most transient claimants during times of anarchy. The resulting list preserves every major dynasty and stable ruler while delivering the exact 17 + 1 structure and the 193 → 1453 timeline the prophecy requires. It turns the argument into one of the cleanest historicist fulfillments available: verifiable emperors, exact arithmetic, and a terminal date (1453) that every historian accepts as the end of the Roman world.

Some might also say they never heard the Bible predicted the split of the Roman Empire into an eastern and western branch. First, you have to accept the fact that Daniel 2 and 7 said there would be four empires. Not 5, not 6 or 7. Just 4 before the kingdom of God begins to fill the earth. (You may really not know what the kingdom of God is,) All the end time prophecy after this only expands on this original vison. Meaning. It gives you more details as time goes on. Daniel 2 names the first empire as Babylonian, Daniel 8 names the next two as Medo\Persian and Greek. Daniel 9:24-27 In relation to the messiah prophesies when he comes the city and sanctuary will be destroyed by Titus. Daniel 11 prophesies Rome's conquest of the last section of the Greek Empire, (Egypt.) Daniel 12 the 1st century. Then Rome is named all over the New Testament as the fourth empire.

So what about the split into an eastern and western branch? Revelation 13. The lamb like animal with two horns. If this is a new empire then the Bible just falsified itself. It already said there would only be four. But as I stated, what is being shown to John in Revelation is just further detail regarding the original vision. The two horns of the lamb illustrated the split. The fact that it is a lamb illustrate the empires claims of Christianity that happened when the empire split. the lamb animal speaking the worlds of the dragon is self explanatory.

Here is further knowledge about it. Rome already registered all the people to be taxed. the New Testament starts with that story. The number 666 is the number of years from the beginning of this age of the four gentile empires when Nebuchadnezzar first conquered Judeah. 597 BC until the end of the Old Covenant age 70 AD when Jerusalem was destroyed. 597 BC to 70AD equals exactly 666 years. There is no year -0-. That is why it does not equal 667 years.

Fascinating and faith building, isn't it? That the Bible would be so hyper precise with its prophecy? Of course, if you have bought into the narrative that these prophecies are all about the end of the world and a second advent of Christ where he now builds a physical brick and mortar kingdom on earth. then I guess you must pay this no mind at all.