Is America the Rome talked about in Revelation?

Question

Ok, let me explain. Back when John the Revelator was alive Rome was the most powerful country, had soldiers almost everywhere and had tons of land...Rome constantly interfered with international matters in some way or another...

So, isn't that like America now? Could it be that John was just refering to America as Rome since we're the most powerful nation ever in the world? We're constantly doing things worldwide, constructive or destructive...something is always happening because of America.

Answer 1

do you for get the Soviet Union? they are just as big and got their hands in to every buddies business as well.

Answer 2

You are absolutely right!!!

There is a book that is now available that explains what John meant by all of the symbols. Here is an excerpt from the commentary on Revelation 13:2:

The “beast” has great power over the people of the earth. Its strength is powerful and exercised in darkness (“leopards” are dark and hunt at night). It moves with force, crushing under its “feet” anything that rises against it (there is no animal as strong in its feet/paws as the “bear”). The sound of its voice is both intimidating and fierce (“the mouth of a lion”) to all who dare challenge it.

“His power, and his seat, and great authority” as mentioned in the latter part of this verse, comes only one way: by the voice and election of the people who are driven by the “power” of the flesh (“the dragon gave him his power”) to hope and desire for what the “beast” can offer them. Though it “sits upon many waters,” “the seat” (throne) of this “beast” is established firmly in the midst of the people who devour more of the earth’s resources in pursuit of their fleshly lusts than anyone else in the world.

From its most powerful “seat,” the “beast” rules the world with its economic policies, laws, and mandates. In former times, it was Rome that maintained this “seat and great authority”; in modern times, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is THE SEAT OF THE BEAST.


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Answer 3

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Answer 4

No, Rome was the Rome talked about in Revelation. John was a sort of paranoid, suffering from the strange idea that Nero was coming back to persecute the Christians again, although Nero was dead.

Answer 5

revelation is all about Rome but America will go the same way just as all kingdoms of man do.

Answer 6

America is the mystery Babylon, check out Revelations 17 and 18.

Answer 7

You are absolutely right! I believe that America is starting to decline right now in this current era. Although I predicted this based of a knowledge of history, not the Bible.

These two cliched phrases say it all:
1.) All great empires fall.
2.) History repeats itself.

Answer 8

I would have to say that John was referring to the revival of the Roman Empire. Which by all logic would have to be located in the same area as the original Roman Empire. The EU is located in this same location...weird.

Answer 9

When the bible was supposedly written by god ,wouldn`t you think He would have known about America ?
After all , the religious said he made everything on earth .
Why did he fail to mention the rest of the world ?

Get over it ,The Bible is not fact .

Answer 10

No, he was talking about Rome. Hard to believe, I know.

Answer 11

The European Union will be the new America except without God. The ungodly have already rebuilt the Tower of Babel building for members of parliament. It was built in direct rebellion against God.