This was all foretold in Isaiah Chapter 5 and I believe it has to come (that is, to be fulfilled) before the end of the age comes. Where governments (beasts) will give us (believers) no place left to stand alone in the Earth, that is, where its just between us and God. Which is what this is really all about, Satan wants us to acknowledge his evil and his authority and to do so in a manner that makes us deny our God or even to stand in opposition to him for our continued comfort and peace and security (within Satan’s authority) empowered over this Earth,
It no different than how Hitler was the human embodiment of Nazi Germany, but he was really nothing more than a carcase housing a demonic spirit seeking greater power and control in the world, he (Hitler) ultimately had a fatal head wound and all that he was and all of that evil lives on still today and is now making a comeback right in front of us, as ‘beast’ government rising up from the sea but this time it knows to come in like a lamb rather than in your face as a dragon,
Thank you for your words.
I am classic historical post-mil.