That's interesting, and quite possibly true. Revelation, on the other hand, has so many metaphorical references to Rome, that I am inclined to think that it predicts the collapse of the Empire. Non-Biblical writers of the time, e.g., Suetonius, were predicting the same thing, and noticing signs of decline all around them. "The lights of civilization are going out," Suetonius said, "all over the world." (Twelve Caesars)
Perhaps 2000 years from now an archaeologist will dig up the 10 million posts on FR and note that some posters were saying the same about us.