I commend you on your balanced tone. I would like to point out however that Rome was not the last vestige of the Roman Empire but rather Byzantium. That would put the center of a new ten toed kingdom in Turkey. Just where the Selucid Empire existed before. AND interestingly enough there is a people group there: The Kurds. A new nation is soon to be born and a leader shall arise. Then ten kings will join him. And they will destroy the greatest city of all time “in one hour’.
Obama looks like the False Prophet to me. Dead Ringer.
http://www.biblestudying.net/index.html
And just an aside: There is no ‘rapture’. There IS a resurrection.
http://www.answersinrevelation.org/
Thanks for the links, but can you explain how Byzantium being the last vestige of the Roman Empire, negates Rome itself from being revived?