[caww]

Like you I questioned the scripture references to be-headings. In my limited understanding it just didn't seem possible in the world I have known. But now we know how and the agenda of the Moslems and their political aspirations under “the veil” of religion. But I am not convinced the anti-Christ will be a Moslem....rather scripture does say he will rise out of Europe...and not that If the Islam population which has increased so there. But He will unite the religions and Islam will definitely be more than tolerated in those times.

[Pelham]

“rather scripture does say he will rise out of Europe...”

The Roman Empire fell in the West around AD 476. But the Roman Empire continued to survive in the East for another thousand years, finally conquered by Islam in 1453. There is no necessity for the “Roman Empire” to mean Europe. It can also mean the middle eastern region of Byzantium where the Empire survived the longest.