Understanding “The Thousand Year Reign” of The Catholic Church over Western Europe helps us understand why “the dragon unchained from the abyss” ended it. The best history is the shortest!
A short, unpopular history: After Rome fell, European nations formed around tribes of Vandals, Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Saxons, Danes, and other groups of Scythians.
Who are they? Scythians are a generic name for The Ten Northern Tribes. They’d been exiled to the North by Assyrians in 720 BC. In Colossians 3:11, St. Paul implies they have a degree of civilization above the “barbarians”. They lived, and spread out from, The Caucasus Mountains. That is why White People are called “Caucasians”.
The Ten Tribes spread North and West, keeping some tribal identities. Some of Gad’s descendants ended up in England, where “Gadenes” are shown in maps of pre-Roman settlements. Dan’s sons ended up in Denmark. Visigoths took Spain, and, later, much of Latin America. The Suevi captured Portugal and, later, Brazil. Lombards, Lombardy. Saxons (Isaac’s Sons) took much of England.
This history is reviled by state-supported academics! They are paid to teach histories that separate people from God! They are paid to support the state, and they do so in every educational subject and at every level with such success that we don’t even know why we are called “Caucasian”!
For the thousand years between 500 and 1,500, The Catholic Church reigned over Western Christendom. In that time, forty generations of faithful Catholics lived and died. Many left property to The Church. Vast monasteries and convents fed, clothed, taught, employed, and healed entire peoples. The state was, except for defense, largely unnecessary. By 1500, The Church owned almost a third of some European nations!
The greedy were obsessed. “We want Church land for our own estates! We want future donations to come to us!” They organized politically. Philip of Hesse’s political party supported Luther. Cranmer’s supported Henry VIII. All were obsessed with getting Church assets for themselves. Luther, their hired “theologian gun”, was “the dragon unchained from the abyss”.
43,000 conflicting Protestant theologies do one thing: they strengthen states by weakening The Church.
See! The best history is the shortest! It’s worth sharing.
