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tell yr aunt she is looking in the wrong place, American christians have been convinced by their clergy to look to Europe as the stage for the book of Revelations, but as it has been pointed out before, Europe has a longstanding history of temporary unification, pretty much three times a century since the "official" fall Rome......

the reality is that Revelations occurs in another place, and the use of Rome is simply metaphorical, symbolic, and according to Paul the precise definition of the word "typical" (meaning a type of or example).