Nuggets from Occult Invasion

God promised Israel an earthly kingdom, and those promises will be fulfilled at the second coming, when Christ returns to rescue His earthly people from Antichrist’s armies and establishes His millennial kingdom on the throne of His father David in Jerusalem. But instead of waiting for Christ to come from heaven to restore the kingdom to Israel (Acts:1:6When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
See All...; 3:19-21), the popes fought with armies and navies to build a vast empire of earthly wealth and power for themselves. As an eighteenth-century historian reminds us, “The territory under the immediate dominion of the Pope was enlarged whenever war or treaty could increase it; and the inhabitants had to pay the utmost taxes they could bear.”