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(see "Prophetic Vocabulary")
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DANIEL 7
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom [are] ten kings [that] shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak [great] words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
The JURY will now hear the TESTIMONY of "Documented Human History" regarding;
A crumbling Roman World Superpower,
-and cause the destruction of 3 of those kingdoms;
-BUT NOT BY HIS OWN POWER!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemanni
KINGDOM #1
The Alemanni (also Alamanni, Alamani[1]) were a confederation of Suebian Germanic tribes located on the upper Rhine river.
First mentioned by the Romans in 213, the Alemanni captured the Agri Decumates in 260, and later expanded into present-day Alsace, and northern Switzerland, establishing the German language in those regions.
The Lentienses (German Lentienser) were a Germanic branch of the Alamanni, in what is now southern Germany.
They were reported to be one of the most rebellious tribes at the time.
There are only two mentions of the Lentienses, both by the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus (330–395).
First, they appeared in 355 when the Roman commander Arbetio was ordered by Emperor Constantius II to fine the Lentienses for several incursions the Roman Empire.
Secondly, they were mentioned in 378 when they crossed the frozen Rhine, invading the Roman Empire.
They were defeated in May 378 by the Roman emperor Gratianus in the Battle of Argentovaria (modern Colmar in Alsace), when their king, Priarius, died.
With this defeat, the Lentienses disappear from history.
This battle was the last campaign by any Roman Emperor behind the Limes area.
It was also the last time the name Lentienses was mentioned in historical documents.
In 496, the Alemanni were conquered by Frankish leader Clovis and incorporated into his dominions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_I
Clovis (French pronunciation: [klɔ.vis]; c. 466 – 511), or Chlodowech (Latin Chlodovechus), was the first king of the Franks to unite all of the Frankish tribes under one ruler, changing the form of leadership from a group of royal chieftains to rule by a single king and ensuring that the kingship was passed down to his heirs.
He was also the first SUNDAY OBSERVING "Christian" king to rule Gaul, known today as France.
Clovis converted to Catholicism(ROMAN SUNDAY OBSERVING "Christianity") at the instigation of his wife, Clotilde, a Burgundian princess who was a Catholic in spite of the Arianism that surrounded her at court.
He was baptized on Christmas Day, 496, in a small church in the vicinity of the subsequent Abbey of Saint-Remi in Reims;
-a statue of him being baptized by Saint Remigius can still be seen there.
The Battle of Tolbiac was fought between the Franks under Clovis I and the Alamanni.
The date of the battle has traditionally been given as 496.
The site of "Tolbiac", or "Tulpiacum" is usually given as Zülpich, North Rhine-Westphalia, about 60 km east of what is now the German-Belgian frontier.
With the help of the other Frankish sub-kings, he narrowly defeated the Alamanni.
We know little about the battle, except that the Ripuarian Franks were probably of no help after the first battle.
It is likely that the warriors of Clovis were less skilled than the Alemanni.
In any case it is said that Clovis saw his warriors being killed and felt the battle was getting out of hand.
Moved to tears, he called upon the one God of his wife Clotilde, the God that she had preached to him since their marriage in 493, asking for his help.
Gregory of Tours transmits complete his prayer in chapter II of the History of the Franks:
-"O Jesus Christ, you who as Clotilde tells me are the son of the Living God,
you who give succor to those who are in danger,
and victory to those accorded who hope in Thee,
I seek the glory of devotion with your assistance:
At these words, the Alemanni began to flee, to retreat because their leader had been killed with an axe.
The Franks subsequently either subdued or massacred the Alemanni.
Clovis then made Paris his capital and established an abbey dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul on the south bank of the Seine.
His conversion to the Roman Catholic form of Christianity served to set him apart from the other Germanic kings of his time, such as those of the Visigoths and the Vandals, who had converted from pagan beliefs to Arian Christianity.
His embrace of the Roman Catholic faith may have also gained him the support of the Catholic Gallo-Roman aristocracy in his later campaign against the Visigoths, which drove them from southern Gaul in 507 and resulted in a great many of his people converting to Catholicism as well.
Clovis is remembered for three main accomplishments:
Ladies and Gentlemen of the JURY, the DEFENSE would submit for your consideration that the Alamanni were 1 of the 10 Kingdoms that were to arise out of the Roman Empire.
The DEFENSE would also submit for consideration that the Alamanni were THE FIRST OF THREE KINGDOMS destroyed in support of the POPE and his diverse(religious) kingdom before Clovis' BAPTISM in 496AD.
NOTE: There is an accepted misconception that the HERULI were one of the 3 Kingdoms destroyed in support of the "Little Horn", however, "Documented Human History" DOES NOT support this understanding.
ACCORDING TO "Documented Human History" the Heruli were NOT DESTROYED, but CONVERTED to Roman Christianity and WERE ABSORBED by, and INTEGRATED INTO the Roman Empire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herules
According to Procopius,
the Herules were a polytheistic society known to practice human sacrifice, although it appears that by the time of Justinian, which was period he wrote about, many had become Arian Christians.
With the ascent of Justinian, Procopius says that the Herules within the empire converted to Christianity and "adopted a gentler manner of life."
SECOND KINGDOM FALLS-
(see "Prophetic Vocabulary")
Note; Can a Juror determine truth without hearing ALL of the evidence? It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that one hear ALL of the evidence, beginning with Part #1 of these posts!
DANIEL 7
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom [are] ten kings [that] shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak [great] words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
The JURY will now hear the TESTIMONY of "Documented Human History" regarding;
A crumbling Roman World Superpower,
- that had disintegrated into 10 separate INDEPENDENT kingdoms,
- and a "Little King" that would rise up out of that crumbling Superpower;
-and cause the destruction of 3 of those kingdoms;
-BUT NOT BY HIS OWN POWER!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemanni
KINGDOM #1
The Alamanni and Rome 213-496: (Caracalla to Clovis)
The Alemanni (also Alamanni, Alamani[1]) were a confederation of Suebian Germanic tribes located on the upper Rhine river.
First mentioned by the Romans in 213, the Alemanni captured the Agri Decumates in 260, and later expanded into present-day Alsace, and northern Switzerland, establishing the German language in those regions.
The Lentienses (German Lentienser) were a Germanic branch of the Alamanni, in what is now southern Germany.
They were reported to be one of the most rebellious tribes at the time.
There are only two mentions of the Lentienses, both by the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus (330–395).
First, they appeared in 355 when the Roman commander Arbetio was ordered by Emperor Constantius II to fine the Lentienses for several incursions the Roman Empire.
Secondly, they were mentioned in 378 when they crossed the frozen Rhine, invading the Roman Empire.
They were defeated in May 378 by the Roman emperor Gratianus in the Battle of Argentovaria (modern Colmar in Alsace), when their king, Priarius, died.
With this defeat, the Lentienses disappear from history.
This battle was the last campaign by any Roman Emperor behind the Limes area.
It was also the last time the name Lentienses was mentioned in historical documents.
In 496, the Alemanni were conquered by Frankish leader Clovis and incorporated into his dominions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_I
Clovis (French pronunciation: [klɔ.vis]; c. 466 – 511), or Chlodowech (Latin Chlodovechus), was the first king of the Franks to unite all of the Frankish tribes under one ruler, changing the form of leadership from a group of royal chieftains to rule by a single king and ensuring that the kingship was passed down to his heirs.
He was also the first SUNDAY OBSERVING "Christian" king to rule Gaul, known today as France.
Clovis converted to Catholicism(ROMAN SUNDAY OBSERVING "Christianity") at the instigation of his wife, Clotilde, a Burgundian princess who was a Catholic in spite of the Arianism that surrounded her at court.
He was baptized on Christmas Day, 496, in a small church in the vicinity of the subsequent Abbey of Saint-Remi in Reims;
-a statue of him being baptized by Saint Remigius can still be seen there.
The Battle of Tolbiac was fought between the Franks under Clovis I and the Alamanni.
The date of the battle has traditionally been given as 496.
The site of "Tolbiac", or "Tulpiacum" is usually given as Zülpich, North Rhine-Westphalia, about 60 km east of what is now the German-Belgian frontier.
With the help of the other Frankish sub-kings, he narrowly defeated the Alamanni.
We know little about the battle, except that the Ripuarian Franks were probably of no help after the first battle.
It is likely that the warriors of Clovis were less skilled than the Alemanni.
In any case it is said that Clovis saw his warriors being killed and felt the battle was getting out of hand.
Moved to tears, he called upon the one God of his wife Clotilde, the God that she had preached to him since their marriage in 493, asking for his help.
Gregory of Tours transmits complete his prayer in chapter II of the History of the Franks:
-"O Jesus Christ, you who as Clotilde tells me are the son of the Living God,
you who give succor to those who are in danger,
and victory to those accorded who hope in Thee,
I seek the glory of devotion with your assistance:
- If you give me victory over these enemies,
- and if I experience the miracles that the people committed to your name say they have had,
- I believe in you, and I will be baptized in your name.
- Indeed, I invoked my gods, and, as I am experiencing, they failed to help me, which makes me believe that they are endowed with no powers, that they do not come to the aid of those who serve.
- It's to you I cry now, I want to believe in you if only I may be saved from my opponents."
At these words, the Alemanni began to flee, to retreat because their leader had been killed with an axe.
The Franks subsequently either subdued or massacred the Alemanni.
Clovis then made Paris his capital and established an abbey dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul on the south bank of the Seine.
His conversion to the Roman Catholic form of Christianity served to set him apart from the other Germanic kings of his time, such as those of the Visigoths and the Vandals, who had converted from pagan beliefs to Arian Christianity.
His embrace of the Roman Catholic faith may have also gained him the support of the Catholic Gallo-Roman aristocracy in his later campaign against the Visigoths, which drove them from southern Gaul in 507 and resulted in a great many of his people converting to Catholicism as well.
Clovis is remembered for three main accomplishments:
- By the first act, he assured the influence of his people beyond the borders of Gaul, something no regional king could accomplish.
- By the second act, he laid the foundations of a later nation-state, France.
- By the third act, he made himself the ally of the papacy and its protector as well as that of the people, who were mostly Catholics.
Ladies and Gentlemen of the JURY, the DEFENSE would submit for your consideration that the Alamanni were 1 of the 10 Kingdoms that were to arise out of the Roman Empire.
The DEFENSE would also submit for consideration that the Alamanni were THE FIRST OF THREE KINGDOMS destroyed in support of the POPE and his diverse(religious) kingdom before Clovis' BAPTISM in 496AD.
NOTE: There is an accepted misconception that the HERULI were one of the 3 Kingdoms destroyed in support of the "Little Horn", however, "Documented Human History" DOES NOT support this understanding.
ACCORDING TO "Documented Human History" the Heruli were NOT DESTROYED, but CONVERTED to Roman Christianity and WERE ABSORBED by, and INTEGRATED INTO the Roman Empire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herules
According to Procopius,
the Herules were a polytheistic society known to practice human sacrifice, although it appears that by the time of Justinian, which was period he wrote about, many had become Arian Christians.
With the ascent of Justinian, Procopius says that the Herules within the empire converted to Christianity and "adopted a gentler manner of life."
SECOND KINGDOM FALLS-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goths
In the fifth and sixth centuries, the Goths separated into two tribes, the Visigoths, who became federates of the Romans, and the Ostrogoths, who joined the Huns.
By the late sixth century, the Visigoths had converted to Catholicism.
After the Ostrogoths successfully revolted against the Huns at the Battle of Nedao in 454, their leader Theodoric the Great settled his people in Italy, founding a Kingdom which eventually gained control of the whole peninsula.
Theodoric the Great was responsible for the death of Pope John 1.
Shortly after Theodoric's death in 526, the country was captured by the Eastern Roman Empire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justinian_I
Justinian I, commonly known as Justinian the Great, was Byzantine Emperor
from 527 to 565.
Pope Felix IV
Saint Felix IV was Pope from 526 to 530.
Following the death of Pope John I at the hands of the Ostrogoth King Theodoric the Great, the papal voters gave in to the king's demands and chose Cardinal Felix as Pope.
Felix's favor in the eyes of the king caused him to push for greater benefits for the Church.
Following the death of Pope John I at the hands of the Ostrogoth King Theodoric the Great, the papal voters gave in to the king's demands and chose Cardinal Felix as Pope.
Felix's favor in the eyes of the king caused him to push for greater benefits for the Church.
As with his secular administration, despotism appeared also in JUSTINIAN'S ecclesiastical policy.
He regulated everything, both in religion and in law.
At the very beginning of his reign, he deemed it proper to promulgate by law the Church's belief in the Trinity and the Incarnation;
- and to threaten all heretics with the appropriate penalties.
In other words;
- CONVERT TO ROMAN "Christianity" or
- BE DESTROYED!
Although the despotic character of his measures is contrary to modern sensibilities, he was indeed a "nursing father" of the Church.
The recognition of the Roman see as the highest ecclesiastical authority remained the cornerstone of his Western policy.
As a Christian Roman emperor, Justinian considered it his divine duty to restore the Roman Empire to its ancient boundaries.
Map of;
FAILING ROMAN EMPIRE 530 AD
http://www.vlib.us/medieval/lectures/justinian.html
- Kingdom of the Vandals
The Vandals were an East Germanic tribe who in 429 under king Genseric entered Africa and by 439 established a kingdom which included the Roman Africa province, besides the islands of Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia, Malta and the Balearics.
In 455, they sacked the city of Rome.
Their kingdom collapsed in the Vandalic War of 533–4, in which Justinian I managed to reconquer the Africa province for the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.
His general Belisarius swiftly conquered the Vandal Kingdom in North Africa, extending Roman control to the Atlantic Ocean.
Conquest of North Africa, 533–534
Main article: Vandalic War
The first of the western kingdoms Justinian attacked was that of the Vandals in North Africa.
They defeated the Vandals, who were caught completely off-guard, at Ad Decimum on 14 September 533 and Tricamarum in December; Belisarius took Carthage.
King Gelimer fled to Mount Pappua in Numidia, but surrendered the next spring.
He was taken to Constantinople, where he was paraded in a triumph.
Subsequently Belisarius, Narses, and other generals conquered the Ostrogothic Kingdom, restoring Dalmatia, Sicily, Italy, and Rome to the Empire after more than half a century of barbarian control.
THIRD KINGDOM FALLS
War in Italy, first phase, 535–540
Theoderic became king of the Ostrogothic Kingdom in 493 and died in 526.
Under King Theoderic, the Ostrogoths invaded Rome, and killed the Pope.
After Theoderec's death, a period of instability then ensued, tempting the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian to declare war on the Ostrogoths in 535 in an effort to restore the former western provinces of the Roman Empire.
Belisarius with 7,500 men invaded Sicily (535) and advanced into Italy, sacking Naples and capturing Rome on 9 December 536.
By that time Theodahad had been deposed by the Ostrogothic army, who had elected Vitigis as their new king.
In 540 Belisarius reached the Ostrogothic capital Ravenna.
There he was offered the title of Western Roman Emperor by the Ostrogoths at the same time that envoys of Justinian were arriving to negotiate a peace which would leave the region north of the Po River in Gothic hands.
Belisarius feigned to accept the offer, entered the city in May 540, and reclaimed it for the Empire.
Then, having been recalled by Justinian, Belisarius returned to Constantinople, taking the captured Vitigis and his wife Matasuntha with him.
Ladies and Gentlemen of the JURY, the DEFENSE would submit for your consideration that the Vandals and the Ostrogoths were the 2nd and 3rd kingdoms destroyed in support of DANIEL'S "Little King" and his "diverse kingdom".
Map of;
ROMAN EMPIRE AFTER 3 NON-PAPAL
SUPPORTING KINGDOMS DESTROYED
NOTE: CELTIC KINGDOM WAS NEVER CONTROLLED BY ROMAN EMPIRE!
http://www.vlib.us/medieval/lectures/justinian.html
During his reign Justinian also subdued the Tzani, a people on the east coast of the Black Sea that had never been under Roman rule before.
In the next Post,
-the JURY will pull all of the evidence together
-regarding DANIEL'S "Little Horn",
-before moving on to REVELATION'S "Seven Headed Scarlet Beast".
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