Pieces of the ancient Middle East are described in Scripture, forecasted by the Biblical prophets, and are the basis for forming the end time picture of unfulfilled prophecy today. Traditional Christian interpretation of the same has been to place the focus on a European common market or some sort of global world government which would dominate the picture at the end of this present age. Closer investigation and a more precise study of the Bible’s view reveals otherwise.

There are seven kingdoms defined in the scope of prophecy presented in the Scriptures and all of them are Middle Eastern based, both those of the past and the ones that will exist in the future. These are human dominions ruled over by human king positions and influenced by Satan and his agents who are all fallen angelics. Five of them are historical and succeeded one another in an unbroken change of political power and authority. These began shortly after the flood and all were centered in the northern sector of the Asian Middle East.

This type of human self government apart from the Lord began when humans began to build cities which eventually became the cores of the kingdoms that were developed. The first geographical outline of the northern Middle East presented in Scripture related to empire building was the land of Magog and his brothers with the next four including the Akkadian/Assyrian, the neo-Babylonian, the Medo-Persian, and the northern Greek. These are the five “fallen” according to the prophetic Scriptures.

Each succeeded one another with different human rulers over the same central location in the Middle East and each came and went with some difference in geographical coverage as they grew and then diminished to some extent as they were conquered by the next. The inhabitants in these kingdoms were primarily the same with different governing conquers and they still remain the same for the most part today. Human migrations out of the Middle East have formed other nations around the globe today, but the scope of Bible prophecy is focused upon the same initial area of human development and is for the time of the end. The later inclusion of the nation of Israel in the Middle East and the relationships with these first five human kingdoms are the subject of both O.T. and N.T. visions of the Bible prophets. Israel’s return to the land after centuries of exile is predicted by the visions of the prophets and the stage is being set up today for the Lord’s return and dealings with Israel and the nations of our time.

The scope of Bible prophecy is limited primarily to the Middle East and Israel. The time frame of events recorded is also unique and does not include the last 2,000+ years of human history, but only the era of the first five human kingdoms, which ended just before the first century, and the next two that will exist there at the time of the end. These two future kingdoms will be different, but will develop in the same area of the northern Middle East. The first will be a smaller kingdom, the sixth, and it will then be expanded into the larger seventh divided kingdom which will include ten separate, but confederated kingdoms. Each will have its own human ruler and the ten kingdoms will be ruled over by Satan’s beast who will be the same as Daniel’s little horn. This human ruler will be incarnated by the beast of Revelation from the abyss. This beast is a fallen angelic who has ruled for Satan over the five kingdoms of the past and will rule again over the next two at the time of the end.

Today’s current turmoil and instability in the Middle East will eventually produce the setting for these last two kingdoms to emerge. It is the little horn, human king of the northern Middle East, of Daniel’s visions of the end time who will form the sixth smaller kingdom in the area of the ancient land of Magog and his brothers who first ruled there. This area today would include the Middle Eastern countries of Lebanon, Syria, and northern Iraq. He will overthrow and replace the leaders of these three countries. Then seven other primary countries of the Middle East will be added to his confederacy to form his seventh divided kingdom which will include ten other leaders and their dominions that will follow him. These will be the pieces of the ancient Middle East that will form and set the stage for the time of the end.

These end time prophecies Include the whole earth.

Isaiah 34
1 Come near, you nations, to hear; And heed, you people! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it, The world and all things that come forth from it.
2 For the indignation of the Lord is against all nations, And His fury against all their armies; He has utterly destroyed them, He has given them over to the slaughter.
3 Also their slain shall be thrown out; Their stench shall rise from their corpses, And the mountains shall be melted with their blood.


Isaiah 24:1-12
1 Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes it waste, Distorts its surface And scatters abroad its inhabitants.
2 And it shall be: As with the people, so with the priest; As with the servant, so with his master; As with the maid, so with her mistress; As with the buyer, so with the seller; As with the lender, so with the borrower; As with the creditor, so with the debtor.
3 The land shall be entirely emptied and utterly plundered, For the Lord has spoken this word.
4 The earth mourns and fades away, The world languishes and fades away; The haughty people of the earth languish.
5 The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed the laws, Changed the ordinance, Broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, And those who dwell in it are desolate. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, And few men are left.
7 The new wine fails, the vine languishes, All the merry-hearted sigh.
8 The mirth of the tambourine ceases, The noise of the jubilant ends, The joy of the harp ceases.
9 They shall not drink wine with a song; Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.
10 The city of confusion is broken down; Every house is shut up, so that none may go in.
11 There is a cry for wine in the streets, All joy is darkened, The mirth of the land is gone.
12 In the city desolation is left, And the gate is stricken with destruction.


Jeremiah 25
30 "Therefore prophesy against them all these words, and say to them: 'The Lord will roar from on high, And utter His voice from His holy habitation; He will roar mightily against His fold. He will give a shout, as those who tread the grapes, Against all the inhabitants of the earth.
31 A noise will come to the ends of the earth-- For the Lord has a controversy with the nations; He will plead His case with all flesh. He will give those who are wicked to the sword,' says the Lord."
32 Thus says the Lord of hosts: "Behold, disaster shall go forth From nation to nation, And a great whirlwind shall be raised up From the farthest parts of the earth.
33 And at that day the slain of the Lord shall be from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They shall not be lamented, or gathered, or buried; they shall become refuse on the ground.
34 "Wail, shepherds, and cry! Roll about in the ashes, You leaders of the flock! For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions are fulfilled; You shall fall like a precious vessel.
35 And the shepherds will have no way to flee, Nor the leaders of the flock to escape.
36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, And a wailing of the leaders to the flock will be heard. For the Lord has plundered their pasture,
37 And the peaceful dwellings are cut down Because of the fierce anger of the Lord.
38 He has left His lair like the lion; For their land is desolate Because of the fierceness of the Oppressor, And because of His fierce anger."

Revelation 11
10 - because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.

Godsloft,
So true, and there are many many more including the first two prophecies:
Genesis 3:15 is the first prophecy in the Bible and it's primary focus is "Jesus."
And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
he will crush your head,
and you will strike his heel."

Genesis 12 is the first prophecy concerning Israel. It's scope is the whole world, (v3) and According to Paul, the primary scope of this prophecy is also "Jesus."
2 "I will make you into a great nation
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.

3 I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you."

Jesus himself saw all of the prophecies pointing to him. Luke 24:
25He said to them, "How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?" 27And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

Jesus is the primary scope of the entire OT
In fact, I did not see Jesus mentioned one time in the entire post.
3am

Rom 4:11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
Rom 4:12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
Rom 4:13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

G2889
κόσμος
kosmos
kos'-mos
Probably from the base of G2865; orderly arrangement, that is, decoration; by implication the world (in a wide or narrow sense, including its inhabitants, literally or figuratively [morally]): - adorning, world.

Heb 11:8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
Heb 11:9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
Heb 11:10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Rev 3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

Rev 21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Rev 21:14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

Rev 21:19 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;