yeah, i would go a bit further talking about teh time period and the end point:
lao tzu and taoism appeared about 2500 years ago
guatama siddhartha and buddhism appeared about 2500 years ago
probably similar for zoroastrianism and sufism as well, the latter predated and continued on within the middle east.
only the jesus came 400 years later. even the dates are uncertain because there is no writings about jesus outside of christianity, but you can speculate that the timeline is not right, and probably it was around the same time, which is also around the time when the roman empire first started.
also, islam came another 500 years later after the supposed time of Jesus, but it was very much essentially an offshoot of christianity, as opposed to judaism, in the quran, jesus appears at least 4 or 5 times.
being that the main opponent of ALL of these religions is imperial power, it would be reasonable to assume that much of the history has been deliberately corrupted or hidden.
the same themes appear in almost all of these religions that appeared in the first 500 years BC. it's almost like they signify the beginning of an age.
i do think we are now at the last days of the age though. the saturn/jupiter conjunction, aka bethlehem star, which happens every 400 years, tending to mark the rise and fall of empires, was one of the closest of these conjunctions in recent recorded history. the earth's magnetic field is failing. the changes of a global catastrophe happening in the next 20 years is very high. such an event would definitely spell the end of empires.
it's notable also that certain people seem to know about it. a recent reissue of the silver liberty dollar by the main US coin mint features a symbol of the sun with a circle around it broken on one point on the right side, possibly representing the coming break super flare or micro nova that will be the trigger.
i don't think we have very much information about either the early days leading up to the appearance of Jesus, the preceding 500 years, or much of the first century, to about 800AD. very likely the knowledge already existed then, and has been since systematically destroyed or hidden.
the bible talks so much about the coming End of Days and the return of Jesus that it's hard to think that there might not be something in it, especially when you research more about other histories and prophecies from other cultures, like the Dogons and the Hopi and some of the older Puranas of Hinduism also have prophecies about this time. the latter, specifically the Vishnu Purana, makes reference to a celestial event, conjunction of sun, moon and jupiter in the last 1/3rd of the constellation of Cancer happened this year, june 25th, around 9am UTC.
so, yeah, i don't worry too much about it. except i want to move to the high mountains somewhere far inland. the rest, meh. outside of the big cities it's pretty safe still.
there is no homeland to defend anymore. but there is plenty of places to hide while still living in dignity.
