Revelation 13:7 New International Version (NIV)
7 It was given power to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation.
Many people believe this means one world government. It does not.
I already posted the verse says there were to the end. War requires an enemy.
But when you read the prophecies the AC army will be opposed by Western nations forced to turn back in his path for conquest at mid-tribulation. So he conquers Israel, with which he is had a peace treaty for 3 1/2 years giving them peace and security.
This is seven year treaty he breaks it mid-tribulation as stated in Daniel.
The definition of authority does not mean rulership in every case.
Definition
- power of choice, liberty of doing as one pleases
- leave or permission
- physical and mental power
- the ability or strength with which one is endued, which he either possesses or exercises
- the power of authority (influence) and of right (privilege)
- the power of rule or government (the power of him whose will and commands must be submitted to by others and obeyed)
- universally
- authority over mankind
- specifically
- the power of judicial decisions
- of authority to manage domestic affairs
- metonymically
- a thing subject to authority or rule 4c
- jurisdiction
- one who possesses authority 4c
- a ruler, a human magistrate 4c
- the leading and more powerful among created beings superior to man, spiritual potentates
- a sign of the husband's authority over his wife
- the veil with which propriety required a women to cover herself
- the sign of regal authority, a crown