That's one way of looking at it. But remember that during the Cold War the Soviet Union was considered to be one of the riders of the apocalypse and some exegetes think that the horde of locusts coming from the East could be China.
I will tell you something, I know you will take me as a heretic or apostate if you are a Christian, but this information helped me to navigate the maps of meaning that are formed almost spontaneously at a collective and individual level. The only thing I want with this post is to deliver a tool.
Pay attention to the video I show you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foxD6ZQlnlU
This is a fractal. The phenomenon of fractals is masterfully explained in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFftmWSzgmk
Why am I showing you this? How fractals work and their repetitions will allow us to exemplify what Chaos Magicians and anthropologists during the 20th century discovered and defined as "Strange Attractors of Magical Thought" Magical, from the anthropological point of view. Remember.
Different prime (primitive) cultures, tribes and societies share certain mechanical components in order to come into contact with "the other side".
So these principles were isolated and worked on independently of any aesthetic form. Now consider the prophecies of the Jewish and Christian prophets have given mental form to the West. As a population we have this mindware installed, which some define as a "hyperstition" or self-fulfilling prophecy. In that sense, we seek to fulfill the ideas of prophets like Isaiah and John, but it is possible that there is another force or several forces, parallel, interana or antagonistic that are "grinding numbers" to deviate the orbit of the divine will, escaping by the tangent and never reaching the will of what we endorse as God or Christ, who is "King of humanity" by merit.
The problem I believe with institutionalized western Christian thinking is not to recognize that Jesus, through his free will, actively and materially fulfilled the prophecies as a man. He acted as an individual and executed his will. Then, there may be a social phenomenon that seeks the opposite, the non-execution of steps. Thus, each person or entity of the prophecies passes from generation to generation, with each role corresponding to different people. This could virtually extend to infinity. That could be the strategy of The Adversary and it could be taking place before we even existed.