Please read: Reveletion 17:8-10 ---- "The wild beast that you saw was, but is not, and yet is about to ascend out of the abyss, and it is to go off into destruction. And when they see how the wild beast was, but is not, and yet will be present, those who dwell on the earth will wonder admiringly, but their names have not been written upon the scroll of life from the founding of the world. Here is where the intelligence that has wisdom comes in: The seven heads mean seven mountains, where the woman sits on top. And there are seven kings: five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet arrived, but when he does he will remain for a short while. And the wild beast that was but is not, it is also itself an eighth [king], but springs from the seven, and it goes off into destruction".
The Seven heads of the beast stands for seven "Mountains" or seven "Kings." Both terms are used scripturally to refer to governmental powers. In the Bible, six world powers are mentioned as having an impact on the affairs of Gods people: Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-persia, Greece, and Rome. Of these five had already come and gone by the time john received Revelation, whereas Rome was very much still a world power. This corresponds well with the words "Five has fallen, one is, the other has not yet arrived, but when he does he will remain for a short while".
Now for the bolded statement, it's laziness in your part to contribute absolutely NOTHING to the discussion. If you think i am going through "Mental gymnastics" to fit these prophecies into current events then prove me wrong. Sit down, do some research, then come back and prove me wrong. Now i mentioned "Natural Disasters" but you took it that i was talking about earthquakes. Are earthquakes the only natural disasters there is? and why is it that in the last 10 years we have seen record amounts of natural disaster than any other decade in recorded history?