with all the pieces of the puzzle.  The Byzantine Empire was a Christian empire the lasted a thousand years where they reigned with Christ.  Constantinople, its capital, is Babylon the Great. It was started by Constantine the rider of the white horse.  At its beginning the beast from the sea, paganism of the Roman Empire, was mortally wounded with seven heads, which were the seven dynasties.  It was ended by the tenth horn of the beast from the earth.  The ten horns were the dynasties of Islam.