We can recount the historical events, just like that one in the movie
"Apocalypto" by a famous director and actor.

It appears that the Aztec and Maya culture came under a major decline,
followed by consecutive bad harvests. They started to frantically behead
more people in ritual sacrifices to Kukulkan and wonder why the harvests
are not improving. They expected to please their deity to bless them by
sacrificing ritually more captive enemies.

This is not so far past. At the end of this, one small crew of a ship
defeated them all, despite the terrible punishments like making
greedy conquistadors drink molten gold - their gods did not help them
and they were overcome by this small number or handful of people.

States were here from always, and so were the religions.

The prediction is the following:

As religions, countries and nations diminish in significance before the
corporations that have profits greater than GDP of some countries and
nations - and they also believe in supernatural help and astrologers
when making business decisions - it will eventually come to offering
human sacrifices on the altar of the corporations.

It will help them just as it helped Inka, Maya, and Aztec people, but
it will prolong their age until the next age comes: worship of pure evil
for evil sake, which is not even sexual lust, envy, pride, anger,
greed, gluttony or drunkenness, or laziness (sloth), the traditional
deadly sins.

Revelation 13
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond,
to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And that no
man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast,
or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath
understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man;
and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

in the LORD
Amen