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That's one interpretation, at least. It's kind of like the Old Testament where you have all of these patriarchs and tribes and empires that are types of one another and they keep spiralling and spiralling on top of each other laying down endless stacks of strata with resonant meanings until everything reaches a fever pitch with the Incarnation.
You can look at history and see dress rehearsals for the end of the world, like Nero, Juian the Apostate, the Muslim Conquests, the Munster Rebellion, the World Wars, the Cold War, Globalism, etc. Maybe one of these could have turned into the end of the world if God had decided the time was right, but they all go through the same motions, but they carry history forward toward the conclusion. They all give previews to what's in store, even if it's just a pale shadow.