But in the lifetime of some of Jesus' audience, as I showed you; and Luke is clearly outvoted, by Mark and Matthew and even by himself. And the majority view is the message of John the Baptist as well as Jesus. Relax. A dud prophecy is a typical prophecy. Don't waste time trying to find excuses for it or force rationalizations on it.
To me, there is nothing to force but relaxing like a cork bobbing on top of the water we can see that man thought
political progress was being made after the Cold War in disarmament, but rather we see now that a 'power' is now needed to unite nations ( that symbolic 8th king or power of Revelation 17:11,14 )
Revelation was written well over 50+ years after Jesus was on Earth, so John knew the kingdom (Daniel 2:44) was still future. The ' thy kingdom come....' that Jesus said to pray for to come.
There was No international preaching work done in the first century as Jesus instructed to do - Matthew 24:14.
The tribulation of the year 70 for un-faithful Jerusalem was Not the great tribulation of Revelation 7:14,9.
Jesus ' Glory Time ' (Matthew 25:31-33) is future.
Thus, what gospel writer John saw in Revelation is that 8th king, like an image, has no real influence or power.
Unlike the League of Nations, the United Nations has never experienced being abandoned like the League was.
International security is now needed, so with backing the UN can be strengthened to be that symbolic 8th king.
Thus, we find No dud prophecy but how accurate Jesus' illustration of Luke 19:11-15 is.
Due to the now global international declaring about God's Kingdom as Jesus instructed to do at Acts of the Apostles 1:8 people are shown to be choosing between rulership by Christ Jesus or rulership by man.