If you look at the entire message of the Old Testament to the New Testament, God chooses the ugly motherfawkers because He puts them on the spotlight to be thrown by rotten tomatoes and rotten vegetables. It's pretty messed up; however, I understand why because those evil bastards, well, they do deserve what is coming at them. Most of the time when God chooses His people, it's not a good sign. Why? Because He chooses the REALLY bad people as He makes an ironic statement, "Oh, you're chosen;" however, truly, you're chosen to be clowned at because of how evil you are. Rome, however, is a good choice. In the prophecy of Daniel, the head statue is gold, which is Nebuchadnezzar . His sons are quite a big show before Cyrus has come down and takes it over as his empire. Cyrus, the body of silver, which spread the philosophy from the Middle-East to Asia, which is India, Cyrus's empire didn't last until Alexander the Great, AKA: The Brass/Bronze Empire. After these prophecy, Rome is known as iron. After the Iron Empire, it's Iron and Clay Empire, which is Europe. The point is, he puts two asssssholes together to fight each other like how you see the movie, "Step Brothers," to see if these two ugly mofos will change. In the end, they do. He's letting evil things to happen so that evil people will change. If they don't, then Hell as it is to their choice of likings.