1 Nephi 11:34-EoC

Nephi is continuing his vision of the future. In Verse 34, he sees that after Christ was crucified, the multitudes of the earth gathered to fight the apostles. It was as if they were in a large and spacious building, like the one that his father saw. Here is the interpretation of the large and spacious building: it is the world and the wisdom thereof. In Verse 36, Nephi describes it as the pride of the world. Then he sees it fall, and great is the fall. The angel finishes the chapter by saying that this is what happens to all those who fight against the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

It is interesting to note that nearly all the apostles were martyrs and all stayed true to the faith of Jesus Christ. I'm not sure if all those nations that killed them had fallen yet as foretold by this vision (but the prophesy must come true), but I do know that the Roman Empire fell just as the angel said. But what did Rome do you might ask? Well, Emperor Nero was the one that is attributed to ordering the deaths of Peter and Paul. It is interesting that when they died, the Roman Empire was on the rise reaching its greatest extent in A.D. 117. Soon after they died, perhaps in the same year even, Nero was about to be ousted by the Roman Senate and seeing that this was going to happen committed suicide. Wikipedia said this of the eventual state of Rome after the whole empire was gone:

"Following years of grinding war the city was by 540 AD near-abandoned and desolate with much of its environment turned into an unhealthy marsh, an inglorious end for a city that once ruled much of the known world."