oduction of verse 29, in such a
connection, becomes a prophecy that such an outbreak against Christ and
his atoning work would be seen when he is about to come again. And the
fulfilment we are now beholding in Spiritualism.

4. Rev. 12:12: "Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the
devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that
he hath but a short time."

This scripture locates itself. It is when Satan knows that he has but a
little time to work, and hence it must be in the last days. At this time
he descends upon the world in an avalanche of wrath. "Wrath" is a
misleading term. The words {~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} signify the strongest and most
intense emotion of the mind. If the object is to accomplish some
particular end, they would indicate the most intense, concentrated,
energetic, and persistent efforts to that purpose, using every means, and
bringing to bear every influence to reach the result in question. Satan,
as we have seen, has an object in deceiving the human family, as far as
possible, to their destruction, by signs and wonders. In this work,
according to the prophecy before us, he will go to the extent of his
power, and show his most potent signs. Bringing the supposed forms and
features of the dead before living witnesses, is his most successful
method at the present time. But as this work is, as yet, done largely in
the dark, it gives more room for jugglery and imposition. The time will
come, however, when, in open light, counterfeit materializations of the
dead will swarm on earth, and deceive, if it were possible, the very
elect--_i.e._, all who cannot meet the deception with the potent weapon--"It
is written, The dead know not anything, neither have they any more a
portion forever [in the present state of things] in anything that is done
under the sun."

5. Rev. 13:13, 14: "And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire
come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, and deceiveth them
that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power
to do."

This prophecy relates to some earthly government represented by a symbol
with two horns like a lamb. Verse 11. It is