t horrible things were done and the depths of wickedness
history makes known to us. Throughout the centuries of our age, again
and again, he raised up instruments and inspired them to great deeds in
bloody wars to control nations and kingdoms. Napoleon is a notable
example. His ambition was to become the head of a great European
empire. A cartoonist of 1812 pictured Satan holding Napoleon in his
lap and saying to him, "This is my beloved son in whom I am well
pleased." If this was true of Napoleon that he was of the seed of the
serpent, doing his will, how much more is it true of the Hohenzollern,
William II. His deeds and the deeds of his associates in this war of
all wars surpass the deeds of Nero, Attila and Napoleon. The devil's
bait was swallowed by this Prussian emperor and he hoped to gain world
dominion, but has now found out that the devil is a liar.

Nor must we forget the popes with their spurious claims of being
Christ's vice-regents on earth and their attempt to exercise temporal
power. Behind their claim there stands the same dark shadow.

Satan's Final Opposition

When this age ends Satan will make a final effort in opposing God. He
will be permitted to succeed for a brief time and do what is in his
heart to do. This takes place after the true church has left the
earth. Satan will then be cast out of heaven and coming down to this
earth once more in person, he manifests great wrath, knowing that he
hath but a short time (Rev. xii:12).[5] The mystery of lawlessness,
which has been at work from the beginning will break out fully and find
a consummation through the power of Satan. The thirteenth chapter of
Revelation gives the future history of Satan's seeming success and
triumph. He will succeed in forming a great empire, which is the old
Roman empire in a revived form. This empire, which is called a beast,
will receive Satan's power, and will have over it a wicked leader, whom
Daniel saw as the little horn on the ten-horned beast.[6] The dragon's
plan to control the earth has seemingly been realized. He then
institutes the great tribulation. But there is a second beast
mentioned in Revelation xiii. He has two horns like a lamb but speaks
as a dragon. This is the Antichrist, the man of sin, the son of
perdition. Like the little horn, the political leader, this second
beast is Satan's man. He leads the religious apostasy and tries to
stamp out what is left of the truth of God on the