and by the
slaughter of millions. Our great inventions and discoveries have not
made the world more righteous. On the contrary, unrighteousness and
lawlessness have increased, and later we shall show how everything in
these conditions points to the very end of this age.

+Sixth+, Satan. The world does not change, neither does Satan. He can
never be anything else but the enemy of God, nor can his person and
work be arrested by man's efforts. As the age continues his opposition
becomes more marked. We know from the lips of our Lord that he is the
liar and the murderer from the beginning. He has made good these
titles throughout this age. He tried to stamp out more than once the
Truth of Christ by instigating the cruel persecutions of the people of
God. They were slain by the thousands and hundreds of thousands during
the reign of the Roman Emperors. When he failed in this then he
manifested his character as the liar from the beginning. He began to
counterfeit the Truth, and partially succeeded in corrupting the
professing church and putting a spurious system in control, where he
makes good his title as the liar. When in the progress of this age the
Spirit of God began reviving the Truth, when the noble men and women
refused to bow before Rome, he again acted as the murderer. Thousands
upon thousands were tortured, slain, and burned alive, until he
discovered that the Truth cannot be stamped out by the fires of
persecution, that he was failing again as he had failed in the first
century of the age. Then once more he appears in the garb of an angel
of light. Now he does his work through demon-cults like Christian
Science, Spiritism, Mormonism and others. He manifests himself once
more as the liar from the beginning in the New Theology and the
Destructive Criticism, so widely accepted everywhere. And thus he
continues his work as the age progresses; no change for the better.

+Seventh+, as already stated the Jews are wanderers amongst the
nations. We know two things concerning the Jews. The first is that
they are given the promise in earthly things, and though they are now
blinded, God has not cast them away; and the other is that they are
during this age under judgment. These two facts stand out in the
history of that remarkable people as the age continues. If we want to
see the richest people, the most influential, the brightest, we must
turn to the Jewish people. In that fact God witnesses that they