The Apostle foretold it would be thus, saying: "Therefore
judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring
to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the
counsels of the hearts".--1 Corinthians 4:5.
[454]Thus the Lord is letting the light of truth shine out, and by the
truth is binding Satan, which means the great adversary, the devil, and
his various agencies and influences in the earth. And this is further
evidence of the Lord's presence. Truly Satan's house is divided against
itself and cannot stand. It is going to pieces. Jesus in his revelation
to St. John caused to be written these words: "And I saw an angel come
down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain
in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is
the devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into
the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he
should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be
fulfilled; and after that he must be loosed a little season,"
(Revelation 20:1-3) This is the time that Jesus foretold when the
nations shall be "as vessels of a potter, ... broken to shivers".
(Revelation 2:27) Satan soon shall be restrained and his empire
completely and forever destroyed. (Isaiah 34:1-4; 51:6) Thus shall the
Lord be revealed to the world, and they shall know of his presence by
the fiery time of trouble which shall take vengeance upon the
unrighteous systems and things of the earth.
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