riticism has constantly
been growing, until everywhere throughout Christendom an infallible
Bible is being denied. Thus the foundations of the faith have been
undermined, and the way is prepared for the final apostasy, the
complete falling away from the Truth.

+Fifth+, in regard to the world. As stated previously this age cannot
get better, but becomes worse. We see it today, how all inventions and
discoveries in which we used to boast as evidences of progress are
being made use of in the most horrible catastrophe the world has ever
seen. Europe is like a human slaughterhouse. Nations are against
nations and kingdoms against kingdoms; and all this was started by a
nation which boasted of having the most light in religious things and
the best culture and civilization. And all along they denied Christ
and the Truth of God; and when the outbreak came it was only a
demonstration that behind their Christless civilization and culture
there stood the domineering shadow of the prince of this world. When
we look closer into the Prophetic Word we find that these conditions
continue to the end of the age, and that finally there comes a
tremendous crash, when the Lord Himself will deal with these horrible
conditions and smite the wicked and the ungodly.

But some one might say, "What is the use of doing anything at all if
this is the program?" "What is the use of us to fight as a nation?"
But this is wrong logic. There are principles of righteousness and
justice which must be maintained in this world, for which man must
stand up, and as far as our nation is concerned we are on the side of
justice and the defense of righteousness, which have the approval of
God, for they are in line with His righteous government. When the time
comes for the reckoning, not from the human side but from God's side,
this will fall heavily into the scale when the nations are judged.

+Sixth+, as to Satan. Like a huge serpent he has been winding his way
throughout this age, leaving everywhere his contamination. While Satan
is not omniscient and perfect in knowledge, he has sufficient knowledge
of his destiny and how soon that destiny will be accomplished, and so
as the age closes he becomes fiercer in his wrath; like a serpent which
is attacked and in danger of being caught, his hiss is heard on all
sides. He is now actively engaged in counterfeiting the Truth, in
putting in his demon doctrines, in perverting the Truth wherever he
can. A