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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 14, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 11.

The Kingdom of Satan

By H. A. St. John

III. Third Phase of Satan's Kingdom

We come now to consider the third and last phase of Satan's experience, in his herculean efforts to govern a world. In this trinity of mighty struggles to build up and reign over a world kingdom, we shall see the legitimate and inevitable outcome of every effort of rebellion against our holy, just, and loving heavenly Father above.

After one thousand years in the bottomless pit, with the whole world to roam over without molestation, Satan's period in that dismal void will terminate. Into that gloom will suddenly break Jesus in all His glory, with all His holy angels, and the hosts of redeemed saints. Christ, with His mighty key—the voice of the Archangel, and the trump of God—calls forth to life the hosts of Satan's subjects. The rest of the dead then live again. They instinctively flee from the presence of all the shining ones. No sooner do the feet of Jesus touch the Mount of Olives, than the mountain cleaves asunder, and, together with Mount Zion, Mount Moriah, Mount Calvary, and several other mountains of note in Christian history, will be leveled into a beautiful plain, ever to be remembered because of the sacred events in the history of its mountain soil. On this beautiful plain the New Jerusalem in all its glory will be located.

Satan begins at once his work of deception upon the resurrected wicked. He inspires them with the purpose to besiege and capture the holy city, then he will have light, glory, and a magnificent capital. Then Jesus and the redeemed appear in dazzling glory above the city. With one voice the wicked hosts exclaim, "Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord." No language, either spoken or written, can portray the power and majesty of Christ. As the wicked behold the saints in glory, and themselves cast out, they have a sense of what they have lost, and acknowledge the justice of their doom. Then Satan will be fully unmasked, and will confess the justice of his sentence.

After the final coronation of Christ, the heavens are overcast, and there begins a rain of brimstone, followed by a rain of fire, which envelops the whole earth. But the holy city is unharmed amid the everlasting burning. All the wicked, like stubble, are burned up, root and branch. It is the day of judgment and perdition of all the ungodly. The works of sin and the curse are all burned up, and burned out of the whole earth. Then the devouring flame will gradually subside. The last flickering blaze will mark the spot where Satan himself expires. Then will end forever Satan and his kingdom. And God will have a clean universe.

H. A. ST. JOHN.