Louis Napoleon Not Prophecy’s Antichrist
By Editor
SOME of our cotemporaries seem disposed to blow a great bubble over Louis Napoleon, as a prominent actor in prophecy, the Antichrist of the Scriptures, future monarch of the world, &c., &c. We have just seen a notice of a work entitled "Louis Napoleon, as the Destined Monarch of the World and Personal Antichrist." Now, if we have the least confidence in the prophecies, we must see that all such speculations are idle and foolish. The world in its present state can have no future monarch; that is, there can be no other universal empire established in this world. Prophecy has marked out but four; and they have all arisen and had their day. The next and only universal kingdom in the future is God's everlasting kingdom, which is to have no end. Again we have an enumeration of all the opposing powers, which fight against the King of kings, and perish at his appearing. Napoleon is not brought to view personally among these. These powers are the dragon, beast and false prophet, Rev. xvi, 13; xix, 19-21, or Paganism, Papacy and apostate Protestantism. We may therefore at once dismiss the idea that Louis Napoleon is, above all other parties, to be the pre-eminent actor in these scenes.