HEREIN we will write of the Anti-Christ who is in our midst, who has been with us from the beginning, but men did not know him.

Today he is with us with great power, for these are his days; he has nearly accomplished that which he has sought and for which he has striven back through the ages—the control of the world.

But men are beginning to recognize him for what he is; for now that he has “deceived the whole world,” the war is on in heaven, and he cannot hide himself much longer from all of those whom he has so often fooled. Many millions there are though who do not yet recognize him, who believe all he says, when he speaks with smiling eyes and benign voice and with much show of interest in their welfare.

They do not realize that it is his joy thus to delude them, to get them to believe he is everything he is not; “to hoodwink us into believing that the waste land is flourishing; that while he is destroying he is creating; when he gives us stones we think he is