shall come , and all the saints with Thee .” “ And His feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives , which is before Jerusalem on the east , and the Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof , ... and there shall be a very great valley .” “ And the Lord shall be king over all the earth : in that day shall there be one Lord , and His name one .” Zechariah 14:5 , 4 , 9 . As the New Jerusalem , in its dazzling splendor , comes down out of heaven , it rests upon the place purified and made ready to receive it , and Christ , with His people and the angels , enters the Holy City .
Now Satan prepares for a last mighty struggle for the supremacy . While deprived of his power and cut off from his work of deception , the prince of evil was miserable and dejected ; but as the wicked dead are raised and he sees the vast multitudes upon his side , his hopes revive , and he determines not to yield the great controversy . He will marshal all the armies of the lost under his banner and through them endeavor to execute his plans . The wicked are Satan ’ s captives . In rejecting Christ they have accepted the rule of the rebel leader . They are ready to receive his suggestions and to do his bidding . Yet , true to his early cunning , he does not acknowledge himself to be Satan . He claims to be the prince who is the rightful owner of the world and whose inheritance has been unlawfully wrested from him . He represents himself to his deluded subjects as a redeemer , assuring them that his power has brought them forth from their graves and that he is about to rescue them from the most cruel tyranny . The presence of Christ having been removed , Satan works wonders to support his claims . He makes the weak strong and inspires all with his own spirit and energy . He proposes to lead them against the camp of the saints and to take possession of the City of God . With fiendish exultation he points to the unnumbered millions who have been raised from the dead and declares that as their leader he is well able to overthrow the city and regain his throne and his kingdom .
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