During the subsequent Roman centuries, only the third part of the Mediterranean World’s resources and peoples were destroyed or impaired.502 And thereafter, even the cumulative spread of violence at the hands of Antichristian Emperors and Romish Popes all together destroyed hardly a third of the heartland of the West.
O Christian, thanks be to God Who always causes His Kingdom to triumph! For Satan’s party is a minority. Already, he is a defeated foe.
498 Rev. 1:9 & 12:1-10 & 17:8-11. Cf. too Dan. 7:7f & 7:19-27. 499 Rev. 12:3-7 & 17:8-11 cf. Dan. 7:7f,19f & 8:10-14,23-26 & 9:21,26f & 11:31,36 to 12:1,11f cf. Mt. 24:15,28 & II Th. ch. 2 & Rev. ch. 18 & n. 408. 500 Rev. 12:4 cf. Lk. ch. 2 & Mt. ch. 2, & Rev. 12:5 & Jh. chs. 18 & 19. 501 Mt. 2:1,3,16,22 (per contra Mt. 2:1,6,11; Ps. 72; Isa. ch. 42 & 45:22; chs. 49 & 60; Hag. 2:6-9). 502 Rev. chs. 8 & 9.