What was Satan's design in thus persecuting the church?

Answer

"And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be
carried away of the flood." Verse 15.
 


What title of distinction is given the law of God?
What did Christ say would he the result if the days of persecution were not shortened?
How early was this tendency manifested?
For whose sake did Christ say the period of papal persecution would be shortened?
What wonderful demonstration will accompany the Lord's coming?
Who did he say he was?
What will he one of the last great signs performed by this means, to fasten men in deception?

Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle