Whoso digs a pit will fall therein:

They that roll a stone, it will return upon them

Proverbs 26:27

Malice backfires;

spite boomerangs

Liars hate their victims

flatterers sabotage trust

The antichrist himself takes over the Jewish temple.

2 Thessalonians 2:4 tells us that

he “opposeth & exalts himself above all

that is called God, or that is worshipped;

so that he as God sits in the temple of God,

showing himself that he is God.

New edicts are issued from the temple.

For example Revelation 13:16–17 tells us

that the false prophet “causes all,
both small & great, rich & poor, free & bond,
to receive a mark in their right hand,
or in their foreheads:

And that no man might buy or sell,
save he that had the mark,
or the name of the beast,
or the number of his name.

Spiritually enlightened people recognize

the ominous portent of the hour

they flee to the mountains

Matthew 24:15–22

God however is still very much in control.
He has set a time limit of 1,290 days on
the activities of the Satanic trinity

Daniel 7:25; 12:6–12

So the age of terror lasts that long

then retribution comes.

Christ returns & seizes the antichrist & the false prophet;

He hurls them headlong into the lake of fire

Revelation 19:19–21

Satan is incarcerated in the abyss
for a thousand years & afterward is
flung into the lake of fire where he
joins his fellow conspirators

Revelation 20:1–10

If there is only one thing we learn from the book of Revelation, it is this:

God is still on the throne!

Like the person in Proverbs 26:27,

the false prophet digs a pit & falls in it;

the antichrist rolls a stone & it hits his own head.

As Longfellow phrased the old adage,

The mills of God grind slowly,
yet they grind exceeding small