“Satan, the god of this world, manipulates nations, rulers and finances. Through the news media, TV, schools, apostate churches, and the money situation, he is grooming and conditioning the world to welcome his masterpiece of deception, the Antichrist. Most of the world today is totally unsuspecting of this mind control and financial maneuvering.”

----Missionary Hazel Brown in her 1972 booklet, “The Dispensations and Israel, Dispensationally Considered (An Enigma Solved, A Puzzle Unraveled)”

If you want to see how the Antichrist system is being marketed to children, just look at what Borders Books stocks on its “kids” shelves.

The other day I walked inside the Borders at Park and 57^th St. and immediately noticed a display rack labeled “kids” next to the front door. Each shelf was dominated by Harry-Potteresque fare. Words in book titles and on jacket covers included “demons,” “dragon,” “magician,” “amulet,” “witch” and “diabolical.”

At another prominent display downstairs, labeled “Summer School Reading List,” was a highly recommended book called, “The Giver,” by Lois Lowry. The book boasts top honors from educators, including, “A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year”; “An ALA Notable Book for Children,” and “A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book.”

The plot summary on the back cover reads: “When Jonas turns twelve, he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of true pain and pleasure of life. Now it’s time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back.”

Notice how the name Jonas shares similarities with the name Jesus? Also, just like C.S. Lewis’ Narnia character, Aslan, is a near-anagram for Satan, Jonas has three letters in common with Satan (Editor’s Note: If you think I’m taking this too far, think Santa Claus and read my piece named, “Faux, Faux, Faux!,” dated Jan. 4, 2006).

Inside the jacket cover is this highlighted passage from the story: “ ‘Jonas,’ she said, speaking not to him alone but to the entire community of which he was a part, ‘You will be trained to be our next Receiver of Memory. We thank you for your childhood.’

“Then she turned and left the stage, left him there alone, standing and facing the crowd, which began spontaneously the collective murmur of his name. ‘Jonas.’ It was a whisper at first: hushed, barely audible. ‘Jonas, Jonas.’

“Then louder, faster. ‘JONAS, JONAS, JONAS.’ With the chant, Jonas knew, the community was accepting him and his new role, giving him life, the way they had given it to the newchild Caleb. His heart swelled with gratitude and pride.

“But at the same time he was filled with fear. He did not know what his selection meant. He did not know what he was to become.

“Or what would become of him.”

Another “kids” book on display, “Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo,” gives this glossary definition of its main character, listed as “Leven (aka ‘Lev’)”: “Leven is 14 years old and is the grandson of Hector Thumps, the builder of the Gateway. Lev originally knows nothing of Foo or of his heritage. He eventually discovers he is an offing who can see and manipulate the future. Lev’s brown eyes turn gold whenever his gift kicks in.”

As we know from the Old Testament, Satan is “leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent” (Isa.27:1). In the Gospels, Jesus Christ makes reference to the “gates of hell” (Matt. 16:18).

On the bottom shelf of Borders “kids” rack is the large paperback edition of Lewis’ “Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.” Obviously it continues to be a huge seller.

While church groups get together to study this book they revere as some sort of wholesome allegorical story in which the heroic lion is a “Christ-figure,” it’s obviously a dark tale steeped in the Occult. If you ask me, it’d be more suitable to see Aslan as an allegory for the Antichrist.

In II Thess. 2:9, when Paul’s describing the Antichrist, he says, “whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders.” The Antichrist is referred to as a “roaring lion” in I Peter 5:8.

We know from Lewis’ Narnia myth that Aslan is resurrected from the dead.

An old study I have on tape about the Antichrist, delivered by a preacher in Tennessee who recently died, Darryl Mefford, makes the point, “Just like Jesus Christ died and was resurrected, the Antichrist is going to be killed, and he's going to receive a deadly wound by a sword, and he's going to live. It's going to look like he was resurrected; like he was raised again. But it’s all a deception. It's all a trick.

“Rev. 13 says, ‘And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men.’

“So this is the means by which the Antichrist is going to deceive.”

In his new book, “The Apostasy of the Christian Church,” author R. Dawson Barlow informs that a baby lion is a picture of Satan.

“(Satan) is also called ‘a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour,’” writes Barlow. “The roaring lions, I have been told, are the old harmless lions (i.e. as harmless as a ‘baby’ lion), that roar and fuss so loudly they scare their prey into the clutches of the younger, more powerful and dangerous lions stalking nearby.”