Red Spot of Waterloo
IllustrationAnalogyHistorical Account★★★★After his disastrous defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon, so the story goes, met with some of his leading generals to analyze the battle’s flawed strategies. In the course of their discussions, the little general pointed at England on the colored map before them and said bitterly, “Except for that red spot I would be master of the world.”
Satan could say the same thing today except he would point to a cross on a hill outside the walls of Old Jerusalem. Aren’t you thankful for that red spot of Calvary that rescued this world from the control of our great enemy? That was the place, the time, and the contest that settled the destiny of planet earth. Satan has been a defeated foe ever since.
There it was that he met his Waterloo and suffered a decisive defeat from which he will never fully recover. There is another red spot on Satan’s map. Every other religious body Satan has mastery over except God’s church. The church of God is the only red spot on the religious map.
The gates of hell have not been able to prevail over it because God has preserved it.
The point
As Napoleon had his Waterloo in England, Satan has his in Calvary; the Cross is the red spot that defeated Satan and preserved God's church.