Satan does not know when Christ is scheduled to come back to earth. He knows what will happen, but he does not know when. Consequently, he must always have someone in place to play the role of Antichrist should the need arise. If Christ had returned to earth in the 1940s, it is indeed likely that Hitler and Mussolini would have figured into those end time events. They arose in Europe, claimed to be destined by fate to rule the world, and actually accepted the worship of multitudes. In many ways they