To the world in general, Christians have been despised because not understood.

The Lord of glory, when on earth, was despised because he was misunderstood.

And so his true followers seem to be a mean and despised people.

The poet has truly said: "Why do they, then, appear so mean?
And why so much despised?
Because, of their rich robes, unseen, The world is not apprized." [323]Satan has tried to counterfeit every part of Jehovah's plan; so he organized a religious system in the earth which is iniquitous and is known as "the mystery of iniquity".

(2 Thessalonians 2:7; Revelation 17:5) This mystery of iniquity God will destroy in his great day of vengeance which is now on, and then the mystery of God will be more clearly revealed to mankind.