How is the church at the first advent described?

Answer

"And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. Verse 2.

After His resurrection, what effect had this prediction upon His disciples?
What did the prophet see in this vision?
To whom was this covenant-promise later renewed?
How does this association regard the Catholic Church on this point?
By what title is the first state of the church distinguished?
8. After the fall of Western Rome, what power in the East arose to harass and overrun the Roman world, East and West?
What precious promise has God made to His children?

Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle