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.

What are the commandments of God declared to be?
What description of the Apostle Paul's experience is in harmony with this?
What day does the commandment say is the Lord's?
For whose sake did Christ say the period of papal persecution would be shortened?
What was to be the character of the last three trumpets?
While suffering in the garden of Gethsemane, how was Christ strengthened?
In the new earth, what will he no more?

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