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.

For what purpose were the Scriptures written?
Of what kind of doctrines should we beware?
By what is the Medo-Persian Empire represented in the great image?
What else does the prophecy say the little horn would do?
What has He commanded men to observe in memory of this great work?
What did the apostles say to the idolaters at Lystra?
14. What scripture for ever precludes the idea that the dead come back to earth to communicate with the living?

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