How much power will this beast exercise?

Answer

"And he exercises all the power of the first beast before him, and causes the earth and them which dwell
therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed." Verse 12.
NOTE - The "first beast before him" (papal Rome) exercised the power of persecuting and putting
to death all who differed from it in religious matters. The only way the earth can be made to worship is by
causing work to cease on it through voluntary or enforced rest, or Sabbath-keeping. "For as long as she
[the land] lay desolate she kept Sabbath." 2 Chron. 36: 21. Enforced Sunday observance is evidently
implied.

Upon what evidence did Jesus base His Messiahship?
What similar instruction was given to Titus?
Because of the interest which this miracle created in Him, what did the Pharisees say?
In what other prophecies is this same period mentioned?
What response did the people make to this proposition?
19. What testimony does Eusebius (AD. 270-338), a noted bishop of the church, a flatterer of Constantine, and the reputed father of ecclesiastical history, bear upon this subject?
When, according to prophecy, were men to amass great wealth?

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