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.

And what besides a mere belief in the truth is necessary?
With what did He say they would he baptized?
How are the present effects and future results of chastisement contrasted?
3. Before the giving of the law at Sinai, what did Moses say when Jethro asked him concerning his judging the people?
What is the nature of the moral law?
What did the dragon give this beast?
In what is the Christian to grow?

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