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.

How willing is God to give to us the Holy Spirit?
Who will thus he judged by the saints?
When asked which commandments, what did Jesus say?
Does God design that His great work of creating the heavens and the earth shall be remembered?
Does the first commandment show who the author of the law is?
Against what three things does the third angel of Revelation 14 warn men?
19. Just before the pouring out of the plagues, what call does God send to His people still in Babylon?

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