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.

After receiving a knowledge of the truth, what must one do in order to be sanctified by it?
What kind of faith avails with God?
At His birth, what message did the angel bring to the shepherds abiding in the field?
How did He encourage His disciples to look for the fulfilment of prophecy?
How was the conquest of Medo-Persia by Grecia foretold in this symbolic prophecy?
How did Christ, from the Old Testament Scriptures, prove the resurrection?
Who are to share this fate?

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