24 - America in Prophecy
1. What does a beast in Bible prophecy represent?
"These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth" Daniel 7:17
"The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth" Daniel 7:23
2. John saw another beast coming up where?
"Out of the earth" Revelation 13:11
Unlike the first beast, which came up from the sea, this nation arises in a new continent.
3. How is this new beast described?
"He had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon" Revelation 13:11
4. How much power would this beast exercise?
"All the power of the first beast before him" Revelation 13:12
5. He will cause the world to do what?
"To worship the first beast" Revelation 13:12
6. What great wonders will he do?
"He maketh fire come down from heaven" Revelation 13:13
7. What does he do by means of those miracles?
"Deceiveth them that dwell on the earth" Revelation 13:14
8. What does he say the people should do?
"Make an image to the beast" Revelation 13:14
"And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast" Revelation 13:15
9. No longer hesitant to enforce religious duties, what will this nation cause everyone to do?
"To receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads" Revelation 13:16
10. What means will be employed to compel all to receive this mark?
"That no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark" Revelation 13:17
11. What ultimate penalty will be set for violating the law?
"That as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed" Revelation 13:15
12. What counterwarning is given from heaven with a loud voice?
"If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation" Revelation 14:9, 10
13. Who will have no rest, day or night?
"Who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name" Revelation 14:11
14. A noisome and grievous sore fell upon whom?
"The men which had the mark of the beast" Revelation 16:2
15. The mark is received in their right hand, or where else?
"In their foreheads" Revelation 13:16
16. John saw an angel ascending from the east having what?
"The seal of the living God" Revelation 7:2
17. The people of God are to be sealed where?
"In their foreheads" Revelation 7:3
18. What is to be sealed among God’s people?
"Seal the law among my disciples" Isaiah 8:16
19. How does that happen?
"I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them" Hebrews 10:16
"Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes" Deuteronomy 11:18
20. With God's law written in our minds, what will our testimony then be?
"I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart" Psalm 40:8
21. What are they called who are sealed in their foreheads?
"The servants of our God" Revelation 7:3
"Servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart" Ephesians 6:6
22. Christ’s people are described as having what written in their foreheads?
"Having his Father's name written in their foreheads" Revelation 14:1
23. When God proclaimed His name to Moses, what characteristics did He mention?
"Merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth" Exodus 34:5, 6
24. What was to be placed upon Aaron’s forehead?
"Thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD" Exodus 28:36-38
25. That we may possess His character, what does God require of us?
"Be ye holy: for I am the Lord your God" Leviticus 20:7
"Be ye holy; for I am holy" 1 Peter 1:16
26. What has the Lord done that reveals His authority as the true God?
"All the gods of the people are idols: but the Lord made the heavens" 1 Chronicles 16:26
27. What has He sanctified to commemorate creation?
"God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made" Genesis 2:3
28. What is the sign that He is our Lord?
"Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, they they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them" Ezekiel 20:12
29. What is the sign of our allegiance to Him?
"And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God" Ezekiel 20:20
30. A sign is also what?
"A seal" Romans 4:11
31. God's sign in His people is called what?
"The seal of the living God" Revelation 7:2, 3
32. In our worship of God, what are the commandments of men worth?
"In vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men" Matthew 15:9
33. When man-made laws go contrary to the law of God, whom ought we to obey?
"We ought to obey God rather than men" Acts 5:29
34. Who will stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God?
"Them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name" Revelation 15:2