How is the church at the first advent described?

Answer

"And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. Verse 2.

What experience in the life of a noted prophet indicated the length of Christ's stay in the grave?
By what are men sanctified?
What constrained God to give His Son to die for man?
Where was Christ next taken?
What is Peter's testimony regarding it?
By what name is the fifth state of the church addressed?
Do we always know what to pray for?

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