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.

Through whom is the reconciliation received?
How does Paul, speaking of the man of sin, describe this same power?
What shows that God imputed sin to Cain?
What two covenants are contrasted in the Bible?
7. What questions asked by its worshippers indicate the great station to which this beast-power was to attain?
When and by whom was the Council of Nice convened?
How enduring will be their pleasures?

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