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.

To whom does God reveal the secrets of the future?
In what condition are all men?
How does it propose that the matter of \"Sabbath desecration\" shall be dealt with?
Against what deceptions did Christ then warn us?
What great change will then take place in their bodies?
Where do all go at death?
Afterward who came to be called by this title?

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