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Questions for Revelation Chapter Thirteen

Satan has two powerful allies

(Materialism and false teaching)

  1. Where was John standing? ______
  2. What did John see? ______
  3. What did the beast look like:
  4. How many heads? ______
  5. How many horns? ______
  6. How many crowns? ______

See Daniel 7:7; 23-24

  1. What three animals was the beast like? ______

See Daniel 7:3-6; 7:17

  1. Who gave the beast power? ______
  2. What happened to one of the beasts wounded heads? ______

Hurt but recovering

  1. How did the world react? ______
  2. What was given to the mouth of the beast? ______

See Daniel 7:8

  1. When he opened his mouth who did he blaspheme against? ______
  2. Who did the beast make war against? ______

The world can win a temporary battle but not the war

See Daniel 7:21-22

  1. Who would worship him? ______
  2. Who would not? ______
  3. Who is to hear? ______
  4. What does verse ten mean (See also Galatians 6:7)? ______

Class discussion – who is the beast of Revelation 13:1-8?

Is it Romans materialism? Read Daniel 7:3-7; 17-25, and then read of the fall of Roman materialism Revelation 18:3; 5; 9-11; 15-19, as those who profited from Rome wail and lament their loss (The impossible has happened). Revelation chapters thirteen through eighteen needs to be studied together; for instance 17:6-14 provides some additional thought to our subject.

  1. The second beast:
  2. What did it look like? ______
  3. What did it sound like? ______
  4. What did the beast have? ______
  5. What did he cause? ______
  6. How did he deceive the world? ______
  7. How deceptive is the counterfeit (Acts 8:9-11)? ______
  8. What happened to those who refuse to worship the image of the beast? ______
  9. Is this emperor worship? ______
  10. Is the mark of the beast literal or figurative? ______
  11. To wear the mark of the beast would be professing what? ______

The power and reach of the beast

  1. What would happen if you refused to worship the emperor? ______
    ______

Emperor worship, much like Herod, the grandson of Herod the great, men began to think they were like God (Acts 12:21-22).

The devils agents always active (Acts 13:8-11).

  1. The number of the beast is the number of a what? ______