It Is Written Bible Study Guides

Lesson 18 The Mystery Beast of Revelation – Answers

1. What does the Bible say about the antichrist?

Many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

2. How does the Bible describe the power that will bring spiritual danger to the world?

Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man} of sin is revealed, the son of perdition.

3. From where did the Bible writers warn apostasy would arise in planet Earth’s final days?

I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. Also from among yourselves} men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.

He sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

4. What did Daniel see emerging from a windswept sea?

The four winds of heaven were stirring up the Great Sea. And four great beasts came up from the sea, each different from the other.

5. What were the four nations Daniel saw?

The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings. 

Suddenly another beast, a second, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth.

There was another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird. The beast also had four heads, and dominion was given to it.

Behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, exceedingly strong. It had huge iron teeth; it was devouring, breaking in pieces, and trampling the residue with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.

6. What would take the place of the fourth kingdom?

The ten horns are ten kings} Who shall arise from this kingdom.

7. What did Daniel see coming up out of the 10 horns?

I was considering the horns, and there was another horn, a little one, coming up among them, before whom three of the first horns were plucked out by the roots.

10. How influential will the little horn’s role be in planet Earth’s final days?

I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.

11. How can something be wrong when it looks so good?

There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.

12. Where should our faith be directed in preparation for the return of Jesus?

Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved.

13. How can a person hope to be faithful to God in a time when “all the world” follows this entity?

It is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.