1. What does a beast represent in Bible prophecy?

The fourth beast shall be A fourth kingdom on earth.

2. When does this beast rise to a position of power?

 I saw another beast coming up out of the earth.

3. Where does the second beast of Revelation 13 arise?

The waters which you saw . . . are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues.

4. What is the character of the second beast in Revelation 13?

He had two horns like a lamb.

5. Will this nation always stand in defense of freedom?

He had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon.

6. What does a dragon represent in the book of Revelation?

The great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world.

7. What type of influence will this second nation have in the world?

He exercises all the authority of the first beast.

8. How does the second nation of Revelation 13 cooperate with the first nation in Revelation 13?

He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

9. How will the second nation in Revelation 13 (the United States) influence people to yield to the authority of the first nation (the Vatican)?

He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

10. What form of worship will be enforced by the second nation of Revelation 13?

He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads.

11. What will become of those who choose to resist the power of this nation?

He [causes] as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.

12. What is the result of this end-time departure from civil and religious freedom?

I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

13. What does Satan do in an attempt to deceive God’s faithful?

For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast,

14. How can God’s people be safe from the deceptions of earth’s final days?

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

15. What attitude will God’s people have regarding loyalty and faithfulness in earth’s last days?

Peter and the other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather than men.

16. In a time when all the world follows the beast of Revelation 13, how will it be possible for someone to be faithful to God?

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.