It Is Written Bible Study Guides

Lesson 21 In Search of the Church – Answers

1. Does it matter if a person attends church?

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

2. Did Jesus believe people should belong to a church?

On this rock I will build My church.

3. Did Jesus establish a church in this world before He went to heaven?

The churches throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and were edified. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.

4. Did the disciples work to establish a particular church?

The Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.

5. How did the Apostle Paul describe the church?

I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

6. What symbol is used in the Bible to represent a church?

I have likened the daughter of Zion To a lovely and delicate woman.

7. What special characteristics will the church of the last days possess?

The dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Here  are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

8. How is God’s true church described in the book of Revelation?

A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars.

9. How has Satan especially targeted God’s church?

When the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male Child.

10. What happened to the Christian church during the Middle Ages?

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

11. What did the true church do during times of persecution?

The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God.

The woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished.

12. How long would God’s true church remain in the wilderness?

The woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.

13. What is the devil’s attitude toward God’s church in the last days?

The dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

14. What are the identifying marks of God’s final church?

The rest of her offspring . . . keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

15. How many church organizations does Jesus desire to have on this earth?

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism.

16. God describes the confused system of religion in the last days as “Babylon.” What invitation does Jesus make to those outside His final church?

I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.

Other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.