The Time of the Message—Continued

1. 1.To what event, and date, were we brought in the previous lesson?
2. 2.In this dealing with the Papacy what additional prophecies were fulfilled? Rev. 13:3, first part, and verse 10.
3. 3.How may we know that this prophecy relates to the same power as that in the previous lesson? Compare Dan. 7:4-8 with Rev. 13:1, 2; and Dan. 7:8, 25 with Rev. 13:5-7.
4. 4.Was this captivity and deadly wound to put a total end to the Papacy? Rev. 13:3.
5. 5.When was it that this captivity occurred? Ans. A. D. 1798.
6. 6.At that time what else did the prophet see? Rev. 13:11.
7. 7.Is it for us to know what this means? Deut. 29:29.
8. 8.Is this a revelation? Rev. 1:1, 3.
9. 9.What part of the world was represented by the symbol of the leopard? Ans. Grecia. What by the bear? Ans.—Media and Persia. What by the lion? Ans.—Babylonia. What by the beast and the ten horns? Ans.—Western Europe and North Africa.
10. 10.Then as the characteristics of all these are found in the first beast of Rev. 13, what parts of the world are covered by the description of this first beast? Ans. The principal parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa.
11. 11.Whence was this other beast seen coming up? Ans. "Out of the earth." Rev. 13:11.
12. 12.Whence had the first beast risen? Rev. 13:1.
13. 13.What is meant by "sea," when used as a symbol? Rev. 17:15.
14. 14.What then is represented by a power coming up out of the sea? See note.
15. 15.What by a power coming out of the earth? See note.
16. 16.In 1798, how much of Europe, Asia, and Africa, was occupied by peoples, multitudes, and established and organized nations? Ans. All the known parts of them.
17. 17.How long had it been so? Ans. For ages.
18. 18.Therefore, as the symbols which are directly connected with the beast, embrace the principal parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, as all the rest of the known parts of the Eastern Continent had been for ages occupied by established nations; and as the other beast was to arise where this had not been so; where must this "other beast" arise? Ans. In the Western Continent.
19. 19.Did the dominion of the first beast or any of the ten kingdoms extend to any part of the Western Continent in 1798? Ans. It did. Spain, France, Portugal, and Britain then owned all except the possessions of what had been the thirteen British colonies, but which then formed the United States of America.
20. 20.What position then did the Government of the United States occupy in 1798? Ans. It was the only independent nation then on the earth, which had arisen where there had not formerly been for ages, peoples, multitudes, and established nations.
21. 21.What then is the inevitable conclusion? Ans. That the United States Government is the power signified in the prophecy of Rev. 13:11-17.
22. 22.What is to be said to the people of this Government? Verse 14, last part.
23. 23.When they shall have made an image to the beast, what will he do? Verses 11, 15.

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