Mark of Beast vs Seal of

Question 1

what are the 11 identifying characteristics of the beast?

Answer 1

A. It rises from the sea (verse 1).

B. It is the composite of the four beasts in Daniel chapter 7 (verse 2).

C. The dragon gives it power and authority (verse 2).

D. It receives a deadly wound (verse 3).

E. Its deadly wound is healed (verse 3).
F. It is a strong political power (verses 3, 7).

G. It is a strong religious power (verses 3, 8).

H. It is guilty of blasphemy (verses 1, 5, 6).

I. It wars with and overcomes the saints (verse 7).

J. It rules for 42 months (verse 5).

K. It has a mysterious number—666 (verse 18).

Question 2

What does sea mean in prophecies?

Answer 2

People- Rev 17:15

Btw- Papacy rose from Western Europe, so it fits this point

Question 3

What does it mean for the beast to be a composite of the 4 in Daniel 7

Answer 3

They are apart of the Antichrist(beast power) as it incorporated the pagan elements of them

Question 4

What does it mean by the beast receiving power, seat (capital), and authority from Dragon? Rev 13:2

Answer 4

We know Dragon is devil- rev 12

But though rome- tried to hurt baby Jesus in rev 12

Rev 13 therefore zones in on this persecuting power
So dragon in this context is Rome and:
from history we see that pagan rome gave its seat to papal rome- “The Roman Church … pushed itself into the place of the Roman World-Empire, of which it is the actual continuation. …The Pope … is Caesar’s successor.”

Question 5

What does it mean to receive a deadly wound Rev13:3

Answer 5

The deadly wound was inflicted when Napoleon’s general, Alexander Berthier, entered Rome and took Pope Pius VI captive in February of 1798. Napoleon decreed that at the death of the pope, the papacy would be discontinued. The pope died in France in August of 1799. “Half Europe thought … that without the Pope the Papacy was dead.”

Question 6

What does it mean by deadly wound healing? Rev13:3

Answer 6

The church has recovered and has gained traction over the years and now currently has great global influence as it once had

Question 7

About the Pope

Answer 7

Most well-known person in the world- seen as a strong moral leader. In 2015, he spoke before a joint session in US congress for fist time

Question 8

Describe how it would become a strong political power Rev13:3,7

Answer 8

-Found in the healing of wound- great sway, pope seen as moral leader, has influence in politics of world

Vicarious Filii DEI

Question 9

How would rome become a great religious power? 13:3,8

Answer 9

-Found in the healing of wound- great sway, pope seen as moral leader, has influence in politics of world

Question 10

What does it mean by rome being guilty of blasphemy? Rev 13:5,6

Answer 10

The papacy is guilty of blasphemy because her priests claim to forgive sins and her popes claim to be Christ.

Question 11

It would make war with saints and prevail- 13:7

Answer 11

The papacy did persecute and destroy millions of saints during the Dark Ages. (538-1798)

Question 12

It would reign for 42 months (Revelation 13:5).

Answer 12

he papacy reigned for 42 prophetic months, which equals 1,260 years, from A.D. 538-1798.

Question 13

. It would have the mysterious number 666 (Revelation 13:18).

Answer 13

Number is number of man
The main man in the papacy is the POPE

The text says that the number of his name will make up the beast number:

Vicarius Filii Dei- is the pope’s title

Question 14

What is God’s mark, or symbol, of authority?

Answer 14

“I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them” (Ezekiel 20:12).

“It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth” (Exodus 31:17).

Mea God’s power to rule as Creator and Saviour

Also shows power to create and sanctify us

Question 15

What is true sabbath keeping?

Answer 15

True Sabbath keeping signifies that a person has surrendered his life to Jesus Christ and is willing to follow wherever Jesus leads.

Question 16

What do these texts show? Genesis 17:11 with Romans 4:11 and Revelation 7:3 with Ezekiel 9:4

Answer 16

Sign, seal, token, mark usage

Question 17

What does the papacy say is her mark or symbol of authority

Answer 17

Question: Have you any other way of proving that the Church has the power to institute festivals of precept?

Answer: Had she, not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her—she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday the seventh day, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority.”8

The papacy is here saying that it “changed” Sabbath to Sunday and that virtually all churches accepted the new holy day. Thus, the papacy claims that Sunday as a holy day is the mark, or symbol, of her power and authority.

Question 18

Did God predict such an attempted change?

Answer 18

Yes. In describing the antichrist in Daniel 7:25, God said it would “intend to change times and law.”

Question 19

A. How has the papacy tried to change God’s law?

Answer 19

In her catechisms she has (1) omitted the second commandment against veneration of images, and

(2) shortened the fourth (Sabbath) commandment from 94 words to just eight. The Sabbath commandment (Exodus 20:8–11) clearly specifies Sabbath as the seventh day of the week. As changed by the papacy in its catechism, the commandment reads, “Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day.” Written thus, it can refer to any day.

And, finally, she (3) divided the tenth commandment into two commandments.

Question 20

B. How has the papacy attempted to change God’s times

Answer 20

(1) She attempted to change the time of the Sabbath from the seventh day to the first day.

(2) She also attempted to change God’s “timing” for the beginning and closing hours of the Sabbath.

Instead of counting the Sabbath day from sundown Friday night to sundown Saturday night as God mandates (Leviticus 23:32), she adopted the pagan Roman custom of counting the day from midnight Saturday night to midnight Sunday night. God predicted these “changes” would be attempted by the beast or antichrist.

Question 21

Roman power knows that they have changed the day, protestants are in error. Even Rome challenges Protestants on this:

Answer 21

You are a Protestant, and you profess to go by the Bible and the Bible only; and yet in so important a matter as the observance of one day in seven as a holy day, you go against the plain letter of the Bible, and put another day in the place of that day which the Bible has commanded. The command to keep holy the seventh day is one of the Ten Commandments; you believe that the other nine are still binding; who gave you authority to tamper with the fourth?

Question 22

What solemn warnings has God given regarding His law and His sign, or mark?

Answer 22

God warns religious leaders against causing people to stumble by saying that some commandments do not matter (Malachi 2:7–9). For example, some ministers teach, “It doesn’t matter what day you keep holy.

Question 22

What solemn warnings has God given regarding His law and His sign, or mark?

Answer 22

God warns religious leaders against causing people to stumble by saying that some commandments do not matter (Malachi 2:7–9). For example, some ministers teach, “It doesn’t what day you keep holy.

God warns people who want their ministers to preach smooth fables rather than the truth about His law (Isaiah 30:9, 10).

God warns people about hardening their hearts against the truth of His law (Zechariah 7:12).

God warns people about hardening their hearts against the truth of His law (Zechariah 7:12).

God warns religious leaders who refuse to preach the prophecies of the end time (Isaiah 29:10, 11).

God warns that leaders who teach there is really no difference between sacred things (such as God’s holy Sabbath) and common things (such as Sunday) will face His indignation (Ezekiel 22:26, 31).

Question 23

What solemn warnings has God given regarding His law and His sign, or mark?

Answer 23

God warns religious leaders against causing people to stumble by saying that some commandments do not matter (Malachi 2:7–9). For example, some ministers teach, “It doesn’t matter what day you keep holy.

Question 24

What does it mena to recive mark in forehead vs hand

Answer 24

The forehead represents the mind (Hebrews 10:16). A person will be marked in the forehead by a decision to keep Sunday as a holy day

The hand is a symbol of work (Ecclesiastes 9:10). A person will be marked in the hand by working on God’s holy Sabbath or by going along with Sunday laws for practical reasons (job, family, etc.).

Question 25

According to Isaiah 58:1, 13, 14, what decisive message does God deliver to His people in the last days?

Answer 25

A message that is to be cried aloud and “spared not”:

3 angels message reference:
He says to tell His people that they are sinning because they are trampling on His holy day, and He asks them to quit breaking the Sabbath so He can bless them. He wants His messenger to speak loudly so the people will hear. Notice that the third angel of Revelation 14:9–12, who brings the message about the mark of the beast, speaks with a loud voice also (verse 9

Question 26

Do people who worship on Sunday now have the mark of the beast?

Answer 26

No, it will not be until it is enforced by law

Question 27

According to the book of Revelation, who did John see in God’s eternal kingdom?

Answer 27

A. Those who have God’s mark—sign (His Sabbath)—in their foreheads (Revelation 7:3, 4).

B. Those who refused to identify with the beast or his image and who refused to have his mark or name in their foreheads (Revelation 15:2).

C. The people who—today and for eternity—follow where Jesus leads, trusting Him fully in everything (Revelation 14:4)