Revelation 13

Revelation 12 review:

1. Why does God's church face enormous persecution at the hands of a vicious enemy?

2. How is the future hope laid out in Revelation a settled reality?

3. How will God's people join the triumph? What attribute is required?

Revelation 13 questions:

1. What world power and which individual is the "beast" likened to?

2. Who will resist bowing to the beast?

3. How does one take the mark of the beast and is this only a future concern?

4. What name did the early church calculate from John's riddle?

Revelation 10 & 11 (Pt 2)

“A Sweet and Bitter Gospel”

1. How are God's true people being identified in this passage?

2. What is the message which the faithful witnesses share?

3. For what does God preserve and protect His church?

4. What is God's final plan for the church before his return? Is it to cause them to avoid "tribulation"?

5. How can we prepare ourselves to obey despite the bitterness involved?