Patient Endurance and Faithfulness of the Saints
Questions for Study 9

Revelation 12:1-13:18
Memory Verse: 10

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I. The Woman and the Dragon (12:1-17)

1. What is a sign? (Gen. 1:14, 9:12-13; Dan. 6:27; Matt. 2:2, 24:30-31; Luke 21:10-11, 25-28) Where did the first sign appear? What sign appeared and who does the sign appear to depict? (1-2, 5) Where did the second sign appear? (3) What did the dragon do? (4) What do these two signs mean? What did God do for the woman? (6)

2. What does verse 7 reveal about the spiritual battle? Who is the dragon? (Gen. 3:1; Isaiah 27:1; Rev. 12:9) What else does verses 10 and 11 reveal about the spiritual battle? When is our salvation made complete?

3. Who is the women? Why might Satan go after the woman? (12-13) What did the Lord do for her? (14) How was Satan's second attack thwarted? (15-16)

4. What does verse 17 mean?

II. The Dragon and the Beast with Ten Horns (13:1-10)

5. What did John watch as the dragon stood on the shore? (1-2) Why might people who do not believe in Jesus' resurrection be amazed at the beast's resurrection? (3-4)

6. What does it mean to be given authority? (5) What is in a heart that blasphemes? (6)

7. Why would our Lord give such authority to the beast as mentioned in verse 7? (Rev. 3:10; Gen. 22:1; James 1:12) What does it show about the inhabitants of the earth at the time when they worship the beast? (8) How are we to respond? (9-10) When someone came forward that acts like the beast what do you do?

III. The Beast Out of the Earth (13:11-18)

8. What else did John see? (11) What position did this beast have? (12) How did he prove he was good at this position? (13) What was his intent? (14)

9. What might be an image that needs breath? (15; Gen. 1:27, 2:7) What is Satan apparently doing?

10. What did he force on the worshipers? (16) How? (17) What does it mean to calculate man's number? (18) What can be learned about mankind under Satan's rule from this study?