Daniel & Revelation #40

Revelation 17 – Was, Is Not, Yet Is

The Beast

1)            What is the impure woman sitting upon? Revelation 17:3

2)            What are the similarities and differences between these two other beasts? Revelation 12:3; 13:1

3)            What is the significance of the color scarlet? Isaiah 1:18

4)            Who else is clothed in scarlet? Revelation 17:4

5)            What is the primary characteristic of the scarlet colored beast? Revelation 17:7

6)            How has this characteristic been seen throughout history? 1 Kings 18:19; Daniel 3:28, 29; Revelation 2:20-22

7)            What is missing from this beast but is present on both the previous beasts? Revelation 12:3; 13:1; 17:3

8)            Who wears a crown and what might the significance of absent crowns be? 2 Kings 11:12

9)            What tenses does this beast experience? Revelation 17:8

10)         Who has the true right to all of these tenses? Revelation 1:4, 8; 4:8

11)         When the resurrection of the beast takes place, where will it ascend from? Revelation 17:8

12)         What other passages mention this abyss and what are the connections? Revelation 9:11; 11:7; 20:1-3

13)         What happened to one of the heads of the leopardlike beast and when did it occur? Revelation 13:3, 10

14)         What time period, then, was in the present when John saw this scarlet colored beast? Revelation 17:8

15)         What is this beast also considered? Revelation 17:11

The Heads

16)         What do the seven heads represent? Revelation 17:9

17)         What city (Revelation 17:18) that is also a church sits upon seven hills?

18)         What else do these seven heads represent? Revelation 17:10

19)         What, most likely, are the first four heads or kings? Revelation 13:2; Daniel 7:4-7, 17

20)         Who, most likely, is the fifth head? Revelation 13:1; Daniel 7:8

21)         What power probably is the present sixth head when John sees this beast? Revelation 13:11

22)         How long does the seventh head continue? Revelation 17:10

23)         What change takes place in the sixth beast? Revelation 13:11, 12

24)         What happens when this change occurs that may be represented by the short space of the seventh head? Revelation 13:14, 15

The Horns

25)         What are on the seventh head, which when John saw was yet to come? Revelation 17:12

26)         What do horns represent in prophecy? Daniel 7:24; Habakkuk 3:4, KJV

27)         What will be purpose of this worldwide alliance of powers at the very end? Revelation 17:13

28)         How will the current of public opinion with these ten horns suddenly change? Revelation 17:16, 17

29)         Who are these horns united in warring against and what experience do we need? Revelation 17:14

Commitment

Prophecy here gives a delineation of the persecuting powers that have supported the counterfeit, Babylonish system of worship and climaxes in what is just about to unfold. Will you determine to be among the called, chosen and faithful that you may overcome with the Lamb?