Key Thought: The central issues between Christ and Satan are loyalty, authority, and worship. Love is the great motivating force in the kingdom of God.
June 10, 2023

1. Have a volunteer read Revelation 14:12.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
2. What two characteristics do we discover in this passage about God’s last-day people? Why are both important
3. Personal Application: How faithful are you in little things? What does that tell you about how you might be when the real trials come? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your relatives states, “We live by faith and not by works or sight. You people focus too much on obedience instead of faith. Can you give me an example in your life when faith got you through tough times?” How would you respond to your relative?

2. Have a volunteer read Revelation 13:13-17.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. How does the second beast cause everyone to worship the first beast?
3. Personal Application: How does one receive the mark of the beast in the forehead or the hand? Is this literal or spiritual? Share your thoughts
4. Case Study: One of your friends states, “What is this fire that the second beast makes come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men? ” How would you respond to your friend?
   (Note: Spiritually, fire is the presence of God. Moses and the burning bush, fire for Elijah on the mount, fire of tongues on Pentecost. But this is a false fire by the second beast – making people think that God is with them.)

3. Have a volunteer read Revelation 13:1,2.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. Where does this beast come from, and who gives this beast his authority?
   (Note: the sea is a populated area –Rev. 17:15 – Europe. The dragon, Pagan Rome, gave the Holy See (seat of government) to the Vatican by Constantine)
3. Personal Application: How can we call people out of Babylon – fallen Catholicism and fallen Protestantism – when we are accused of sheep stealing and separation rather than unifying with the Christian communities? What might these compromises be? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your neighbors states: “Who do these animals represent and what is the Biblical definition of blasphemy? ” How would you respond to your relative?
   Note: Daniel 7 tells us the lion is Babylon, the leopard is Greece, the bear is Medio-Persia. The dragon is pagan Rome and spiritually the devil. Blasphemy is claiming to be God and claiming to forgive sins.)

4. Have a volunteer read Revelation 13:4,5.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. How do you respond to people who deny that Satan is real? They claim he is just the representation of the evil in mankind’s own minds, that there is no real devil.
3. Personal Application: How can we not worship this beast and the devil behind the beast when the whole world is taken in? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study : Think of one person who needs to hear a message from this week’s lesson. Tell the class what you plan to do this week to share with them.

(Truth that is not lived, that is not imparted, loses its life-giving power, its healing virtue. Its blessings can be retained only as it is shared.”Ministry of Healing, p. 148).

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