Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08138 The New Testament makes several references to angels being involved in the giving of the Law at Sinai, a detail that is not immediately obvious from the Old Testament narrative itself. Stephen mentions it in his speech before the Sanhedrin, Paul refers to it in Galatians, and the writer of Hebrews builds an…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08139 Whether angels experience something analogous to human emotion is a question the Bible does not answer systematically, but it does offer a number of passages that present angelic beings as responding to events with what looks remarkably like genuine feeling. The question matters because it touches on what it means to be a…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 08136 Peter’s statement that angels “long to look into” the things of the gospel is one of the most striking and often overlooked remarks in the New Testament. It sits within a passage about the privilege of salvation, and its force depends on grasping what it tells us about the gospel from the perspective…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08137 The temptation of Jesus in the wilderness reveals something deeply instructive about the way Satan operates, and one of its most striking features is that the devil quotes Scripture in the process. This is not a detail to gloss over. It has direct implications for how believers understand the nature of spiritual deception…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08124 The story of Satan does not end in ambiguity. Scripture is remarkably clear about his future, and the trajectory is one of progressive restriction, decisive defeat, and eternal judgement. For a being who has wielded enormous influence across human history, the ending is as definitive as it is irreversible. Understanding what will happen…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 08135 Angels are spiritual beings of immense power and long experience, but they are not God. That distinction matters enormously when considering the scope of their knowledge. Scripture presents angelic intelligence as genuinely superior to human understanding in many respects, while also marking clear limits that set their knowledge apart from the omniscience that…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08123 It would be a mistake to think of Satan as a figure confined to the opening chapters of Genesis and the closing chapters of Revelation with nothing much happening in between. Scripture presents him as active, purposeful, and relentlessly engaged in opposition to God’s work in the present age. Understanding what Satan is…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08121 Spiritual warfare is not an optional interest for particularly dramatic Christians. It is the reality every believer lives within, whether they recognise it or not. The New Testament assumes a world in which invisible powers are actively at work, in which the Christian life involves genuine conflict with real enemies, and in which…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08122 The phrase “I bind you, Satan” has become so familiar in certain streams of Christianity that many believers assume it is a standard biblical practice. It appears in prayer meetings, worship services, deliverance ministries, and the everyday spiritual vocabulary of millions of Christians worldwide. But the question that must be asked, as with…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08120 Few questions in pastoral ministry generate as much fear, confusion, and theological disagreement as this one. Horror films have shaped the popular imagination far more than Scripture has, and the result is a great deal of anxiety among believers who wonder whether they or someone they love might be subject to demonic possession….