Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10193. Scripture does appear to teach that millennial authority will not be identical for every believer, and that what we do with what we have been given now has consequences for the responsibility we carry then. That makes some Christians uneasy, because it sounds like a league table in the kingdom. Let me show…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10192. The millennial rebellion is one of the strangest paragraphs in the Bible, and one of the most searching. Jesus has reigned in person from Jerusalem for a thousand years, the earth has been full of the knowledge of the Lord, Satan has been shut away, justice has been swift and honest, and then…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 10187. Every few months somebody writes to me convinced that the preterist view has settled the whole question, and that the book of Revelation describes events which came and went in the first century. It is not a silly suggestion. Revelation opens by announcing things that must soon take place, and Jesus did tell…
Reading Time: 7 minutesStanding with Israel in Biblical Truth and Justice Q10141 Preamble As an Evangelical Baptist committed to the authority of Scripture and the unchanging promises of God, I find myself compelled to respond to recent statements from Baptists Together, BMS World Mission and Baptist Union of Wales that mischaracterise Israel’s legitimate right to self-defence and misrepresent…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10175. Is America Mystery Babylon? The question has sold a remarkable number of books, and it surfaces in every prophecy conference I have ever heard about. The woman of Revelation 17 with the title written on her forehead has been identified with Rome, with the papacy, with apostate Protestantism, with the United Nations and,…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10174. The tribe of Dan is missing from the list of sealed tribes in Revelation 7, and once you notice it you cannot unnotice it. Twelve tribes are named, twelve thousand from each, and Dan is not among them. Manasseh appears instead, and Ephraim is absent too, which means John’s list is not the…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10170. A continuous Jewish presence in the land of Israel is one of those historical facts that almost everybody in the modern debate assumes away. The popular story says the Romans expelled the Jews in AD 70, the land lay empty of them for nearly nineteen centuries, and then in 1948 a European population…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10169. The location of heaven has been a live question ever since Yuri Gagarin came back from orbit and reported that he had not seen God up there. It was meant as a joke against believers, and it landed only because a great many people, Christians included, had a vague idea that heaven was…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10168. The location of hell is one of those questions that sounds like idle curiosity and usually is not. People ask it because they want to know whether hell is a real place with a real address, or a state of mind, or a metaphor that preachers use to frighten congregations into behaving. Scripture…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10167. Can those in heaven see what is happening down here? It is one of the most frequently asked questions in any pastoral ministry, and it is almost never asked out of curiosity. It is asked by a widow, or by parents at a graveside, and behind it lies a longing to know whether…