What the Bible teaches about angels, demons, Satan, and spiritual warfare.
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8005 If angels are spirits, how could they possibly eat? And yet Scripture records instances of angels consuming food. This question takes us to the heart of angelic nature and the remarkable ways these heavenly beings can interact with our physical world. What actually happens when an angel eats? Angels Who Ate The most…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8007 Human beings are mortal. We are born, we live for a time, and we die. But what about angels? Are they immortal beings who will exist forever, or can they be destroyed? Scripture gives us some fascinating insights into the nature of angelic existence and what awaits both the faithful and the fallen…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 8008 We know that angels are intelligent and can make choices. But are they cold, passionless beings, or do they experience emotions as we do? Can an angel feel joy, sorrow, or anger? The answer reveals something wonderful about the richness of God’s creation and the depth of heavenly life. Joy in Heaven Jesus…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 8006 This question strikes at the very nature of moral responsibility and the origin of evil. If angels are simply programmed to obey God, how could some have rebelled? If they have genuine freedom to choose, what does that mean for their service to God? The existence of fallen angels demonstrates that the answer…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 8126 If angels rebelled once, what stops it from happening again? When Satan and his demons are finally thrown into the lake of fire, will the remaining holy angels be safe from falling? It is a fair question, and one that touches on the security of eternity itself. If the new heavens and new…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 8127 The book of Job raises one of the most searching questions in all of Scripture: if God is sovereign and Satan must seek permission before afflicting His servant Job, what about Job’s children? They died in the first wave of disaster, yet there is no explicit mention in the text of God granting…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 8048 Luke 22:31-32 contains one of the most arresting statements Jesus makes to any of his disciples: “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.” The…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 8049 The title “accuser of the brethren” is given to Satan in Revelation 12:10, where his expulsion from heaven is accompanied by the declaration: “the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.” This is not an incidental detail. It describes an ongoing, relentless activity…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8046 Paul’s statement in 2 Corinthians 11:14 that “Satan himself disguises himself as an angel of light” is one of the most practically important observations in the New Testament about the nature of spiritual deception. It appears almost in passing within a longer passage about false apostles, but its implications reach far beyond that…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8047 Dreams appear throughout Scripture as one of the channels through which God communicated with His people, from Joseph’s dreams in Genesis to the angel’s appearances to Joseph in Matthew’s Gospel. The question of whether Satan can use dreams in the same way requires both honest engagement with what Scripture says and appropriate restraint…