Biblical prophecy and the last days—the rapture, tribulation, second coming, millennium, and final judgment.
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10109 The idea that heaven might be boring is remarkably common, and it is rooted in a picture of the afterlife that owes far more to medieval art and popular caricature than to anything Scripture actually describes. Clouds, harps, white robes, and an eternity of singing the same hymn on repeat: this is the…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10092 Jesus told His disciples that “wars and rumours of wars” would characterise the period leading up to the end (Matthew 24:6; Mark 13:7). In every generation since, believers have looked at the conflicts of their own era and wondered whether these are the wars Jesus meant. The question of how Christians should respond…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10106 The book of Revelation describes a future religious system of staggering scope: a global religious entity that seduces the nations, persecutes the saints, and ultimately serves the purposes of the Antichrist before being destroyed by the very powers she rode to prominence. The idea of a one-world religion is not a conspiracy theory…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10053 The Holy Spirit’s role in the end times is a subject that generates considerable confusion, partly because of the debate over His supposed “removal” during the Tribulation, and partly because many treatments of eschatology focus so heavily on geopolitical events, the Antichrist, and the sequence of judgements that the Spirit’s work receives far…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10010 The number 666 is one of the most recognised symbols in all of Scripture, and one of the most misunderstood. Revelation 13:18 introduces it with a direct invitation to the reader: “This calls for wisdom: let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10115 Purgatory is the Roman Catholic doctrine that believers who die in a state of grace but with unforgiven venial sins or unpaid temporal punishment must undergo purification before entering heaven. While this belief has shaped Western Christianity for centuries and remains official Catholic teaching, we must ask whether it has any foundation in…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 2076 It seems like a strange question until you press it, and then it becomes genuinely important. If God is everywhere present, does that include hell? And if it does, what does that mean? If it does not, does that mean God’s omnipresence has limits? The question touches both the doctrine of God’s omnipresence…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 10055 When Christians speak of heaven, we’re talking about the dwelling place of God and the eternal home of all believers. But heaven is more than just clouds and harps, as if it is to do with that at all. Scripture presents heaven as a real place where God’s presence is fully experienced, where…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 5026 Few questions excite and perplex people in equal measure as this one. What exactly will the resurrection body be? Will it be physical? Will it look the same? Will it be subject to the same limitations as the present body? Paul addresses the question head-on in 1 Corinthians 15, and his answer is…
Reading Time: 7 minutesQuestion 10061 One of the most common questions about heaven concerns whether we will recognise our loved ones there. Will families be reunited? Will friendships continue? Or will we be so transformed that earthly relationships become meaningless? Scripture gives us good reason to believe that we will indeed recognise one another in heaven, and that…