Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8038 Deception is not a tactic the enemy employs occasionally or in extreme situations; it is the foundation of his entire operation. Understanding the category of lying and deceiving spirits requires beginning where Jesus Himself begins, with the character of the adversary as the father of lies, and then following the thread through both…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8014 The phrase “host of heaven” appears throughout the Old Testament and is sometimes used to warn against the worship of stars and planets, while at other times it clearly refers to the angelic company surrounding God’s throne. Understanding how the phrase works in its different contexts prevents both confusion and a flattened reading…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 04092 The nineteenth chapter of 1 Kings is one of the most psychologically and spiritually rich passages in the entire Old Testament. Elijah, the prophet who had called down fire from heaven on Carmel and executed the prophets of Baal, is found forty days later under a broom tree in the wilderness begging to…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 2073 The question touches something every thoughtful believer wrestles with. If God knows the end from the beginning and his purposes are fixed, what does prayer actually accomplish? And if he already knows what we are going to ask, and has already decided how he will respond, does the whole exercise amount to little…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 4007 Few phrases have been borrowed more freely from their original context than “the still small voice.” It has become a standard way of describing the Holy Spirit’s gentle inner promptings, invoked in worship songs, devotional talks, and spiritual direction conversations. The phrase comes from 1 Kings 19:12 in the King James Version. The…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3062 When we think of resurrection in the Bible, our minds naturally go straight to Jesus rising from the dead on Easter morning. And rightly so, His resurrection is the central event of all history. But Scripture records other instances where people were raised from the dead, both before and after Jesus’ own resurrection….
Reading Time: 7 minutesQuestion 10041 In 1 Kings 9:3, God tells Solomon: “I have consecrated this house that you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.” Yet Solomon’s temple was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BC, and the second temple was destroyed by the Romans…