Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8039 The question arises from one specific and remarkable incident in the Gospel accounts, and it is worth examining that incident carefully rather than building sweeping conclusions from it. What the Gadarene account tells us is both more and less than might be expected. The Gadarene Incident The account appears in all three Synoptic…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8009 The question of whether angels have access to our inner thought life is both practically urgent and theologically revealing. If angels, and by implication demons, can read our minds, the implications for prayer, spiritual warfare, and personal holiness would be considerable. Scripture addresses the matter more directly than many people realise. Mind-Reading as…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8016 Genesis 6:1-4 is one of the most disputed passages in the Old Testament. The “sons of God” who take human wives and produce the Nephilim have generated interpretive controversy for centuries, but the most exegetically consistent reading points in a clear direction when the relevant evidence is laid out carefully. The Three Main…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8017 Revelation 9:11 introduces a figure who stands in sharp contrast to the named holy angels of Scripture: the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in both Hebrew and Greek means one thing — Destroyer. His appearance belongs to the judgements of the Tribulation, and his name defines his function with a directness…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8018 Revelation 9:14-15 describes four angels bound at the great river Euphrates, held at the ready for a moment so precisely appointed that Scripture describes it in terms of a specific hour, day, month, and year. Their release triggers one of the most devastating sequences in the entire book of Revelation. The Text and…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60085 Few passages in the New Testament have generated more interpretive discussion than 1 Peter 3:18–20: “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which he also went and…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 07076 James 2:19 contains one of the most arresting sentences in the New Testament: “You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe — and shudder!” It is a sentence designed to stop the reader in their tracks, and it does. If demons believe, and they are not saved, then…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 04053 In a world where spiritual counterfeits are not merely possible but repeatedly warned against in the New Testament, the gift of discernment of spirits is not a luxury. It is one of the Spirit’s provisions for protecting the church from deception. Understanding what this gift actually involves, and how it differs from ordinary…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 8000 Angelology is the study of angels, and demonology is the study of demons. Together, they form the branch of theology that examines what Scripture reveals about the spiritual beings God created, both those who remained faithful to Him and those who rebelled. While our culture is fascinated by angels and demons through films,…