Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10132. The eternal state follows the Millennium, and confusing the two accounts for a remarkable number of muddles in popular teaching about the future. They are consecutive periods with different conditions, different populations and different purposes. Once you have the sequence clear, passages that seemed to contradict each other fall into place, and you…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 10100. The lake of fire is the final and permanent place of judgement for Satan, for the beast and the false prophet, and for every person whose name is not written in the book of life. I want to say that plainly at the start, because this is one of those subjects where people…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10062. What will we do in heaven? I suspect the reason so many Christians secretly dread the question is that the picture they inherited involves an endless church service with no coffee afterwards. Somewhere between medieval art and Victorian hymnody we acquired the notion of clouds, harps and a permanent expression of mild vacancy….
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10060. The new earth is where the Bible actually ends, and I think that surprises a great many Christians. We have been handed a picture of eternity that involves clouds, harps and disembodied souls drifting about in a permanent hush, and then we open Revelation 21 and find a city, a river, trees, nations,…