Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 8014. The phrase host of heaven runs right through the Old Testament, and it does two quite different jobs depending on where you find it. In some passages it names the angelic armies surrounding God’s throne. In others it names the sun, moon and stars, usually in the context of a warning against worshipping…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10174. The tribe of Dan is missing from the list of sealed tribes in Revelation 7, and once you notice it you cannot unnotice it. Twelve tribes are named, twelve thousand from each, and Dan is not among them. Manasseh appears instead, and Ephraim is absent too, which means John’s list is not the…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2031. Why does God require worship, and doesn’t a God who demands to be worshipped sound uncomfortably like the insecure, glory-hungry rulers Scripture itself condemns? This is a genuinely fair question, and I think it deserves a far better answer than the tired “because He’s God and He said so” that so often gets…