Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10048 The Second Coming of Jesus is the climactic event when He returns to earth in power and glory to defeat His enemies, judge the nations, and establish His millennial kingdom. Unlike the rapture, which is a secret, sudden catching away of believers, the Second Coming is public, visible to all, and marks the…
Reading Time: 7 minutesQuestion 10070 The 144,000 mentioned in Revelation 7 and 14 are 144,000 Jewish evangelists who will preach the gospel during the tribulation period. They are not a symbolic number representing all believers, nor are they an elite group within Christianity. Rather, they are a specific number of Jewish men from the twelve tribes of Israel…
Reading Time: 7 minutesQuestion 10069 Yes, Scripture indicates that a third Jewish temple will be built in Jerusalem before Christ returns. This temple, sometimes called the tribulation temple, will stand during the first half of the seven-year tribulation period and will be the site of dramatic prophetic events, including the Antichrist’s desecration. Understanding the biblical evidence for a…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10039 God made unconditional, everlasting promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—promises of land, descendants, and blessing that have shaped the entire biblical narrative. Yet the history of Israel has been marked not only by divine faithfulness but also by profound suffering. The Egyptian bondage, the Assyrian conquest, the Babylonian exile, the destruction of Jerusalem…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 09045 The phrase “Messianic Jew” describes a Jewish person who has come to faith in Jesus (Yeshua) as the promised Messiah of Israel. This is not a modern invention or a fringe movement. It is, in fact, the oldest form of Christianity there is. Every apostle was a Messianic Jew. The entire early church…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 09043 The question of when the church began is not a matter of historical curiosity but a question with significant theological consequences. The answer determines how we understand the church’s relationship to Israel, the nature of the church itself, and the way we read large sections of both the Old and New Testaments. The…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 09038 The church and the kingdom of God are closely related, and in popular Christian language they are often treated as interchangeable. They are not. Understanding the distinction between them is essential for reading the New Testament accurately, and the failure to distinguish them produces real confusion about what the church is called to…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 09044 The relationship between Israel and the church is one of the most consequential interpretive questions in all of biblical theology. How a person answers it will determine how they read the Old Testament prophets, how they understand the New Testament’s teaching on salvation and the people of God, and what they expect God…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60011 Judaism is one of the oldest religious traditions in the world and the religion from which Christianity historically emerged. Understanding what Judaism actually believes and practises is important for Christians, not because all religions are equally valid, but because the Old Testament is a Jewish book, Jesus was Jewish, and the relationship between…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60071 Christian Zionism is the belief, held by many evangelical Christians, that the modern state of Israel represents a fulfilment of biblical prophecy and that God’s covenant promises to the Jewish people, including the promise of the land, remain in force and will be fully realised in the future. It is a position that…