Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 3044 When we read the Gospels, we encounter the title ‘Son of David’ applied to Jesus with striking frequency. The blind call out to Him using this name. The crowds shout it during His triumphal entry. Matthew opens his entire Gospel by declaring Jesus to be “the son of David, the son of Abraham”…
Reading Time: 11 minutesQuestion 10035 Babylon appears prominently in the final chapters of Revelation, described as “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations” (17:5) and “the great city that has mighty dominion over the kings of the earth” (17:18). Two entire chapters—17 and 18—are devoted to describing her nature, her influence, and her spectacular destruction….