Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10053 The Holy Spirit’s role in the end times is a subject that generates considerable confusion, partly because of the debate over His supposed “removal” during the Tribulation, and partly because many treatments of eschatology focus so heavily on geopolitical events, the Antichrist, and the sequence of judgements that the Spirit’s work receives far…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 4069 The Holy Spirit did not arrive at Pentecost as though He had been absent from the universe until that point. He is the eternal third Person of the Trinity, and His activity runs through the Old Testament from the opening verses of Genesis to the closing pages of Malachi. What changed at Pentecost…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 4089 Dreams occupy an interesting position in the biblical record. They are neither marginalised as purely psychological phenomena nor elevated as the primary channel of divine communication. Scripture treats them with a seriousness that neither the sceptic nor the enthusiast fully honours — the sceptic too quick to dismiss them entirely, the enthusiast too…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 04108 Acts records four distinct episodes in which the Spirit’s coming upon a group of people is described with enough detail to note the circumstances and sequence. These episodes are not evenly distributed through the book; they cluster at moments of significant transition in the gospel’s outward movement. And they are not uniform. Each…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 04058 When Christians think about the future, attention tends to focus on the events of the end times: the rapture, the tribulation, the return of Christ, the millennial kingdom. Less commonly asked is what the Holy Spirit will be doing through all of this. Yet Scripture has more to say on the subject than…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 04030 The Holy Spirit is the same Person in both Testaments. He does not change in nature, character, or divine authority between Genesis and Revelation. What changes is the basis on which He relates to God’s people, the scope of His ministry, and the permanence of His presence in the life of the believer….
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 04031 Pentecost is one of the most significant events in the entire Bible, and yet it is often reduced to a story about strange languages and tongues of fire. What actually happened in that upper room in Jerusalem, and in the streets that followed, was nothing less than the birth of the New Testament…