Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10098. If the first resurrection is the raising of the blessed, the second resurrection is its opposite number. It is the raising of everyone who has died without saving faith in Jesus, and it takes place at the end of the thousand year reign, for one purpose. They stand before the Great White Throne…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 10089. The wrath of God during the Tribulation is the most sobering subject in prophetic Scripture, and it is the one modern Christians are least comfortable discussing. We would rather speak of love, and rightly, until we notice that the Bible sees no contradiction between the two. Revelation describes a period in which the…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10074. What happens to those who take the mark of the beast? Revelation gives an answer of terrible clarity, and it is the most severe warning in the book. Those who receive it drink the wine of God’s wrath and are tormented in the presence of the Lamb, with no rest day or night….
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10072. The Day of the Lord is the Bible’s name for that extended period when God steps out of the shadows and deals directly with human sin, rescues His people, and establishes His King. It appears more than twenty times in the Old Testament and several more in the New, and it is one…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10064. Are there degrees of punishment in hell? This is one of the heaviest questions I am ever asked, and I want to handle it with the seriousness it deserves. Scripture does teach that the judgement of the lost is measured, that God distinguishes between the informed and the ignorant, and that not every…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3081. The fig tree that Jesus cursed has puzzled readers for centuries, and I understand why: at first glance it looks like an overreaction to a piece of vegetation, and Mark even tells us “it was not the season for figs” (Mark 11:13). Why blast a tree for lacking fruit it was not yet…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 2076. Is God in hell? The question of God in hell sounds like a strange question, almost a trick, but I get asked it seriously and often, usually by someone trying to work out whether hell means total abandonment by God or something else. The honest answer depends entirely on what we mean by…