Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10087 The phrase “one will be taken and one left” in Matthew 24:40-41 is among the most frequently cited verses in popular Rapture teaching. It appears on bumper stickers, in film dramatisations, and in countless sermon illustrations. But does the passage actually describe the Rapture? A careful reading of the context reveals something rather…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10193 The New Testament consistently teaches that what believers do with their lives in the present age has consequences that extend into the age to come. The question is not whether faithfulness matters for eternity, because it plainly does, but what form the consequence takes. Scripture presents a picture in which believers who have…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10007 The New Covenant occupies a unique position among the biblical covenants because both Israel and the Church claim it as their own, and the question of how it relates to each has generated sustained theological debate. For covenant theology, the New Covenant is evidence that the Church has inherited the promises originally made…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10004 Within the dispensational family, not everyone reads the details in quite the same way. Progressive dispensationalism is a more recent development within the tradition, associated particularly with scholars such as Craig Blaising and Darrell Bock, and it represents a conscious modification of certain features of classical dispensationalism while retaining others. Understanding what progressive…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10006 The covenant God made with David in 2 Samuel 7 stands alongside the Abrahamic covenant as one of the most significant unconditional commitments in the entire biblical narrative. It establishes the royal line through which the Messiah would come, the throne on which He would reign, and the kingdom that would have no…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10021 The phrase “signs of the times” has become so embedded in popular Christian vocabulary that it risks losing its biblical meaning altogether. Jesus used it to rebuke people who could read the weather but not the significance of what God was doing right in front of them (Matthew 16:3). The question of what…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10127 Few questions about the eternal state are asked more frequently than this one: will we remember our earthly lives in heaven? The question carries real emotional weight. For some, it is a question born of hope: will I remember the people I loved, the experiences that shaped me, the life I lived? For…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10126 It may seem like an odd question, but it is one that many believers quietly wonder about: will we eat and drink in heaven? If our resurrection bodies are glorified and imperishable, will they need food? And if they do not need food, will we still enjoy it? The question touches on something…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10120 Hades is one of the most frequently misunderstood terms in the New Testament, largely because English readers associate it automatically with the Greek mythology from which the word originates. But the New Testament writers did not adopt Greek mythology when they used the term. They used the Greek word to express the Hebrew…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10118 The phrase “Abraham’s bosom” appears only once in the entire New Testament, in the account of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31), and yet it has generated an outsized amount of theological discussion. What did Jesus mean by it? Was He describing an actual location in the afterlife, or was this simply…