Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60056 Joshua 10:12-14 records one of the most extraordinary events in the entire Old Testament. In the middle of a battle against the Amorite coalition, Joshua commanded the sun to stand still over Gibeon and the moon over the Valley of Aijalon, and Scripture states plainly that “the sun stopped in the midst of…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 3039 If salvation comes only through faith in Jesus, what about all those who lived before He came? Were Abraham, Moses, David, and the prophets saved? If so, how? They never heard the name of Jesus. They never knew about the cross. How can the death of Jesus two thousand years ago have any…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8010 Few figures in the Old Testament are as theologically significant and as frequently misunderstood as the Angel of the LORD. He appears at burning bushes, at the threshing floor, to barren women and wrestling patriarchs, and in each case the encounter is unmistakably more than a meeting with a created messenger. He speaks…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8014 The phrase “host of heaven” appears throughout the Old Testament and is sometimes used to warn against the worship of stars and planets, while at other times it clearly refers to the angelic company surrounding God’s throne. Understanding how the phrase works in its different contexts prevents both confusion and a flattened reading…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8016 Genesis 6:1-4 is one of the most disputed passages in the Old Testament. The “sons of God” who take human wives and produce the Nephilim have generated interpretive controversy for centuries, but the most exegetically consistent reading points in a clear direction when the relevant evidence is laid out carefully. The Three Main…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 07109 The Levitical legislation is perhaps the most practically puzzling portion of the Old Testament for modern readers — chapters of regulations governing sacrifices, priestly garments, clean and unclean animals, skin conditions, and mould in houses that seem remote from everyday Christian life. The question of whether Christians are obligated to observe this material…
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 01119 The Old Testament prophets occupy a remarkable place in the history of divine communication. They were not merely gifted teachers or insightful moralists; they were men to whom God actually spoke, and the variety of ways in which He did so tells us something important about both the nature of prophecy and the…
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 2070 Genesis 6:6 records that “the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.” Jonah 3:10 states that “when God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them,…