Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10112. The marriage supper of the Lamb is the wedding feast celebrating the union of Jesus and his church, announced in Revelation 19 immediately before he returns in glory. The bride is the church, the Lamb is the Bridegroom, and the feast marks the point at which the long betrothal is finally consummated in…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10111. Scripture names five heavenly crowns promised to believers: the imperishable crown, the crown of rejoicing, the crown of righteousness, the crown of life and the crown of glory. They are given at the judgement seat of Christ, they are rewards for service rather than payment for salvation, and they end up back at…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10110. The Bema seat is the judgement seat of Christ, where believers will stand to have their service assessed and rewarded. It is not a trial to determine whether we are saved. That question was settled at the cross and received by faith, and no Christian will ever face it again. What happens at…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10106. The Bible teaches that a one world religion will exist during the Tribulation, that it will centre on the worship of the beast and be enforced by the false prophet, and that it will be destroyed before the return of Jesus. It is not a conspiracy theory bolted on to Scripture. It is…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10105. The New Jerusalem is the city that God has prepared for his people, described at length in Revelation 21 and 22, coming down out of heaven from God to the new earth. I take it as a literal city with real dimensions and real materials, not as a picture of the church dressed…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10104. Will there be animals in heaven and on the new earth? I think the biblical answer is yes, and I say that not to be sentimental but because the prophets describe the coming kingdom as a world full of living creatures at peace, and because the new earth is presented as a restored…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10102. When believers die they go immediately into the conscious presence of the Lord Jesus. There is no interval of unconsciousness, no holding area, no process of purification and no delay until the last day. The soul and spirit of the Christian are at home with the Lord from the moment the heart stops,…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10101. The intermediate state is the condition of a person between the moment of death and the resurrection of the body, and Scripture presents it as conscious, personal and, for the believer, immediately in the presence of the Lord. It is called intermediate because it is temporary. It is not the end of the…
Reading Time: 7 minutesQuestion 10099. The second death is Revelation’s name for the final state of everyone who dies without saving faith in Jesus. The phrase appears four times, all in that one book, and John defines it for us so that we are not left guessing. The lake of fire is the second death. That is the…
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…