Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 60030 Racism is one of the most persistent and painful realities of human history. From ancient tribal hostilities to the transatlantic slave trade, from apartheid to ongoing ethnic tensions across the globe, the hatred of one group by another on the basis of ethnicity or skin colour has caused immeasurable suffering. The question for…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11022 The Great Commission was given two thousand years ago, yet there remain entire people groups on earth who have never had meaningful access to the gospel. The existence of unreached peoples is not a peripheral missiological statistic. It is a theological and moral reality that should press upon the conscience of every church…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60065 The practice of praying to Mary and the saints is one of the most visible differences between Roman Catholicism and evangelical Protestantism. For many Catholics, asking Mary or a canonised saint to intercede on their behalf is as natural and unremarkable as asking a friend to pray for them. For evangelicals, the practice…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 60005 Dragons appear in the mythology and folklore of cultures around the world. From the fire-breathing beasts of European legend to the serpentine dragons of Chinese tradition, these creatures have captured human imagination for millennia. But were dragons merely products of imagination, or do these legends preserve memories of real encounters? As we shall…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 10103 Soul sleep is the belief that when people die, their souls enter an unconscious state until the resurrection. According to this view, the dead—whether believer or unbeliever—know nothing, experience nothing, and are essentially “asleep” until God raises them at the end of the age. This teaching is held by certain groups including Seventh-day…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08080 The relationship between Satan and the Antichrist is one of the most significant dynamics in biblical prophecy. Scripture presents the Antichrist not as an independent figure acting on his own authority but as Satan’s chosen human agent, empowered and directed by the devil to accomplish his purposes during the most concentrated period of…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08081 The False Prophet is the third member of what theologians sometimes call the “unholy trinity,” the satanic counterfeit of the divine Godhead that dominates the Tribulation period. While the relationship between Satan and the Antichrist has received considerable attention, the relationship between Satan and the False Prophet is equally significant for understanding how…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08079 Satan’s role during the Tribulation is one of the most extensively described periods of his activity in all of Scripture. The book of Revelation devotes sustained attention to what the devil does during this seven-year period, and the picture that emerges is one of intensified fury, concentrated deception, and ultimately catastrophic defeat. Understanding…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08090 In Daniel 10, the prophet receives a vision and is told by an angelic messenger that his arrival was delayed for twenty-one days because “the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me” (Daniel 10:13). This “prince of Persia” is not a human ruler. He is a powerful spiritual being capable of opposing…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 08085 Scripture is clear that Satan faces eternal judgement in the lake of fire (Revelation 20:10). But what about the vast host of fallen angels who followed him in rebellion? Will demons be judged separately from Satan, and does Scripture tell us anything about how and when that judgement takes place? The Judgement Prepared…