Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8029 Evangelism is the responsibility and privilege of God’s people, but Scripture makes clear that it is never a purely human enterprise. The Holy Spirit convicts, the gospel of Christ is the power of God for salvation (Romans 1:16), and the angels, as ministering spirits serving those who are to inherit salvation, are not…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8011 Michael is one of only two angels named in the Protestant canon of Scripture, and of the two he is the one most consistently portrayed in an active, combative role. His name in Hebrew means “Who is like God?” — a rhetorical question that functions as an affirmation of divine uniqueness rather than…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8017 Revelation 9:11 introduces a figure who stands in sharp contrast to the named holy angels of Scripture: the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in both Hebrew and Greek means one thing — Destroyer. His appearance belongs to the judgements of the Tribulation, and his name defines his function with a directness…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8018 Revelation 9:14-15 describes four angels bound at the great river Euphrates, held at the ready for a moment so precisely appointed that Scripture describes it in terms of a specific hour, day, month, and year. Their release triggers one of the most devastating sequences in the entire book of Revelation. The Text and…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8019 Among the most striking descriptions in all of prophetic Scripture are the living creatures of Ezekiel’s inaugural vision and John’s throne-room vision in Revelation 4. They defy easy description, they surround the immediate presence of God, and they have provoked more theological reflection than almost any other category of angelic being. Mercifully, the…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10201 Revelation is among the most misread books in the Bible, and part of the reason is that readers approach it in isolation. In fact, it is the most densely allusive book in the entire New Testament, saturated with the imagery and language of the Old Testament prophets on virtually every page. Estimates suggest…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10011 This is one of the most asked questions in Christianity, and it has been asked since the earliest days of the Church. The disciples themselves wanted to know. “Tell us, when will these things be?” (Matthew 24:3) The answer Jesus gave them, and the answer Scripture gives us, is both clear and mysterious….
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10012 The return of Jesus is not a quiet, unnoticed event. It is the most dramatic, world-changing moment in all of history. Everything changes when Jesus comes back. The question is not whether He will return, for Scripture is abundantly clear on that point, but what happens when He does. The answer unfolds in…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10202 One of the most common objections to the pretribulational Rapture is the claim that the “last trumpet” of 1 Corinthians 15:52 must be the same as the seventh trumpet of Revelation 11:15. If both are called “last,” the argument runs, they must refer to the same event, which would place the Rapture at…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10169 The question of where heaven is located is asked with genuine sincerity, and the honest answer is that Scripture gives us considerably less spatial information than many assume. The Bible speaks with absolute clarity about the reality of heaven, about what it is like, and about who is there. On the question of…