Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10200 What happens to a person in the time between death and the resurrection? It is a question that has occupied Christian thinkers across the centuries, and it is one that touches everyone who has stood at a graveside. Scripture gives more guidance on this than is often realised, though it does not answer…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 8049 The title “accuser of the brethren” is given to Satan in Revelation 12:10, where his expulsion from heaven is accompanied by the declaration: “the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.” This is not an incidental detail. It describes an ongoing, relentless activity…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8045 The capacity of Satan and his agents to perform supernatural signs is something Scripture addresses plainly, though not always in terms that modern readers find comfortable. The question touches directly on how believers distinguish genuine divine activity from its counterfeits, and it matters considerably in a religious environment where supernatural experience is sometimes…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 8040 The Gospels record numerous occasions when Jesus cast out demons, but the accounts rarely tell us what happened to those spirits afterwards. The question is worth pressing, because the answer touches on important truths about the nature of spiritual beings, their relationship to the physical world, and the particular danger that an empty…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8031 The word “demon” appears frequently in the Gospels and throughout the New Testament, yet the origin of these beings is not explicitly stated in a single definitive passage. The identity of demons has generated genuine debate among biblical scholars, and understanding where the biblical evidence points matters both for accurate theology and for…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8033 The abyss appears at key moments in both the Gospels and the book of Revelation, and its significance is easy to miss if the word is treated as a generic term for darkness or depth. It is not. The biblical abyss is a specific location in the spiritual realm, described consistently as a…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8023 Prayer is one of the defining marks of the Christian life, and questions about its proper object are of the highest importance. The idea of praying to angels surfaces in Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox devotional practice, in certain streams of charismatic Christianity, and in the wider spirituality market that borrows freely from…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8026 Paul’s question in 1 Corinthians 6:3 stops readers short: “Do you not know that we are to judge angels?” It is tucked into an argument about Christians resolving disputes in secular courts rather than within the church, but its implication reaches far beyond that immediate context. It is one of those verses that…
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…