Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08123 It would be a mistake to think of Satan as a figure confined to the opening chapters of Genesis and the closing chapters of Revelation with nothing much happening in between. Scripture presents him as active, purposeful, and relentlessly engaged in opposition to God’s work in the present age. Understanding what Satan is…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08121 Spiritual warfare is not an optional interest for particularly dramatic Christians. It is the reality every believer lives within, whether they recognise it or not. The New Testament assumes a world in which invisible powers are actively at work, in which the Christian life involves genuine conflict with real enemies, and in which…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08122 The phrase “I bind you, Satan” has become so familiar in certain streams of Christianity that many believers assume it is a standard biblical practice. It appears in prayer meetings, worship services, deliverance ministries, and the everyday spiritual vocabulary of millions of Christians worldwide. But the question that must be asked, as with…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08119 Demons are not the invention of medieval imagination or the projection of pre-scientific superstition onto medical conditions people did not yet understand. They are real, personal, spiritual beings whose existence Scripture affirms and whose activity Jesus took with complete seriousness. The Gospels record more encounters between Jesus and demons than between Jesus and…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08117 Satan is not a cartoon figure with horns and a pitchfork, nor is he the equal-and-opposite counterpart of God in some cosmic dualism. He is a real, personal, spiritual being of extraordinary intelligence and power, operating within boundaries set by God and destined for a defeat that Scripture describes in vivid and unambiguous…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08118 The fall of Satan is one of those subjects where Scripture provides real information without giving an exhaustive narrative. There is no chapter in the Bible titled “The Fall of Satan” in the way there is a chapter describing the fall of humanity in Genesis 3. What we do have are two remarkable…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 08106 Fear of the demonic is something many Christians experience, and it ranges from a mild unease about the unseen spiritual world to a paralysing anxiety that Satan or his agents might harm them, their families, or their spiritual lives. The question of whether believers should be afraid of Satan and demons is one…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08100 If marriage and family are high-value targets for the enemy, the local church is the highest-value target of all. The church is the body of Christ on earth (1 Corinthians 12:27), the temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 3:16), and the pillar and buttress of the truth (1 Timothy 3:15). A healthy,…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08098 Marriage is one of the most significant institutions God has established, and it should come as no surprise that it is also one of the enemy’s primary targets. The union of husband and wife reflects the relationship between Christ and the Church (Ephesians 5:31-32), which means that every healthy Christian marriage is, in…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08099 The family, like marriage, is a creation ordinance established before the Fall and central to God’s purposes in the world. God chose to structure human life around families, and the patterns of faith transmission, moral formation, and relational security that healthy families provide are irreplaceable. It follows that the family is a high-value…