Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4149 The picture of the Spirit as wind is woven into the very words the Bible uses for Him, since the Hebrew ruach and the Greek pneuma both mean wind or breath as well as spirit. When Scripture presents the Spirit as wind it is drawing on something we all know, an unseen power…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4148 The image of the Spirit as fire reaches its high point at Pentecost, when tongues as of fire rested on each of the gathered believers and the church was born in power. To grasp why the Spirit as fire is so fitting a symbol, we have to follow the thread of fire through…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4147 The picture of the Spirit as a dove is one of the best known images in the whole Bible, fixed forever at the baptism of the Lord Jesus when the heavens opened and the Spirit descended on Him in bodily form. To understand why the Spirit as a dove appears at that moment,…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4150 The picture of the Spirit as oil runs quietly through the whole Bible, from the anointing of priests and kings in the Old Testament to the believer’s anointing that John speaks of in his first letter. When Scripture presents the Spirit as oil it draws on the ancient practice of anointing, the pouring…