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: 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 10146 Whenever a new technology emerges, a segment of the Christian world immediately maps it onto biblical prophecy. The internet, microchip implants, artificial intelligence, digital currencies, global surveillance networks: each has been identified, at one time or another, as the fulfilment of specific prophetic passages. The question of whether modern technology is “related to”…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10166 The concept of a one-world government is embedded deeply in the prophetic landscape of Scripture, particularly in the books of Daniel and Revelation. It is also a feature of contemporary geopolitical discussion, though the biblical picture and the secular conversation are not always talking about the same thing. The question is not whether…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10092 Jesus told His disciples that “wars and rumours of wars” would characterise the period leading up to the end (Matthew 24:6; Mark 13:7). In every generation since, believers have looked at the conflicts of their own era and wondered whether these are the wars Jesus meant. The question of how Christians should respond…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10106 The book of Revelation describes a future religious system of staggering scope: a global religious entity that seduces the nations, persecutes the saints, and ultimately serves the purposes of the Antichrist before being destroyed by the very powers she rode to prominence. The idea of a one-world religion is not a conspiracy theory…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10053 The Holy Spirit’s role in the end times is a subject that generates considerable confusion, partly because of the debate over His supposed “removal” during the Tribulation, and partly because many treatments of eschatology focus so heavily on geopolitical events, the Antichrist, and the sequence of judgements that the Spirit’s work receives far…