Question: I recently read your booklets on Bible topics, and have found them quite interesting, containing a lot of truth but also containing much about which I am unsure as yet. There is one point about which I am quite confused, and that is your belief as to the state of the faithful dead and … [Read more…]
Question: Please illumine my mind. Are cherubims and seraphims angels? What about Ps. 104:47 So many Hebrew or Jewish teachings indicate that angels can assume any form according to what God wants them to do and perform, such as parting the Red Sea during the exodus of the Hebrews. Your help will be appreciated. Thank … [Read more…]
Answer: Jump To: The Need for Hospitality | A Lesson for Today The passage you cite is Hebrews 13:2: “Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels.” The passage does not tell us enough to know what incident was in the author’s mind, but there are several possibilities. … [Read more…]
Answer: The narrative is in Matt. 12:43-45: “When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. Then he goes … [Read more…]
Question: Do you believe after Christ returns the righteous will become angels? Answer: Jump To: What the Bible Says | The Righteous Will Be Made Like The Angels What the Bible Says Our best source of information to answer this question is Jesus. Talking with the Sadducees about the resurrection, He explained also the state … [Read more…]
Question: In the Epistle of Jude, verse 9 tells about a contention of Michael the archangel with the devil over the body of Moses. I have read the Old Testament and cannot find where this dispute took place. Can you tell me where this originate? Answer: The verse to which you refer reads as follows: … [Read more…]
Question: It is written in the Gospel of Matthew that a star guided wise men to the place where lay the Christ child, the newborn King. We read that “the star, which they had seen in the East went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. When they saw … [Read more…]
Question: I visited a planetarium recently and I am puzzled by what I “learned.” The astronomers say the stars are whirling balls of different types of gases, in different stages of their life-cycle, and that they have very high surface temperatures in which life as we know it could not possibly exist. If this is … [Read more…]
Question: What is the position of Christ in relation to the angels? I have seen drawings where Christ was pictured as being above the angels. What do you believe? Answer: Jump To: The Nature of Angels | The Nature of Christ | Jesus and the Angels | In Conclusion On some topics the Bible does … [Read more…]