The Sadducees, who did not believe in the resurrection, tried to trap Jesus. They told the story of seven brothers, the first married a woman and died, the second married the same woman and then died, and so on. The Sadducees presumably thought that Jesus would either have to admit that this women would have [...]
Answers about angels
Man cannot see God (Exodus 33:20; John 1:18; 1 Timothy 6:16). Hosea 12:4 states that Jacob wrestled with an angel. So Jacob did not literally see the face of God but saw God’s messenger, the Angel of the LORD. Compare Judges 13:21-22.
This question is about one of the most obscure references in the New Testament. Jude 9 But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.” To answer this question in every detail would require [...]
We don’t know many of the details of the kingdom, but during the kingdom (the ’1,000 years’ reign of Christ on the earth — Rev. 20:4; 5:10), and even after the kingdom (when God is ‘all and in all’ — 1Cor. 15:28), the saints will probably still be known by their names. We can see [...]
No, Jesus is not — and never was — an angel. Hebrews 1 makes this clear, especially Hebrews 1:3-5 & 13: {3} …After making purification for sins, he [God's son -- v2 -- i.e. Jesus] sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, {4} having become as much superior to angels as [...]
This question refers to two verses: For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment. (2 Peter 2:4) And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, [...]
Jesus has already used similar language in saying that the Pharisees are children of their father the devil (John 8:44) Matt.25:41 is partly just apocalyptic language (no different from Rev.12:9) but there may be a literal edge to it as well, and the “angels” in this case are the same as the “goats”. Of course [...]
This question refers to Hebrews 2:7: You made him [Jesus] for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor, This is a quotation from Psalm 8:5. The original word “a little” in Hebrew (haser me’at , lack a little) can only mean less. The verb determines this. The [...]
See Who is God speaking to in Genesis 1:26? That answer deals more simply with these two verses: Gen 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock [...]
The first question, before answering why Satan and the angel were fighting over the high priest, is to ask, what is a vision? Is a vision a view into real events happening in heaven? Or is a vision a kind of symbolic parable told by a prophet to illustrate a point. Of course the answer [...]
