Bible Q&A: How is It Possible That The Gospel Had Been Proclaimed to Everyone in the World (Colossians 1:23)?

Paul said that the gospel had been proclaimed to everyone in the world (Col. 1:23).  How was that possible two thousand years ago? Jesus had prophesied that the gospel would be proclaimed throughout the whole world in the almost four decades between his death and the destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman armies in AD… Read More Bible Q&A: How is It Possible That The Gospel Had Been Proclaimed to Everyone in the World (Colossians 1:23)?

Bible Q&A: What Do The Beasts in Revelation 13 Represent?

What do the beasts in Revelation 13 represent? When studying Revelation, we must remember that the book is “signified” (Rev. 1:1, KJV), meaning that it is a book of symbols which should be taken figuratively, not literally.  We must search the Scriptures to find their correct meanings (2 Tim. 4:2; Eph. 4:15; cf. John 17:17).… Read More Bible Q&A: What Do The Beasts in Revelation 13 Represent?

Bible Q&A: Please Explain “the Man of Sin.”

What was Paul talking about in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 when he talked about not being deceived and the coming of the Lord not occurring until certain things had taken place, including the “man of sin” placing himself in the “temple of God”? In Paul’s first letter to Thessalonica, he talked about Christ’s return (1… Read More Bible Q&A: Please Explain “the Man of Sin.”