Benjamin Dean, Author at Great Truths

Author: Benjamin Dean

1. God’s Signature Super-Miracle

The New Testament claims that although Jesus was dead and buried on a Friday afternoon, early the following Sunday morning — roughly 36 hours later — his corpse had revived, and he had physically come to life again in a new and unprecedented bodily form.

8. Honour Them, Never Worship Them

Angels are worshippers. That’s their ordinary occupation, and it turns out to be the most practically useful thing about them.

7. More Are With Us Than Are Against Us

‘Angels,’ Heppe tells us, ‘are appointed to glorify God, to serve as messengers, to watch over the elect, to support them in bodily and spiritual need, and to bring their souls to eternal rest.’

6. Messengers, Warriors, Assistants

On earth, angels are devoted to God’s service. While their ‘ordinary’ action in heaven is absorption in praise, ‘their extraordinary ministry is to accompany the history of redemption at its cardinal points.’

5. Nothing Like the Christmas Cards

Angels are usually unseen. When Scripture does record them appearing, though, what it describes bears almost no resemblance to the images our culture has settled on.

4. Servants, Not Kings — and One Day, Beneath You

Scripture puts heavy emphasis on angels being unerringly directed by God and absolutely subordinate to him.

3. The Court of Heaven

Who Reports to Whom

Angels reside in heaven (Luke 2:15) — the heavenly court and throne-room, where they’re obedient to God’s Word and devoted to enacting his will (Psa 103:20-21).

2. Moral, Intelligent, Powerful

As we seek to understand angels we do well to remind ourselves that, ‘Belief in a spiritual world is rooted in and profoundly expresses the truth of revelation; only God can make it known to us, and he has done so in Scripture.’

1. The Half of Reality You Can’t See

The Bible’s first sentence tells you God made two things: ‘the heavens and the earth.’

Christ the Lord: Jesus’ Person and Kingdom

Part 5: Prophet, Priest, and King

We discussed earlier how the Scriptures show us that the Mediator has to be God, and that because of this his sufferings and intercession carry infinite worth and his people are brought safely to salvation.

Christ the Lord: Jesus’ Person and Kingdom

Part 4: Resurrection, Ascension, and Heavenly Session

‘For I come to declare that great and most comfortable article of our Christian religion and faith, the resurrection of our Lord Jesus. … Assuredly, so highly comfortable is this article to our consciences, that it is even the very lock and key of all our Christian religion and faith.’

7. Still Holding

Where All This Is Actually Going

Creation isn’t a finished painting hanging on a wall. It’s a story still being told — and the ending has already been decided.

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