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Bible Question Time first appeared on Sunday, 30th January 2011 and it is hoped that the archive, once established, might be a blessing to visitors. The archive will be updated every month and will carry 24 ‘QUESTIONS’.

The Lord has chosen for His earthly dwelling place, Mount Zion, in preference to all other mountains, even the grander peaks of the Hermon range. This range with its many precipitous peaks, includes snow-capped Mount Hermon (2,814 m - 9,232 ft) which straddles the border between Syria and Lebanon. These lofty mountains, which suggest ideas of majesty, antiquity and beauty, are here represented as looking enviously upon the apparently insignificant Mount Zion. Sinai had been his temporary abode (Exodus 24:16 ‘And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai’) but it is on Zion He will dwell for ever. Psalm 132:13 ‘For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling place: This is My resting place forever’. And it is upon Zion, that Christ’s coronation will take place prior to His millennial reign – ‘Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion’ - Psalm 2:6.

‘Why do ye look with envy, ye many-peaked mountains’ - Psalm 68:16

As the Lord’s ministry begins, He took up residency in the town of Capernaum. It was here He did many miracles, so much so, that He said of this village it had been ‘exalted unto heaven’ (Matt 11.24). The question above was asked by a demon who resided in the body of an unfortunate victim. The demon recognised Christ, and asked, “Have You come to destroy us?” On another occasion Jesus is met by a man possessed my multiple demons [Mark ch.5] and they ask, “Have you come here to torment us before the time?” Here we learn that Christ has complete mastery over the demon world and they know it! The healing of both men, foreshadows Christ’s eventual triumph over Satan and all his agents, an event foretold in the last book of the Bible – ‘And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone … and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.’ 20:10

APRIL 2023

‘Have you come to destroy us?’ - Mark 1:24

This question was put to the disciples by the Lord as they came to Capernaum. They were embarrassed to answer His question and kept silent, because ‘on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest [among them].’ The Lord had only just told them of His own impending death, an act of profound SELFLESSNESS – ‘The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day’ – And now we see the disciples squabbling among themselves about which of them was the greatest; an attitude of profound SELFISHNESS. It would seem the embarrassment caused by the Lord’s question, was only temporary, for Luke records that even in the upper room, on the eve of the Lord’s death, the squabbling continued, ‘there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest.’ – Luke 22:24

JUNE 2023

“What were you discussing on the way?” - Mark 9:33

MAY 2023

The healing of the man born blind is one of the eight miracles found in John’s Gospel. These various signs were meant to demonstrate beyond doubt that Jesus was indeed the Son of God. However, in their perverted blindness, these learned Pharisees quizzed the blind man over and over again, asking, “How were your eyes opened?” The blind man, frustrated with their intense and senseless questioning, retorted, “"Why, this is a marvellous thing, that you do not know where He is from; yet He has opened my eyes!” The healed man, with no academic qualifications to his name, could see what these proud scholars could not see. Some things never change!

‘Therefore they said to him, "How were your eyes opened?" - John 9:10

This question, asked in Job 28:20, is answered in the final verse of the chapter. The chapter is taken up with the amazing lengths man will go to in order to extract precious minerals from the depths of the earth, well away from the searching vulture’s eyes (v.7) and the prowling ‘fierce lion’ (v.8). To find and secure his treasure, called in v.3 ‘the stones of darkness’, the miner with his lamp chases away the shadows. He endures the damp conditions and faces the heat of the ‘fire’. And all this, to find his prize! Some of those minerals are listed. Gold and silver (v.1), iron and copper (v.2), onyx stones and sapphires (v.16) and the ‘topaz of Ethiopia’ (v.19). However, for all his searching, man will not find ‘wisdom’ in the rocks. ‘The deep says, “Wisdom is not with me”’. Where then can wisdom be found? - ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding’ (v.28).

‘From where … does wisdom come?’ - Job 28:20

FEB 2025

MARCH 2023

“Then some of the Pharisees ... said to Him [Jesus], ‘Are we blind also?’" - John 9:40

JAN 2025

John, in his Gospel, does not use the word ‘miracle’ when speaking of the ‘wonders’ that Jesus did. He calls them ‘SIGNS.’ We know that signposts on a roadside are helpful because they point and inform. The miracles that the Lord did, ‘pointed and informed’ the onlookers to the glory of who He really was. He said, “The works that I do in My Father’s Name, they bear witness of Me.” The question asked by the Pharisees (all of whom possessed good eyesight), “Are we blind also?”, indicated they understood that blindness could be in the heart as well as in the eyes. Sadly, though the ‘SIGNS’ were so many and so big, they said, “He has a demon and is mad”. Their blindness was real and inexcusable! Are you blind also?