Bible_Study_17 Flashcards
Cherubims are covered with ________and lightning.
fire
Cherubims are covered with _______on their entire bodies, backs, hands and wings.
eyes
Cherubims are covered with precious __________.
jewels
Cherubims have __________instruments as part of their bodies.
musical
Seraphims means “___________ones” and probably speaks of both their appearance and their all consuming devotion to God.
burning
Each seraphim has _______wings.
6
A pair of the seraphims wings covers their _________. Another pair covers their _________and the other pair is used to _______.
face feet fly
The Living Creatures are a unique class of beings mentioned in ____________.
Revelation 4:6-9
Living creatures are described to have ________before, behind and within representing God’s omniscience.
eyes
They have __ wings. (Similar to Seraphim)
6
Each living creature has a single distinct _________.
face
Cherubim responsibilities include guarding The ________of_______, remaining in the immediate presence of and guard the holiness of God as pictured on the ______of the Covenant and appear to Ezekial carrying God’s __________Chariot.
Tree Life♦Ark♦Throne
Guardian angels protect _______and ____________.
children ; Christians
4 duties of angels associated with horses and chariots are to __________ believers to heaven. To ___the servants of God. Patrol the whole _______, but especially ___________and participate in the __________and battles of The Lord.
Transport ; protect ; Earth ; Israel ; Judgments
The Role of Angels with the _____ of God
People
Angels help ________for the needs of believers.
provide
Angels _______ God’s children from harm.
guard
Angels _______ and ________
deliver and comfort
Angels appear to God’s people at ______and transport them into the presence of God.
death
Angels help provide answers to our _______.
prayers
Angels strengthen and __________.
encourage
The role of angels with the unsaved enemies of God.
judgment
Angels _______to defend Israel.
battle
Angels gave the ______to Israel.
law
Angels will seal the _______ Israelite missionaries in the future tribulation.
144,000
Angels will _______ saved Israel at the end of the future tribulation.
gather
The most prominent feature of the appearance of Angels.
Their brightness - One actually lights up the Earth
Angels will spend eternity in the New ______ with Christ and the church.
Jerusalem
Angels will learn throughout eternity of God’s ______ as exhibited by the church.
grace
We must be careful not to __________ angels-the overt danger
worship
We must not allow a focus on angels to ________ us from our focus on Christ-the subtle danger.
distract
We should not be seeking angels, we should be seeking ________.
Jesus
This is the age of _______ not sight and we receive ________ blessing from believing without seeing.
Faith ; Greater
The primary reason for the appearances of the angels of God in scripture was to ________ revealed messages.
Deliver
With the completion of scriptures, the age of _________ has ceased. Angels do not appear today to give revelations.
revelation
Angels have always done the majority of their work ______ and are presently very active in our lives this way.
Unseen
Appearances of angels have always been ______, due to the fact that their appearances often create the temptation to worship or focus on them, not God
Rare
Scripture, however, never explicitly states that angels may or may not ________ today. This is entirely up to the ______ will of God.
Appear ; Sovereign
If angels do appear visibly today, it is only under extraordinary circumstances and in connection with their non-________ ministries.
Revelatory
Divine _______ appearances would probably still be made unawares.
Protection
Ministering to the believer at the moment of ______.
Death
We must study the doctrine of fallen angels _________.
Prayerfully
Our method of battle in spiritual warfare is to first, _______and draw _______ to God and then to “resist the devil”.
Submit ; Near
We must study the doctrine of fallen angels ____________.
confidently
When we submit and resist, satan “will ______”.
Flee
Greater is ___ that is in _____, than he that is in this world!
He ; You
One of satan’s devices is _________.
Fear
We must study knowing that the _______ accounts of demons never inspire fear in us. Demons cower, cringe and beg before ______.
Biblical ; Jesus
Only satan’s distorted accounts of demons in ______and the _____(where demonic power is exaggerated, distorted, and presented as more powerful than the power of God) inspire fear.
Movies ; Occult
The real danger from Demons is not being attacked in the dark by some imagined hideous creature, but rather their ability to _____ us to sin and to draw us _____ from Christ. Their desire is to _____ us from the real dangers with fear of imagined dangers.
Tempt ; Away ; Distract
Knowing that the Devil and his angels must ask ______ of God before they can do anything to us.
Permission
We must study ________, recognizing the two opposite dangers concerning demons: ___________ and __________.
Carefully ; Ignorance ; Interest
Some demonic spirits are __________ and therefore free to tempt and torment mankind, while others are ________.
Unchained ; Chained
Fallen Angels were once Holy Angels and we thus can safely assume some aspects of similarity in, although perhaps corrupted, _____.
Appearance
We are especially warned against their most dangerous appearance, that of an “Angel of ________”.
Light
Demonic spirits oppose God’s plan and attempt to prevent answers to ________and hinder our understanding of God’s ________and divine plan.
Prayers ; Truth
Demonic spirits engage us in spiritual ________ with the goal of having us _____.
Warfare ; Fall
Characteristics of demonic influence as demonstrated by the Gadarean Demoniac, include total or near _______, and obsession with ______ and violence.
nakedness ; death
Other characteristics of demonic influence may be an obsession with and hypersensitivity to the __________realm, the occult or false religions; but antagonism toward the true Jesus Christ.
spiritual
Sadistic behavior, cruelty, enjoyment in causing others pain or self-_______ behavior are also signs of demonic influence.
destructive
Mental problems such as constant ________, unusual physical ________, withdrawal and isolation, uncontrollable _______ and rebellion are also sometimes signs of demonic influence.
depression ; strength ; anger
Overt manifestations such as demons speaking and a person with multiple or confused __________ are also sometimes signs of demonic influence.
personalities
Methods of Possession or Demonization:♦Overt_________- where demons are given direct authority to enter.
Invitations
Methods of Possession or Demonization:♦______ Involvement - through which demons are knowingly or unknowingly given authority to enter.
Occult
Methods of Possession or Demonization:♦_______ Iniquity-through which jurisdiction over certain areas of one’s life are willingly, although not necessarily consciously, surrendered to satan.
Ongoing
The specific sin which Ephesians 4:26-27 warns against, giving jurisdiction over to demonic authority and control and allowing it to turn into bitterness and unforgiveness.
holding onto anger past sundown
Jesus warns of how God himself will deliver us over to demonic torment when we, who have been forgiven of our own great sins by God, fail to _______ others.
forgive
Methods of Possession or Demonization:♦Occult _________ - Through which, by occult involvement, parents entrust the spiritual protection of descendants willingly give authority over to demonic forces.
Inheritance
Methods of Possession or Demonization:♦Occult _________ - Through which, by the possession of occult or idolatrous objects,one gives permission and authority to Satan to enter the home and influence the inhabitants.
Instruments
Methods of Possession or Demonization:♦Opening ________- through which one willingly, albeit unknowingly, gives authority to demonic forces.
ignorantly
Methods of Possession or Demonization:♦The common factor of all demonic possessions and influence is a _______offering of ________, _______ and ________ to satanic powers.
willful ; authority ; control
Demons cannot possess anyone until ____ ______ to do so.
given authority
The Ages of Possession:♦Does demon possession still take place in the present age?
Yes, There is not one verse of Scripture which gives any indication that demonization was limited to any certain age or that it would cease.
The Ages of Possession:♦Scripture clearly indicates that demonic activity will _________ in the last days. Reference?
increase ; 1 Timothy 4:1
Demonization must be clearly distinguished from demon _________ or attack, which is experienced universally, although in greatly varying degrees.
influence
Demon influence consists of ________ promptings, not internal control, as in demonization.
external
Influence is just that, __________, not control or demonization. This influence may be by mild or severe, but it is still only influence.
influence
Demons cannot ________ us from Christ, our position in him, his love for us, or our salvation.
separate
Demons cannot break the Seal of the _____,or remove us from God’s/Christ’s hand.
Spirit
Demons cannot touch us without God’s________.
permission
Demons cannot control us without _______ permission.
our
Demons cannot cause us to sin until we are drawn __________ by our own sinful desires.
away
Demons cannot remain when we submit and draw nigh to _____ and resist the devil.
God
Demons cannot overcome the greater authority a believer has in ________ or overrule our _______, unless we surrender it.
Christ ; will
Demons can, when permitted, wrestle against believers and _______ believers when we are drawn away by our own desires, provided opportunity through neglect or when we make provision for the flesh.
tempt
Demons may buffet us with thorns in the flesh (physical _________).
sickness
Demons can gain advantage over us through __________, offense, bitterness.
unforgiveness
They can take jurisdiction over any ______ given to them, for example, through anger.
place
Demons can ____ us away from ____ _______ to Christ.
lure ; pure devotion
Demons plant ______ and discouragement.
doubt
Demons may ______ __ (seek to destroy our lives, testimonies, families).
devour us
Demons spread divisions in the _______.
church
Fallen angels will be judged by God and by the ________.
saved
Fallen angels will spend eternity suffering the torments of ________ which was prepared by God for them and not for mankind.
Hell
Subtitle of 1 Timothy
Conduct in the Church
Subtitle of 2 Timothy
Paul’s Final Commission
Subtitle of Titus
Setting the Church in Order
Subtitle of Hebrews
The Superiority of Christ and Christianity / A Call to Faithfulness
Subtitle of 1 Peter
Strength for Suffering
Subtitle of 2 Peter
A Challenge to Spiritual Growth
Author of 1 Timothy
Paul
Author of 2 Timothy
Paul
Author of Titus
Paul
Author of Hebrews
Not named. Written from Rome by someone who had been or was in prison and who was a close friend of Timothy. All fits with Paul.
Author of 1 Peter
Simon Peter
Author of 2 Peter
Simon Peter
Author of Jude
Jude - the half-brother of Jesus (brother of James - Author of James & Pastor of Jerusalem church).
Recipient of 1 Timothy
Timothy
Recipient of Titus
Titus
Recipient of Hebrews
A Group of Jewish believers under persecution for their acceptance of the Christian faith and now tempted to turn back from Christianity to Judaism.
Recipient of 1 Peter
Peter writes to Jewish and Gentile Christians scattered thorough 5 Roman providences. Basically, Peter is addressing all of Northern Asia Minor. Paul had traveled and written primarily to Southern Asia Minor.
Key Chapter of Hebrews
Chapter 11: The great faith chapter of the Bible, containing the Great Hall of Faith
Classification of 1 Timothy
The First of Paul’s 3 Pastoral Epistles
Classification of 2 Timothy
One of Paul’s Pastoral Epistles.
Classification of Titus
One of Paul’s Pastoral Epistles.
When was 1 Timothy written?
Between Paul’s 1st and 2nd imprisonments
When was 1 Peter written?
Before Peter’s arrest
When was 2 Peter written?
After his arrest, just before his execution
Key word of 2 Timothy
Discipleship
Key word of 1 Peter
Suffering (used 16 times)
Key word of Hebrews
Better (used 13 times)
Key word of 1 Peter
Suffering (used 16 times)
Key word of Jude
Contend for the Faith
Purpose of Hebrews
To Prevent his readers from abandoning their faith in Christ.
Purpose of 1 Peter
To enable believers to have hope and joy in the midst of suffering by looking at the eternal perspective by trusting in the grace of God and by submission to His will during suffering.
Theme of 2 Timothy
Encouraging faithfulness in the Ministry
Theme of Titus
Titus’s Leadership in Organizing the church.
Theme of Hebrews
The Superiority of Christ, Christianity, and the New Covenant/Testament
Theme of 1 Peter
The Proper Response to Christian Suffering
Theme of 2 Peter
Spiritual Growth
Theme of Jude
Defense against Apostasy
Content of 1 Timothy
Contains extensive instruction on proper Church Conduct.
Content of 2 Timothy
Paul’s final commission. In this book, Paul “passes the baton” on to Timothy. He commissions him to faithfully endure, to carry on and pass on the work which a condemned Paul must now leave behind. In this book, Paul challenges Timothy to Endurance in and Reproduction of the Pastoral Ministry.
Content of Titus
A Conduct manual for church living
Content of Hebrews
God spoke in various ways to our fathers through the prophets, but now he has spoken His final word to us in His Son…greater than any prophet: he is greater even than the angels….It was through the angels that Moses’ law was communicated and its sanctions were severe enough: how much more perilous must it be to ignore the saving message brought by no angel, but by Jesus, the Son of God!
Content of 1 Peter
Persecution can either cause you to grow or grumble in the Christian life. It all depends on your response …Growth or bitterness…In writing to Jewish believers struggling in the midst of persecution, Peter encourages them to conduct themselves courageously for…Christ. Both their conduct and their character must be above reproach. Having been born again to a living hope, they are to imitate the Holy One Who has called them. The fruit of that character will be conduct rooted in submission…to government…to masters…to husbands…to one another. Only after submission is fully understood does Peter deal with the difficult area of suffering. The Christians are not to think it ‘strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you’ (4:12), but are to rejoice as partakers of the suffering of Christ. That response to life is truly the climax of one’s submission to God.
Content of 2 Peter
A challenge to stand against false teachers and teachings through personal spiritual growth. It is a call to battle spiritual error with spiritual truth.
Content of Jude
The battle cry, call to arms, a commission to defend the Faith!
BACKGROUND AND OCCASION OF WRITING Hebrews
A. The Nature of their Struggle: Many Jewish believers, having stepped out of Judaism into Christianity, want to reverse their course in order to escape persecution by their countrymen. The writer of Hebrews exhorts them to “go on to perfection”. His appeal is based on the superiority of Christ of the Judaic System. There is more to be gained in Christ than to be lost in Judaism.♦B. The Nature of their Persecution: The high priest Ananias was especially hard and unrelenting. He had all Christian Jews automatically banished from the holy places. That was tough. All their lives they had had access to these sacred places. Now they could have no part in the God-ordained services. They were now considered unclean. They could not go to the synagogue, much less the Temple: they could not offer sacrifices: they could not communicate with the priests. They could have nothing to do with their own people. They were cut off from their own society. For clinging to Jesus as the Messiah, they were banished from almost every sacred thing they had ever known. Though in God’s eyes they were the only true Jews, they were considered by fellow Jews to be worse than Gentiles.
BACKGROUND AND OCCASION OF WRITING 1 Peter
Peter penned this Epistle in response to the news of the growing persecution of Christians in Asia Minor
BACKGROUND AND OCCASION OF WRITING 2 Peter
A. When 1 Peter was written, the Church was facing danger from without, in the form of growing persecution. While that persecution had intensified by the time of 2 Peter, his readers now faced a far more dangerous enemy, one that attacked from within.♦B. “Peter wrote this epistle in response to the spread of heretical teachings which were all the more insidious because they emerged from within the churches. These false teachers perverted the doctrine of justification and promoted a rebellious and immoral way of life.”
Timothy’s personality
He was youthful, and apparently timid and reserved individual who often suffered from poor health
BACKGROUND AND OCCASION OF WRITING Jude
Jude was written as a defense against an early form of libertine Gnosticism. These heretics believed they were more spiritual than ordinary believers and that they possessed a special knowledge which made them superior to “unenlightened” pastors.
Importance of Hebrews
Hebrews has been called the 5th Gospel. The Gospels describe what He did on EARTH, Hebrews describes what He is doing in HEAVEN. Hebrews describes Christ’s continuing ministry after His Ascension as our High Priest.
Importance of Jude
Jude is the only book in all of God’s Word entirely devoted to the great apostatsy which is to come upon Christendom before the Lord Jesus Christ returns. This brief message of 25 verses is the vestibule to the Revelation…Without Jude , the prophetic picture which begins with the teachings of Christ in the Gospels and continues through the epistles would be incomplete…Jude brings the teachings of the entire Bible about apostasy to a tremendous climax. He takes us back to the very dawn of human history. We are reminded of apostasy at the gate of Eden…Our thoughts are turned to princes and prophets, to saints and sinners, to eternal fire and everlasting darkness, to the sea and to the stars, to past judgments and future glory.♦Jude tells us of otherwise unknown facts about the spiritual battle over the destiny of Moses’ body and the content of the pre-flood preaching of Enoch. He does so by referring to 2 non-canonical books.
Timothy means
Honored by God or “Honoring God”
Paul wrote 1 Timothy while Timothy
pastored at Ephesus.
1 Timothy 2:5 refutes
prayers to Mary or Saints and confession to priests by telling us that there is only “one Mediator between God and man…Jesus”.
1 Timothy 3:16 declares
the Deity of Christ: “God was manifest in the flesh.”
Titus was
a young pastor on the island of Crete when he received this Epistle.
Crete is located
southeast of Greece in the Mediterranean Sea.
The highest mountain on Crete,
Mt. Ida, was the traditional birthplace of the Greek god Zeus.
The island of Crete was
150 miles long and 35 miles wide, the largest of the Mediterranean isles. It had 100 cities, many mountains, and fertile valleys.
During Paul’s 1st imprisonment:
•He was a political prisoner awaiting trial♦•He lived in a hired house♦•He was visited by many believers
The Cretans were the relatives of
the Philistines. They had a notorious reputation of being “always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies” (Titus 1:12). This testimony came from one of their own poets and prophets. The origin of the church on Crete is unknown, but it may have been started by the same returning Cretans who were present at Pentecost.
Titus 2:13
declares Christ’s Diety, by calling Jesus “the great God and our Saviour” AND gives a hint of the hope of a Pre-Tribulational Rapture by calling the Rapture the “blessed hope”.
Titus 2:11
declares that ALL men are drawn to and have opportunity for salvation by declaring “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men.
During Paul’s 2nd Roman Imprisonment
•He is a condemned criminal awaiting death.♦•He is in a cold dark dungeon.♦•He is forsaken by all.
After his first Roman Imprisonment,
Paul was released and continued his missionary efforts, perhaps even traveling to Spain.
Paul was rearrested, apparently in the city of Troas.
His arrest was probably sudden, explaining why Paul left without his cloak, parchments, or Old Testament Scrolls.
During Paul’s time of travel after his first Roman imprisonment,
a severe persecution of all Christians by Rome began.
Paul wrote 2 Timothy
hoping Timothy would visit him before the approaching winter.
The insane and cruel Emperor Nero used the Christians as a scapegoat to direct suspicion away from himself after half of Rome burned in July of 64AD. Persecution became severe.
Out of fear for their own lives, many believers failed to support Paul after his arrest. He was abandoned by almost everyone.
The Purpose of 2 Timothy is
to encourage Timothy to continue in, carry out, and pass on the work of the Gospel Ministry.
The Early Church was not unified on the
authorship of Hebrews and there has never been universal agreement concerning the human author of this book throughout Church History.
Alexandrian Tradition of the Authorship of Hebrews
Believed Paul wrote Hebrews
African Tradition of the Authorship of Hebrews
Believed Barnabas, the missionary companion of Paul wrote Hebrews.
Roman Tradition of the Authorship of Hebrews
Anonymous, Luke, Apollos, Silas, Clement of Rome, Peter, Philip, Pricilla, Titus
If Paul was not directly the Author of Hebrews,
the author was deeply and directly influenced by Paul, in much the same way that church history records that Peter was the primary source of the Gospel of Mark, although Mark was the actual Author.
Old Testament Rest:
The Sabbath is celebrating God’s finished work of Creation
New Testament Rest
To have rested or “ceased from his own works” in an attempt to earn or keep salvation”. When we place all of our trust in Christ as the only hope of our salvation, we “rest” in the finished work of Christ and from all attempts to work our way into heaven or to earn or deserve God’s favor.
5 Reasons the New Covenant is Superior to the Old
- The dramatic significance of this truth cannot be overstated@ the blessings of the New Covenant are entirely dependent upon God, not man.♦2. It gives the inner desire for righteousness, not just external restrictions.♦3. It gives a permanent relationship.♦4. It gives the knowledge of God.♦5. It gives the forgiveness of sin.
1 Peter has over ___ parallels with _____________.
100; Ephesians
Our response to suffering should be
REJOICING.
Peter was also familiar with
Romans and Paul’s other epistles (2 Peter 3:15-16)
It is generally accepted that the Gospel of Mark reflects the teachings of Peter.
There are striking parallels between Mark, Peter’s sermons in Acts, and 1 & 2 Peter.
How to Endure Suffering
Recognize we are called to suffer.
3 Things We Must know during our suffering so that we may rejoice:
Our Trials are all temporary.•Our blessings are all eternal•Trials purify our faith.
Suffering is no excuse for:
Sin♦Bitterness♦Evil words♦Retaliation
The Authority of Scripture
Peter declares that the written Word is surer and of greater value than even his eyewitness account of the actual Transfiguration of Christ (which is definitely more certain than any modern claim of any experience, vision, or revelation).•Scripture, not experience is always to be the source of truth and inspiration for the believer.
Wives are to surrender to her husband’s leadership.
She is to be obedient.•She is to win her lost husband with her life, not her lips.•She is to be pure.•She is to be beautiful within.
She is to win her lost husband with her life, not her lips.
The principal here is that those under authority, such as wives or children are to win their loved ones by having respect for their authority and with their pure testimony, not with sermons, naggings, condemnations, or even tactful sharing of the Word.♦ This does not mean that they should never share the gospel, but they should not ever (always) be sharing the gospel.
Husbands are to surrender to the wife’s needs.
He is to live his life with her.•He is to learn about her needs.•He is to esteem his wife of the highest possible worth, and to treat her with dignity.•He is to honor and protect her as a more precious and fragile vessel - like a piece of fine china. •He is to recognize that her needs take priority over his own. •He is to be considerate of her more sensitive feelings.•He is to value her role s his completer.•He is to love her as a spiritual equal.♦oHe is to recognize that failure to treat her properly results in unanswered prayers.
Baptism is not necessary for the salvation of our souls.
The Bible never contradicts itself.•The Bible elsewhere teaches baptism is not necessary for salvation.♦•The thief on the cross was saved without baptism long after some key “proof texts” of baptismal regenerationists (such as John 3:5) were spoken.•Converts in in Acts 10:43-48 were saved, filled with the Spirit an performing miracles (tongues) before their baptism. •The Bible often explains how to be saved without including baptism.•Notice in Acts 3:19 and 10:43, Peter himself, the author of the passage we are discussing, gives the plan of salvation and does not include baptism.•The proof texts of baptismal regenerationists don’t hold water. Just one example of this is Mark 16:16, which says “he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved”, but then clearly explains which part is necessary to salvation by saying, “but he that believeth shall not be damned.”
The Bible elsewhere teaches baptism is not necessary for salvation.
Salvation is by grace through faith apart from anything or any works. Baptism is by contrast a work.♦ 1 Corinthians 1:17 separates between the gospel and baptism.
Baptism DOES save us from:
In the Bible, as in everyday language, the word “save” can refer to the salvation of a soul, a life, or a thing. Which of these is in view can only be understood from the context.•How was Noh saved by water? Water here represented death and judgment. Noah and his family were only saved because they were in the Ark. The water without the ark meant certain death•This is the “like figure” (antitype) of how baptism “saves”. The Water of baptism pictures death and the judgment of sin on the cross, but only those in the Ark (picturing Christ) are saved.
In the phrase “Baptism doth…save us.” Peter does NOT mean:
Baptism wash es away sin. It is not a cleansing agent. “Not the putting away of the filth of the flesh” means more than that “baptism is not a bath”. Baptism does not cleanse us from sin.
In the phrase “Baptism doth…save us.” Peter DOES mean:
Baptism is the public profession or pledge (“answer”) that one has “a good conscience toward God”, a testimony of our salvation.♦ “Answer” is a legal term referring to a pledge to obey and fulfill the terms of a contract.♦ Baptism is a public pledge to obey God and serve Him, and to break with their sinful past. Thus baptism is a pledge that a person is saved and will live accordingly.♦ It thus “saves” us from the temptation (which Peter’s readers were facing) to return to their sinful past in the face of suffering.♦ Baptism “saves” from a bad conscience, not from Hell. No believer has a good conscience with God while he is in the disobedient state of refusing baptism.
The Word of God testified by eye witnesses:
Skeptics and liberals often claim that the miracle claims and teachings of Christianity were made up by the followers of Christ over a period of centuries after his Death. By contrast, Peter makes it clear that the entire message of the Gospel is based upon first-hand accounts and the eyewitness testimony of those who walked with Christ and saw His Glory.
In 1 Peter, Peter warned that Suffering is coming
In 2 Peter, he declared suffering is here.
The Understanding of the Scripture
No passage of Scripture is of the writer’s own private interpretation or opinion - it is GOD’S word.•No passage of Scripture is to be of the reader’s own private interpretation or opinion. It is what GOD meant, not what YOU understand or feel it to mean that is important. We are to study Scripture in order to discover what God intended to convey, not to project our feelings, opinions, or experiences into or onto it, ignoring the original intent and context.
The Inspiration of Scripture
No portion of God’s Word was ever written simply by the writer’s own will or to convey his own thoughts or opinions.•Instead of “holy men of God”, the authors of Scripture were moved, carried along, and guided by the Holy Spirit concerning exactly what to write. God’s hand moved their hearts, their minds, and their pens. Every word of the Bible is the perfect Word of God!
In 2 Peter, Peter warned that false teachers are coming.
Jude later declared, false teachers are here.
2 Timothy and 2 Peter were both written to
defend against false teachers.
2 Timothy and 2 Peter
were the final books penned by these leading Apostles.
Jude is very similar to 2 Peter.
19 of the 25 verses in Jude find parallels in 2 Peter.
Peter said, the Apostates are Coming,
Jude said, the Apostates are HERE!
MEMORIZE: 2 Timothy 3:16-17
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
MEMORIZE: 1 Peter 1:2
Elect according to the foreknowledge of God : This is evidence of the role of God’s foreknowledge in election.
MEMORIZE: 1 Peter 1:5
Who are kept by the power of God. This is evidence of eternal security.
Inspiration
God Breathed
Titus 3:5
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost
Kept
A military term meaning “to be garrisoned or guarded about” and was used in 1 Peter 1:5 because of soldiers being placed around the city of Damascus to keep Paul in when he wanted to escape.
2 Timothy 2:15
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Hebrews 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Hebrews 10:25
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Hebrews 12
This chapter tells of God chastening all his true children.
1 Peter 2:21
For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
1 Peter 3:15
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
1 Peter 3:18
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
1 Peter 1:20-21
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 Steps Thru the Bible
Step 1: The Beginning ♦Step 2: The Hebrew Fathers♦Step 3: The Exodus ♦Step 4: The Promised Land♦Step 5: The Judges♦Step 6: The Kingdom♦Step 7: The Exile♦Step 8: The Restoration♦Step 9: The Coming of Christ♦Step 10: The Great Commission
The Single Kingdom of Israel
Includes the 40 year reigns of Saul, David, and Solomon (1043-931 BC, a period of approximately 120 years).
The Separate Kingdoms of Israel and Judah:
From the division of the nation in 931 BC to the Fall of the Northern Kingdom in 721 BC (210 years).
The Surviving Kingdoms of Judah:
721 BC until the Fall of the Southern Kingdom in 606 BC (115 years).
Which book(s) covered the Reign of Saul
1 Samuel
Which book(s) covered the Reign of David
2 Samuel & 1 Chronicles
Which book(s) covered the Reign of Solomon
1 Kings (1-11) & 2 Chronicles (1-9)
Which book(s) covered the Separate Kingdoms, Surviving Kingdom, & the Exile
1 Kings (12-22)-2 Kings & 2 Chronicles (10-36)
1 & 2 Kings were written by
Jeremiah
1 & 2 Chronicles were written by
Ezra
1 & 2 Kings were written during
the early part of the Captivity
1 & 2 Chronicles were written
after the Return
The reason for the writing of 1 & 2 Kings
to Encourage Repentance
The reason for the writing of 1 & 2 Chronicles
to Encourage Rebuilding
1 & 2 Kings explains
God’s reasons for allowing Captivity
1 & 2 Chronicles explains
God’s faithfulness in allowing Restoration.
10 Rebel Tribes made up the
Northern Kingdom
The Northern Kingdom was called
Israel
The Capital of the Northern Kingdom
Samaria
The Northern Kingdom was carried captive by
Asyria
2 Tribes loyal to David made up the
Southern Kingdom
The Southern Kingdom was called
Judah
The capital of the Southern Kingdom
Jerusalem
The Southern Kingdom was carried captive by
Babylon
Subtitle of Hosea
Scandal in the Parsonage OR “The Faithful prophet with an Unfaithful Wife:
Main Content of Hosea
God actually instructs the prophet to marry a prostitute.♦Her unfaithfulness then serves as a life long object lesson of Israel’s sin.
Theme of Hosea
The Prostitution of Israel
Author of Hosea
Hosea
Destination of Hosea
The Northern Kingdom (Ephriam). This was the first tribe to backslide.
Purpose of Hosea
To picture Israel’s unfaithfulness to God and God’s faithfulness to Israel.
Importance & Distinctives of Hosea
•For its size, this book is quoted more times in the New Testament than any other book, some 30 times! If the inspired New Testament writers saw this book s this important, should we not see it as crucial to our spiritual lives as well♦•This book is perhaps the strangest book in the Bible. In it, God commanded the prophet to take “a wife of whoredom”.
The Weeping Prophets
-Hosea was the weeping prophet who oversaw the fall of the Northern Kingdom.♦-Jeremiah was the weeping prophet who oversaw the fall of the Southern Kingdom.
Hosea lived out his message as no other prophet.
He understood the anguish of God’s heart over His people’s sin as perhaps no other prophet.
Hosea predicted the _____________________________________________________________ and lived to see this prophecy fulfilled.
Assyrian invasion of the Northern Kingdom
Hosea’s wife was named _________________________ and she was a _________________.
Gomer, prostitute
Subtitle of Micah
Israel on Trial AND “The Prophet of the Bethlehem Birth”
Main Content of Micah
Israel and Judah had broken their Covenant with God. God, however, would keep His Covenant with them. He would do so by delivering the promised, and agreed upon, punishments for his people’s sins and then by sending the promised Messiah to redeem them