Bible_Study_4 Flashcards
Darius the Mede
King of Babylon who was tricked into signing the decree that resulted in Daniel being thrown into the lion’s den.
Ptolemy
One of Alexander’s 4 generals took Egypt, the Southern part of the kingdom.
Seleucus
One of Alexander’s 4 generals took Syria, the Eastern section.
Antiochus IV Epiphanes
Type of Antichrist, the historical little horn, defiled the Temple.
Mattathias
A Jewish priest of the House of Hasman who refused to worship Jupiter and who slew the King’s representative.
Judas the Maccabee
Led the Jewish revolt in refusing to worship Jupiter.
Hanukkah
Celebrates the Jewish cleansing and rededication of the Temple and the miracle of the temple candelabra burning 8 days on 1 day’s supply of oil.
Michael
Israel’s guardian angel who will help deliver Israel through the Tribulation.
Darius the Great
King who allowed the Temple work to continue.
Xerxes I
King also known as Ahasuerus, who made Esther his queen.
Artaxerxes
King who allowed the Second and Third Returns and issued the decree to rebuild Jerusalem’s walls, step-son of Esther.
Joshua/Jeshua
The spiritual leader and High Priest of the First return.
Mordecai
Esther’s older cousin, who raised her as his own daughter.
Haman
Jew hating prime minister who plotted to exterminate the Jews.
Vashti
Persian queen deposed for refusing to display herself and was replaced by Esther.
Saballat, Tobiah, and Geshem
The enemies of Nehemiah’s rebuilding project.
The feast of Purim
A memorial to commemorate the salvation of the Jews from the evil plot to exterminate them.
Tyre
Capital city of Phoenician empire destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar and Alexander the Great over a 250 year period exactly as prophesied by Ezekiel.
Subtitle of 1 John
The Assurance Epistle
The sin unto death is a sin that can only be committed by a
Christian, because 1 John 5:16b refers to “brother.”
Author of the Gospel of John, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, and Revelation
John the Apostle
Recipients of 1 John
7 Churches of Asia Minor
Content of 1 John
The Assurance Epistle and speaks of how we can enjoy the perfect assurance of our salvation through intimate fellowship with Christ and other believers.
Theme of 1 John
Fellowship with Christ
Purpose of 1 John
a. “…That ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ” - To help believers discover intimate fellowship with God and one another.♦b. “…That your joy may be full: - To help believers to experience the joy of their salvation.♦c. “…That ye sin not.” - To bring about moral purity.♦d. “…That ye may know that ye have eternal life…” - To give assurance of Salvation.♦e. “…Concerning them that seduce you.” - To combat false teachings.
Dates of 1 John
AD 90
Subtitle of 2 John
Reject False Teachers
Key Word of 2nd John
Truth
Theme of 2 John
♦Briefly Stated: The Duty to Reject false Teachers.♦♦Developed: The supreme duty of Christian love must be balanced with a rejection of false teachers in defense of the truth.
Purpose of 2 John
To prevent Churches from embracing teachers who claim to be Christians, but who deny the fundamental doctrines of the Christian Faith.
Subtitle of 3 John
Receive True Teachers
Recipients of 3 John
Gaius and the local church in which he was a leader or pastor. This was a common first century name and should not be equated with any other New Testament references to individuals by the same name.
Theme of 3 John
Our duty to receive and support true teachers
Purpose of 3 John
To be a rebuke on all individuals who would seek to run or control the local church or the preacher.
Comparison
♦John wrote 2 John to protect the truth by denying the support of false teachers.♦♦He wrote 3 John to advance the truth through supplying the support of genuine Christian teachers.♦♦”In his second epistle, John dealt with the problems of welcoming deceivers (which should not have been done); in this epistle, he discusses the error of not receiving believers (which should have been done).” Willmington
Recipients of Revelation
7 churches of Asia-Minor (in the western part of modern Turkey)
Content of Revelation
The bulk of this book centers around the Judgments and the Personalities of the 7 year Tribulation Period (Rev 4-19), but the book also outlines the course of the Church Age (Rev 2-3) and God’s plans for the Millennium and Eternity future.
Key Chapter of Revelation
19 - The Second Coming of Christ
Purpose of Revelation
The Revelation of Jesus Christ
Date of Revelation
The majority of conservative scholars date the book around AD 90 near the end of the reign of emperor Domitian. Though a few scholars attempt to date the book as early as the late 60’s, the evidence stands firmly in favor of the later date. The Early Church Fathers Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Victorinus, and Eusebius all attribute the book to the time of Emperor Domitian in the 90’s.
John is the human author of _____ of the _____ New Testament Books.
5, 27
John wrote more than any other New Testament writer, with the exception of ______________.
Paul
John grew up as a
Galilean fisherman.
He and his brother James were the sons of
Zebedee and were also called the sons of thunder.
John was originally a disciple of
John the Baptist, and then of Jesus.
History tells us that in his latter years, John pastored
in and around Ephesus, ministering to the Churches of Asia Minor.
John outlived all
of the other Apostles
John was also the only one of the Apostles
to die a natural death.
John was also called
John the Elder.
John suffered much for Christ.
He was exiled to the Isle of Patmos and tradition tells us that he was boiled in oil.
1 John was written to
combat heresy, and in particular, early forms of Gnosticism.
This heresy of John’s time can be summed up with 2 basic concepts:
- The supremacy of knowledge (Greek “gnosis”) ♦2. The evil of matter. ♦♦They believed in salvation by enlightenment into their brand of knowledge♦♦They also denied the humanity of Jesus Christ and separated “Jesus the man” from “the Christ Spirit” which supposedly came upon him.
There were varieties of Gnostic thought, which John may have written to combat, including:
Docetism and Cerinthianism
Docetism -
the heresy that taught that Jesus only “appeared” to have a physical body. They believed Jesus was a spirit with no real physical substance who left no footprints when he walked.
Cerinthianism
Cerinthus was an opponent of John in Ephesus. Irenaeus (who was a disciple of Polycarp, who was a disciple of John) writes in his work, Against Heresies, that Cerinthus “represented Jesus as having not been born of a virgin, but as being the son of Joseph and Mary…while he nevertheless was more righteous, prudent and wise than other men. Moreover, after his baptism, Christ descended upon him in the form of a dove from the Supreme Ruler…But at last Christ departed from Jesus and that then Jesus suffered (died on the cross) and rose again…”
Since Gnostics felt that all matter was evil, they held two views concerning morality and the physical world:
Strict Asceticism and Rank Immorality
Strict Asceticism
Since they viewed all matter as evil some Gnostics believed that all pleasures of the flesh should be avoided.
Rank Immorality
Since they viewed all matter as both evil and meaningless, some Gnostics believed that the pleasures/sins of the flesh were irrelevant and could be indulged in without affecting the “spirit” of the enlightened.
Gnostics believed in 2 classes of people,
the enlightened and the unenlightened
Gnostics felt the unlightened people were
so inferior as to be unworthy of even love.
Which book is considered to be the most intimate book of the New Testament, second only to Song of Solomon as the Bible’s most intimate book.
1 John
First century Christianity was missionary Christianity and traveling Christian teachers were
essential for the spread of the Gospel throughout the Pagan Roman Empire.
Inns of the first century however, were
places of ill repute, filth, immorality, and danger. And with neither streets nor fields around cities free from danger, safe places to stay were of great importance.
Christians solved the problem of dangerous places and the problem of the financial support of missionaries by
opening their homes to traveling Christian teachers.
False teachers, greedy for free lodging and food,
were taking advantage of kindly Christians and using them to further their false teachings.
2 John is the
shortest book in the English Bible.
3 John
Is the second shortest book of the English Bible.
The message of 3 John is vital
concerning the support of missionaries.
Revelation was written by John
when exiled on the Isle of Patmos, a desolate island of volcanic rock in the Aegean Sea.
As the last living Apostle, John wrote
the final New Testament book to reveal God’s prophetic plan for all mankind.
Revelation is the only primarily
Prophetic book in the New Testament.
Revelation is the only Biblical book that promises
a special blessing on those who study it and a curse on those who add to or subtract from it.
Revelation is the one book that
ties together, elaborates, and consummates (not originates) all of the prophetic themes of Scripture
Note that there is no
S at the end of the word “Revelation”.
Revelation is also known as
the Apocalypse, which is merely a transliteration of the Greek word Revelation.
The Prophetic or Future Interpretation View of Revelation
accepts the plain statements of the text that the book is prophetic.
The future view acknowledges that
normal language often incorporates symbols and that Revelation does this often. Yet these symbols are given as illustrations to aid, not barriers to prevent our understanding. The purpose of ‘the Revelation of Jesus Christ” is (as indicated by the title) to reveal, not conceal the truth concerning Christ.
The future view simply looks for the
literal significance of symbols when they are used. The symbols do not conceal deeper unknown mysteries which only the spiritual elite can understand. They have literal significance that can be interpreted from the context or from related passages.
The prophetic or future view interprets the symbols of Revelation
according to explanations of literal meanings of the identical symbols in earlier prophetic books such as Daniel, Ezekiel, Zechariah, or in Revelation itself. This makes God the authority concerning the meaning of these symbols in Revelation.
The 3 major Millennial Views.
Premillennialism, Post millennialism, Amillennialism
Premillennialism is the belief that
Christ will return before to establish a literal 1,000 year Millennial Kingdom on Earth. It holds to and is based upon the literal method of interpretation.
Post millennialism and Amillennialism both see the prophesied 1,000 year Millennial Kingdom
as symbolic and indefinite time period during which Christ establishes His Kingdom through His Church and in the hearts of men. Both of these views hold to and depend upon the allegorical method of interpreting prophetic Scriptures.
Three Purposes of the 7 Letters to the 7 Churches
- The Interpretation: The 7 letters were written to 7 actual local churches in the first Century and these messages should not be spiritualized away.♦2. The Application: In the same manner that the other New Testament Church Epistles were written to specific local churches, and yet still have a universal message for Christians throughout the entire Church Age.♦3. The Illustration: These 7 churches and the letters to them also seem to have a prophetic purpose in outlining the history of the Church Age from John’s time until the removal of the Church at the Rapture and the onset of the Tribulation.
The Tribulation Introduced in Heaven (Rev 4)
♦John has just concluded his discussion of the Church Age (the “things which are” - the Present) and is just about to begin his description of the Tribulation (the “things which shall be hereafter” - the future)
Between these two events (the Church Age and the Tribulation),
John (a member of the Lord’s Church) is called up into Heaven by a voice like a trumpet.
In the first 3 chapters of Revelation, John has referred to the church
19 times. It has been the main subject of His discussion up until this point.
In Revelation 4, now suddenly, the Church disappears from John’s writings and is not mentioned on Earth again until
Revelation 19, at the Return of Christ at the end of the Tribulation.
As we shall see, the Church does appear
in Heaven in the very next chapter and throughout the Tribulation.
The focus of the entire Tribulation period in all of the prophetic Scripture
is always on Israel.
The Tribulation is also described as having a purpose in
the judgement and pouring out of the Wrath of God on the lost of all nations, those who are of this earth.
While the calling up of John speaks first of John himself being literally called up into Heaven,
it also serves as a picture of the Rapture before the Tribulation.
Under Roman law, 7 seals were used on
documents pertaining to life or death.
The 7 Seal Scroll is
the object of the book of Revelation throughout at least chapter 19.
Considered to be the title-deed for the redemption of the world. It contains the redemption terms for the Earth.
7 Seal Scroll
The 7 Seal Scroll contains
all the judgments poured out in the book of Revelation.
The seventh seal judgment includes
the seven trumpet judgments and the seventh trumpet judgment includes the seven vial judgments.
7 Stars
… are the angels (Pastors) of the seven churches.
7 Lampstands (candlesticks)
…are the seven churches.
The 144,000
12,000 Jews from each of the 12 tribes of Israel. Hebrew Evangelists sent to preach the Gospel to all the world. This is an astounding number considering there are only about 50,000 missionaries of all persuasions in the world today.
A Woman with the sun and moon under her feet and twelve Stars in her crown.
This woman represents the nation of Israel. The sun and moon and stars were first used by God to picture Israel in a dream He gave to Joseph with the sun and moon representing the father and other and the stars representing the 12 sons of Jacob (Israel)