Bible_Study_5 Flashcards
Sins of Presumption
oWhen we know what is right and what is wrong and we willfully choose to sing in direct disobedience to God .♦oWhen we presume upon God’s grace to forgive us and therefore choose to sin, it is a sin of Presumption.♦oIt is considered so serious by God that under the Old Testament Law there was no provision for sacrifice. Judgment was sure.
The Unpardonable Sin -
The sin of final rejection of the work of the Holy Spirit in manifesting Jesus as the Savior and Lord
The Sin Unto Death
oThis occurs when a believer becomes so carnal that God takes him home early in order to protect the testimony of Christ and prevent the sinning saint from becoming a further stumbling block to the lost.♦oThis sin (or sins) can only be committed by believers and refers to the loss of physical, not eternal life.
Sins of Omission-
The sin of not doing what should be done.
Sins of Comission -
The sins of doing what should not be done.
Sins of Doubt -
Doing that which you are not certain is right before God.
Sins of Offense -
Doing that which, although it may or may not be wrong in and of itself, causes a brother to stumble into sin or causes the lost to reject Christ.
The Course of Sin
♦Conviction♦♦Chastening♦♦Calling home of a believer
Why Did God Allow Sin?
♦God created both angels and men with a free will. This is both because of His Own Nature and His desire that man love Him freely.♦♦God allowed man to sin so that He might display His Grace.
Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Isaiah 9:6
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Jeremiah 31:22
How long wilt thou go about,thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
Romans 3:23
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Romans 5:12
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Genesis 3:15
Predicts that the “seed of the woman” will crush the serpent. This is the first prophecy of the Virgin Birth.
Hebrews 1:8 & 10
The Father calls the Son “God” and “Jehovah” (LORD)
John 1:1
Speaks of Jesus and declares “In the beginning was the Word…and the Word was God”.
John 5:18
The Jews tried to stone Jesus for claiming to be the son of God, “making Himself equal with God”.
John 8:28
Jesus claimed the name of Jehovah when he stated “If ye believe not that I am…ye shall die in your sins
John 8:58
Jesus claimed the name of Jehovah, “I AM”, when He stated “Before Abraham was, I am”
John 20:28
Thomas calls Jesus “My Lord and my God.”
1 Timothy 3:16
Says Jesus is “God…manifest in the flesh”
Hebrew 1:6
The Father commands that the Son be worshipped (He was also worshipped by the shepherds, the wise men, and many others; and only God is to be Worshipped.)
1 John 5:20
Jesus is called the “true God”.
Revelation 1:8
Jesus is called the Alpha and Omega & the Almighty
Colossians 2:9
States that “in Him dwelleth all the fullnesss of the God head bodily”.
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
Key Word of Micah
The Violation of the Covenant
Importance & Distinctives of Micah
Micah was the first to predict the Babylonian Exile.
Background of Micah
Micah preached in the last days of the Northern Kingdom. While the other prophets had said “Judgment is Coming”, Micah said “Judgment is here.”
Micah was a
prophet of the common people, a defender of the poor, the downtrodden, and the exploited.
Micah was a younger contemporary of
Amos and Hosea and was closely associated with Isaiah.
Micah and Isaiah began their ministries about the same time
and preached the contemporaries for 4 decades.
Micah and Isaiah’s primary ministries were to
the Southern Kingdom.
Micah was a ________________ ______________ like Amos, and spoke to the _________________ _____.
country preacher; common man
Isaiah was a ________________ ______________ and spoke to the ____________ ____________.
Court preacher; King’s Court
Micah’s first sermon is pictured as a
courtroom drama where Israel is accused of violating her covenant with Jehovah - with the world as the jury and God as the Judge.
Micah 5:2 predicts
the Bethlehem birth.
Subtitle of Isaiah
The Messianic and Millennial Prophet
Main Content of Isaiah
•”From the revolt of Satan to the rule of the Savior! Here it is, as told by Scripture’s most eloquent Prophet!”♦•Isaiah is a miniature Bible in the Bible. It, like the Bible itself, is a book of Salvation and the Savior.♦•Isaiah has one chapter for every one of the 66 books of the Bible.♦•Isaiah is divided into 2 major sections, just as the Bible.♦•The last chapter of Isaiah (Isaiah 66), concludes with a prophecy of the New Heavens and the New Earth, just as does the last book of the Bible.
Key Word of Isaiah
Salvation. This word appears 27 times in Isaiah as compared with only 7 times in all the other books of the prophets combined.
Key Chapter of Isaiah
Isaiah 53
Author of Isaiah
Isaiah
Date of Isaiah
He ministered for about 60 years.
Purpose of Isaiah
Twofold:♦•To rebuke his present sinful generation and call them back to their covenant relationship with God. (Chapters 1-39)♦•To comfort a future exiled generation and insure them God would call them back to their covenantal land and a future Messianic Kingdom. (Chapters 40-66)
Importance & Distinctives of Isaiah
•Greatness: “To the Jews, Isaiah was the greatest of the prophets.”♦•Literary Merit: Isaiah was perhaps the greatest writer who ever lived. His skills and eloquence surpass Shakespeare, Milton, and Homer. ♦•It is the 3rd longest book of the Bible, surpassed only by Jeremiah and Psalms.♦•It is called the Messianic prophet, the 5th Gospel, and the Evangelical prophet. Only the Psalms have more verses about Christ. Jesus said Isaiah saw His glory and spoke of Him.♦•For years, skeptics had claimed that the Biblical text of the Old Testament had been greatly corrupted as copies of copies of copies had been made down through the centuries. Liberal professors taught what we could no longer be sure of the original text.♦•With this great manuscript find (the Dead Sea Scrolls), we had the perfect test tube experiment to prove or disprove the accuracy of the Jewish copying process. Had the text changed over the course of 1000 years - a full millennium of being copied and recopied by hand? The astounding answer is NO. Thanks to the biblical sovereign preservation of God, the Biblical text and the Bible you hold in your hand is the same as when it was first inspired by God! “…The Word of our God shall stand forever.” (Isa 40:8)
What is the 3rd longest book in the Bible
Isaiah, surpassed only by Jeremiah and Psalms.
The meaning of Isaiah’s name is the same as the message of His book,
Salvation is of the Lord.
Isaiah was of distinguished lineage and education.
Jewish tradition says that he was a nephew of King Amaziah and cousin of King Uzziah. He was thus of royal seed and was a preacher at the royal court.
Isaiah was married to
a prophetess and had 2 sons.
Like Ezekiel, Isaiah acted out his message in unusual ways.
God commanded Isaiah to walk barefoot and naked for 3 years to picture how Assyria would conquer Egypt and Ethiopia - this removing all hope that Judah could trust in foreign alliances and moving them to trust in God alone for safety.
The Jewish Talmud says that Isaiah was martyred by
being sawn asunder by evil King Manasseh.
Isaiah was a younger contemporary of the prophets
Amos and Hosea in the Northern Kingdom and ministered alongside Micah in the Southern Kingdom.
Immanuel means
God with us.
Isaiah 43:10 “Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.” refutes:
•Polytheism - There is only ONE God!♦•Pantheism - This God is Personal, Intelligent, and Distinct from His Creation. There is a God and we are not Him!♦•Mormonism and Word Faithism - We cannot become gods and we are not “little gods”.♦•Jehovah Witness’s view that Jesus was an angel who became a god.♦•Armstrongism - We cannot join the God head.♦•Universalism - All men will not be saved. There is only One God and there is only One Savior.♦•Liberalism and Cultism - Since the “LORD” Jehovah declares, “beside Me there is no Savior, then every verse calling Jesus the Savior is an inspired proof that Jesus is Jehovah God!
Isaiah 28:9-13 implications:
•In the great chapters of the Blessings or Cursings (Deut 28-29), Israel was warned that one of the cursings for disobedience to the Covenant was to be spoken to in another “tongue” (Deut 28:49) - the language of a nation that would carry them away into Captivity. If they rejected their Sovereign King and God of the (old) Covenant, they would be spoken to in other tongues and carried into Captivity.♦•Isaiah and Jeremiah both spoke of this warning before the Assyrian and Babylonian captivities (Isa 33:19; Jer 5:15). Thus to the Jews, it was a sign of judgment by Captivity to be spoken of in another tongue/language.♦•In 1 Corinthians 14:21-22, Paul quotes from this very passage (Isa 28:11-12) to explain the purpose of the New Testament give of tongues. Tongues were a warning sign of judgment to Israel for rejecting their Messiah King and God of the (New) Covenant - Jesus. If they did not repent, they would be carried into Captivity by a fierce nation pictured by an “eagle” (Deut 28:49). The eagle was the symbol of Rome which carried Israel into Captivity in AD 70 - a captivity that lasted almost 2,000 years.♦•This passage in Isaiah (28:9-10) also instructs us concerning the proper way to teach our children God’s Word. From their infancy, we are to give them simple “line upon line…precept upon precept” teachings which build one upon another.
Isaiah 53: The Rejection of the Savior
•He was despised (counted as nothing) because of His lowly background.♦•He was rejected because of His message.♦•He was a man of Sorrows and acquainted with grief because of His earthly mission.♦•These verses answer the greatest questions raised in the mind of the Jew when confronted with the question of Christ. How could Jesus be the Jewish Messiah if He was rejected by the Jewish people, and how could an ordinary man have been the Messiah? ♦•The answer is that the Jewish Scriptures written by the greatest Jewish prophet predicted that the Jewish Messiah would be rejected by the Jewish people because He would appear to be just an ordinary man!
Isaiah 53:4-6 - The Messiah to Suffer for our Sins
•The key word in verse 4 is “Our”. Here we have the Substitutionary Atonement and Sacrifice of Christ described clearly in the Old Testament. Jesus died for our Sins. ♦•The last part of verse 4 informs us that the nation of Israel in general would look upon the cross as a righteous sentence imposed by God Himself upon a blasphemer named Jesus of Nazareth!♦•Verse 5 tells us this was done “for our transgression…for our iniquities…the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.”♦•The 2nd half of verse 6 declares that all of the guilt of ALL men was laid upon Christ. Christ died for all men. He took our Hell that we might partake of His Heaven.
Isaiah 53:7-10 - The Messiah to Die for our Sins
•Verse 7 points out His suffering in silence as the Lamb of God.♦•Verse 8 points out that His Death was for Sin.♦•Verse 9 reminds us that His Cross was between thieves. His burial in a rich man’s tomb, and of His sinless innocence.
Isaiah tells us that in the Millennium, the Messiah will
personally RULE a world wide kingdom from His spiritual capital of Jerusalem
Isaiah tells us that in the Millennium, Israel will be
made God’s Holy people again. “He that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jersualem, shall be called holy, even everyone that is written among the living in Jerusalem”. (Isa 4:3)
Isaiah tells us that in the Millenium, the Messiah will
restore the Earth as he removes the curse of Sin from the Physical World. ♦•This will include the healing of all sickness. ♦•There will be a total healing of all the deformed. The healing of all deformity will take place at the inception of the Millennium. There will be no tragedies of mental or physical handicaps or birth defects during this blessed age.♦•There will be no natural death in the Kingdom. The life-span of man will be expanded with those in the Millennium actually living for the entire 1,000 years.♦•There will be no accidents and no disasters for a thousand years. God Himself will preserve life.
In the Millennium, Isaiah tells us that all of mankind
will worship the true God.♦•The temple will be rebuilt at Jerusalem♦•All nations will worship there. ♦•Jesus will personally teach and judge all men.