Celebration #4

Question 1

What is Israel’s mission statement in Isaiah?

Answer 1

To fall so deeply in love with God that you trust Him completely and you tell the entire world about Him

Question 2

What is the structure of Isaiah?

Answer 2

1-6: sermon
7-12: Ahaz (father)
13-35: sermon
36-39: Hezekiah (son)
40-66: sermon

Question 3

What does Isaiah do?

Answer 3

Trusts and Tells

Question 4

Ahaz is king of ?
Rezin is king of ?
Pekah is king of ?

Answer 4

Ahaz is king of Judah(south 2 tribes)
Rezin is king of Aram (syria)
Pekah is king of Israel(north 10 tribes)

Question 5

What happened on the map in Isaiah?

Answer 5

Syria and Israel needed Judah’s help to take down Assyria, but they said no, so Syria and Israel turned on them; which turned into Assyria taking down Judah

Question 6

What was Ahaz’s crisis? Solution? Instead? Lecture?

Answer 6

Water source (Gihon spring) was outside the walls,
solution: Isaiah says trust God,
instead: Ahaz calls Assyria for help,
lecture: you should have trusted Yahweh

Question 7

What was Hezekiah’s crisis? Lecture?

Answer 7

He was on his death bed, and God saved him; he showed off all of his gold, but not of God;
Lecture: tell about Yahweh

Question 8

Does Ahaz or Hezekiah trust God? Does Ahaz or Hezekiah’s tell about God?

Answer 8

trust: A, no; H, yes
tell: A, -; H, no

Question 9

God will be glorified after the exile of 3 things:

Answer 9

1. restoration of the nation
2. ingathering of the gentiles
3. salvation by the servant who will make it happen

Question 10

What are the Servant Songs?

Answer 10

Description of the Messiah, who is the ultimate servant, who trusts and tells (52-53 is longest

Question 11

What is the Day of the Lord?

Answer 11

A day or time when God intervenes in history in a decisive way to judge or deliver his people

Question 12

What does the book of Joel communicate?

Answer 12

Wake up and turn to God

Question 13

What are the days of the Lord given in Joel?

Answer 13

1. Locust plague (bugs)
2. 586 bc destruction (babylon)
3. Tribulation (boom)

Question 14

What does Habakkuk 2:4 say? What 3 passages is it key for?

Answer 14

• Righteous live by faith
• Romans 1:17, Gal 3:11, Heb. 10:38

Question 15

What did God big picture do in Habakkuk?

Answer 15

Raise up Babylon to punch Judah, but would eventually punish Babylon

Question 16

What does the resolution of Habakkuk teach?

Answer 16

Even though nothing good is coming, rejoice in God and live by faith

Question 17

What is important from Obadiah

Answer 17

1. has remnants of messianic covenant, but is still an unconditional promise
2. has Gen 12:1-3 written all over it

Question 18

What is the main idea of Jeremiah?

Answer 18

God reluctantly carried out curse (exile) after the people forced him to by their conscious rejection of Jeremiah

Question 19

What was Jeremiah’s call?

Answer 19

Don’t be scared of the people, even if you have a bad message for them (1:18-19)

Question 20

What was Jeremiah’s progression of emotions? Point?

Answer 20

annoyed, depressed, angry with God
- told by God to repent

Question 21

Who is Jehoiakinm?

Answer 21

The king who burns the book of Jeremiah

Question 22

What is the hope amidst despair in Jeremiah?

Answer 22

The New Covenant in Jeremiah 31

Question 23

Partial blessing to the _____ now does not preclude full New Covenant blessing to _____ in the future

Answer 23

Partial blessing to the church now does not preclude full New Covenant blessing to Israel in the future

Question 24

Main ideas of Lamentations

Answer 24

1. lament of end of covenant
2. reflects deut. 28
3. is an acrostic poem
4. notice the hope in very middle

Question 25

What is special about 1 Kings 1-11?

Answer 25

Chiasm, with Solomon’s building projects (temple) at the center

Question 26

What does Kings author emphasize?

Answer 26

Sin and repentance
outlines 28-30

Question 27

Who is Kings written to? Chronicles?

Answer 27

Kings is written to a hardened people in exile that need to repent
Chron. is written to believers in need of encouragement in their faith as they wait for a return

Question 28

Before and after exile (4 aspects)

Answer 28

King: king to capenter

Temple: sol porsche to zerubabbel old car
High Priest: urim and thummim (breastplate) to clueless

Holy of Holies: God to no God

Question 29

3 big notes of Chronicles

Answer 29

1. idealization of david and sol as temple building anointed ones
2. ends with a subtle do-over
3. ch. 1-9 are geneologies

Question 30

Babylonian theology vs Jewish theology

Answer 30

Babylonian: destruction shows YHWH is weak
jewish: destruction shows God is not weak (Deut., Jeremiah, Kings teach this)

Question 31

Who is Daniel written to in…
ch 2 ?
ch 3 ?
ch 4?

Answer 31

2- spiritual audience
3- gov audience
4- everybody

Question 32

What is the common thread of Daniel?

Answer 32

God himself! has an eternal kingdom

Question 33

What is eschatology? What is it good for?

Answer 33

the study of things to come
good for encouraging believers when it feels like God walked off the job

Question 34

What chapter in Daniel is song of man the answer? What does it relate to?

Answer 34

7
Rev. 4 - days reign
Rev. 5 - son of man given dominion
Matt 27- “clouds of Heaven”

Question 35

How do Matthew and Daniel relate?

Answer 35

Matthew 24 and 25 (v15) says to go back to Daniel 9- (abomination of desolation)

Question 36

What is Daniel’s 70 “sevens”?

Answer 36

• immediate “restoration” to the land (536) after these 70 yrs of exile is not the full restoration of Deut. 30
• full Deut. 30 restoration will not happen for at least (70 * 7) 490 more yrs
  445| 7 (49 yr) | 62 | Messiah comes after 69| 1 (7 yr)

Question 37

Daniel 9:27- the He referenced is who?

Answer 37

AntiChrist

Question 38

Daniel 9:24-27 talks about what? (big picture)

Answer 38

WHEN Christ is coming

Question 39

What is Ezekiel at a big picture view?

Answer 39

The Jeremiah of Babylon

Question 40

What does Ezekiel describe?

Answer 40

• the glory of the Lord is SLOWLY moving away from temple
• He doesn’t want to go
• Mount Olives is a special place (where Christ is said to return b/c he left from there)