Final Exam Flashcards
Hosea
“The Lord Saves”
Hosea - Major Theme
Covenant Unfaithfulness
Spiritual adultery
Rejection of YHWH
Idolatry: Baal & Asherah
FaithlessnessHosea & Family
Used as symbols
Gomber - unfaithful wife (illustration of Israel)
Jezreel - place of Assyrian victory - final judgement
Lo-Ruhamah - not pitied
Lo-Ammi - not my people
Hosea 10:12
Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the Lord until he comes and showers his righteousness on you.
Joel
The Lord is God
Joel - Major Theme
The Day of the Lord
Judgement will be devastating
Repentance necessary
Joel - The Lords Answer
Covenant
Promise of Pity
Promise of Provision
Promise of Protection
Promise of Presence
Joel - The Day of the Lord
Day of Judgement
Day of Resolution
“Up until this point you have had a chance”
Joel 2:28
And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people, Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see vision.
Amos - Major Theme
Call to repentance and Justice
Amos - specific sins
Bethel - golden calf - insincere worship
self indulgence and injustice
Amos - Day of the Lord
Darkness, not light
Send to exile
Promise of locusts
Promise of fire
Amos - promise of restoration
I will restore
I will repair
I will bring back
I will plant
Amos 5:24
But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!
Obadiah
The servant of the Lord
Obadiah - Theme
Destruction to Edom
Obadiah - Judgement of Edom
because they are rejoicing in someone’s suffering
they are totally out of covenant
Jonah
Dove
Jonah - Major Themes
Universality of the message of forgiveness
Centrality of repentance
Importance of obedience
Jonah 3:10
When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.
Micah
Who is like YHWH?
Micah - Major Theme
Leadership who is leading unjustly
Spiritual Leadership with prophets
Political Leadership
Micah 3:8
But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the Lord, and with justice and might to declare to Jacob his transgression, to Israel his sin.
Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
Nahum (Nineveh)
Consolation or Comforter
Nahum - Major Themes
Comfort to Judah
Sovereignty of God
Nahum 1:7
The Lord is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust him.
Habakkuk
Watchman
Habakkuk - Major Theme
A dialogue with YHWH
A dialogue with YHWH
The voice of the godly trying to comprehend the ways of God when even seems to triumph.
Zephaniah
YHWH hides/protects
Zephaniah - Major Theme
Impending Judgement
Zephaniah - I will
sweep away stretch out my hand cut off punish search bring distress
Zephaniah - Day of the Lord
wrath distress and anguish trouble and ruin darkness and gloom clouds and blackness trumpet and battle cry
Habakkuk 2:14
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
Zephaniah 3:17
The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight n you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.
