Isaiah

Question 1

The term Isaiah means?

Answer 1

“Salvation of Yahweh”

or “Yah saves”

Question 2

How many times is Isaiah mentioned in the New Testament?

Answer 2

22 times, which is more than all the other prophets combined

Question 3

All prophecy should be approached with?

Answer 3

Respect and great humility

Question 4

God is revealed as _____ in this book

Answer 4

Revealed as both holy (especially in book 1) and loving (especially in book 2).

Question 5

Much of this musicians piece, “Messiah” is taken from Isaiah, who is he?

Answer 5

Handel

Question 6

Who were the prophets not speaking about?

Who were they speaking about?

Answer 6

Prophets were not speaking trumpets, through which the Spirit spoke.

but speaking men, by whom the Spirit spoke, making use of their natural powers.

Question 7

Prophets could be called by God without these few things, name them.

Answer 7

Without respect to identity, lineage, or profession.

Question 8

What is the idea of Holy?

Answer 8

• In the time of Moses holiness meant being separated to God by obedience to God’s standards laid out in the covenant especially in their faithfulness or fidelity to God.
• Isaiah has a different stress concerning holiness. The moral nature of uncleanness replaced the idea of the profane as the characteristic of sinfulness.
• He emphasized morality and ethical behavior more than the ritual significance.

Question 9

Who are Isaiah’s sons names and their meanings?

Answer 9

• His first son’s name (Shear-Jashub) meant “a remnant shall return”
• His second son’s name (Maher-shalal-hash-baz) meant “Swift to the plunder, speedy to the prey”

Question 10

What does Isaiah’s life and writings cover?

Answer 10

They cover a time of transition from northern Israel and Southern Israel as brother nations to the destruction of Israel leaving Judah alone

Question 11

What is highlighted in Isaiah 9:1-7?

Answer 11

“And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”

Question 12

What are the four throne names of the Messiah?

Answer 12

Wonderful Counselor
Mighty God
Everlasting Father
Prince of Peace

Question 13

To this day, many Jews would still say this…

Answer 13

That the servant portrayed in Isaiah’s four Servant Songs is either Israel or Jerusalem

Question 14

What is the reference of the Servant Song?

Answer 14

Isaiah 52:13-53:12

Question 15

How many times is the passage quoted?

What has it been called?

Answer 15

It is quoted more frequently in the New Testament than any other Old Testament passage.

It has been called the Gospel of the Old Testament

Question 16

Booth referred to Isaiah 58 as the _____ of The Salvation Army

Answer 16

He is called it ‘the manifesto’.

Question 17

Some consider the strange prophecies in Isaiah 25 (and 11:6-9) as the?

Answer 17

Millennial Kingdom rule of Christ

Question 18

Jesus used the last verse of Isaiah as an image of?

In what book?

Answer 18

He used it as an image of hell.

In Mark 9:47-48