Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations

Question 1

What does Isaiah mean?

Answer 1

Salvation of Yahweh or Yah saves or Yahew is salvation

Question 2

How many times is Isaiah mentioned in the NT?

Answer 2

22, which is more than all the other Prophets combined.

Question 3

How should prophecy be approached ?

Answer 3

All prophecy should be approached with respect and great humility.

Question 4

What are two ways God is revealed in Isaiah?

Answer 4

God is revealed as holy and loving.

Question 5

Where is much of Handel’s Messiah taken from?

Answer 5

Isaiah 👍

Question 6

What is the nature of how the spirit uses the prophet?

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

How were Prophets called?

Answer 7

Prophets could be called by God without respect to identity, lineage, or profession.

Question 8

Explain the idea of Holy in Isaiah versus Holy as pertaining to Moses…

Answer 8

In the time of Moses holiness was emphasized by being separated to God by obedience to God’s standards laid out in the covenant especially in their faithfulness to God.

Isaiah had a different stress on holiness, the moral nature of unclean-leanness replaced the idea of the profane as the characteristic of sinfulness. Isaiah emphasized morality and ethical behavior more than the ritual significance.

Question 9

What were Isaiahs two sons named and what were the meanings of their names?

Answer 9

His first son’s name Shear-Jashub meant a remnant shall return

His second son Maher-shalal-hash-baz meant swift to the plunder or speedy to the prey

Question 10

Where do we find Isaiah’s life on the timeline

Answer 10

Isaiahs life and writing covers a time of transition from the northern Israel and southern Israel as brother nations to the destruction of Israel leaving Judah alone.

Question 11

Isaiah 9:6b

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Give the four thrones names of the Messiah

Answer 12

Wonderful Counselor

Mighty God

Everlasting Father

Prince of Peace

Question 13

What do many Jews say portrays the four Servant Songs in Isaiah?

Answer 13

Either Israel or Jerusalem

Question 14

Which Isaiah passage is quoted more times in the New Testament than any other Old Testament passage?

What is this passage considered?

Answer 14

Isaiah 52:13-53:12

The gospel of the Old Testament

Question 15

What did Booth call the manifesto of the Salvation Army?

Answer 15

Isaiah 58! ❤️🌡🔥

Question 16

What are the prophecies in Isaiah 65:20 (and 11:6-9) considered?

Answer 16

Millennial kingdom rule of Christ

Question 17

The last verse of Isaiah was used as an image of hell by Jesus in what passage?

Answer 17

Mark 9:47-48

Question 18

What was the prophet Isaiah known as? And why?

Answer 18

Jeremiah appeared to be very sensitive and was known as the weeping prophet

Question 19

What time period does Jeremiahs life cover?

Answer 19

Jeremiahs life and writings cover a time of transition from the independent statehood of Judah to complete captivity by Babylon.

Question 20

Under what rulers of Judah did Jeremiah prophesy?

Answer 20

Jeremiah prophesied under the last 5 rulers of Judah

Question 21

Is there a more exact picture of life preserved such as Jeremiahs than any other seer?

Answer 21

No

Question 22

What was the logic of the Zion party

Answer 22

Because we have the Temple God among us we are safe because the God of the universe would never allow his temple on earth to be destroyed.

Question 23

Logic of the Egypt party

Answer 23

They thought a political alliance could save them

Question 24

Logic of the war party

Answer 24

They dreamed of freedom and peace while exile and war were already approaching the gates of the city.

Jeremiah’s call go submit to Babylon as the lesser evil was interpreted by the war party as a lack of patriotism at best or treason at worst.

Question 25

What was a favorite reading during the Babylonian exile?

Answer 25

Prophecies

Question 26

What did Michelangelo’s painting of Jeremiah depict?

Answer 26

A somber depressed spirit overshadowing his life

Question 27

What is the language style of Jeremiah?

Answer 27

Simple without ornament and only slightly polished

Question 28

What did Jeremiahs life become?

Answer 28

A living personal prophecy of the suffering messiah

Question 29

Parallels between life of Jesus and Jeremiah

Answer 29

Both had an 11th hour ministry proclaiming the overthrow of Jerusalem and its temple.

Both men beloved of God and obliged to live a life of suffering in spite of their childlessness and holiness from birth

Both wept over the city which stoned the prophets and did not definite what would bring it peace

The love of both was repaid with hatred

Question 30

How are the prophecies and history in the book of Jeremiah recorded?

Answer 30

Out of chronological order

Question 31

How many laments does Laminations include?

Answer 31

5 laments

Question 32

What is a lament?

Answer 32

A sorrowful poem or song about tragedy or disaster

Question 33

Who is traditionally considered the writer of Lamentations?

Answer 33

Jeremiah

Question 34

How is this book structured?

Answer 34

Like much other Hebrew poetry it is highly structured

Question 35

What is the calling upon God to take vengeance in Lamentations similar to?

Answer 35

The cursing Psalms

Question 36

How can the sufferings be compared to Jesus Christ?

Answer 36

The intensity and depth of the sufferings experienced by Jerusalem because of God’s wrath against its sins can be considered similar to Christ