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Latter Prophets (using notes) Flashcards

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What is the message of the book of Nahum?

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  • God cares for his own - will stick up for justice and righteousness (on his timing)
  • God judges sin - consequences for being inhumane
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How is the book of Jeremiah structured?

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Four sections:

  • 1st person oracles and prose
  • 3rd person prose (includes book of consolation)
  • Oracles against the nations
  • Appendix of God fulfilling his word
  • Not chronological order, events of 605 referred to multiple times
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What is the message of the book of Obadiah?

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  • Judgment - God enforces justices (we’re responsible for our own actions)
  • God demands righteousness
  • Restoration - covenant, connection, relationship
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Summarize the book of Micah.

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  • Consequences of sin: losing the land
  • Poor human leadership
  • Inability of the people to make things right
  • God will grant forgiveness and will gather a remnant back
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Which book is in response to the Edomites helping the Babylonians when they destroyed Jerusalem?

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Obadiah

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Who was the last chronological prophet?

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Malachi

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Give a summary of the book of Obadiah.

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  • Edom specifically will be punished

- All nations will be judged (including Judah), but God will be a king of the exiles who will return

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Who was Hosea’s audience?

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Israel (northern kingdom)

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Who was Micah’s audience?

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Jerusalem (Judah), especially king Hezekiah

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What are the contributions of Isaiah to theology?

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  • Alludes to the richness of depth of God, many different names for God
  • Many pictures of the coming Messiah: Emmanuel born from a virgin, suffering servant, anointed one
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Which prophet was a former shepherd and fig nipper?

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Amos

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Which prophet was the chief interpreter of the faith crisis after the fall of Jerusalem?

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Jeremiah

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Which prophet was taken into exile as a child and served Nebuchadnezzar?

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Daniel

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Why did Ezekiel prophesy and act in ways that seem strange?

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  • Time of people being jaded and disbelieving
  • Needed to get a cynical audience’s attention
  • Attracts attention, easy to understand and remember
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To whom did Amos address his prophesy?

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To the Israelites (northern kingdom) at Bethel

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Name the major prophets.

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Isaiah
Jeremiah
Ezekiel
Daniel

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Summarize the book of Isaiah.

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  • Human attempts at self-sufficiency lead to God’s judgment
  • Turning to God leads to salvation and comfort
  • Messiah coming
  • Calls people to righteousness and justice, to imitate God
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What is the message of the book of Zechariah?

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  • God’s kingdom will triumph even though there is spiritual evil forces
  • God will come again and establish a kingdom of righteousness and peace
  • Be faithful - obey and don’t give up
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What is the message of the book of Jonah?

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  • God’s compassion
  • God’s heart for the nations
  • Basis for mission
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What is the message of the book of Zephaniah?

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  • Day of the Lord, aimed at all but especially at Judah
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Which is the first of the twelve minor prophets?

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Hosea

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Summarize the book of Zephaniah.

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  • On the coming day of the Lord, the surrounding nations and Jerusalem would be severely punished for its sins against God
  • However, God would restore a remnant
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Which prophet focused on describing how a plague of locusts illustrates how God uses discipline in our lives?

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Joel

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What is the significance of the ministries of Ezra and Nehemiah?

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  • People had become jaded spiritually (hence Malachi)
  • Ezra returns with the law - worship and the knowledge of the law
  • Nehemiah helped rebuild the walls so people could stop worrying about safety
  • After wall complete, bring a revival to the people
  • People learning again how to do God’s will
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What is the message of the book of Micah?

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  • God puts things back together and will restore where we broke everything with our sin
  • Focuses on the grace of God’s forgiveness
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What is the message of the book of Haggai?

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  • Priorities - putting God first (when they were putting time and money into their homes)
  • God rewards us for putting him first and protects his people’s leaders
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What is the message of the book of Jeremiah?

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  • Confidence in God’s sovereignty over all history
  • Jeremiah as example of personal faith during crisis
  • God will bring a new covenant
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Which city did God send Jonah to prophesy to?

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Nineveh in Assyria

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What is the message of the book of Daniel?

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  • Should always trust God, he protects his own
  • Kingdom of God will hold victory over all earthly kingdoms
  • Apocalyptic prophesy - God will triumph over all tribulations
  • Son of Man and Messiah
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What is the message of the book of Ezekiel?

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  • Visions of God and the glory and presence of God
  • New covenant with no idols
  • End times
  • More information about the Davidic king in the Messiah
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Which prophet was a contemporary of Isaiah?

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Micah

32
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Who was Atraxerxes’ cup bearer?

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Nehemiah

33
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Who was a scribe under Atraxerxes?

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Ezra

34
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Which prophet preached the coming fall of Nineveh to the Judeans?

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Nahum

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Which prophet was active during the time that the Babylonians and Assyrians were fighting each other for dominance?

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Habakkuk

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Who prophesied to Hezekiah after the northern kingdom of Israel fell?

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Micah

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Summarize Amos’s message.

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  • Judgment coming for all the nations
  • Judgment coming for Israel because of their treatment of the poor and their attempt at manipulative worship
  • However, God would preserve and restore the Davidic line
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Who was Micah especially concerned for?

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The poor, oppressed, and exploited, especially in rural villages

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What is the message of the book of Isaiah?

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  • Richness of God
  • Call to righteousness and justice to imitate God’s complete holiness
  • Messages about the Messiah to come
40
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Which prophets were active during the siege of Jerusalem by Sennacherib?

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Micah and Isaiah

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Is the book of Isaiah entirely the product of Isaiah of the 8th century? Why/why not?

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  • Dominant writer but may have been later edited (e.g. adding Cyrus)
  • Dead Sea Scroll and canon both as one book
  • Long ministry (before and after fall of Samaria)
  • Fits the geographical and political situation of the times (and other prophets talking about both exile and restoration)
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Give the context of the book of Malachi.

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  • Temple completed, people become jaded spiritually

- Ezra and Nehemiah not back yet

43
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Who was Baruch?

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Someone Jeremiah dictated to

44
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Who lived in exile in Babylon for five years before becoming a prophet?

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Ezekiel

45
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What is the significance of Hosea’s marriage?

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  • His grief teaches about God’s - object lesson in unworthiness and abandonment
  • Shows how God will still forgive and take his people back
46
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What is the significance of the remnant in Micah?

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  • Mentioned at end each of each of the four sections
  • Israel and Judah will lose the land, but remnant will be gathered back to God
  • Covenant not over
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What is the message of the book of Hosea?

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  • Need to respond personally to God’s gracious love
  • Consequences for rejecting God
  • However, God stays with the covenant and his love is faithful
  • God’s love > sin and inconsistency
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Which prophet decried the northern kingdom for their treatment against the poor, manipulative worship, and their immorality?

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Amos

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What is the message of the book of Habakkuk?

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  • Faith and doubt
  • God faithful to those faithful to him, righteous survive
  • God can be perplexing - keep seeking God and he will respond and grow closer
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Who was Belshazzar?

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  • Left in charge of Babylon when Nebuchadnezzar’s successor Nabonidus went to worship the moon king
  • Babylon fell to Cyrus under him
  • Profaned temple objects and saw the writing on the wall
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What is the message of the book of Malachi?

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  • God loves and has chosen his people

- God will send a predecessor to the Messiah to prepare the way

52
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Which latter prophets were active both before and after the exile?

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Ezekiel and Jeremiah

53
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Which prophet’s message centered on the day of the Lord?

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Zephaniah

54
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Give a summary of the book of Zechariah.

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  • God calls us to do his work and wants to work through us
  • God wants us to want to do his work
  • In end, God will right all wrong and redeem his own
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What did Jonah prophesy about?

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That God would destroy Nineveh in 40 days

56
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Does Jeremiah offer a message of doom, hope, or both?

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  • Desperate times, end of the kingdom - heavy on repentance

- However, Book of Consolation and promise of new covenant

57
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Who was the audience of Obadiah and what was the message concerned with?

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To the Judeans about Edom

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How did the ministries of Haggai and Zechariah relate to the scene in Jerusalem around 520?

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  • Work on the temple had begun but then was abandoned
  • Haggai encouraged people specifically to rebuild temple and put God first
  • Zechariah more general about doing God’s work
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What is the message of the book of Amos?

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  • Covenant - God faithful to relationship and calls us
  • Responsibility to worship appropriately
  • Hope for mercy and compassion if repent
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Which prophet drew a figurative “noose” around Judah by condemning the behavior of the nations around before zeroing in on Judah?

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Amos

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Summarize the book of Habakkuk.

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  • Habakkuk asks God to judge sin, God says Babylonians are coming
  • Habakkuk is concerned that the Babylonians are worse than the Jews, God says he will judge them too
  • Habakkuk trusts God

UTS - Old Testament Survey, Pt 2 (11 decks)

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