Lectionary Flashcards
Isaiah 1
Instead of rituals, God wants ___.
learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow
Isaiah 2
Consequence of God judging the nations
nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Isaiah 5
Know parable: content & meaning
Vineyard planted and prepared perfectly, but instead of producing grapes for wine, produced wild grapes. Thus the vineyard was destroyed. Israel is the vineyard, planted for justice, but reaping bloodshed.
Isaiah 6
Storyline
Isaiah vision in throne room, Seraphim, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts. The whole earth is filled with his glory.” Seraphim touch coal to Isaiah’s mouth, sin and guilt blotted out. God asks, “whom shall I send?” Isaiah volunteers. God tells Isaiah to speak to the people, but that they won’t hear it. Isaiah asks how long. God says till the exile. But left will be a holy seed.
Isaiah 7
What will happen to dreaded land when “Immanuel” reaches age of responsibility?
It will be deserted
Isaiah 9
Verse 6
For a child has been born for us, a son given to us; authority rests upon his shoulders; and he is named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 11
What happens to creation when shoot comes from Jesse’s stump?
Creation (animals and children) will not hurt each other, but live in peace. Earth full of knowledge of God.
Isaiah 25
V. 4 talks about God’s concern for ___. V. 7 describes God destroying ___.
V4: Poor and needy. V7: shroud / sheet over people: death
Isaiah 25
This text is one of the few OT texts to envision an afterlife. How does it do so?
(5)
- great feast
- death destroyed
- tears wiped away
- disgrace removed
- rejoicing in salvation
Isaiah 35
What does God do to creation & to disabilities?
Disabilities healed and creation blossom / be bountiful
Isaiah 40
Know vv 1-2, which serve as a theme of Isa 40-55.
Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that she has served her term, that her penalty is paid, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.
Isaiah 40
How would the end of this text encourage those in exile?
He gives power to the faint and strengthens the powerless
Isaiah 42
Based on the end of this text, does the God of the OT do new things?
Yes, “See, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth, I tell you of them”
Isaiah 43
How does this text relate to exile?
Do not fear, God is gathering the people from all around the world, up and together
Isaiah 43
How does v. 21 describe God’s people?
the people whom I formed for myself so that they might declare my praise
Isaiah 43
Based on v. 25, is God’s forgiveness limited to the New Testament?
I am He who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins
Isaiah 44
Know that a key theme of Isa 40-55 is the futility of idols.
Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.
Isaiah 45
Who is described as God’s messiah/anointed one?
King Cyrus
Isaiah 49
How far does God’s salvation reach? What image conveys that?
My salvation may reach to the end of the earth, a light to the nations
Isaiah 49
What does v. 15 compare God to?
Can a woman forget her nursing child, or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you
Isaiah 50
Amid torture (v. 6), how does the prophet describe God?
God helps and is near
Isaiah 51
When comforting Zion, what will God do to Zion’s desert?
God will make her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden of the LORD
Isaiah 52
Who will see the salvation of God?
All the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God
Isaiah 53
Know verse 6
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have all turned to our own way, and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all
Isaiah 55
Type of covenant. Is God forgiving here?
Everlasting covenant. Let them return to the LORD, that he may have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Isaiah 56
Attitude toward foreigners
My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples. I will gather others to them besides those already gathered.
Isaiah 58
What will happen when the hungry are fed, the homeless housed, and the naked clothed?
Your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like the noonday
Isaiah 58
What will happen when the hungry are fed?
God will guide, satisfy needs, rebuild and restore
Isaiah 60
What covers the earth? What draws nations to God’s people?
Darkness. Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.
Isaiah 61
What does this text link with the “day of vengeance/vindication”?
The year of the Lord’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn
Isaiah 62
What will the people of Zion be called? “___People, ____.”
The Holy People, The Redeemed of the LORD
Isaiah 63
How does this text describe God’s people?
Children who will not deal falsely
Isaiah 64
The people’s righteous deeds are like ___. In v. 8, God is a ___.
Our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth. V8: O LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter
Isaiah 65
What have the people done wrong?
Did not call on God’s name, walk in a bad away, provoke God to God’s face, eat unclean stuff,
Isaiah 65
This text envisions a new what?
I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind
Isaiah 66
In v. 13, God is a ___.
As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem
Jer 1
What’s Jeremiah’s excuse for not doing what God wants?
Truly I do not know how to speak, for I am only a boy
Jer 2
Why should the heavens be appalled/stunned?
for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and dug out cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns that can hold no water
Jer 4
The people are skilled in ____.
doing evil
Jer 8
What emotion does God display?
grief, anger, hurt, mourning, and sadness
Jer 11
What does Jeremiah do with the desire for revenge?
let me see your retribution upon them, for to you I have committed my cause
Jer 14
What are the contrasting images for God in v. 8?
Hope of Israel and Savior v Stranger and Traveler
Jer 15
What does Jeremiah call God in v. 18?
a deceitful brook, like waters that fail
Jer 17
Cursed are those who trust in __.
mere mortals and make mere flesh their strength, whose hearts turn away from the LORD.
Jer 18
Image used to describe God
Potter
Jer 20
V. 7 accuses God of ___. V. 11 compares God to ___.
v 7: Enticing and overpowering him, - V 11: dread warrior
Jer 23
Evil rulers who have scattered the people are called ___.
Shepherds
Jer 23
God’s word is like what?
Fire and Hammer
Jer 28
Previous prophets forecasted what?
war, famine, and pestilence against many countries and great kingdoms
Jer 29
How should exiled people see their cities of residence?
seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile (move in and make a life)
Jer 31
How do vv. 4-5 describe God’s restoration?
Again I will build you up
Again you shall take your tambourines and dance
Again you shall plant vineyards
Jer 31
God will gather the people and turn what into what (v. 13)?
I will turn their mourning into joy
Jer 31
What does the sour grapes saying mean? How is it challenged?
The parents action will punish the children, but now, people will be punished for their actions
Jer 32
Storyline (including the name “Anathoth”)
While Jerusalem was under siege from Babylon, God told Jeremiah his cousin was going to ask him to buy his land at Anathoth. Surely then, the cousin came and asked Jeremiah to buy it, and he did. Then Jeremiah made a big show of the purchase, putting the deed in a jar to be kept forever, and declared that still houses, lands, and vineyards will be bought there.
Jer 33
What will spring up for David?
righteous branch
Ezek 2
Ezekiel is sent to what kind of people (v. 3)?
the people of Israel, to a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me
Ezek 17
Storyline of parable.
God will take a twig from atop a big tree and plant it on top of a mountain. That twig will grow into a huge tree. God makes big trees small and small trees big. God makes green trees dry, and brown trees flourish.
Ezek 18
What does the sour grapes saying mean? How is it challenged?
Know that all lives are mine; the life of the parent as well as the life of the child is mine: it is only the person who sins that shall die
Ezek 33
What do vv. 8-9 mean for us as preachers?
It is our job to warn the wicked of their ways, in hopes they turn, for if not, their blood is on our hands
Ezek 34
Who shall receive healing? Who shall be destroyed?
Healed: Injured and weak, Destroyed: Fat and strong
Ezek 36
Name 3 ways God will transform the people
made clean, new heart, given God’s spirit
Ezek 37
Storyline
Valley of dry bones, God tells Ezekiel to prophesy, the bones begin to rattle and grow skin, but no breathe. God tells Ezekiel to prophesy, and the people lived, and there was a vast mutlitude
Dan 7
Beasts in Daniel’s dreams represent what?
Four kings
Dan 7
How is the coming kingship described (v. 14)?
that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that shall not pass away, and his kingship is one that shall never be destroyed
Dan 12
This text is one of the few OT texts to envision an afterlife. How does it do so?
Michael shall rise, time of anguish, all people found written in book will be delivered. Those asleep in earth will wake, some to everlasting life and others to everlasting contempt
Hosea 1
What is Hosea commanded to do? Why?
Go, take for yourself a wife of whoredom
for Israel commits great whoredom by forsaking the LORD
Hosea 2
What’s the nature of the covenant described here?
I will make for you a covenant on that day with the wild animals, the birds of the air, and the creeping things of the ground; and I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land; and I will make you lie down in safety. God take Israel as a wife.
Hosea 5
How does 6:1 describe God?
for it is he who has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck down, and he will bind us up
Hosea 11
V. 8 describes God facing an inner tension over ___.
Giving up Israel
Joel 2
How does 2:2 describe the day of the LORD?
a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness spread upon the mountains a great and powerful army comes
Joel 2
What are the “great things” described by this passage?
Great harvest and rainfall, to make up for years of locusts
Amos 5
The LORD may be gracious if the people do what?
Hate evil and love good, and establish justice in the gate
Amos 5
How is the day of the LORD described?
darkness, not light, and gloom with no brightness in it
Amos 6
What will happen to those who live in luxury?
they shall now be the first to go into exile
Amos 7
What does Amos see in his vision? How does he describe his vocation?
Vision: plumb line, Vocation: I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees
Amos 8
What sins are denounced in this vision of summer fruit?
Mistreating the poor and cheating people
Jonah 3
What does God do in 3:10?
God changed his mind about the calamity that he had said he would bring upon them; and he did not do it
Jonah 4
What’s Jonah’s attitude at the end of the book?
Angry God relented from calamity
Micah 3
Why will Zion be a plow field and Jerusalem a heap of ruins?
bribery for judgments, charging for priests and oracles
Micah 5
Where will the great one, the one of peace, come from?
Bethlehem
Micah 6
Know verse 8
what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Habakkuk 1-2
Habakkuk complains that the Babylonians aren’t getting what they deserve. How does he make this complaint?
O LORD, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not listen?
Zeph 1
What will happen to those who think God won’t do good or evil?
I will punish the people who rest complacently on their dregs
Zeph 3
This text says God is a warrior. How does it say people should respond to having that kind of God?
Sing, shout, rejoice
Hagg 1
According to this text, shall the original or the rebuilt temple display the most splendor & glory?
The latter splendor of this house shall be greater than the former
Zech 9
According to v. 10, why will the triumph king come on a donkey and not a horse?
cut off chariot and war horse, bring peace
Mal 3
How is God described in this text?
Like a refiner’s fire, refining the people
Mal 4
The sun will come with what in its what?
the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings
