Lesson 20 - The mantle of holiness

Question 1

1. Who are mantles typically associated with?

Answer 1

Elders – those who taught us and gave us spiritual birth through their preaching and praying.

Question 2

2. What did the rending or tearing of one’s garment symbolise in the OT?

Answer 2

Great grief, mourning, or despair.

Question 3

3. Why was the man who collected sticks on the Sabbath day sentenced to death?

Answer 3

He was willfully and knowingly breaking the Law of God.

Question 4

4. Why did God command the nation of Israel to make fringes on the borders of their garments?

Answer 4

So that every time they looked at them they would remember the Lord’s commandments and do them.

Question 5

5. When Jews wore the prayer shawl (tallit), what were they literally doing?

Answer 5

Wrapping themselves in the name and the laws of God.

Question 6

6. Sine the fringe of a man’s garment represented his obedience to God’s commands, to cut it off was the equivalent of what?

Answer 6

Saying he was backslidden.

Question 7

7. As Apostolic believers, what do we have that is greater than the Tabernacle, the Temple, or the tallit?

Answer 7

We are filled with the power of the Holy Spirit and can instantly be in communication with God anytime and anywhere.

Question 8

8. One of God’s commands to make fringes (tzitzit) on their garments was given in a passage dealing specifically with what?

Answer 8

Distinction, boundaries, and separation.

Question 9

9. What is the problem with most of “Christianity” today?

Answer 9

They can’t help the world because they are exactly like the world.

Question 10

10. A lifestyle of separation produces what two (2) results?
    a.
    b.

Answer 10

a. Power

b. Blessing