Minor Prophets - Daniel to Malachi

Question 1

Daniel: Title

Answer 1

Book of the Kingdoms

Question 2

Hosea: Title

Answer 2

Book of the Law of Love

Question 3

Jonah: Title

Answer 3

Mercy on Gentiles

Question 4

Micah: Title

Answer 4

Book of Conviction

Question 5

Nahum: Title

Answer 5

Book of Vengeance

Question 6

Habakkuk: title

Answer 6

Book of Faith

Question 7

Zephaniah: Title

Answer 7

Book of the Day of Wrath

Question 8

Haggai: Title

Answer 8

Rebuilding the Temple (After Captivity)

Question 9

Zechariah: Title

Answer 9

Book of Messianic Vision

Question 10

Malachi: Title

Answer 10

Book of the Lords Messanger(s)

Question 11

Joel: Title

Answer 11

The Day of the Lord

Question 12

Amos: Title

Answer 12

Book of Punishment

Question 13

Obadiah: Title

Answer 13

Book of Retribution

Question 14

Hosea: What do his wife and children’s names represent?

Answer 14

Gomer: Completion of Idolatry (cup is full)
Jezreel: I Will Scatter
Lo-Ruhamah: No Longer show Mercy
Lo-Ammi: Not my People

Question 15

? Hosea: When did Hosea’s ministry fit into History ?

Answer 15

Ministered over 45 years,
Last prophet to the Northern KIngdom

Question 16

What are the Positive and Negative meanings of ‘The Day of the Lord’?

Answer 16

Positive: Time of God’s Salvation and Restoration
Negative: Time of God’s Wrath and Judgment

Question 17

? Amos: What Literary features did Amos use to show limits to God’s patients?

Answer 17

‘For 3’ and ‘for 4’; meaning God set 3 transgressions and waited until 4th to act.

Question 18

What Nation did Obadiah prophecy to and how are they related to Israel?

Answer 18

Written to Edom the descendants of Esau.

Question 19

What is the name of the Law Obadiah refers to describing the basis that God Judges the Nations?

Answer 19

The Law of Return

Question 20

Who did Micah Prophesy to?

Answer 20

To the Leadership of both Kingdoms.

Question 21

What was the time difference between Johan and Nahum?

Answer 21

110 Years

Question 22

What was the natural cause of the destruction of Nineveh?

Answer 22

Water, Flood (undermined the walls)

Question 23

What is the historical setting of Haggai?

Answer 23

Following the Babylonian Captivity.

Question 24

What was/is the rhetorical disputation in Malachi?

Answer 24

Literary Device: One speaks, another argues. (Malachi 1:2);
9 occurrences in Malachi

Question 25

Joel: what was the natural disaster?

Answer 25

Drought & Fire consume Fields
4 Different Plagues of Locust

Question 26

What was Jonah’s response to God’s mercy and repentance of the Ninevites?

Answer 26

Jonah is angry that God showed mercy to the Ninevites.

Question 27

What are the 2 questions Habakkuk asked God and the answers.

Answer 27

Q1. How long will you let me see the injustice in the Land without doing anything about it?
A1. I am raising up the Chaldeans to judge the evil in your people.
Q2. How can you use those who are more ungodly than we are?
A2. They will be judged afterwards.