Old Testament Lessons 6 and 7 Flashcards
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Lesson #6
- Isaiah began his ministry in 742 B.C. in the year King _____ died. In that year he experienced a theophany which is defined as a vision of God. In that vision God commissioned him to begin his work as a prophet (Isa. 6). Isaiah advises King ____ not to make an alliance with _____ who would defeat the Northern Kingdom only____ years after Isaiah’s call. King Ahaz eventually rejects this advice and no longer receives Isaiah or listens to his messages.
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Uzziah
Ahaz
Assyria
twenty
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Lesson #6
- As early as the Gospel of Matthew, the church began using parts of Isaiah to understand the life and ministry of______. Things Isaiah talks about have their fulfillment in or close to his own time. Matthew and other early Christians thought texts had multiple meanings. So, when they said a text spoke about Jesus, they did not necessarily mean that the prophet intended to speak about _______. They believed that the God who acted in Jesus was the same God who acted in______ past.
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Jesus
Jesus
Israel’s
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Lesson #6
- When _____ reads about a child whose name is “God with us” (Isa. 7), he automatically applies it to Jesus because, for him, that is who Jesus is: God’s ______ with us. Matthew does not need to think that Isaiah had such a distant birth in mind to use this passage in his proclamation about Jesus. When he does, he gives the Isaiah passage a new meaning. When Isaiah spoke it, this passage was not about Jesus – in fact, no Israelite ______ made direct predictions about Jesus.
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Matthew
presence
prophet
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Lesson #6
- The book of Isaiah has a complicated literary history. It contains material from no less than_____ prophets who write in the name of Isaiah. The original Isaiah lives in a time of looming disaster. He sees the might of the ______ Empire being brought to bear on the small nation of _____. The point of this disaster is neither to completely destroy the people nor to _____ the covenant; rather, it is to produce a people who live as the covenant demands.
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three
Assyrian
Judah
annul
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Lesson #6
- Second Isaiah’s message appears in chapters _______ and writes when Judah has been in exile for about _____ years. The context is clearly _____ rather than ______ at the time when the _______ Empire is a threatening presence.
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40–55
fifty
Babylon
Jerusalem
Assyrian
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Lesson #6
- Second Isaiah sees the ______ growing power and so the approaching end of the _____ Empire. He even calls the Persian king _____ God’s anointed one, indicating he believes God has selected him to bring benefits to God’s people in exile. Second Isaiah reminds the people that their former _____ was the cause of their exile.
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Persians’
Babylonian
Cyrus
unfaithfulness
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Lesson #6
- Third Isaiah’s message is preserved in chapters _____, and speaks from a time _____ the return from the exile. He is probably a part of a prophetic group that calls its members “________.”
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56–66
after
“servants of the Lord”
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Lesson #6
- The book of Isaiah contains _____ sections known as the ______ Songs. These songs or poems develop the idea that a prophet who is a part of the group that maintains faithfulness to God will endure suffering for the good of the nation. Christians read the Servant Songs to interpret what Jesus had done for them. However, these poems are clearly not about _____ or anyone who lived hundreds of years after the time of ______.
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four
Suffering Servant
Jesus
Isaiah
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Lesson #6
- Over a hundred years after Isaiah, Jeremiah began to prophecy. His message contains words of _____ even though he predicts the ______ of Judah. Jeremiah actually lives through the initial siege of Jerusalem and gives advice about the policies the nation should adopt in its aftermath. The book presents Jeremiah’s life as exemplifying ______ in the face of adversity. Jeremiah’s ministry lasted of forty years and the narrative seems to be shaped after the pattern of ______, who ministry was the same length of time.
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hope
fall
faithfulness
Moses
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Lesson #6
- Tradition says that Jeremiah wrote the book of Lamentations which consists of _____ poetry that grieves over the fall of ______ and _______. It gives a glimpse of the devastation of Jerusalem when the nation fell.
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mourning
Judah
Jerusalem
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Lesson #6
- The construction of Lamentations is written in ______ verse. The first _____ poems are in ______ form. Each stanza begins with one of the ______ letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
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poetry
four
acrostic
twenty-two
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Lesson #6
- Ezekiel is among the _____ Judeans the Babylonians take into exile. He begins having _____ in Babylon shortly after arriving there and remains active as a prophet for at least _____ years. The first twenty-four chapters chronicle his experiences in _____ and the events in Jerusalem that lead up to its fall.
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first
visions
twenty
Babylon
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Lesson #6
- Ezekiel is best known for his extravagant _____ at the beginning of the book. The report of the visions that appear in the first chapters are a part of the escalation of dramatic language that helped launch the imagery of ______ literary style seen fully developed in the book of _______.
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visions
apocalyptic
Revelation
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Lesson #6
- In the second part of Ezekiel (chap. 25 – 32) or the oracles against the _____ nations that occupy ______ and the neighboring nations that aided the Babylonians.
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foreign
Jerusalem
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Lesson #6
- The third section of Ezekiel offers hope for ______ and responds to ______ about whether God cares about the plight of the people (Ezek. 33 -39).
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restoration
questions
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Lesson #6
- Ezekiel 40 – 48 contains a vision of the _______ and commonwealth of God’s people. He goes into great detail describing this new temple and how God will dwell in it. While these extravagant visions seem rather strange, they ______ what the people in exile need to come to a clearer and renewed ______ in God in the midst of their _______ in Babylon.
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new temple
provide
faith
suffering
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Lesson #7
- The earliest of the writing prophets is ______. He is well informed about international affairs, as well as being a good ______. Amos says that he did not receive the training available at the school of the ______ and that he really did not want to be a prophet (7:14-15).
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Amos
poet
prophets
