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OT Studies - Final Flashcards

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Jeremiah’s Scribe

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Baruch

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Jeremiah’s age at prophetic call

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16-25

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Lesson from the potter’s house

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As the poster fashioned clay, so the lord shaped the nations according to his sovereign purpose. If God decreed judgement against an evil nation but the nation repented, God might cancel the judgement (same with blessing)

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Book of Comfort/Consolation

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Jeremiah 30-33

God had not cast aside his people. A glorious future would follow their judgement

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Results of Battle of Carchemish

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Nebuchadnezzar’s forces won a decisive victory and established Babylon as the world’s dominant power. Jeremiah used that occasion to proclaim Egypt’s impending judgement. Egypt would survive, but God’s wrath would come first.

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Acrostic

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Alphabetical poem in which the first letter of each line is the next successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Hence, there are 22 lines or verses, one for each of the 22 letters of the alphabet

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Day of the Lord

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Concept frequently occurring in both the Prophets and the NT. It includes three elements: the judgement of God against sin, the cleansing and purging of God’s people, and the salvation of God’ people

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Tammuz

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Mesopotamian agricultural god, husband of the goddess Ishtar, whose followers believed that every year at harvest time, Tammuz died; the women Ezekiel saw in his vision weeping not at the Jerusalem temple were joining Ishtar in the mourning of Tammuz’s death. Tammuz returned to life in the spring when crops rejuvenated themselves and buds appeared on the trees

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Ishtar

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Mesopotamian goddess of love and the heroine of war depicted as a harlot, part of the Babylonian pantheon. Ishtar was the wife of Tammuz.

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Factors that suggest the book of Ezekiel came from one hand

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The books smooth flow

Consistent autobiographical style

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Symbolic actions of Ezekiel

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  1. Take a brick and write on it “Jerusalem” and then lay siege to it
  2. Lie on his left side for 390 days to bear the iniquity of Israel and 40 days for Judah
  3. Cook his bread making small rations and using human dung for fuel
  4. Divide his hair into three parts. Burn a third of it in fire, chop a third of it to bits with a sword, and toss a third into the wind and let it blow away. He was also to take a few pieces and bind them into his garment
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Meaning of “take a brick and write on it “Jerusalem” and then lay siege to it

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“I’m laying siege to Jerusalem” God, through Nebuchadnezzar’s armies, was about to lay siege to Jerusalem one last, terrible time

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Meaning of “lie on his side for 390 days to bear the iniquity of Israel and 40 d Amy’s for Judah

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The symbolic action illustrated the depth of sin to which God’s people had sunk. Only deep repentance could save them from drowning in their evil

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Meaning of “cook his bread making small rations and using human dung (later cow dung) for fuel

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The people would have small rations in the day of their captivity. The Babylonians would surround the city and cut off the food supply

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Meaning of “Ezekiel dividing his hair into three parts. Burn a third of it in fire, chop a third off it to bits with a sword, and toss a third into the wind Ned let it I blow away”

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The hair’s division represented the different fates the people would suffer. Some would die in the fire the Babylonians set in the city. Others would die by the sword, while still others would experience exile to a distant land. But God would protect his purposes for his people would continue through them.

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Elements included in the Day of the Lord

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The judgements of God against sin
The cleansing and purging of God’s people
The salvation of God’s people

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Suggested meaning of Gog and Magog

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The term appears to describe the ultimate foe of God’s people

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Different views of how to interpret Ezekiel 40-48

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  1. Ezekiel’s prophecy found its fulfillment in the return and rebuilding of Jerusalem under Zerubbabel, Ezra, and Nehemiah
  2. Take Ezekiel’s words as literally as possible but understands them to describe God’s future kingdom
  3. Prophetically referring to the church
  4. Combines 1st and 3rd. Proposes that Ezekiel’s words were partially fulfilled in the Second Temple period. The rest will be fulfilled completely in the church age or in the millennial kingdom
  5. Understand Ezekiel’s language symbolically, apocalyptic literature
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Basic contents of Ezra and Nehemiah

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Record the events of the return from exile and the restoration of Judah

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Basic contents of Esther

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Illustrates how the faithfulness and courage of a single Jew made a difference in the world in which she lived

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Relationship of Zerubbabel to Sheshbazzar

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Uncertain. While some have concluded that they were the same individual with two names, it is better to assumed that Sheshbazzar was the first Persian governor of Judah and began the work on the temple’s foundation. At some later unknown date, Zerubbabel replaced him as governor and finished the work.

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Who the Samaritans were

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The Samaritans in the north were descendants of various groups that were moved into Samaria by the Assyrians after Israel fell in 722 BC. They offered to help in the rebuilding efforts, were excluded, and the proved themselves to be true “enemies of Judah and Benjamin” by opposing the work of the Jews

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Who was Ezra

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The towering figure of the restoration community

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Who was Nehemiah

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An exiled Jew who had risen to high office in the Persian Empire

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Syncretism

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The merging of differing religious beliefs into one system

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Identity of King Ahasuerus

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Xerxes I

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How God’s providence word in Esther

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He put Esther as Queen for such a time as this (to save the Jews)

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Villain in Esther

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Haman…. Wait check on this… Satan?

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What the Feast of Purim commemorates

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An annual time of celebration on the fourteenth and fifteenth of Adar. Called Purim because of the pur, or “lot,” which Haman cast to determine the date of his proposed extermination of the Jews

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Darius I

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Persia’s third King. Ruled as governor while Joshua served as high priest

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Zerubbabel

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Descendant. Of King David

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Date Haggai began his ministry

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Fall of 520 BC

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Main thrust of Haggai’s first message

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The people had plenty of time to tend to their own desires but no time to finish God’s temple

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Points for multiple authorship of Zechariah

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  1. The subject matter in 1-8 and 9-14 is quite different. Chapters 1-8 deal primarily with rebuilding the temple and Jerusalem, whereas chapters 9-14 focus primarily on the distant future
  2. Vocabulary and style are very different in the two sections
  3. Zechariah 9:13 mention Greece, which was not a major power until after Zechariah’s days
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Points against multiple authorship of Zechariah

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  1. Prophets often wrote about a variety of topics. Moreover, the book of Zechariah’s structure resembles other biblical apocalyptic writings
  2. Different topics naturally require different vocabulary and style. Moreover, prophets sometimes varied their styles for a specific purpose
  3. Greece was becoming a major power during Zechariah’s lifetime, especially during his later years. Perhaps Zechariah wrote chapters 9-14 later in his life. We also should not rule out the possibility of predictive prophecy, namely, that God can reveal the future to his prophets.
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How Zechariah conveyed the first and second comings of the Messiah

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There is no sharp distinction.

  1. God will bring the victory
  2. The nation will embrace its Lord
  3. God’s shepherd will be struck down
  4. The Lord will return to save His people
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Date of Malachi’s ministry

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Somewhere between 470 and 460 BC

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Ways that people were unfaithful to God in Malachi

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Priests were accepting blind, lame, and sick animals for sacrifice

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Command and promise with which Malachi concludes his first book

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  1. He commanded God’s people to remember the law of Moses

2. He promised the people that God’s judgement was coming

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Esther 4:14

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For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

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Jeremiah 29:11

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For I know the thought that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

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Jeremiah 29:13

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And you will seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.

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Ezekiel 36:26

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I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

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Zechariah 4:6

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So he answered and said to me: “This is the word of the Lord to Zerrubabel: ‘not by might nor by power, but by my spirit,’ says the lord of hosts

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Josiah

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640-609

Last godly King

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Jehoahaz

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609

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Jehoikim

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609-598

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Jehoiachin

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598-597

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Zedekiah

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597-586

Last king

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Last 5 kings

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Josiah
Jehoahaz 
Jehoiakim
Jehoiachin
Zedekiah
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Nicknames of Jeremiah

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Iron Prophet

Weeping prophet

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3 invasions of Babylon army

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605 - Daniel and other young men taken captive
597 - Jehoiachin, Ezekiel, and others taken captive
586 - Jerusalem and temple are burned and many more captives taken

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Temple theology

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The temple guaranteed their security and safety

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Two theological errors Jeremiah is critiquing

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Ritualism

Triumphalism

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Ritualism

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Using religious rituals as ends in themselves to ensure gods favor

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Triumphalism

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The belief that God’s people would be victorious, come what may

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God is providing salvation freedom for

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Penalty of sin -forgiveness (justification)
Power of sin - transformation (sanctification)
Presence of sin - in eternity/heaven (glorification)

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Watchman

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Metaphor for the prophet

  1. Watch for approaching danger
  2. Sound the alarm when the enemy is coming
  3. Help defend the city
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Dates and events given in chronology

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538 Cyrus's decree
520 Work on the temple renewed 
516 Completion of the temple 
458 Ezra's return to Jerusalem 
445 Nehemiah's journey to Jerusalem
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God’s title for Ezekiel

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Son of man

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Three decrees that allowed the Jews to return

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538 Cyrus
520 Darius
457 Artaxerxes I

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