Quiz 6 Flashcards
Prophets who told forth God’s truth to their own generation; the prophets pointed out the evils of their day and called the people to repent, warning them that while the covenant brought many privileges, so it also brought many responsibilities, including justice, righteousness, and holiness.
Forthtellers
Literally, “a remainder.” A technical term that refers to a group of God’s people that remains faithful to the Lord and with whom the Lord determines to continue his redemptive purposes.
Remnant
Prophecy that generally addresses all the people, informs them of God’s wrath against their sin, warns them of approaching judgment, calls them to repentance, and proclaims God’s salvation for those who will return to him.
Classical Prophecy
Term for that part of theology that deals with the doctrine of the last things. As such, it is concerned with death, judgment, heaven, hell, resurrection, and Jesus’ second coming.
Eschatological
Judgment speeches typically beginning with the word “woe,” that is, an exclamation of grief, distress, affliction, or lament.
Woe Oracles
Name given by many interpreters to Isaiah 24-27 because these chapters read like a miniature Book of Revelation, serving as a grand conclusion to Isaiah’s oracles of chapters 13-23 and announcing God’s final judgment of the world and the ultimate salvation of his people.
Little Apocalypse
Body of symbolic “revelatory” documents containing a unique manner and style of communication and having in common a basic content. It was widespread in Judaism around the time of Christ and had a profound influence on early Christianity.
Omen Texts
Prophets whom God called to prophesy but who never wrote down their messages, leaving to others the task of recording their words and deeds.
Nonliterary Prophets
Prophets to whom God revealed the future – sometimes the near future and sometimes the distant future – and who then declared it to their own generations.
Foretellers
Latin phrase meaning “prophecy after the fact” or “a prophecy from an outcome.”
Vatcinium ex eventu
prophesies exile because of Israel’s unfaithfulness. But then God will bring Israel back from exile; this restoration prefigures the climactic salvation in Christ. Christ as Messiah and “servant” of the Lord will cleanse his people from sin, fill them with glory, and extend blessing to the nations. Christ fulfills prophecy in both his first coming and his second coming.
Isaiah
prophetic indictment of Israel is largely rejected, prefiguring the rejection of Christ’s prophetic message to Israel. God’s judgment on Israel for apostasy prefigures the judgment that Christ bears as substitute for the apostasy of mankind. It also prefigures final judgment. Restoration from exile prefigures final restoration to God through Christ
Jeremiah’s
The lament over Jerusalem anticipates Christ’s lamenting over the future fall of Jerusalem. In both cases, Jerusalem suffers for her own sins. But suffering for sin finds a remedy when Christ suffers as a substitute for the sins of his people
Lamentations
God judges Israel’s apostasy through the exile. Israel suffers for her own sin, and in so doing anticipates God’s final judgment against sin. But the suffering also anticipates the suffering of Christ for the sins of others. The subsequent blessing in restoration prefigures the blessings of eternal salvation in Christ
Ezekiel
his friends exemplify the conflict between the kingdom of God and the kingdoms of this world, a conflict that will come to its climax in Christ, in both his first coming and his second coming.
Daniel
