TCP 11: Amos - Malachi

Question 1

THEME of Amos

Answer 1

Judgment for Injustice

Question 2

GOD SOVEREIGN OVER CALAMITY

Answer 2

Amos 3:6b
Does disaster come to a city,
unless the LORD has done it?

Question 3

PERVERTED JUSTICE

Answer 3

Amos 5:10-12
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks the truth. 11 Therefore because you trample on the poor and you exact taxes of grain from him…

Question 4

GOD DESIRES JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS

Answer 4

Amos 5:24
But let justice roll down like waters,
and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Question 5

HOPE OF ISRAEL’S FUTURE RESTORATION

Answer 5

Amos 9:11-15
“In that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen and repair its breaches, and raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old…

Question 6

THEME of Obadiah

Answer 6

Judgment on Edom

Question 7

JUDGMENT BASED ON REAPING WHAT YOU HAVE SOWN

Answer 7

Obadiah 1:15
For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.

Question 8

THEME of Jonah

Answer 8

God’s Mercy

Question 9

SALVATION BELONGS TO THE LORD

Answer 9

Jonah 2:9
But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to the LORD!

Question 10

GOD RELENTS WHEN SINNERS REPENT

Answer 10

Jonah 3:10
When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.

Question 11

PREJUDICE PREVENTS PROCLAMATION

Answer 11

Jonah 4:2
And he prayed to the LORD and said, “O LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.

Question 12

THEME of Micah

Answer 12

God’s Justice

Question 13

ETERNAL CHRIST FROM BETHLEHEM

Answer 13

Micah 5:2
But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me
one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.

Question 14

GOD REQUIRES JUSTICE, WALK HUMBLY

Answer 14

Micah 6:8
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Question 15

A GOD WHO FORGIVES

Answer 15

Micah 7:18-20
Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance?…

Question 16

THEME of Nahum

Answer 16

Judgment on Ninevah

Question 17

GOD’S GOODNESS AMIDST JUDGMENT

Answer 17

Nahum 1:2-8
The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and wrathful; the LORD takes vengeance on his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies. 3 The LORD is slow to anger and great in power…

Question 18

THEME of Habakkuk

Answer 18

Judgment on Judah

Question 19

THE RIGHTEOUS LIVE BY FAITH

Answer 19

Habbakkuk 2:4
“Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.

Question 20

I WILL REJOICE IN THE LORD

Answer 20

Habbakkuk 3:17-19
Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, 18 yet I will rejoice in the LORD;…

Question 21

THEME of Zephaniah

Answer 21

Future Global Judgment

Question 22

COMPLACENT IN HEART

Answer 22

Zephaniah 1:12
At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are complacent, those who say in their hearts, ‘The LORD will not do good, nor will he do ill.’

Question 23

GOD’S WRATH ON THE DAY OF THE LORD

Answer 23

Zephaniah 1:14-18
The great day of the LORD is near, near and hastening fast; the sound of the day of the LORD is bitter; the mighty man cries aloud there…

Question 24

SEEK THE LORD IN HUMILITY

Answer 24

Zephaniah 2:3
Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands; seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the LORD.

Question 25

CHRIST WILL RULE IN ISRAEL

Answer 25

Zephaniah 3:14-20
Sing aloud, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem!…

Question 26

THEME of Haggai

Answer 26

Priority of Worship

Question 27

GLORY OF MILLENNIAL TEMPLE

Answer 27

Haggai 2:9
The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says the LORD of hosts. And in this place I will give peace, declares the LORD of hosts.’”

Question 28

THEME of Zechariah

Answer 28

The Coming King

Question 29

CHRIST’S TWO ADVENTS

Answer 29

Zechariah 9:9-10
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 10 I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall speak peace to the nations; his rule shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

Question 30

ISRAEL REPENTS OVER PIERCED MESSIAH

Answer 30

Zechariah 12:10
And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.

Question 31

CHRIST RETURNS TO REIGN IN ISRAEL

Answer 31

Zechariah 14

Question 32

THEME of Malachi

Answer 32

True Worship

Question 33

GOD REJECTS INSINCERE WORSHIP

Answer 33

Malachi 1:6-14
A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’…

Question 34

GOD HATES DIVORCE

Answer 34

Malachi 2:16
“For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the LORD, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the LORD of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”

Question 35

WILL MAN ROB GOD? [GIVING]

Answer 35

Malachi 3:8
Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In your tithes and contributions.