Test 2

Question 1

Isaiah means

Answer 1

“salvation of Yahweh,” or “Yahweh saves.”

Question 2

How many times is Isaiah mentioned in the New Testament?

Answer 2

22 times, which is more than all the other prophets combined.

Question 3

how should prophecy be approached?

Answer 3

with respect and great humility.

Question 4

As what is God revealed in Isaiah?

Answer 4

as both holy (especially in book 1) and loving (especially in book 2).

Question 5

what musical is taken from Isaiah?

Answer 5

Much of Handel’s “Messiah”

Question 6

what were prophets?

Answer 6

Prophets were not speaking trumpets, through which the Spirit spoke, but speaking men, by whom the Spirit spoke, making use of their natural powers.

Question 7

What did God look at when he called prophets?

Answer 7

Prophets could be called by God without respect to identity, lineage, or profession.

Question 8

Isaiah - the idea of Holiness

Answer 8

• In the time of Moses holiness meant being separated to God by obedience to God’s standards laid out in the covenant especially in their faithfulness or fidelity to God.
• Isaiah has a different stress concerning holiness. The moral nature of uncleanness replaced the idea of the profane as the characteristic of sinfulness.
• He emphasized morality and ethical behavior more than the ritual significance.

Question 9

Isaiah 9:6b

Answer 9

And he will be calledWonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Question 10

four throne names of the Messiah

Answer 10

1. Wonderful Counselor
2. Mighty God
3. Everlasting Father
4. Prince of Peace

Question 11

Who would the Jews say the Servant portrayed in Isaiah’s four Servant Songs is?

Answer 11

To this day, many Jews would still say that the Servant portrayed in Isaiah’s four Servant Songs is either Israel or Jerusalem.

Question 12

Fourth Servant Song

Answer 12

• Isaiah 52:13 – 53:12 (know this reference)
• This passage is quoted more frequently in the New Testament than any other Old Testament passage.
• It has been called the Gospel of the Old Testament.

Question 13

Isaiah 58

Answer 13

Booth called this the manifesto of The Salvation Army

Question 14

Some consider the strange prophecies in

Answer 14

Isaiah 65:20-25 (and 11:6-9) as the Millennial Kingdom rule of Christ

Question 15

last verse of Isaiah

Answer 15

Jesus used this last verse of Isaiah as an image of hell in Mark 9:47-48.

Question 16

Isaiah’s first son’s name meant

Answer 16

“a remnant shall return”

Question 17

Isaiah’s second son’s name meant

Answer 17

“Swift to the plunder, speedy to the prey”

Question 18

Jeremiah appears to be…

Answer 18

very sensitive, so much so that he has become known as “the weeping prophet”.

Question 19

Jeremiah’s life and writings covers

Answer 19

a time of transition from the independent statehood of Judah to complete captivity by Babylon.

Question 20

Jeremiah prophecied under

Answer 20

the last five rulers of Judah

Question 21

more exact picture of…

Answer 21

the life of Jeremiah has been preserved than of the life of any other seer.

Question 22

The Zion party

Answer 22

Their logic was simple; “Because we have the Temple of God among us we are safe because the God of the universe would never allow his Temple on earth to be destroyed.”

Question 23

The Egypt party

Answer 23

They thought a political-military alliance could save them

Question 24

The War Party

Answer 24

They dreamed of freedom and peace while exile and war were already approaching the gates of the city. Jeremiah’s call to submit to Babylon as the lesser evil was interpreted by the war party as a lack of patriotism at best or treason at worst.

Question 25

During the Babylonian Exile

Answer 25

Jeremiah’s prophecies seem to have been the favorite reading of the exiles.

Question 26

What overshadows Jeremiah’s life?

Answer 26

A sombre, depressed spirit

Question 27

The language style of Jeremiah

Answer 27

simple, without ornament and only slightly polished.

Question 28

What did Jeremiah’s entire life become?

Answer 28

a living personal prophecy of the suffering Messiah

Question 29

The various parallels between the life of Jeremiah and of the Messiah

Answer 29

• Both had an 11th-hour ministry proclaiming the overthrow of Jerusalem and its temple by the Babylonians (or Romans).
• Jeremiah and Jesus were both men beloved of God, and obliged to live a life of suffering in spite of their guiltlessness and holiness from birth.
• Both wept over the city which stoned the prophets and did not recognise what would bring it peace.
• The love of both was repaid with hatred.

Question 30

In what order are the prophecies and history in Jeremiah recorded?

Answer 30

not recorded in chronological order.

Question 31

Lamentations in Latin

Answer 31

Lamentationes

Question 32

Lamentations consists of

Answer 32

of 5 laments

Question 33

What is a lament

Answer 33

a sorrowful poem or song about a tragedy or disaster.

Question 34

traditionally considered to be the writer

Answer 34

Jeremiah

Question 35

How is Lamentations like other Hebrew poetry?

Answer 35

the book is highly structured.

Question 36

How is Lamentations similar to the Cursing Psalms

Answer 36

calling upon God to take vengeance

Question 37

can be considered similar to the sufferings of the Lord Jesus Christ

Answer 37

the intensity and depth of the sufferings experienced by Jerusalem because of God’s wrath against its sins