Test #3

Question 1

What is the difficult material the writer returns to in chapter 7

Answer 1

The high priesthood of Jesus

Question 2

3 ways Melchizedek is like Jesus and is a good type

Answer 2

Severed a duel role
No record of beginning or end
Said to be superior by Abraham

Question 3

Only 2 OT passage where MEL is mentioned and genre of each

Answer 3

Gen. 13 - history

Psalm 110 - Worship psalms

Question 4

MEL’s city name, its relation to shalom

Answer 4

Salem

Shalom means peace

Question 5

How Abraham honored God through MEL

Answer 5

By tithing to him

Question 6

Instructor’s understanding of the nature of MEL

Answer 6

Not supernatural

Chosen b/c illustrates Christ’s nature and superiority of His ministry over cov. priests

Question 7

What earthly representatives of God share in common

Answer 7

They ultimately will disappoint or leave you

Question 8

Meaning of “another” priest in 7:11

Answer 8

A different type or kind (heteros)

Question 9

Understand “oath” vs “family line” distinction for priests

Answer 9

Christ had verbal oath by God, all others just from Aaron’s family

Question 10

2 weaknesses of old covenant priests

Answer 10

They have their own sins

They have nothing to offer that is effective

Question 11

OT passage forecasting a “new covenant”

Answer 11

Jeremiah 31:31-34

Question 12

4 advantages of new over old covenant

Answer 12

Laws internal vs written
Relationship successful (He their God, not idols)
Everyone will know God (voluntarily not inherited)
Sin will never come btw God and His people

Question 13

Greek word for “new” to describe new covenant, distinction btw the 2 words

Answer 13

Kainos (new kind) 
NOT Neos (new in age)

Question 14

2 Greek words used for worship and one used in 9:1

Answer 14

Proskuneo (x) and Leiturgeo (!!)

Question 15

Holy place vs Most Holy place and who could enter

Answer 15

Holy- all priests

Most Holy- only the High Priest

Question 16

3 items in ark and what they represented

Answer 16

Jar of Manna (God’s provision)
Aaron’s staff (A’s God-ordained authority)
Stone tablets (God’s covenant)

Question 17

Role of “cherubim” and meaning of “cherub”

Answer 17

Guardians of the holy

To protect man

Question 18

Meaning of Yom Kippur

Answer 18

Day of Attonement
Yom- “to cover”
Kippur - “Day”

Question 19

Main lesson of the tabernacle

Answer 19

People could not just enter the presence of God

Question 20

Understanding of “shame” connection to readers’ draw back to the old religion

Answer 20

There is shame in a cross

Question 21

Instructor’s understanding of what Paul is thinking about with his quote “no eye has seen”

Answer 21

the cross not heaven

Question 22

Meaning and illustration used to describe “ransom” or “ransom money”

Answer 22

Price to free a slave

Question 23

Distinction between “uncleanness” and “sin”

Answer 23

Unclean=made common, could not approach God

Sin=not related with God

Question 24

Word for “serve” in 9:14 and which worship word it is

Answer 24

latreuo - worship acts and service

Question 25

Basis upon which God could forgive sins committed under the first covenant

Answer 25

God “ignored” sin for a while until Jesus saved them through his atoning death

Question 26

Chapter 1

Answer 26

The Most Important thing ever said

Question 27

Chapter 2

Answer 27

The FUll humanity of the Son of God

Question 28

CHapter 3

Answer 28

Christ is superior to Moses

Question 29

Chapter 4

Answer 29

The remaining Promise of Rest

Question 30

CHapter 5

Answer 30

High Priesthood of Christ

Question 31

Chapter 6

Answer 31

Apostasy and divine faithfulness

Question 32

Chapter 7

Answer 32

The priesthood of Melchizedek

Question 33

Chapter 8

Answer 33

The new and better covenant

Question 34

Chapter 9

Answer 34

Christ the definitive sacrifice

Question 35

Chapter 10a

Answer 35

Moving from imperfect to perfect

Question 36

Chapter 10b

Answer 36

Faithfulness, apostasy, and endurance

Question 37

Brooks’ discussion of Christ’s work tense-wise, the 3 tasks

Answer 37

Atonement (past)
Advocacy (Present)
Advent (Future)

Question 38

OT concept recalled from LEV 16 to illustrate “carrying away” sin

Answer 38

Scapegoat

Question 39

Which day was a “day of fasting” under the old covenant law

Answer 39

The Day of Atonement

Question 40

The theological (biblical) answer to “Who offered Jesus as a sacrifice?”

Answer 40

God

Question 41

Reason instructor suggested HEBs has sounded repetitious to this point

Answer 41

That is what sermons do

Question 42

Sitting is posture of what

Answer 42

Rest/the work is completed

Question 43

Final enemy of Christ to be defeated and how it impacts understanding of identity of Christ’s enemies

Answer 43

Death is the final enemy

Christ’s enemies are all the manifestations of sin

Question 44

Symbolism of “footstool”

Answer 44

Conquerors put their feet on the necks of their enemies to say they are defeated

Question 45

How he identifies with readers as “family”

Answer 45

calls them brothers 3x

Question 46

Distinction between “sprinkled hearts” and “washed bodies” and Griff’s identification of both

Answer 46

Sprinkled is priestly imagery, something physically enacted, thought of water baptisms

Question 47

2 things we are to keep one another “stirred up” to do

Answer 47

love and do good deeds

Question 48

Purpose of church assembly, as identified by Griff

Answer 48

Encouragement to not withdraw from faith and community

Question 49

Meaning of “reject the Law of Moses” in 10:28

Answer 49

“set aside”

Choosing idolatry

Question 50

2 persecutions in Rome and how they relate time-wise to the readers

Answer 50

Claudius- 49 AD no blood shed
Nero- 64 AD bloody!
HEB written just prior of Nero’s persecution

Question 51

Hagner’s explanation of “willful sin”

Answer 51

The sin of apostasy (rejecting Jesus when know the truth)