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Question 1

Jeremiah’s Time

Answer 1

Jeremiah’s life and writings covers a time of transition from the independent statehood of Judah to complete captivity by Babylon

Question 2

Under who did Jeremiah prophecy?

Answer 2

Under the last 5 rulers of Judah

Question 3

Jeremiah’s life preserved?

Answer 3

A more exact picture of the life of Jeremiah has been preserved than the life of any other seer.

Question 4

The Zion Party

Answer 4

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 5

The Egypt Party

Answer 5

They thought a political-military alliance could save them.

Question 6

The War Party

Answer 6

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 7

During the Exile?

Answer 7

During the Babylonian Exile his prophecies seem to have been a favorite reading of the exiles.

Question 8

What overshadows the life of Jeremiah?

Answer 8

A somber, depressed spirit overshadows his life.

Question 9

Jeremiah’s writing style?

Answer 9

The language style of Jeremiah is simple, without ornament and only slightly polished.

Question 10

Jeremiah’s life became what?

Answer 10

Jeremiah’s entire life became a living personal prophecy of the suffering Messiah.

Question 11

Order of the book of Jeremiah

Answer 11

The prophecies and history in the book are not recorded in chronological order

Question 12

4 Parallels between the life of Jeremiah and the Messiah?

Answer 12

• Both had 11th hour ministries- 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 a of suffering in spite of their guiltlessness and holiness from birth.
• Both wept over the city which stoned the prophets and did not recognize what would bring it peace.
• The love of both was repaid with hatred.

Question 13

What is the book of Lamentations?

Answer 13

A book consisting of 5 laments

Question 14

The 5 songs of Lament are known as what in Latin?

Answer 14

Lamentationes

Question 15

What is a lament?

Answer 15

A lament is a sorrowful poem or song about a tragedy or disaster.

Question 16

Author of Lamentations

Answer 16

Jeremiah has been traditionally considered to be the writer.

Question 17

Structure of Lamentations?

Answer 17

Like much other Hebrew poetry, the book is highly structured.

Question 18

What is Lamentations similar to? In what way?

Answer 18

This calling upon God to take vengeance in Lamentations is similar to the cursing Psalms.

Question 19

Comparison of sufferings of Jerusalem to what?

Answer 19

The intensity and depth of the sufferings experienced by Jerusalem because of God’s wrath against sin can be considered similar to the sufferings of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Question 20

Isaiah 9:6

Answer 20

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

Question 21

What are the four throne names of the Messiah?

Answer 21

Wonderful Counselor. Mighty God. Everlasting Father. Prince of Peace

Question 22

How still today many Jews interpret the Servant of the four servant songs?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Isaiah 52:13-53:12

Answer 23

(Important servant song) This passage is quoted more frequently in the NT than any other OT passages. It has been called the Gospel of the OT.

Question 24

Why is Isaiah 58 special to us as part of the Salvation Army?

Answer 24

Booth called this the manifesto of the SA

Question 25

What is the significances of Isaiah 65:20-25 (&11:6-9)

Answer 25

Some consider the strange prophecies of these passages as the Millennial Kingdom rule of Christ.

Question 26

How did Jesus use the last verse of Isaiah?

Answer 26

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

Question 27

How is Jeremiah know to be?

Answer 27

He appears to be very sensitive, so much so that he has become known as “the weeping prophet”

Question 28

What does Isaiah mean?

Answer 28

“Salvation of YAHWEH” or “Yah saves”

Question 29

How many times is Isaiah mentioned by name in the NT?

Answer 29

22 times. More than all the other prophets combined.

Question 30

How should all prophecy be approached?

Answer 30

With respect and great humility.

Question 31

How is God revealed in the Book of Isaiah?

Answer 31

as holy (especially in book 1)
loving (especially in book 2)

Question 32

Handel’s “Messiah”

Answer 32

Much of Handel’s “Messiah” is taken from Isaiah

Question 33

How the Spirit uses Prophets?

Answer 33

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

Question 34

How God chose prophets, or who was chosen?

Answer 34

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

Question 35

What is the meaning of Isaiah’s second son’s name?

Answer 35

“Swift to the plunder, speedy to the prey.”

Question 36

What is the meaning of Isaiah’s first son’s name?

Answer 36

“a remnant shall return”

Question 37

Isaiah’s Idea of the Holy?

Answer 37

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 38

Holiness in the time of Moses?

Answer 38

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.