Test3: Study (Part 2)

Question 1

Who is Hosea?

Answer 1

1) He was a weeping prophet who oversaw the fall of the Northern Kingdom
2) He lived out his message as no other prophet (understood anguish of God’s heart for the people’s sin perhaps more than any other prophet)
3) He predicted the Assyrian invasion in NK and live to see it

Question 2

Hosea Date

Answer 2

760 - 700 BC (ministered longer than all the other prophets, except for Daniel and Isaiah)

Question 3

Hosea Destination

Answer 3

NK, called Ephraim throughout the book (first tribe to backslide)

Question 4

Hosea Purpose

Answer 4

To picture Israel’s unfaithfulness of God and God’s faithfulness to Israel

Question 5

Hosea Importance/Distinctives

Answer 5

1) Quoted more times in the NT (30 times)

2) The strangest book in the Bible. God commanded he to take “a wife of whoredom” (wife name Gomer)

Question 6

Who is Micah?

Answer 6

1) He was a prophet of the common people, a defender of the poor, the downtrodden, and the exploited.
2) Younger contemporary of Amos and Hosea and was closely associated with Isaiah
3) Country preacher like Amos

Question 7

Micah Date/Destination

Answer 7

1) Micah and Isaiah began their ministries about the same time (preached as contemporaries for 4 decades)
2) Both ministries were in the SK

Question 8

Micah Background

Answer 8

He preached in the last days of the NK. Others said “Judgment is Coming”, Micah said “Judgment is Here”.

Question 9

Micah Importance/Distinctives

Answer 9

He predicted the Bethlehem birth, and Babylonian exile (he was the first to predict this)

Question 10

How was Micah’s 1st sermon picture?

Answer 10

It was picture as a courtroom drama where Israel is accused of violation her covenant with Jehovah - with the world as the jury and God as the Judge.

Question 11

Who is Isaiah?

Answer 11

1) Name means - Salvation is of the Lord (Greatest OT prophets)
2) Very educated and of royalty (nephew of King Amaziah, and cousin of King Uzziah)
3) Married a prophetess, and had 2 sons
4) Walked barefooted and naked for 3 years to picture how Assyria would conquer Egypt and Ethiopia (removing all hope of Judah)
5) Martyred by being sawn asunder by evil King Manasseh

Question 12

Isaiah Date

Answer 12

1) He ministry for about 60 years, younger contemporary of the prophets Amos and Hosea in the NK
2) Ministered alongside Micah in SK

Question 13

Isaiah Purpose

Answer 13

1) To rebuke his present sinful generation (call back to relationship with God)
2) To comfort a future exiled generation and insure them God would call the back to their land (a future Messianic Kingdom)

Question 14

Isaiah Import/Distinctives

Answer 14

1) Greatness - “To the Jews, Isaiah was the greatest of the prophets”
2) Literary Merit - perhaps greatest writer who ever lived.
3) Size - 3rd longest book in the Bible (Jeremiah and Psalms 1st and 2nd longest books)
5) Manuscripts - Dead Sea Scrolls were the manuscript of Isaiah (1,000 years old)

Question 15

Who is Ahaz?

Answer 15

(732-716 BC)

1) He was Judah’s second worse king (sacrificing his own children to idols)
2) He rejected God’s offer (a sign to be delivered from Syrian-Israei alliance), but was given Isaiah’s prophecy of the Virgin Birth

Question 16

Who is Hezekiah?

Answer 16

(716-687BC)

1) Son of the wicked Ahaz
2) He became the second best king of Judah
3) Organized the greatest Passover celebration since Solomon.
4) Help organize the books of Psalms and Proverbs

Question 17

Who is Rabshakeh?

Answer 17

1) The Assyrian spokesman who blasphemed God when the Assyrian army surrounded Jerusalem.
2) Foreign Leader in the book of Isaiah

Question 18

Who is Sennacherib?

Answer 18

1) The Assyrian general who besieged Jerusalem and saw his army defeated by the prayer of Hezekiah.
2) Foreign Leader in the book of Isaiah

Question 19

Who is Cyrus?

Answer 19

1) The future king of he Persian Empire whom Isaiah predicted the return of the Jews to Jerusalem to rebuild the Temple.
2) He called this king by name 200 years prior to his birth
2) Foreign Leader in the book of Isaiah

Question 20

What is the meaning of Immanuel?

Answer 20

God with Us

Question 21

Zephaniah Main Content

Answer 21

Zephaniah tells of the Day of the Lord, a Day of Judgment and a Day of Restoration

Question 22

Zephaniah Destination

Answer 22

The Southern and Sole Surviving Kingdom of Judah

Question 23

Zephaniah Backgroud

Answer 23

1) NK already fallen to Assyrian, 55 evil years under wicked kings Manasseh and Amon, which never fully recovered.
2) A temporary revival in 621 BC under King Josiah, but too little and too late (people returned back to their sins once Josiah died)

Question 24

Zephaniah Importance/Distinctives

Answer 24

1) Mentions the prophetic Day of the Lord more than any other book
2) Predicts the reversal of the curse of Babel during the Millennial Kingdom of Christ

Question 25

Who is Habakkuk?

Answer 25

1) He was the final prophet called to the SK before its fall to Babylon
2) He was a Levitical chorister in the Temple Choir

Question 26

Habakkuk Background

Answer 26

He prophesied to the sole surviving kingdom of Judah during the death throes of the nation

Question 27

Habakkuk Importance/Distinctives

Answer 27

1) Was a Levitical singer, and wrote more as poetical wisdom literature than a prophet
2) Sees one of the greatest manifestation of God’s glory in Scripture
3) Great theological declaration, “The just shall live by his faith”
4) Final prophet in Judah before Babylonian captivity (Micah ministry in both kingdoms)

Question 28

What are Habakkuk’s 4 questions?

Answer 28

1) Why doesn’t God hear my prayers?
2) Why doesn’t God solve my problem?
3) Why does God allow the wicked to prosper?
4) Why does God allow the righteous to suffer?

Question 29

Nahum Main Content

Answer 29

1) Nahum is a warning about the danger of spiritual erosion
2) Nimrod built the ancient city of Nineveh over 2,700 years ago, and he was the head of the tower of Babel project and of worldwide false religion
3) Assyria is the capital of Nineveh
4) 185,000 troops died in one night, prevented the fall of Judah

Question 30

Nahum Importance/Distinction

Answer 30

1) Nahum is one of only two Biblical books given over completely to the destruction of a heathen nation.
2) It is a example of the justice of God and of a fulfillment of Genesis 15:16 “For the iniquity of the Amorites it not yet full”

Question 31

Who is Jeremiah?

Answer 31

1) He is known as the weeping prophet
2) Name means “Jehovah hurls down” or “Jehovah establishes a foundation”
3) He was the most persecuted of all OT prophets (seen as a traitor)
4) He was a prolific writer (also believed he wrote Lamentations and 1 and 2 Kings)
5) Jeremiah penned the 2nd greatest amount of scripture of any Biblical writer (Moses being the first)

Question 32

Jeremiah Date

Answer 32

A period of almost 60 years, started his ministry during the reign of godly King Josiah (last ray of hope), and then the final 4 wicked kings,

Question 33

Who is Josiah?

Answer 33

Final righteous king of Judah (last revival)

Question 34

Who is Jehoiakim?

Answer 34

1) He was the oldest brother of Jehoahaz and son of Josiah (appointed as vassal king by Pharaoh Necho)
2) He suffered the first Babylonian invasion and a vassal of Babylon when Egypt was defeated

Question 35

Who is Zedekiah?

Answer 35

1) Another son of Josiah, he was appointed as Babylon’s vassal king
2) He saw his sons slain before he was blinded and deported to Babylon

Question 36

Who is Gedaliah?

Answer 36

He was Babylonian appointed governor of Judah after its fall (he was later assassinated)

Question 37

Who is Johanan?

Answer 37

Rule as Governor after Gedaliah, ignore the warnings of Jeremiah (attempted to flee with a Jewish remnant to Egypt, taking Jeremiah with them as prisoner)

Question 38

Jeremiah Background History

Answer 38

1) 721 BC - Assyria conquers Israel, but prevented from conquering Judah (prayers of Hezekiah)
2) 605 BC - 1st Babylonian invasion of Judah (Daniel captive)
3) 597 BC - 2nd Babyloniaon invasion of Judah (Ezekiel captive), suffer a defeat against Egypt (Israel switched sides with Egypt and was was punished in 2nd invasion)
4) 586 BC - 3rd Babylonian Invasion of Judah (final rebellion, but was defeated), Jerusalem is destroyed.

Question 39

Lamentations Date

Answer 39

586 BC - the siege of Jerusalem lasted from 588 to 586 BC, city fell July 19, and burned August 15 (completely destroyed in 586 BC)

Question 40

Lamentations Recipients

Answer 40

Written to the captives in Babylon to show that as God had faithfully delivered the Covenant Cures on Israel, God will fulfill His promises of Restoration for their Repentance.

Question 41

Lamentations Background

Answer 41

Jeremiah sat weeping outside Jerusalem’s north wall as he wrote this book, under the knoll called Golgotha

Question 42

Lamentations Importance/Distinctions

Answer 42

1) composed of 5 elegies, dirges, or funeral songs, all lamenting the tragic destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians (literary form is an Acrostic)
2) A different Hebrew letter begins each of the 22 verses in chapters 1, 2, and 4, using each of the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet successively

Question 43

Who was the chief-of-staff of Babylonian king?

Answer 43

Nebuzardan - was instructed to treat Jeremiah with kindness after the fall of Jerusalem.

Question 44

Who was the chief temple priest who had Jeremiah whipped and put in stocks?

Answer 44

Pashhur

Question 45

Who was the false prophet who oppose Jeremiah, declaring God had broken the yoke of Babylon?

Answer 45

Hananiah