The Old Testament Books of Prophecy

Question 1 1/ 1pts Amos concluded his prophecies of unrelenting judgment with a message of hope concerning Israel’s future restoration. God promised:  Israel would once again worship at Dan and Bethel   supremacy through military might   future prosperity   their swords would be returned to plowshares   Question 2 1/ 1pts Because of his strong preaching, Jeremiah was appreciated by kings, priests, and the people of Judah.  True   False   Question 3 1/ 1pts In Acts 8, Philip explains to the Ethiopian eunuch that the innocent lamb led to slaughter in Isaiah 53 refers to Jesus.  True   False   Question 4 1/ 1pts Isaiah ministered in to the southern two tribes known as Judah.  True   False   Question 5 1/ 1pts In hisfirst vision, Zechariah saw a flying scroll that measured thirty feet by fifteen feet and was covered with written curses against those who had broken God’s commandments  True   False   Question 6 1/ 1pts According to Micah, because the rich deprived the poor of their land, the Lord would now do the same to them.  True   False   Question 7 1/ 1pts The book of Malachi is structured around disputations in which the Lord dialogues with His people in a series of questions and answers.  True   False   Question 8 1/ 1pts The Immanuel prophecy depicts one whose government is from the throne of David.  True   False   Question 9 1/ 1pts The judgment of the Edomites is a reminder that God stands opposed to all forms of human arrogance and pride.  True   False   Question 10 0/ 1pts Amos concluded his prophecies of unrelenting judgment with a message of hope concerning Israel’s future restoration. God promised:  to restore the Davidic dynasty   to return Israel to maritime supremacy.   Israel’s enemies would become her slaves.   Israel would once again worship at Dan and Bethel.   Question 11 1/ 1pts Edom was lifted up because of excessive pride. They believed their mountain fortresses made them invulnerable to enemy attack.  True   False   Question 12 1/ 1pts Judgment, however, was not the final word for Judah or the nations. In the last days, the Lord would purify the speech of all peoples so they might worship and serve Him.  True   False   Question 13 1/ 1pts Zephaniah’s preaching thus helped influence perhaps the greatest revival in Judah’s history.  True   False   Question 14 1/ 1pts Jonah’s prayer in Jonah 2:1-10 closely follows the form of a songs of confession in the Psalms - where the worshipper confesses a sin to God and asks for a specific act of deliverance.  True   False   Question 15 1/ 1pts Lamentations reveals that, as the Divine Warrior, the Lord poured out His anger on the city of Jerusalem. However, He would not abandon the Temple for it was His own sanctuary.  True   False   Question 16 1/ 1pts Zechariah’s book can be divided up into eight visions, four messages, and two burdens.  True   False   Question 17 1/ 1pts Jeremiah’s two visits to the potter were prophetic sign acts that visualized how the covenantal relationship between the Lord and His people had reached a breaking point.  True   False   Question 18 1/ 1pts In Malachi, the Lord promised that He would send the prophet _________ prior to the future Day of the Lord to restore His people.  Moses   Elijah   Aaron   Elisha   Question 19 1/ 1pts Malachi prophesied in the postexilic period before the rebuilding of the temple and the reinstitution of the sacrifices and rituals associated with the temple.  True   False   Question 20 1/ 1pts The enormity of the temple rebuilding process, economic hardships, and opposition from the surrounding peoples stalled the project for sixteen months.  True   False   Question 21 1/ 1pts Zechariah called the people to repent and return to the Lord. Without true spiritual renewal on the people’s part, rebuilding the temple was useless.  True   False   Question 22 1/ 1pts Haggai encouraged some of the older people who still remembered the glorious first temple and felt like giving up when they considered the inferiority of the new temple.  True   False   Question 23 1/ 1pts Amos compared the wealthy women of Samaria to well-fed cattle in that they oppressed the poor and were consumed with their own selfish pleasures.  True   False   Question 24 1/ 1pts Habakkuk’s second question was:  “Will the Lord spare the priests and prophets?”   “Why does the Lord not punish injustice in Judah?”   “Will the Lord have mercy?”   “How can God use the Babylonians to punish Judah?”   Question 25 1/ 1pts The questions in the book of Malachi follow the pattern of: (1) accusation, (2) refutation, (3) interrogation, and (4) conclusion.  True   False   Question 26 1/ 1pts Jeremiah prophesied until Judah’s last days as a nation and warned of the coming Babylonian exile as the Lord’s punishment for Judah’s sins.  True   False   Question 27 1/ 1pts In the final section of the book of Micah, God’s relationship to His people is presented as  a parental reprimand.   an adulterous relationship.   a weed-filled field.   a divine lawsuit.   Question 28 1/ 1pts The king and people of Nineveh took Jonah’s warning of destruction seriously and expressed their repentance by fasting from food and drink, wearing sackcloth, crying out to God, and turning from their violent behavior.  True   False   Question 29 1/ 1pts The Lord commissioned Isaiah as a prophet in the year of King Uzziah’s death.  True   False   Question 30 1/ 1pts In Isaiah, Christ is pictured as a suffering servant.  True   False   Question 31 1/ 1pts Matthew 8:17 quotes from Isa 53:4 (“He took up our infirmities and carried our diseases”) as evidence that Jesus is Isaiah’s suffering servant.  True   False   Question 32 1/ 1pts Daniel’s three friends were Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.  True   False   Question 33 1/ 1pts The name Immanuel means “God for us.”  True   False   Question 34 1/ 1pts King Cyrus’s decree granted permission but not resources for rebuilding the temple. So, the returnees and their leaders began the project seeking necessary resources.  True   False   Question 35 1/ 1pts Haggai’s threefold encouragement was for the people included  giving careful thought to their ways.   realizing that they and their offerings were unclean.   observing closely how their punishment would soon turn into a blessing after they repent.  All of the above.   Question 36 1/ 1pts One poem in Lamentations portrays Jerusalem as a grieving widow mourning her destruction.  True   False   Question 37 1/ 1pts The Immanuel prophecy depicts one whose reigns forever.  True   False   Question 38 1/ 1pts Zephaniah was of royal descent, the great-great grandson of King Hezekiah.  True   False   Question 39 1/ 1pts In Isaiah, Christ is pictured as the healer of the nations.  True   False   Question 40 1/ 1pts The Babylonians allowed Jeremiah to remain in the land of Judah, and he ministered there until he and his scribe Baruch were kidnapped by a faction of Jews and taken away as hostages to Egypt.  True   False   Question 41 1/ 1pts The book of Lamentations is a series of five separate laments over the fall of Jerusalem to the __________.  Assyrians   Persians   Babylonians   Egyptians   Question 42 1/ 1pts During Hosea’s life Israel’s political size and economic stability increased, these were not indicators of spiritual vitality.  True   False   Question 43 1/ 1pts The book of Ezekiel is structured around seven visions of the Lord.  True   False   Question 44 1/ 1pts Zechariah was a postexilic prophet who foretold the coming of Israel’s true and final King.  True   False   Question 45 1/ 1pts The moral failure of Judah’s leadership had little impact on the spiritual corruption of the nation. However, the same could not be said for Judah’s priests.  True   False   Question 46 1/ 1pts Eventually, King Nebuchadnezzar would go temporarily insane and behave in an animallike manner.  True   False   Question 47 1/ 1pts Isaiah is the most referenced Old Testament book in the New Testament, with approximately 100 citations and 500 allusions.  True   False   Question 48 1/ 1pts Habakkuk’s third question was:  “Will the Lord spare the priests and prophets?”   “Will the Lord have mercy?”   “Why does the Lord not punish injustice in Judah?”   “How can God use the Babylonians to punish Judah?”   Question 49 1/ 1pts The poems in the book of Lamentations most closely resemble the communal laments in the _____________.  book of Job   book of Psalms   book of Jeremiah   book of Ecclesiastes   Question 50 1/ 1pts Amos concluded his prophecies of unrelenting judgment with a message of hope concerning Israel’s future restoration. God promised:  to make Israel victorious over her enemies   to restore Jeroboam’s throne   long lives for dutiful obedience   to increase their knowledge of the “Holy One of Israel”   All of the above 