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115 Cards in this Set
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The Bible is a growing _________ of God and His plan of salvation for humanity. |
revelation |
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The New Testament can be considered in the ______ and the _______ that give an account and explanation of God's work through Jesus Christ, the Church, and of bringing His creation to completion in eternity. |
historical books; epistles |
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The Pentateuch is composed of the first five books of the Bible: ___________________________________________. |
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. |
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The Pentateuch was written essentially by __________. |
Moses |
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Some of the significant Scriptures about creation are ________, Isaiah 40:26-28, __________, and Hebrews 11:3 |
Genesis 1:1, John 1;3 |
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_____________________ is the act of God whereby he brought forth the visible and invisible universe (__________________) without the use of preexisting materials and gave the world an existence distinct from Him but always dependent on Him. |
Creation, Colossians 1:16 |
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Adam and Eve were judged for their disobedience, but God gave them a _______________________. |
promise of redemption (Genesis 3:15) |
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Seth's firstborn was _____________, and then, the people began to call upon God (Genesis 4:26) |
Enosh |
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___________________, one of the descendants of Enosh, walked so close with God that was brought to be with Him (Genesis 5:24) |
Enoch |
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Noah and his family were saved from the Flood because of Noah's ____________with God. |
right relationship |
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The Abrahamic Covenant is found in Genesis 12:1-3 and was established as a ________________. |
blood covenant (Genesis 15:1-21) |
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The Abrahamic Covenant is the foundation for the _______________ and the ________________. |
Palestinian Covenant (Deuteronomy 30:1-10); Davidic Covenant (2 Samuel 7:12-16) |
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At a burning bush, God chose Moses to deliver His people and revealed the revelation of His name: ________________. |
I AM. |
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_______________ -_______________, which means the owner and ruler of all things, is the most frequently used name when addressing God. |
Adonai - the Lord. |
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At the time of the tenth plague against Egypt, the ____________ was instituted. |
Passover. |
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The purposes of the Law are (1) __________________, (2) to reveal the sinfulness of humanity, (3) ________________________, and (4) to preserve the people. |
to reveal the holiness of God; to reveal the need of salvation |
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The Ten Commandments are... 1. You shall have no other gods before me. 2. 3. You shall not misuse the name of the Lord. 4. 5. Honor your father and mother 6. You shall not murder 7. 8.You shall not steal. 9. 10. You shall not covet. |
You shall not make any idols; Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy; You shall not commit adultery; You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. |
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The Sabbath year occurred once every _______________ years and was a _________, especially for the land. |
seven; time of rest. |
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The _________________ was a Jewish celebration that occurred every 50 years and was a time for everything to be restored back to its proper order. |
Year of Jubilee |
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The _________________ was the beginning of the Jewish religious year and is a symbol of Jesus Christ. |
Passover. |
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The ______________ was a celebration that came 50 days after the Passover and celebrated the gathering of the whole harvest. |
Festival of Pentecost |
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The ___________ followed ten days after the Feast of Trumpets and was a day of fasting and atonement for the collective sins of the nation. |
Day of Atonement |
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The _______________ was a celebration that reminded the Israelites of the time they wandered through the wilderness and had no permanent dwelling place. |
Feast of Tabernacles |
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The _____________________ was an act of worship as a fellowship offering with God. |
peace offering. |
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Moses was not allowed to enter into ________; he went up on Mt. Nebo where he died at the age of 120. |
Canaan |
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The Exodus began 400 years after Joseph's death and concludes with the Israelites at __________. |
Mt. Sinai |
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___________ was written during the year that the Israelites camped at Mt. Sinai. |
Leviticus |
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The full revelation of the Law, the priesthood, the sacred calendar, and the sacrifices are recorded in _______________. |
Leviticus |
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The first ten chapters of Numbers occur during the year at _______________, and the remaining chapters are a record of the __________ and _______________. |
Mt. Sinai; Kadesh-barnea rebellion; wilderness wanderings. |
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The Book of _____________ is given that title because it records two censuses. |
Numbers |
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_________________ means "second law," which was four addresses that Moses gave to the Israelites at the end of their wanderings. |
Deuteronomy |
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The theme of the Book of Joshua is __________________________. |
faith and compromise |
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The Book of _________ intends to show that God did fulfill His promise to give the land of Canaan to Abraham's descendants. |
Joshua |
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______________ is the theme of the Book of Judges. |
Failure through compromise |
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__________ records a time of lack in central leadership and general disorder in Israel. |
Judges |
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Four of the judges in the Book of Judges who had faith in God were ________________________________________________. |
Deborah, Gideon, Jephthah, and Ehud |
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______________________ delivered God's people miraculously, and then at the end of his life, he made an idol. |
Gideon |
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Ruth, a _____________, is the central person in the Book of Ruth. |
Moabite |
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God's grace through a ___________________ is the theme in the Book of Ruth |
kinsman-redeemer |
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The Israelite monarchy began in ____________. |
1050 BC |
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The northern kingdom lasted until ________ and the southern kingdom of Judah lasted until _________. |
722 BC, 586 BC |
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The Israelites demanded a ____________. |
king |
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Israel had these reasons for wanting a king: (1) Samuel was old, (2) ______________________, and (3) they wanted to prevent military losses. |
They wanted to be like other nations |
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____________________ was able to rule all of Israel during his kingship |
David |
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The ___________________ that Solomon built in seven years used the floor plan of the Tabernacle. |
temple |
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The Book of Psalms can be divided into two types of psalms - ________________________ |
praise and lament |
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The Old Testament book that best illustrates lament is the Book of ___________________. |
Lamentations |
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The Book of Proverbs endeavors to teach youth about how to achieve a good life for (1) _____________, and (2) _______________________. |
decision making; responsible leadership |
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The writer of ______________ has an underlying reverence for God that is deeper than his despair, and he has a faith in God's control of the world. |
Ecclesiastes |
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__________________ is an example of a man whose life was above reproach to whom trouble came. |
Job |
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The prophetic tradition began with _____________ (Deuteronomy 18:15-22) |
Moses |
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A common phrase, "_________________," prefaces the messages of God. |
Thus says the Lord |
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God's prophets spoke and wrote in _______ form - in verse. |
poetic |
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The primary passion of the prophets was ________. |
grief |
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The Major Prophets were _______________________________________________. |
Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel |
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_______________ sowed seeds of division by the way he governed. |
Solomon |
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Solomon taxed the people very heavily in order to ____________, _________________, and other buildings in the kingdom. |
build the Temple, his palace |
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The people urged ___________ to give them tax and forced-labor relief. |
Rehoboam |
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___________________, a well-respected administrator in Solomon's court, became the king of the northern half of the kingdom. |
Jeroboam |
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The Northern Kingdom was destroyed because of (1) ____________________, (2) __________________, and (3) its departure from God's covenant. |
its unfaithfulness to God; its sin |
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The intermixing of foreigners with the people of the Northern Kingdom created the _____________________. |
Samaritans |
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_________________ name means "Yahweh is God," which explains his mission - to confront the threat of Baal worship. |
Elijah's |
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_____________ name means "God saves," which describes his mission to announce that god was the Northern Kingdom's salvation. |
Elisha's |
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Most of the books of the Minor Prophets feature their messages; however, the Book of _______________ tells a story about the prophet, rather than his message. |
Jonah |
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The focus of the Book of Jonah is on God's call for the prophet to go to _______________. |
Ninevah |
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The entire Book of Jonah can be considered as a ______________________ of how God deals with HIs people. |
symbolic representation |
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________________ means "to carry," which illustrates that god carried Amos from the Southern Kingdom to the Northern Kingdom |
Amos |
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Amos gave a crucial warning about God's judgment, which was depicted as not just a slap on the wrist, but as a ____________, devastating the entire kingdom. |
roaring lion |
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In the Book of Amos, Israel's sins were __________________________________________. |
social injustice, and religious compromise. |
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Hosea's contemporaries were ________________. |
Amos and Jonah |
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__________________ was the prophet to the last generation of the Northern Kingdom - the last messenger of judgement before destruction came. |
Hosea |
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The Southern Kingdom was comprise of two tribes of Israel - ___________________________. |
Benjamin and Judah |
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The six godly king sof Judah were (1) Asa (911-870 BC), (2) _________ (873-848 BC), (3) Joash (835-796 BC), (4) _______(791-739 BC), (5) Hezekiah (728-686 BC) and (6) _______________ (640-609 BC). |
Jehoshaphat; Uzziah; Josiah |
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Four wicked kings of Judah were (1) Ahaz (748-714 BC), (2) _________ (697-642 BC), Jehoiakim (609-597 BC), and _________ (597-586 BC) |
Mannasseh; Zedekiah |
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_________________ not only destroyed false worship, but he initiated constructive programs - such as sending Levites throughout the land to teach the Law of Moses - to help the people. |
Johoshaphat |
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Jehoshaphat had one major failure in his reign - _________________________, Jehoram, to Athalia, the daughter of Jezebel. |
the marriage of his son |
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When _________________ was six years old, Jehoida brought him out of hiding and had him crowned king. |
Joash |
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Ahaz promoted _________________ worship, even sacrificing one of his sons to Baal. |
Baal |
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_____________________ was the most wicked king in the history of Judah. |
Mannasseh |
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_________________ prophesied to show how God works from one generation to the next to preserve His covenant with the generations. |
Isaiah |
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In the first chapters of Isaiah, God speaks to His people by using __________________. |
lawsuit imagery |
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In the Book of Isaiah, the ________________ is giving His life for the next generation. |
Suffering Servant (Messiah) |
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The theme of the Book of Micah is _________________. |
Judgment |
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____________________ prophesied the downfall of Ninevah, which had become a very wicked city that was cruel to God's people. |
Nahum. |
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Nahum began his message by giving a revelation of God's nature - God is a _________________ and _______________God against the perpetrators of evil. |
jealous, avenging |
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The Book of ____________________ relates the struggle that goes on between Habakkuk and God, as God gives him a message. |
Habakkuk |
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Zephaniah's message is related to _________ reforms. |
Josiah's |
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The coming of the _______________ was the theme of Zephaniah's message. |
Day of the Lord. |
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The Book of Zephaniah emphasized _______________________________. |
judgment and mercy |
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__________________________ prophesied in the latter part of the 600s BC |
Jeremiah |
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The four verbs of judgment in the Book of Jeremiah were (1) __________, (2) to tear down, (3)_______________, and (4) to overthrow. |
to pluck up; to destroy |
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The two verbs of hope in the Book of Jeremiah were (1) __________, and (2) ________________. |
To build; to plant |
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In Chapters 11-20, the Book of Jeremiah records Jeremiah's _____________________ to God. |
prayers |
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In Jeremiah 18:1-18, the prophet tells the story of the potter working with clay, which __________God working in Israel. |
symbolizes |
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In Jeremiah 25:8-12, the Babylonian Exile was prophesied to be ______ years. |
70 |
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The Babylonian Exile occurred because of ______________ and a _____________________ against Babylon. |
spiritual idolatry, political alliance |
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Ezekiel has been called "______________________" because of his frequent use of imagery and symbolism. |
the strangest of the prophets |
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_____________ has been called "the prophet of personal responsibility," because he stressed the personal nature of true faith (Ezekiel 18:4) |
Ezekiel |
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The Book of Ezekiel records four of Ezekiel's great visions: (1) the sovereign God (1-3), (2) ___________________ (3) _______________(37:1-10), and (4) the newTemple and the glory of God returning (40-48). |
God's glory departing form teh Temple (8-11), the valley of dry bones |
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The Book of __________ is the shortest book of the prophetic literature. |
Obadiah |
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The _________ is the theme in the Book of Daniel. |
sovereignty of God |
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The foundation for the rebuilding of the Temple was laid under the leadership of ______________________. |
Zerubbabel |
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Twelve years after Ezra came to Jerusalem, Nehemiah arrived in the city with a mission to _______________________ that were destroyed during the Babylonian invasion (Nehemiah 1:3) |
rebuild the walls |
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After rebuilding the walls in Jerusalem, Nehemiah returned to Persia, and then returned to Jerusalem and dealt with (1) tithing (13:10-14), (2) reinstituting the Sabbath as a day of rest (13:15-22), and (3) _________________________. |
strengthening the families (13:23-25) |
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God's providential care for His people is the theme of the Book of __________________ |
Esther |
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The ____________________ of a woman is a unique feature in the Book of Esther. |
elevation |
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The ______________________ never appears in the Book of Esther. |
name of God |
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Haggai was called the "_____________________" |
prophet of the Temple |
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Zechariah, like ______________ and ______________, was both a prophet and a priest. |
Jeremiah, Ezekiel |
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The Book of ________________ consists of eight visions which provide the material for his messages. |
Zechariah |
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In his prophecies, Zechariah set forth the two comings of the Messiah - first as ____________________ (Chapters 9-11) and second as the __________________ (Chapters 12 - 14). |
Suffering Servant; Conquering King |
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______________________ predicted the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost (Joel 3:17-21; Acts 2:16-21) |
Joel |
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The theme of the Book of Joel is the _______________. |
Day of the Lord |
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__________________ served as the last of the noted Old Testament prophets. |
Malachi |
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Malachi said humans can rob God in eight areas: 1. by neglecting His love (1:2) 2. By ___________ His name (1:60), 3. By presenting blemished offerings (1:7, 8, 13, 14) 4. By practicing idolatry (2:10-12) 5. By ____________ worship (2:13) 6. By breaking the covenant of marriage (3:14-16) 7. By ______________ tithes and offerings (3:8-10) 8. By serving God with carnal motives (3:14,15). |
Dishonoring, insincere; withholding |