BIBL104 Quiz The Old Testament Books of Prophecy Liberty University

BIBL104 Quiz The Old Testament Books of Prophecy Liberty University Quiz: The Old Testament Books of Prophecy Question 1 1 / 1 pts The ultimate fulfillment of the Immanuel prophecy in Isaiah was the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, who was literally God incarnate and who would preserve the line of David forever. True False Question 2 1 / 1 pts In Isaiah, Christ is pictured as a suffering servant. True False Question 3 1 / 1 pts Lamentations 1–4 are acrostic poems. True False Question 4 1 / 1 pts Ezekiel’s role as a Prophet is compared to the work of a “_____________.” Farmer Priest Shepherd Watchman Question 5 1 / 1 pts Amos concluded his prophecies of unrelenting judgment with a message of hope concerning Israel’s future restoration. God promised: supremacy and national dominance through military might agricultural productivity long lives for dutiful obedience priestly religious prowess Question 6 1 / 1 pts Jeremiah told Judah that they would be able to resist the Babylonians. However, submission to Babylon was the only way Jerusalem would be spared from destruction. True False Question 7 1 / 1 pts Ezekiel came from a priestly family, which helps explain his emphasis on sin as uncleanness and defilement and his interest in the rebuilding of the future temple. True False Incorrect: Question 8 0 / 1 pts In Malachi, God denounces His people by raising the question of rewards punishment honor nobility Incorrect: Question 9 0 / 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 Question 10 1 / 1 pts According to the textbook, Jeremiah’s temple sermon (Jer. 7:1–15) was one of the defining and critical moments in his ministry. True False Question 11 1 / 1 pts Daniel and his three friends were given Babylonian names in order to acclimate them to Babylonian life and culture. True False Question 12 1 / 1 pts In Isaiah, Christ is pictured as a stumbling block for the Jews. True False Question 13 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 14 1 / 1 pts Critical scholarship has argued for multiple authorship of the book and has viewed chapters 40–66 as coming after the time of Isaiah. True False Question 15 1 / 1 pts Zephaniah began his ministry at approximately the same time as Ezekiel. True False Question 16 1 / 1 pts Hosea compared Israel’s unfaithfulness to spoiled grapes, a wild vine, a trained heifer, and a rebellious daughter. True False Question 17 1 / 1 pts In Isaiah, Christ is pictured as the coming conqueror. True False Question 18 1 / 1 pts Zechariah’s book can be divided up into eight visions, four messages, and two burdens. True False Question 19 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 20 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 21 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 22 1 / 1 pts According to Micah, the Lord was angry that social injustice became common in Israel. He was worried this would soon spread to Judah. True False Question 23 1 / 1 pts According to the textbook, Habakkuk’s interaction with God is a reminder that the life of faith often involves lament, complaint, and the pouring out of one’s honest emotions and feelings to God. True False Question 24 1 / 1 pts Jeremiah prophesied during the reign of Judah’s last five kings. True False Question 25 1 / 1 pts In Isaiah, Christ is pictured as the healer of the nations. True False Question 26 1 / 1 pts Daniel is not mentioned in the account of the statue and the fiery furnace because he willingly bowed to Nebuchadnezzar’s golden statue. True False Question 27 1 / 1 pts Luke 22:37 quotes from Isa 53:12 (“And he was numbered with the transgressors”) as evidence that Jesus is Isaiah’s suffering servant. True False Question 28 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 29 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 30 1 / 1 pts One poem in Lamentations portrays Jerusalem as a grieving widow mourning her destruction. True False Incorrect: Question 31 0 / 1 pts In Malachi, God denounces His people by raising the question of worship heritage honor death Question 32 1 / 1 pts Zechariah was a postexilic prophet who foretold the coming of Israel’s true and final King. True False Question 33 1 / 1 pts Micah was a prophet in Judah and a contemporary of the prophet ________. Amos Jeremiah Isaiah Daniel Question 34 1 / 1 pts John 12:38 quotes from Isa 53:1 (“Lord, who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”) as evidence that Jesus is Isaiah’s suffering servant. True False Question 35 1 / 1 pts Daniel’s three friends were Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. True False Question 36 1 / 1 pts _________ is the shortest book in the Old Testament. Amos Obadiah Joel Nahum Question 37 1 / 1 pts Edom was lifted up because of excessive pride. They trusted in their political and military advisors for their security. True False Question 38 1 / 1 pts Habakkuk prophesied in Israel prior to the Assyrian invasion and warned that the Lord would send the Assyrians to punish the people in Samaria. True False Question 39 1 / 1 pts Jonah is scandalized that the Lord would show the same grace he has shown to Israel to the people of Nineveh. True False Question 40 1 / 1 pts Eventually, King Nebuchadnezzar would go temporarily insane and behave in an animal-like manner. True False Question 41 1 / 1 pts Haggai in tandem with ______________ challenged the postexilic community to resume the work of rebuilding the temple. Zephaniah Zebadiah Zedekiah Zechariah Question 42 1 / 1 pts Ezekiel delivered an extensive message of judgment against Tyre, the capital of Phoenicia. True False Question 43 1 / 1 pts During an extravagant banquet Belshazzar saw a divine handwritten message that appeared on the plaster wall of the palace. This message indicated that his kingdom had been numbered, weighted, and divided. True False Question 44 1 / 1 pts According to our textbook, the overall theme of Daniel is God’s sovereignty over the people of Israel and the nations of the world. True False Incorrect: Question 45 0 / 1 pts Habakkuk was a contemporary of Jeremiah Zephaniah Daniel Ezekiel All of the Above Question 46 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 47 1 / 1 pts According to the textbook, the key word(s) for the book of Lamentations is Faithful love which means chêsêd in Hebrew. True False Question 48 1 / 1 pts Habakkuk’s message is a personal one in which the prophet laments and dialogues with the Lord over the justice of His ways in using the Babylonians to punish Judah’s sins. True False Question 49 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 50 1 / 1 pts Amos’ prophecies of judgment demanded a response because they were not absolute predictions of what must happen in the future as much as they were warnings of what would happen if Israel did not repent and change its ways. True False