Bible Study Guide

Known as Messianic Prophet

Isaiah

Isaiah’s Call: Chapter 6

God is Holy is a main theme throughout the entire book

Messianic Prophecies

Virgin Birth Isaiah 7:14 and Suffering Servant Isaiah 53

Known as Weeping and Praying prophet

Jeremiah

Jeremiah ministered how many years of Judah’s kingdom and witnessed the Babylonians bringing Judah into exile and destroying the temple?

40 years

The ___ will be written on their hearts

law

God will fulfill his own covenant for the people by sending his ___ to keep the covenant that we are unable to.

son

Who writes letters to those that have been exiled to Babylon?

Jeremiah

Jeremiah 29:4-7 talks about what?

Settle down in Babylon, growing population, seek the prosperity of the city, and pray for Babylon.

Who tells us the purpose and length of the Exile?

Jeremiah

This is what the Lord says: “When ___ years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place. Jeremiah 29:10.

70 years

The exile was for _____.

Babylon

Lamentations

Lament by Jeremiah about the destruction of Judah

Who was a prophet to the Jews, held in captivity by the Babylonians for 20 years?

Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s twofold prupose was to promote ____ ,____, _____, and _____.

repentance, faith, hope, and trust

Ezekiel’s book reads like a _____ because of the many symbolic actions and allegorical pictures.

picture book

Ezekiel’s prophecies

Lie on his side for many days, shave his head and beard, act like someone fleeing for war, sit and sigh

Ezekiel emphasized the word of the _____ and the glory of the temple.

Lord

What book depicts life in exile in focuses on the life of the Babylonian, King Nebuchadnezzar and God's impact on his kingdom?

Daniel

Throughout Daniel's life, God's glory was continually shown to the Babylonians/Persians through their kings.

Fiery Furnace and Lions Den

Jonah was called to do the unthinkable:

Go preach against Nineveh, capital of Assyria which is Israel’s hated enemy.

When Jonah runs away because God forgives Nineveh what happens next?

Jonah is swallowed by a fish and heads to Nineveh.

Who has a conversation with God concerning the kingdom of Judah and its covenant unfaithfulness?

Habakkuk

How does the book of Habakkuk end?

A humble prayer accepting the fact that God is a sovereign and can be trusted despite all circumstances

Who confronted the remnant people of Israel, who have stopped building God's temple and have spent the last 15 years building their own houses

Haggai

Haggai encourages the older generation that ____

The temple they are building were surpass the glorious Solomons, and it would be the temple that Jesus taught from.

Haggai prophesies that ____ would foreshadow the coming Messiah and had been chosen to carry on the line.

Zerubbabel

How many years was Zerubbabel able to rebuild the temple?

4 years

A younger contemporary of Haggai who encouraged the unifying of the nation under God and building of his temple

Zechariah

____ of Christ

Glimpse

A prophecy against the nation of Edom

Obadiah

The ___ were the descendants of ____.

Edomites and Esau

The _____ aided the _____ when they were taking over Judah, instead of helping their brother nation.

Edomites and Babylonians

The last of the mono profits after the reforms of Ezra and Nehemiah

Malachi

Rebuke of priests who are despising the name of the ___.

Lord

The Day of the Lord will be ushered by?

Elijah

This was ultimately fulfilled ____ later by John the Baptist.

400 years

The _____ were God’s mouthpiece, proclaiming his words to others.

prophets

Two main themes found throughout the prophets were

Judgement and Hope

What was the role of the Prophet?

Confront the kings about God's covenant

Two major sections of the prophets

Major and Minor

Know in order

Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians