Ministry - Chapter 2 crossword

God blessed his family, promising to give them the land of Canaan and make them a blessing to the nations

Abraham

The great flood prefigures Christ’s saving us from our sins in this sacrament

Baptism

He supervised the building of the temple in Jerusalem

Solomon

The “first Gospel”

Protoevangelism

Samuel appointed him as Israel’s first king

Saul

Symbol of God’s covenant with Noah, an everlasting covenant between God and humanity

Rainbow

Literally, “ten words,” it describes the Ten Commandments given by God to Moses

Decalogue

Jewish prayer houses

synagogue

Tribal chieftains

Judges

A fallen angel or devil

satan

_____ the Great, the great builder, was appointed by the Romans to govern Palestine

Herod

The northern kingdom of Israel gel to this rival power in 722 BC

Assyria

The message of the prophets: The Law would be written on their _____ rather than tablets of stone

hearts

This prophet predicted much about the Messiah

Isaiah

This prophet’s vision saw that the people would return to the Promised Land

Ezekiel

A binding and solemn agreement between God and human beings in which each side is held to a particular course of action

covenant

A temple that the Babylonians constructed to worship their god, Marduk

ziggurat

God’s “anointed one”

Messiah

The heretical belief that people, because of their natural powers of free will, can lead morally good lives without God’s help

pelagianism

God made a covenant with him on Mount Sinai, in which God selected Israel as His Chosen People

Moses

A method of biblical interpretations in which persons, events, places, or things in the Old Testament are seen to prefigure one’s sound in the New Testament

Typology

God banished him from the land and condemned him to a life of wandering

Cain

The last judge and prophet

Samuel

“A righteous man and blameless in his generation” who God chose in the story of the great flood

Noah

“O happy fault that earned so great so glorious a Redeemer!”

Exsultet

A name for Jesus Christ who through His obedience in life and death makes amends for the disobedience of the first Adam

New Adam

This king of Persia permitted the Jews held captive in Babylon to return home in 538 BC

cyrus

In 63 BC, they imposed their rule on Israel

Romans

Early Christian writers who defended the core teaching of the faith

Church Fathers

The fulfillment of the promise of redemption

Jesus

The capital of David’s kingdom

Jerusalem

The reign of king david was a golden period in Israel’s _____

monarchy

The killing of a sibling

fratricide

Through a covenant with him, God announced that the Messiah and Savior would come from his dynasty

David

Despite the ______ of the people and even of kings like David, God always remained faithful to His promises

infidelities

The sin by which the first human beings disobeyed the commandment of God, choosing to follow their own will rather than God’s Will.

Original Sin

The southern kingdom of Judah was overrun by this rival power in 587 BC

Babylonians

To impose Greek culture on God’s Chosen People

Hellenize