Alegria Bible Final Study Guide Notes

Proverbs

  • Theme: “God’s Wisdom”

Ecclesiastes

  • Theme: “God’s Purpose for Life”
  • Ecclesiastes 12:13–14: “Fear God and keep His commandments, God will bring every work to judgement”
  • Writing of Ecclesiastes: book of solomon’s repentance

Song of Songs

  • Theme: “God’s design of Love”
  • What Song of Songs commemorates: love between Solomon and his first wife

Isaiah

  • Theme: “God Saves”
  • Isaiah 53:5a: “Transgressions” “Iniquities”
  • Isaiah 7:14: “Virgin” “Immanuel”. Immanuel means God is with us.
  • Isaiah 4:2: Branch of Yahweh is a title for the Messiah.
  • Isaiah 6:1: “High and lifted up”
  • Isaiah 30:20: But your eyes will see your teacher
  • Authorship of Isaiah: One Isaiah
  • The “Branch” and the “Arm”: names for Messiah
  • The kind of lawsuit in Isaiah: covenant lawsuit in Isaiah 1. Isaiah 1 introduces you to a covenant lawsuit.
  • Function of God’s judgment in Isaiah 24: What purges the world
  • A sign of Israel’s judgment in Isaiah 28: Hearing foreign languages is a sign of their judgement.
  • Isaiah: the northern kingdom is on the verge of exile.

Jeremiah

  • Theme: “The God who judges and restores”
  • Name meaning: Yahweh hurls/throws
  • Jeremiah 1:10: “to uproot and to tear down” “to build and to plant”
  • Jeremiah is known as: Weeping prophet
  • Jeremiah’s chapter on the New covenant: prophecy in Jeremiah 31
  • Jeremiah: lives before and through the exile of the southern kingdom

Lamentations

  • Theme: “God honoring grief”
  • What Lamentations memorializes:
  • The circumstances surrounding the writing of Lamentations: written shortly after the destruction of Jerusalem, Funeral Durge
  • Lamentations 3:23: “Great is your faithfulness”

Ezekiel

  • Theme: “God’s presence amongst his people”
  • Name meaning: God is strong
  • The chariot imagery of Ezekiel is linked to God’s intervening and salvific presence.
  • When Ezekiel is prophesying: shortly after the second wave of exiles were taken by the babylonians
  • All the ambulance noises for Ezekiel 40–48:

Daniel

  • Theme: “God’s rule over all”
  • Name meaning: God is my judge
  • The horn in Daniel 7 and the horn in Daniel 8: 7 (Anti-Christ) 8 (Antiochus Epiphanes 4th)
  • What chapter synthesizes the book of Daniel: Daniel 7
  • When Daniel was exiled: First wave of exiles in 605 BC.
  • What the millennial temple signals: God’s presence and relationship with His people.
  • The statute in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream: represents The kingdoms of the gentiles throughout the ages

Hosea

  • Theme: “God’s love in judgement”

Joel

  • Theme: “God’s judgement in big picture”
  • Name meaning: Yahweh is God
  • What God sends upon the nation in the days of Joel: Locust Plague

Amos

  • Theme: “the nature of God’s judgement”
  • Name meaning: Burden
  • Amos 9:11: “fallen booth of David”

Obadiah

  • Theme: “God’s vengeful judgement”
  • What book introduces the Day of the Lord/Yahweh (Tribulation): Obadiah
  • What text anchors Obadiah: Genesis 25:23

Jonah

  • Theme: “God’s grace and mercy for Gentiles”
  • Jonah’s prayer in Jonah 2: prayer and repentance in chapter 2 is fake

Micah

  • Theme: “God’s judgement in his covenant plan”
  • Name meaning: Who is like Yahweh?

Nahum

  • Theme: “God’s comfort in judgement”

Habakkuk

  • Theme: “The faithful in God’s judgement”
  • Name meaning: Hug or Embrace
  • Habakkuk 2:4: “the righteous will live by his faith”

Zephaniah

  • Theme: “God’s purifying judgement”
  • Name meaning: Yahweh’s hidden treasure

Haggai

  • Theme: “God’s exhortation to persevere”

Zechariah

  • Theme: “God’s assurance for perseverance”
  • Name meaning: “Yahweh remember’s”
  • Zechariah 9:9: “king, “salvation”, “mounted on a donkey”

Malachi

  • Theme: “God Directs His people”
  • Name meaning: My messenger

Concepts/Definitions

  • Imputation: Justification is imputation of Christ’s righteousness
  • Curse of Jeconiah: The Curse prevents any physical descendant from inheriting the throne of David. Virgin birth overcomes the curse.
  • “near”: Inevitable
  • What overcomes the curse of Jeconiah: Virgin birth.
  • What kind of covenant the New covenant is: fulfilling and empowering covenant
  • The principles of prophecy, e.g., the nature of fulfillment, the mountain top effect, if prophecy can be known: Prophecy can be known Near=inevitable Mountain top effect=when two prophecies are placed together but that doesn’t always mean they’ll happen at the same time. Fulfillment is all or nothing
  • The kind of wisdom in Proverbs: connected to mosaic covenant as wisdom literature and is royal court wisdom.
  • The structure of Proverbs: scale in difficulty, Heart of each section of proverbs is a core truth that stitches each of the riddles of that section together.
  • What wisdom is personified as in Proverbs: Woman chapter 1
  • The woman at the end of Proverbs 31:
  • The function of the Law: designed to help Israel apply the principles of Genesis 1-3 into the context of their day