Sacred Scripture Directed Reading Guide Part 1E The Prophets

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1 Name Date Sacred Scripture Directed Reading Guide Part 1E The Prophets Directions: Read through the chapter and fill in the missing information. All the questions run sequential to the chapter. If a true/false statement is false, correct it. Page 148 Origins of the Prophets and Prophecy 1. a special kind of from God and they were present through the early and late stages of the Old Testament. was the prophet who heard of liberation and shared it with the people., the last of Israel s, was also called a prophet. 2. Prophecy became a movement too. was the earliest prophet whose gathered were written in book form, and after him, other books were formed from the sayings of different. And then, somewhat, the books of prophetic messages in the Old Testament. 3. Identify the three major and the twelve minor prophets. What is the difference between a major and minor prophet? Pages Marks of the Prophets 4. Prophets received a call from to leave their way of life to follow it, and the call came in ways. Prophets heard, had dreams, saw, or received to share God s message. 5. True or False? The prophet often spoke messages that were popular with the ruling establishment. 6. What was the message of the prophets? 7. Briefly identify the pattern of the call narratives of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Moses. 8. True or False? The prophets Moses, Isaiah, and Jeremiah all protested that they were not good enough to speak for God. 9. The prophets usually based their of Israel on the statutes and of Moses, with a strong connection between Moses as the and the prophets as. In determining the origins and development of the, the connection with Moses is important. 10. True or False? The idea that the judges were understood as prophets is supported by textual evidence throughout the New Testament. 11. What was unique about the one vocation of an Old Testament judge?

2 2 12. True or False? The prophets during the time of the kings were demilitarized judges, since warfare became the business of the kings; they became the spiritually selected messengers of God. 13. True or False. During the time of the kings the prophets retained their connection to the military activities of Israel and were often consulted about the likelihood of victory. 14. The prophets showed passionate for the poor whenever they suffered oppression by the. The strongest like Amos, Micah, and appeared during a time when there was the and mistreatment of the. 15. According to the prophets, what was the so-called measuring stick God would use to test Israel s righteousness? 16. The element of is crucial to understanding the prophets who were concerned about the and practices of their times, especially the of the rich. The religious concern of the prophets to and no other gods was always accompanied by their social and concerns. 17. The prophets were who almost always spoke in the, as if God were speaking. The phrase, is called the messenger. Additionally, prophets are often classified as God s. 18. True or False? The prophets are all of these things: messengers, law-protectors, advocates for the poor, and servants. Pages Major Prophets 19. True or False? The New Testament quotes Isaiah more than any other prophetic book. 20. The first thirty-nine chapters of Isaiah detail the of the prophet in. At the Temple, he had a of the Lord in glory, in which a touches his mouth with an ember from the and thus removes his. Isaiah was and proclaimed his unworthiness to be God s. 21. The prophet who authored Isaiah lived at the time of the end of the. The prophet understood that was soon to be the new power of the region and that its more ruler,, would be God s instrument to return the Jews to their. 22. What do Isaiah s Servant of God songs describe? Whom are they connected with? 23. The prophet believes that at least one identity of the is the Jewish people, due to their experience in. He recognizes that suffering has given them a more and loving way to view and to the rest of the world: the People of God will be a, with a to take to all the. 2

3 3 24. True or False? The Church teaches that the Suffering Servant prophecies are fulfilled in Jesus Christ. 25. What is the message of the final eleven chapters of the Book of Isaiah? 26. The prophet Jeremiah was from a family and grew up just outside the wall of. He began his ministry during the reign of. Jeremiah remained in Jerusalem through all the events of the and the of the people. His prophecies were recorded by a, Baruch. 27. Jeremiah, hoped to avoid the and he also understood the current to Babylonian rule to be God s response to the people s. Therefore, they should not resist it, but should submit to it and of their idolatry and their abuse of the, in the hope that would relent. 28. What were the three main points of Jeremiah s Temple Sermon? 29. True or False? When Jesus condemned the corrupt Temple practices of his day, he referred to Jeremiah s bitter attack on the Temple, calling the Temple a den of thieves. 30. True or False? Jeremiah suffered personal agony and trauma in sharing an unpopular message. 31. What do the five poems found in the Book of Lamentations, lament? 32. The Book of was composed nearly two centuries after the exile in order to encourage Jews in the midst of an increasingly oppressive culture. The final chapter of Baruch likewise reminds Jews living in not to be tricked by the predominance of. 33. The prophet was a priest and seems to have been the only who served actively as a. Unlike Jeremiah, who remained in, Ezekiel was deported with the first group of and began his role as a prophet five years later in ; he was the first prophet called to prophesy outside the. 34. What are three examples of the bizarre visions and actions of Ezekiel? 35. Why were chapters 25-32, the Oracles against the Nations, inserted into this part of the Book of Ezekiel? 3

4 4 36. Ezekiel has a vision of the of God in Heaven, accompanied by a series of strange and equipped with and wings. In it he is called to be a prophet, even though he is told that the people may well his message. He was then handed a covered with writing and was told to eat it and then to speak God s words to the. 37. True or False? In a second vision, Ezekiel sees pagan worship and rituals being performed at the Temple and the Spirit of God leaving Jerusalem. 38. What two important things was Ezekiel shown in his vision of the Temple? 39. In his vision of the, Ezekiel is seeing a vision of the restored. The message is that restoration is possible. Even the of the destruction brought down on Israel as a result of the conquests of and Babylon can be overcome in the. 40. What did Ezekiel s vision of the restored Israel let people know? 41. The Book of includes prophecy, history, and literature. The first part tells of a Jewish boy Daniel who remains to YHWH under the reigns of foreign kings. The second section is four that center on the heavenly destruction of. The third part tells the stories of how Daniel a young maiden reveals pagan to be false gods. 42. Why is the middle section of Daniel written as if it had occurred four centuries earlier? Why does it use symbols? 43. appealed so much to the Jews in the centuries around the life of because the highly symbolic nature of the writing both the authors and the readers from, since the language would be difficult to by those outside the context of the author and his intended. Pages Minor Prophets 44. The were also men called by God who stress the interpretation of current events in light of. While each of the major prophets took up in composition, the minor prophets together were written on the. 45. True or False? God called Hosea to marry a known prostitute named Gomer. 4

5 5 46. Briefly explain the meaning of each of the names Hosea gave to his three children. 47. Hosea the role of God, and his controversial symbolizes God s relationship with. But the words of condemnation and from the prophet suddenly turn to assurance of God s, which reads like a wedding vow as God marriage to his adulterous partner, Israel, to their relationship. 48. The Book of Joel is filled with including, the when God would battle all forces. This day would mark a fresh of the world when God will pour out his spirit on humanity, which St. Peter quotes on. 49. True or False? The prophet Joel was perhaps strongest on the issues of social justice, speaking against: genocide, cruelty, anger, dishonesty, greed, lawlessness, sexual excesses, etc. 50. True or False? Amos was particularly angry at the priests for pouring excess money into shows of Temple worship. 51. True or False? Most of the time when prophets preached a warning, the warning itself was intended to keep the dire event from happening. 52. True or False? The Book of Obadiah sharply denounces the action of Canaanites, predicts their destruction, and prophesies the restoration of Judah. 53. The Book of likely comes after the destruction of. The heart of the book is the Psalm of. Biblical scholarship suggests the psalm is much than the Book of Jonah and that the story of Jonah was modeled to the psalm. 54. What is the powerful message of the story of Jonah? 55. If Jonah represents Israel, what have the people learned from the experience of the exile? 56. What was Micah s warning? 57. What passage appears in both Micah and Isaiah? Write the passage here. 5

6 6 58. True or False? Micah s prophecy concerning the birth of the Messiah in Nazareth is cited in both Matthew and John. 59. True of False? The words of the prophet Nahum about the destiny of Nineveh foreshadowed the fate of Jerusalem, which would experience the same type of judgment. 60. The prophet was correct in stating that the Babylonian king would not stop with Nineveh and, but would set its sights on. Habakkuk was probably a prophet attached to the who lived during Jehoiachin s reign. The book ends with a song of, the Savior. 61. True or False? The message in the Book of Zephaniah indicates that in spite of the infidelities of God s People, the consistent message is that God, in his mercy, will spare a holy remnant. 62. The prophet sought to encourage the returning to complete the rebuilding of the, but their enthusiasm quickly waned. Haggai exhorts the people to the Temple by linking the connection between the of the Jews to their concern about rebuilding their own houses while neglecting. 63. True or False? Zechariah also predicts a messianic age to come: See, your king shall come to you; a just savior is he, meek, and riding on an ass, on a colt, the foal of an ass. 64. What is the predominant theme of the prophet Malachi? 65. In what two ways do the concluding verses of Malachi serve as a bridge between the Old Testament and the New Testament? 6