Midterm Exam

The Old Testament has about two hundred prophecies about the first advent of Christ.

Israel was called into being by God’s Sovereign decree.

The four points of history that utterances of prophets centered around included their own time and the threatening captivities.

In order to get the true meaning of the words of a prophet, one must determine in each individual utterance which of these four events in his subject.

Isaiah may have been born around 734 B.C.

Isaiah was stern and uncompromising, but he had a tender heart also.

Much is known of Isaiah’s history.

We know that Isaiah was absolutely of royal descent.

Isaiah received his call to the prophetic office at an old age.

Isaiah preached a twofold message.

There is no consciousness of man’s fallen state.

Isaiah’s name means “Salvation of Jehovah.”

God has Divine means of removal of sin.

God has shallow thoughts about the human race.

It is not possible to dwell with the “Consuming Fire.”

With the call of God, there comes from the called a desire to be sent.

Matthew 1:1-17 traces the genealogy of Christ through Solomon and Jeconiah to his physical father.

Jeremiah is called as a prophet during the reign of Josiah, the last of Judah’s bad kings.

Jeremiah’s message is communicated only through sermons and object lessons.

As a sign of imminent judgment, Jeremiah is forbidden to marry and participate in the feasts.

In Jeremiah’s sign of the yoke, he proclaims the unpopular message that Judah must submit to Divine discipline.

Jeremiah’s forty years declaration of doom resulted in captives being taken to Babylon.

Jeremiah is called the “Shakespeare of the prophets.”

Jeremiah has also been called the “laughing prophet.”

Of all the writing prophets, Jeremiah and Hosea stand out preeminently.

Twenty years after Josiah’s death, the kingdom of Judah was a thing of the past.

Jehohaz, Jehoiakim, and Zedekiah are three kings who played a major role in Jeremiah’s career.

Though Jeremiah was timid by nature, he was given a bold message to proclaim, and he proclaimed it.

Jeremiah was born when the very wicked King Manasseh was still ruling Judah.

Jeremiah entered the priesthood late in life.

The discourses of Jeremiah were placed in the first half of the book.

It is very clear that Jeremiah’s approach was chronological.

The sixth century B.C. Book of Jeremiah is not important for the twentieth century world.

Chapter two of Isaiah is a capsulated message of the entire book.

The call of the prophet is a high spot in Jeremiah’s message.

Isaiah does not contain an apocalypse.

The term “prophet” in its various forms appears over six hundred sixty times in the Bible, three-quarters of which are in the Old Testament.

God’s Sovereign Will determined who His prophets were.

God’s prophet’s primary ministry was to deliver a message from God to an unbelieving and apostate Israel.

Schools of the prophets arose only in Judah.