Bible Book Outlines OT Flashcards

Question

Job

Answer 1

**SUFFERING** - The righteousness and sovereignty of God in the face of suffering. **1-2** - Prologue (Blessing and Testing) **3-31** - Job's Lament - Friends response **32-37** - Elihu's Speeches **38-42** - God's Speeches; Epilogue (Affirmation and Restoration)

Answer 2

**PRAISE** Praise within the context of a covenantal relationship between God and His people. **1-41** - Book One: Kingdom Contested **42-72** - Book Two: Kingdom Global **73-89** - Book Three: Kingdom Demolished **90-106** - Book Four: Kingdom Spiritual **107-150** - Book Five: Kingdom Exultant

Answer 3

**WISDOM** Practical display of what it means to fear the Lord. Application of divine wisdom to daily life. **1** - The Beginning of Wisdom **1-9** - The Call to Wisdom **10-31** - The Life of Wisdom **31** - The Beauty of Wisdom

Answer 4

**EMPTINESS** Ecclesiastes shows that certain paths in life lead to emptiness. Such wisdom can spare us from the emptiness that results from life without God. True satisfaction comes in knowing that what we are doing is a part of God's purpose for our lives. **1-3** - Limitations of Work and Wisdom **3-6** - The Wisdom of Work in the Lord **6-12** - The Humility of Wisdom Before the Lord

Answer 5

**LOVE STORY** The Song of Songs is a wedding song honoring marriage. The book describes the God honoring love and enjoyment found between a husband and a wife, and therefore can readily be applied to Christ's love for the church. **1-2** - The Woman's Desire for Her Husband **2-3** - The Approach of Her Husband **3-5** - The Loss of Her Husband **5-8** - The Reunion of Husband and Wife

Answer 6

**SALVATION** Often called the prince of prophets because of the majestic sweep of his book. The first 39 chapters are filled with judgement upon immoral and idolatrous people—both Judah and surrounding nations. But the final 27 chapters declare a message of hope and consolation. **1-12** - The Lord is the Holy One of Israel **13-27** - Woes of the Nations **28-39** - Woes and Salvation of God's People **40-55** - God's Redeemer Servant-King **56-66** - Righteousness in Servanthood

Answer 7

**NEW COVENANT** Jeremiah is the prophesy of the weeping prophet due to his heartbreaking message. Jeremiah labors more than forty years proclaiming a message of doom to the stiff-necked people of Judah. Despised and persecuted by his countrymen, Jeremiah bathes his harsh prophesies in tears of compassion. Throughout his book he faithfully declares that surrender to God's will is the only way to avoid calamity. **1** - Jeremiah's Call **2-29** - Judah's Judgment and Exile **30-33** - Promises of Restoration **34-45** - The Fall of Jerusalem Prophesied **46-51** - Oracles of Judgment Against the Nations **52** - Fall of Jerusalem Recounted

Answer 8

**LAMENT** A book about grief for the destruction of Jerusalem and of hope that shows God’s mercy in saving a remnant. **1-4** - Lament **5** - Prayer

Answer 9

**GLORY** Written by an exile carried to Babylon before the final assault on Jerusalem, Ezekial uses prophesy, parables, signs, and symbols to dramatize God's message to His exiled people. Though they are like dry bones in the sun, God will reassemble them and breathe life into the nation once again. Present judgement will be followed by future glory. **1-3** - Ezekiel's Call **4-24** - Judgment on Judah and Jerusalem **25-32** - Oracles Against Foreign Nations **33-48** - Blessing for Judah and Jerusalem

Answer 10

**DREAMS** Central message of God’s power and ultimate triumph. **1-6** - Narratives of Daniel and His Friends in Exile **7-12** - Visions of Daniel in Exile

Answer 11

**ADULTERY** Hosea has been called the “death-bed prophet of Israel” because he was the last to prophesy before the northern kingdom fell to Assyria (about 722 b.c.). His ministry followed a golden age in the northern kingdom, with a peace and prosperity not seen since the days of Solomon. Unfortunately, with this prosperity came moral decay, and Israel forsook God to worship idols. So God instructed Hosea to marry a “wife of whoredom” (1:2), whose unfaithfulness to her husband would serve as an example of Israel’s unfaithfulness to God. **1-3** - Hosea's Family Life **4-6** - Charge of Failure to Acknowledge God **6-11** - Charge of Breaking Covenant with God **11-14** - Charge of Unfaithfulness Toward God

Answer 12

**LOCUSTS** Disaster struck the Southern Kingdom of Judah in the form of a cloud of locusts. In a matter of hours, the fields were stripped bare, and the Prophet Joel seized the opportunity to proclaim God's message. The locusts were seen as a foreshadowing of the coming day of the Lord. In light of this, the book warns of approaching judgement, calls for repentance and gives God's people hope of the coming day of salvation that will follow judgement. **1-2** - Crisis Calls for Repentance **2-3** - Responses of our Faithful God

Answer 13

**JUDGEMENT** Addresses the excessive pursuit of luxury, self-indulgence, and oppression of the poor which characterized the period of prosperity and success in the Northern Kingdom of Israel under Jereboam II. Israel cannot be content to be complacent about her standing before God. As she embraces the judgement coming against the nations so she must embrace that she is under the same (if not higher) obligation to honor the LORD. Vision of plumb line, basket of ripe fruit— Prepare to meet your God. **1-2** - Judgment Pronounced on the Nations **3-6** - Prophecies Against Israel **7-9** - Visions of Divine Retribution **9** - Restoration and Blessing

Answer 14

**DOOM OF EDOM** Shortest book in Old Testament. Edom is condemned for cruelty to Judah. Obadiah, pronounced condemnation against Edom and prophesied their total destruction because of their persistent opposition to God's people. **v.1-18** - God's Declaration to Punish Edom **v. 19-21** - God's Promise of a New Moral Order

Answer 15

**FISH** The prophet Jonah is sent to preach to the Ninevites. God delights in showing mercy to repentant Gentiles. **1** - Jonah Disobedient **2** - Jonah Delivered **3** - Jonah Obedient **4** - Jonah Rebuked

Answer 16

**LAWSUIT** Burdened by the abuse of the poor, the book of Micah rebukes anyone who would use social status or political power for personal gain. Micah divides into three section which 1) expose the sin of his country-men, 2) pictures the punishment God is about to send, and 3) holds out the hope of restoration once that discipline has ended. Micah points to a restoration of God's work in Judah. Has similarities to Isaiah. **1-2** - First Cycle: Judgment and Deliverance **3-5** - Second Cycle: Degradation and Exaltation **6-7** - Third Cycle: Hope in Darkness

Answer 17

**NINEVAH FALLS** In contrast to Jonah, whose ministry resulted in Ninevah's repentance, the prophet Nahum proclaims the downfall of the great Assyrian city of Ninevah. The Ninevites have forgotten their revival and have returned to their habits of violence, idolatry, and arrogance. As a result, Babylon will so destroy the city that no trace of it will remain—a prophesy fulfilled in painful detail. **1** - Ninevah's Judge **2** - Ninevah's destruction **3** - Ninevah's Subdued

Answer 18

**FAITH** Habakkuk prophesied during the decline of Judah. Although repeatedly called to repentance, the nation stubbornly refused to change her sinful ways. Asking how long this intolerable situation would continue, Habakkuk is told by God that the Babylonians will be his chastening rod on the nation—an announcement that sends the prophet to his knees. Though perplexed, Habakkuk acknowledges that the just in any generation shall live by faith, not by sight, and he concludes by praising God's wisdom even though he doesn't fully understand God's ways. Why no justice? How can God use Babylon? **1** - Dialogue Between the Prophet and God **2** - God Distinguishes Between the Faithful and the Wicked **3** - The Prophet's Prayer of Expectant Hope

Answer 19

**DAY OF THE LORD** This book repeatedly hammers home the message that the day of the Lord is coming when the malignancy of sin will be dealt with. Israel and her Gentile neighbors will soon experience the crushing hand of God's wrath. But after the chastening process is complete, blessing will come in the person of the Messiah. **1** - Judgment on Judah and Jerusalem **2** - Judgment Against the Nations **3** - Promise of Restoration

Answer 20

**FIRST THINGS FIRST** Command and encouragement to finish rebuilding the temple. The work on the temple had ceased and the people had becomes more concerned with the beautification of their own houses than with the building of the central sanctuary of God. Because of their misplaced priorities, their future labors cannot be blessed by God. - Only when the people put the Lord first by completing the task he set before them will his hand of blessing once again be one them. **1** - Charge to rebuild and work begun **2** - Exhortation to finish & the glory of the second temple will greater

Answer 21

**MESSIAH** For a dozen years the task of rebuilding the temple had been half completed. The prophet Zechariah was commissioned by God to encourage the people to complete this important task. Rather than exhorting them with strong words of rebuke, Zechariah offered a very positive goal: the temple must be built, for someday the glory of the Messiah would inhabit it. **1-8** - Encouragement for the Present (Night Visions in 1-6) **9-14** - The Future of God's Kingdom (First and Second Prophetic Oracles)

Answer 22

**MY MESSENGER** God promised that the Messiah was coming to purify the nation and the wicked shall be judged and the righteous rewarded. **1-2** - God's Love rejected **3-4** - God's Grace still offered

Answer 23

**Isaiah 1 -** Judah's sin exposed **Isaiah 2 -** Mountain of the Lord, Day of the Lord **Isaiah 3 -** Judgment on Judah and Jerusalem **Isaiah 4 -** Branch of the Lord **Isaiah 5 -** Judah condemned **Isaiah 6 -** Isaiah's vision and commission **Isaiah 7 -** Sign of Immanuel **Isaiah 8 -** Imminent Assyrian invasion **Isaiah 9 -** For unto us a child is born **Isaiah 10 -** Judgment on Assyria; Remnant of Israel will return **Isaiah 11 -** Righteous reign of the Branch **Isaiah 12 -** God is my salvation "song"

Answer 24

**Jeremiah 1 -** Call of Jeremiah **Jeremiah 2 -** Israel has forsaken the Lord **Jeremiah 3 -** Judgment and a call to repent **Jeremiah 4 -** Prophecy of Jerusalem's fall; anguish over Judah's destruction **Jeremiah 5 -** Jerusalem refused to repent; God proclaims judgment **Jeremiah 6 -** Impending disaster for Jerusalem **Jeremiah 7 -** Hypocrisy and false worship in the land **Jeremiah 8 -** Further judgment on Jerusalem, "perpetual backslliding and they refuse to return." **Jeremiah 9 -** Confirmation that judgment is coming **Jeremiah 10 -** Idolatry exposed and the living God exalted **Jeremiah 11 -** Broken covenant **Jeremiah 12 -** Jeremiah's complaint and God answeres Jeremiah **Jeremiah 13 -** Exile threatened

Answer 25

**Daniel 1 -** Daniel taken to Babylon and his faithfulness to not defile himself **Daniel 2 -** Nebuchadnezzar's dream; Daniel interprets the dream **Daniel 3 -** Nebuchadnezzar's golden image and the fiery furnance **Daniel 4 -** Nebuchadnezzar's second dream; Daniel interprets the dream and Nebuchadnezzar's humiliation **Daniel 5 -** Handwriting on the wall **Daniel 6 -** Daniel and the lion's den **Daniel 7 -** Daniel's vision of the four beasts; Daniel's vision interpreted **Daniel 8 -** Daniel's vision of the ram and the goat **Daniel 9 -** Daniel's prayer for his people **Daniel 10 -** Daniel's terrifying vision of a man **Daniel 11 -** Kings of the south and the north **Daniel 12 -** The time of the end

Answer 26

**Amos 1 -** Judgment on Israel's neighbors **Amos 2 -** Judgment on Judah & Israel **Amos 3 -** Israel's guilt and punishment **Amos 4 -** Israel has not returned to the Lord **Amos 5 -** Seek the Lord and live **Amos 6 -** Woe those at ease in Zion **Amos 7 -** Vision of locusts, fire, plumb line **Amos 8 -** Vision of basket of fruit and the day of bitter mourning **Amos 9-** Destruction of Israel; but a promise of restoration

Answer 27

**Micah 1 -** Judgment of Samaria and Judah **Micah 2 -** Judgment on the opressors; remnant restored (2:12-13) **Micah 3 -** Judgment on rulers and prophets **Micah 4 -** The Lord shall rescue Zion **Micah 5 -** Messianic ruler and a remnant shall be delivered **Micah 6 -** Indictment of the Lord and the destruction of the wicked **Micah 7 -** Wait for the God of salvation

Answer 28

**Zechariah 1 -** (1:1-6) - Call to repentance; (1:7-17) - Vision of the man among the myrtyle trees; (1:18-21) - Vision of the four hours **Zechariah 2 -** Vision of a man with a measuring line **Zechariah 3 -** Vision of clean garments for the high priest **Zechariah 4 -** Vision of the gold lampstand and the two olive trees **Zechariah 5 -** (5:1-4) - Vision of the flying scrool; (5:5-11) - Vision of woman in a basket **Zechariah 6 -** (6:1-8) - Vision of four chariots; (6:9-15) - Vision of the crown and the temple

Answer 29

**Joel 1 -** (1:1-12) - Invasion of locusts; (1:13-20) - A call to repent **Joel 2 -** (2:1-11) - The Day of the Lord; (2:12-17) - A plea to return to the Lord; (2:18-27) - Physical renewal of the land; (2:28-32) - Spiritual renewal of the land **Joel 3 -** (3:1-15) - judgment of the nations; (3:16-21) - blessing on God's people

Answer 30

**Malachi 1 -** (1:1-5) - Israel doubts God's love for them; (1:6-14) - The people's defiled offerings **Malachi 2 -** (2:1-9) - The defiled priests; (2:10-16) - Marriage and divorce **Malachi 3 -** (3:1-5) - purifying work of the messenger; (3:6-12) - promise to forgive the repentant; Israel robs God; (3:13-18) - attitude of the cynical; godly conduct of the faithful **Malachi 4 -** (4:1-6) - day of the Lord

Bible Book Outlines OT Flashcards

To master basic outlines of the 66 canonical books of the Old and New Testaments (54 cards)