James – Revelation

Question 1

James – Content

Answer 1

• A treatise composed of short moral essays
• emphasising endurance in hardship and responsible Christian living
• with special concern that believers practice what they preach and live together in harmony

Question 2

James – Author

Answer 2

James:

• brother of our Lord (Gal 1:19)
• led the church in Jerusalem for many years (Acts l5; Gal 2: 1-13)

Question 3

James – Date

Answer 3

Unknown; dated anywhere from the mid 40s A.D. to the 90s, depending on authorship; probably earlier than later

Question 4

James – Recipients

Answer 4

Believers in Christ among the Jewish Diaspora

Question 5

James – Occasion

Answer 5

Unknown, but the treatise shows concern for real conditions in the churches, including:

• severe trials
• dissensions caused by angry and judgmental words
• and abuse of the poor by the wealthy

Question 6

James – Emphases

Answer 6

1. Practical faith on the part of believers
2. Joy and patience in the midst of trials
3. The nature of true (Christian) wisdom
4. Attitudes of the rich toward the poor
5. Abuse and proper use of the tongue

Question 7

1 Peter – Content

Answer 7

• A letter of encouragement to Christians undergoing suffering
• instructing them how to respond Christianly to their
  persecutors
• and urging them to live lives worthy of their calling

Question 8

1 Peter – Author

Answer 8

The apostle Peter; written by Silas (5:12), the sometime companion of Paul

Question 9

1 Peter – Date

Answer 9

ca. A.D. 64—65 from Rome (5:13, Babylon was used by both Jews and Christians to refer to Rome as a place of exile)

Question 10

1 Peter – Recipients

Answer 10

Mostly Gentile believers (1:14, 18; 229-10; 4:3- 4) in the five provinces in the northwest quadrant of Asia Minor (modern Turkey), referred to—with a play on the Jewish Diaspora—as strangers (exiles) in the world

Question 11

1 Peter – Occasion

Answer 11

Probably concern over an outbreak of local persecution that some newer believers (2:2–3) were experiencing as a direct result of their faith in Christ

Question 12

1 Peter – Emphases

Answer 12

1. suffering for the sake of righteousness should not surprise us
2. believers should submit to unjust suffering the way Christ did
3. Christ suffered on our behalf to free us from sin
4. God’s people should live righteously at all times, but especially in the face of hostility
5. Our hope for the future is based on the certainty of Christ’s resurrection

Question 13

2 Peter – Content

Answer 13

• A “farewell speech” sent as a letter,
• urging Christian growth and perseverance
• in light of some false teachers who both deny the second coming of Christ
• and live boldly in sin

Question 14

2 Peter – Author

Answer 14

The apostle Peter, although questioned both in the early church and by most New Testament scholars; possibly a
disciple who wrote a kind of “testament of Peter” for the church

Question 15

2 Peter – Date

Answer 15

ca. A.D. 64 (if by Peter); later if by a disciple

Question 16

2 Peter – Recipients

Answer 16

An unknown but specific group of believers

Question 17

2 Peter – Occasion

Answer 17

• A desire to establish the readers in their own faith
  and godly living,
• while warning them of the false teachers and their way of life

Question 18

2 Peter – Emphases

Answer 18

1. Concern that God’s people grow in and exhibit godliness
2. The sure judgment on the false teachers for their ungodly living
3. The certainty of the Lord’s coming, despite the scoffing of the false teachers

Question 19

1 John – Content

Answer 19

• A treatise that offers assurance to some specific believers,
• encouraging their loyalty to Christian faith and practice
• in response to some false prophets who have left the community

Question 20

1, 2 and 3 John – Author

Answer 20

“The elder” in 2 and 3 John; a solid historical tradition equated him with the apostle John

Question 21

1 John – Date

Answer 21

Unknown; probably toward the end of the first Christian century (late 80s, early 90s).

Question 22

1 John – Recipients

Answer 22

• A Christian community (or communities) well known to the author (whom he calls “dear children” and “dear
  friends”; the false prophets defected “from us,” 2:19);
• it has traditionally been thought to be located in or around Ephesus

Question 23

1 John – Occasion

Answer 23

• The defection of the false prophets and their followers, who have called into question the orthodoxy—both teaching and practice—of those who have remained loyal to what goes back to “the beginning”

Question 24

1 John – Emphases

Answer 24

1. That Jesus who came in the flesh is the Son of God
2. That Jesus showed God’s love for us through his incarnation and crucifixion
3. That true believers love one another as God loved them in Christ
4. That God’s children do not habitually sin, but when we do sin, we receive forgiveness
5. That believers can have full confidence in the God who loves them
6. That by trusting in Christ we now have eternal life

Question 25

2 John – Content

Answer 25

"the elder" warns against false teachers who deny | the incarnation of Christ

Question 26

2 John – Recipients

Answer 26

the "lady chosen by God" is either a single, local congregation or a woman who hosts a house church; "her children" are the members of the believing community

Question 27

2 John – Occasion

Answer 27

John is concerned that after the defection of the false prophets from his community, they might spread their teaching in another community of faith

Question 28

3 John – Content

Answer 28

to borrow the words of New Testament scholar Archibald M. Hunter, 3 John is all about: - "the Elder", who wrote it - Gaius, who received it - Diotrephes, who provoked it - and Demetrius, who carried it

Question 29

3 John – Date

Answer 29

probably in the A.D. 90s

Question 30

3 John – Recipient

Answer 30

- Gaius, a beloved friend of the elder who lives in another town - other believers are to be greeted by name (v. 14)

Question 31

3 John – Occasion

Answer 31

- an earlier letter to the church had been scorned by Diotrephes, who also refused hospitality to the elder's friend(s) and disfellowshipped those who would do so - consequently John writes to Gaius, urging him to welcome Demetrius

Question 32

3 John – Emphases

Answer 32

1. The obligations of Christian hospitality, especially toward approved itinerant ministers

Question 33

Jude – Content

Answer 33

- A Pastoral letter of exhortation, | - full of strong warning against some false teachers who have "secretly slipped in" among them

Question 34

Jude – Author

Answer 34

Jude, who modestly describes himself as "the brother | of James" (thus of Jesus), but does not consider himself an apostle (v. 17)

Question 35

Jude – Date

Answer 35

unknown; probably later in the first Christian century (after A.D. 70), since the apostolic "faith" seems to be well in place (vv. 3,17)

Question 36

Jude – Recipients

Answer 36

- unknown - probably a single congregation of predominantly Jewish Christians somewhere in Palestine - who were well acquainted with both the Old Testament and Jewish apocalyptic literature

Question 37

Jude – Occasion

Answer 37

the threat posed by some itinerants who have turned grace into license and who have "wormed their way in" (NEB) to the church

Question 38

Jude – Emphases

Answer 38

1. The certain judgment on those who live carelessly and teach others to do so 2. The importance of holy living 3. God's love for and preservation of his faithful ones

Question 39

Revelation – Content

Answer 39

a Christian prophecy cast in apocalyptic style and imagery and finally put in letter form, dealing primarily with tribulation (suffering) and salvation for God's people and God's wrath (judgment) on the Roman Empire

Question 40

Revelation – Author

Answer 40

a man named John (1:1, 4, 9), well known to the recipients, traditionally identified as the apostle, the son of Zebedee (Matt 10:2)

Question 41

Revelation – Date

Answer 41

ca. A.D. 95 (according to Irenaeus [ca. 180])

Question 42

Revelation – Recipients

Answer 42

churches in the Roman province of Asia, who | show a mix of fidelity and internal weaknesses

Question 43

Revelation – Occasion

Answer 43

- the early Christians' refusal to participate in the cult of the emperor (who was acclaimed "lord" and "saviour") was putting them on a collision course with the state - John saw prophetically that it would get worse before it got better and that the churches were poorly prepared for what was about to take place - so he writes both to warn and encourage them and to announce God's judgments against Rome

Question 44

Revelation – Emphases

Answer 44

1. Despite appearances to the contrary, God is in absolute control of history 2. Although God's people are destined for suffering in the present, God's sure salvation belongs to them 3. God's judgment will come on those responsible for the church's suffering 4. In the end (Rev 21–22) God will restore what was lost or distorted at the beginning (Gen 1–3)