OT Themes

Question 1

What is the theme of Genesis?

Answer 1

Beginnings/Covenants/Generations

Question 2

What is the theme of Exodus?

Answer 2

Redemption and Deliverance of Israel

Question 3

What is the theme of Leviticus?

Answer 3

Dedication/Holiness (God’s Instruction On Holy Living - cf. 20:22-26)

Question 4

What is the theme of Numbers?

Answer 4

Wanderings in the wilderness; faithful Jehovah/fickle Israel

Question 5

What is the theme of Deuteronomy?

Answer 5

Second Law/Renewed Covenant/Review

Question 6

What is the theme of Joshua?

Answer 6

Conquer and Divide (Re-Entry)

Question 7

What is the theme of Judges?

Answer 7

Disobedience and Defeat; Disobedience cost Israel her covenant blessings

Question 8

What is the theme of Ruth?

Answer 8

Kinsman Redeemer, God’s Cinderella

Question 9

What is the theme of 1 Samuel?

Answer 9

Judges to Kings (Transition); Theocracy to monarchy

Question 10

What is the theme of 2 Samuel?

Answer 10

David’s reign as King

Question 11

What is the theme of 1 Kings?

Answer 11

United and Divided Kingdom; Faithful (united) we stand; disobedient (divided) we fall

Question 12

What is the theme of 2 Kings?

Answer 12

Israel and Judah Fall; God’s judgment on Israel and Judah for disobedience

Question 13

What is the theme of 1 Chronicles?

Answer 13

God’s view of David; The spiritual perspective of the genealogy and reign of David

Question 14

What is the theme of 2 Chronicles?

Answer 14

God’s view of the Kings of Judah; A spiritual perspective on the kings that followed David: Obedience brings blessings; disobedience brings wrath

Question 15

What is the theme of Ezra?

Answer 15

Rebuilding the temple and people; The return from Babylon

Question 16

What is the theme of Nehemiah?

Answer 16

Rebuilding the walls; Rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem and Reforming the People

Question 17

What is the theme of Esther?

Answer 17

Preservation through providence; the Divine chess game

Question 18

What is the theme of Job?

Answer 18

Suffering and Sovereignty; Jehovah is Sovereign; Offer worship to God regardless of circumstances; Bad circumstances are not always due to sin

Question 19

What is the theme of Psalms?

Answer 19

Worship - a personal response to the person and work of God; Comfort for troubled times; God’s medicine chest

Question 20

What is the theme of Proverbs?

Answer 20

Wisdom/Fear of the Lord; Wisdom for a foolish world; Spiritual reality/vitality/stability/certainty; The divine perspective on how to handle life’s issues

Question 21

What is the theme of Ecclesiastes?

Answer 21

Warnings, vanity; Life lived apart from God is futile emptiness; Futile Way vs. Fruitful Way

Question 22

What is the theme of Song of Solomon?

Answer 22

Romance; God’s view of love and marriage

Question 23

What is the theme of Isaiah?

Answer 23

Salvation; God will punish the wicked

Question 24

What is the theme of Jeremiah?

Answer 24

Warning or Last Hour - Repentance/Confrontation; God has delayed judgment and warns His people through Jeremiah to repent before it’s too late

Question 25

What is the theme of Lamentations?

Answer 25

Lament/Mourning/Weeping (The Funeral of a City); The mourning of captive Zion as written by Jeremiah

Question 26

What is the theme of Ezekiel?

Answer 26

Condemnation, consolation, restoration

Question 27

What is the theme of Daniel?

Answer 27

(Destiny) God's sovereign plan for Israel; Israel's prophetic panorama

Question 28

What is the theme of Hosea?

Answer 28

Loyal love (faithfulness), Covenant

Question 29

What is the theme of Joel?

Answer 29

The Day of the Lord (in retrospect and prospect)

Question 30

What is the theme of Amos?

Answer 30

Social injustice of Israel

Question 31

What is the theme of Obadiah?

Answer 31

Edom's judgment

Question 32

What is the theme of Jonah?

Answer 32

God's mercy upon the repentant Gentiles; the "wrong way" prophet; the "second chance" prophet

Question 33

What is the theme of Micah?

Answer 33

Justice of God versus the social injustice of Judah (sin

Question 34

What is the theme of Nahum?

Answer 34

Nineveh's Judgment/Destruction; Jonah's wish come true; God's majestic holiness vindicated in Nineveh's judgment

Question 35

What is the theme of Habakkuk?

Answer 35

Faith (Judgment on Judah through deportation); Doubt

Question 36

What is the theme of Zephaniah?

Answer 36

Future global judgment; Sinners in the hands of an angry God

Question 37

What is the theme of Haggai?

Answer 37

A call to construct the Temple; misplaced priorities

Question 38

What is the theme of Zechariah?

Answer 38

Israel's comfort and glory (Preparation for the Messiah)

Question 39

What is the theme of Malachi?

Answer 39

Disintegration of a Nation