Questions Flashcards
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What is the structure of Revelation?
- The book of Revelation is organized in cycles (4-7 seven seals, 8-11 seven angels and trumpets, 12-14 seven histories, 15-16 seven bowls of wrath, 17-19 judgment on Babylon, 19-21 the final battle).
- Describes the same events in recapitulation
Give a broad outline of Romans and a brief description of the contents of each section
God’s righteous judgment against sin
3-5 Justification
6-8 Freed to live according to righteousness
- 6 Freed from sin
- 7 Freed from the law
- 8 Freed from the flesh to live according to the spirit
9-11 Election
- 9 God’s sovereignty for Election
- 11 God’s election of Israel and the Gentiles grafted in
12-16 Practical implications of salvation
- 12 Living sacrifices
- 13 Submission to authorities
- 14-15 Caring for the weaker brother
- What is the difference between “higher criticism” and “lower criticism”?
Higher criticism examines the history of a text before it reached its final form whereas lower criticism examines the transmission of the text.
- What is the difference between a “historical-critical” approach to the Bible, and the “historical-grammatical” approach?
**Historical Critical
**At about the same time as the Pietism movement, a new method for studying Scripture arose that “gradually freed itself altogether from all ecclesiastical and theological control and interpreted the Bible with ‘complete objectivity,’ viewing it solely as a product of history” (Ladd, Theology of the New Testament, 2). Individuals such as Richard Simon
**Historical Grammatical
**Some discern another classical method of biblical interpretation, namely, the grammatical-historical method. Focusing on word meanings and word relationships and with some consideration of historic context, it has magnified the so-called literal sense.
Give two OT examples of typology and discuss their importance
Exodus 12 - Passover which typifies Chrsit
Numbers 21 - the bronze serpent which typifies Christ
List and discuss at least two interpretive approaches to the Book of Revelation. Which, if any, of the interpretive approaches do you find most helpful?
- Preterist – the events of Revelation were fulfilled prior to 70 AD.
- Idealist view – Revelation is a symbolic portrayal of the conflict between good and evil. It does not hold that there is a final consummation to history.
- Modified Idealism – The book is symbolic of events that occur between the first and second advent of Christ and concludes with the final consummation (Beale).
List and describe 2 Messianic Psalms.
Psalm 2 - The reign of teh LORD’s anointed “you are my son; today I have begotten you”
Psalm 72 - prayer for righteousness and justice to the son of the king
List and describe 1 Psalm of Lament and 1 Psalm of Praise
Psalm 3 - David cries out to God while being persecuted by Absalom “shiled about me”
Psalm 95 - Oh come, let us sing to the LORD - we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand
A slaughtered lamb standing
Revelation 5:6 “I saw a lamb who was slain”
An Israelite king who consults the dead
Saul - 1 Sam. 28
Jesus heals a man born blind
John 9
Balaam
Numbers 22-25
“The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein”
Psalm 24
“We must obey God rather than men”
Acts 5:29
Give the major developments in the history of the state of Israel from the time of Moses to the close of the Old Testament. As able, reference dates and related events from world history
If you had only an Old Testament at your disposal, to what passage(s) would you direct someone to explain the gospel?
Briefly trace the theme of God’s presence from Genesis to
Briefly trace the theme of God’s kingship from Genesis to Revelation.
Show the “five points of Calvinism” from the Old Testament.
Spiritual forces (angels, demons, demon possession, etc)
Schooling options for children
The exclusivity of Christ
