The Living Word Chapter 10 Quiz

What is a prophet?

• someone who can predict the future

• someone chosen by God to communicate a message of salvation on his behalf

• someone who prefers to live in the wilderness, away from other people, to pray and be close to God

• none of these

Why did God command Ezekiel to eat the scroll?

• God was inviting him to feed on his holy word, his righteous law.

• God was asking Ezekiel to fast as a way to grow stronger in his faith.

• God wanted Ezekiel to destroy the words written on the scroll to keep others from reading them.

• none of these

What do we call the Jewish belief and expectation that a savior would come to protect, unite, and lead Israel to freedom?

• idolatry

• remnant

• messianic hope

• fidelity

Which of the following describes another way to categorize the prophetic books?

• the prophets who foretold the coming of a Messiah, and the prophets who did not

• the prophets who called the people to repent, and the prophets who only warned the people that God was angry

• the male and female prophets

• the prophets who lived before and during the Babylonian Exile, and the prophets who lived during and after the Babylonian Exile

In Jeremiah’s analogy of the potter and the clay, what do the potter and the clay object he is molding symbolize?

• The potter is Israel, and the clay object is God, whom the potter (Israel) is neglecting.

• The potter is God, and the clay object is Israel, who is not turning out the way God planned.

• The potter is Jeremiah, and the clay object is Israel, whom Jeremiah is trying to mold.

• The potter is God, and the clay object is Emmanuel, the messiah God promised to send.

Which prophet foretold the arrival of a messiah, Emmanuel?

• Isaiah

• Jeremiah

• Ezekiel

• Jonah

Jeremiah saw many of his prophecies come true when he witnessed what event?

• the Incarnation

• King Solomon’s fall into idolatry

• the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple at the hands of the Babylonians

• the death of Isaiah

What do Isaiah’s “suffering servant” poems portray?

• The poems portray a servant whose master does not appreciate his work.

• The poems portray a servant of God who encounters great suffering but ends in glory.

• The poems describe Isaiah himself, who experienced the Babylonian Exile.

• The poems describe Jonah and his time in the whale.

In Ezekiel’s vision of the dry bones, what did the dry bones symbolize?

• the suffering experienced by the Israelites during the Babylonian Exile

• the senseless, unjust lives of the Israelites, whom God wanted to hear and return to his Word

• the suffering of the Messiah to come

• the tablets on which Moses printed the Ten Commandments

What kind of messages did the prophets communicate?

• messages calling the people to repent and return to the covenant

• messages assuring the people that God had not abandoned them

• messages of comfort and hope amidst despair and suffering

• all of these