What was the purpose of God resting on the 7th day?

Genesis 1:1 tells us that God created the heavens and the earth. We know that God exists eternally in 3 persons, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. What two divisions do theologians use to divide God’s attributes?

What was the first human institution ordained by God?

According to what we learned in class from Genesis 1:27, Colossians 3:18-4:1, Ephesians 5:22-33, and 1 Peter 3:1-7, which of the following most closely describes the Biblical model of husbands and wives roles in the family unit?

What three things does the Bible say influenced Eve’s decision to sin in Genesis 3:6? How does this relate to 1 John 2:16?

True/False: The 3 steps to sin and death in James 1:14-15 starts with unchecked desires.

What was the first thing that Adam and Eve noticed after they sinned?

What is the spiritual significance of the animal skins God gave Adam and Eve for clothes?

How many days did it rain during Noah’s worldwide flood?

How long were they in the ark before God told them to come out?

How did Shem and Japheth imitate God?

What is Genesis 10 most likely referring to when it says that the “earth was divided” in “the days of Peleg?”

True/False: God’s covenant with Abraham in Gen. 12, 15, and 17 is an unconditional promise.

Two of the key elements of God's covenant with Abraham were

Melchizedek is a Type of Christ because he

What is the main difference between the Old and New Testaments?

True/False: God’s omniscience and omnipotence are examples of irreplicable attributes.

According to Genesis 15:13-16, why did God make the children of Israel wait over 400 years before they could inhabit the Promised Land?

What does Ishmael mean?

Which of the following is an important hermeneutical principle we learned in class:

Which is a true statement about God that we learned in class?

Why does the Bible repeat multiple times that Abraham was to sacrifice his “only” son?

Why did God send Abraham on a three-day journey to sacrifice Isaac?

How did Abraham’s servant choose a wife for Isaac?

What is one important difference in what the Bible says Isaac did for his barren wife compared to what his father and son did for theirs?

Which of the following was a devastating generational sin that plagued Abraham’s family?

Jacob stole his brother’s:

acob served Laban for how many years for Rachel?

Jacob had how many sons?

True/False: Joseph had a dream about 7 fat cows and 7 lean cows.

Joseph's brothers sold him for

In what ways did Jacob’s sons’ cover-up of their crime against Joseph resemble Jacob’s own deception of his father Isaac?

Would Joseph have become 2nd in command of all Egypt if he had not been in prison?

True/False: Since Joseph says it was really God who sent him to Egypt, and since their whole family might have been wiped out by the famine if he had not suffered as a slave and prisoner in Egypt, his brothers actually did a good thing by selling him into slavery.

How did Jacob give Joseph a double-share of the inheritance above all his many older siblings?

True/False: The three major sections of the Old Testament are Law, Poetry, and Prophets.

What did Joseph’s Egyptian name (Zaphenath-peneah) probably mean?

Why did Joseph threaten to imprison Benjamin?

Jacob’s prophetic blessing upon Judah in Gen. 49 was fulfilled (first and last) in which two Bible characters?

From your class notes, what was the name of the Semitic people who stayed in the Nile Delta region before the Israelites and then conquered Lower Egypt?

True/False: Moses was 30 years old when he killed the Egyptian.

True/False: Moses was in the wilderness for 40 years before God called him to return to Egypt.

God told Moses his name was what?

When Moses didn’t think he could do it or that people would believe him, God asked him “What is in your hand?” What was Moses’ answer?

What finally made God angry with Moses?

The main purpose or role of the Egyptian gods, and which God destroyed with extreme prejudice, was:

True/False: The Egyptians worshiped about 500 different gods.

True/False: Besides freeing God’s people from slavery, the main purpose of the plagues was to teach the Israelites and Egyptians and all the world who is the one true God.

True/False: The correct order of the ten plagues are: Turning the waters of Egypt into blood, Frogs, biting insects (probably lice or gnats), Flies, Plague on the Livestock, Boils, Hail, Locusts, Darkness, and Death of the first-born.

What was the first “sign” that the Egyptian magicians could not duplicate, and for which they said, “THIS is the finger of GOD!”

What was the name of the Egyptian sun god?

What was the first plague where God made a distinction between His people and the Egyptians?

The god/ess the Egyptians worshiped as the guardian and spirit of the Nile River were Khnum and Hapi.

The frog-headed goddess of fertility was called:

Which plague was the first where some Egyptians who had learned to fear God heeded Moses’ warning and were also spared?

We know that Pharaoh hardened his own heart in pride and greed, but why did God also harden Pharaoh’s heart when he might otherwise have relented?

Pharaoh was sometimes called the son of:

True/False: The Passover commemorates when the angel of death passed over the Israelite homes that had the blood of a perfect male lamb over the door and on the sides of the doorposts.

True/False: As per their custom, they crushed the bones to eat the marrow of the Passover lamb.

True/False: The matza bread of the Passover was traditionally served in three loaves, with the middle loaf separated from the others, wrapped in a cloth, and hidden. And because they had yeast, they were pierced with small holes.

True/False: The four cups of wine traditionally served at Passover are Blessing, Judgement, Redemption, and Praise

True/False: When Jesus said to His disciples, “THIS cup is the New Covenant in my blood which was shed for many for the remission of sins,” he was likely holding the cup of Redemption.

True/False: The Sea of Reeds the Israelites crossed was likely a reed-filled shallow lake north of the Red Sea.

True/False: God revealed his presence to his people and led them by a pillar of fire by day and a pillar of cloud by night.

God fed his people in the Sinai Desert with

Jethro’s advice to his son-in-law Moses was to:

In Israel’s very first actual battle, who do you think the Israelites would have said won the fight?

What was the Mosaic Covenant of Exodus 19 and 24 based on?

True/False: Three kinds of Laws that seem to encompass most OT commands are: Cultic, Civil, and Moral

True/False: Of the three kinds of laws we discussed in class, Civil Laws are the ones that most directly apply to New Testament Christians.

True/False: As part of our covenant, New Testament Christians must obey the Ten Commandments to go to heaven.

While Old Testament commands are not part of our Covenant today, we can apply them to our lives by using:

True/False: In the Ten Commandments, 6 laws deal with our relationship with God and 4 with our relationship with others.

Select the most accurate statement below:

True/False: In the Torah, God commands punishment of thieves greater than the value of what they stole.

True/False: In the Torah, God commands the death penalty for some crimes, including witchcraft/sorcery, bestiality, adultery, worship of any other god, and even cursing one’s parents.

True/False: God ordered slavery.

God commanded those who owned Hebrew slaves to set them free after 6 years of service.

Exodus establishes three week-long feasts in the year. One immediately after spring planting, the next 50 days later after the first grain harvest, and the final one after the later grain harvest and the harvest of olives and grapes. These three feasts, in order, were called:

True/False: God ordered the deaths of the peoples living in the land of Canaan because they were very wicked and because, in his sovereignty, he chose to give that land to the Israelites.

True/False: The Table of Showbread (or Bread of the Presence) had 12 loaves of bread on it at all times except when they traveled.

True/False: The Golden Lampstand in the Tabernacle had 7 lamps.

True/False: The lamps and light in the Tabernacle represented the people’s prayers.

True/False: The altar of incense represented the presence of the Lord in their midst.

The first thing one comes to as they entered the Court of the Tabernacle was:

Where did God meet with His people in the Tabernacle?

True/False: The 6 steps in the Ordination ceremony of Priests were: Washing, Clothing/robing, Anointing, a sin offering, a burnt offering, and an ordination offering, putting the blood of this last offering on the right ear, right thumb, and right big toe of the priest.

What was in the breast-piece of the high priest?

T/F The Burnt offering could be eaten by the priests and the worshipers (Lev. 1)

T/F The Sin Offering had a provision for the poor to offer a less costly substitute for their sin (Lev. 5)

T/F The Guilt Offering was to atone for primarily more serious offenses against God or man, and required full restitution plus 1/5th and a ram offering, regardless of one’s economic status (Lev. 5-6).

T/F In the Old Testament, people were not allowed to eat blood because it represented life, but it was OK to eat fat because there is rarely any blood in it.

T/F God holds leaders to a higher standard. In Leviticus, leaders were even required to give a more costly sacrifice to atone for their sins.

What does the anointing oil represent in ordination services today?

T/F The four most common explanations for the clean/unclean animal divisions discussed in class are Religious, Cultic, Hygienic, and Symbolic.

T/F Most unclean mammals, fish, birds, and insects are for various reasons more likely to pass diseases on to people.

T/F There are health benefits to most of the cleanliness laws in Leviticus.

T/F All uncleanness is sin.

T/F Leviticus 18:1-5, like Romans 12:1-2 in the NT, emphasizes that God wants His Covenant People to be like Him, not to imitate the culture(s) around them.

T/F God gave the death penalty for “big sins” like incest and murder, but it’s OK to go to mediums and spiritists.

T/F In the Year of Jubilee, everyone’s family land was to be returned to them.

The Parallel structure of Leviticus 24:17-21 is called a:

T/F According to Randy Smith, the Hebrew names of the Old Testament books are the first words of each scroll.

T/F According to Randy Smith, the biggest concept in Leviticus is the blood for blood concept, the price tag for taking life is life.

T/F According to Randy Smith, the Israelites were in captivity for 70 years in Babylon because they worshiped idols.

Randy Smith breaks down Leviticus into three parts: Offerings (1-7), Priests (8-10), and what (11-27)?

T/F Although unmentioned in the Bible, according to Leviticus Caribou would be an example of a clean animal.

T/F The Two Census’s (ch 1 & 26) counted all the people of Israel.

T/F Randy Smith said three key elements of Numbers that parallel American failures over the last 50 years are: Family, Godlessness, and the necessity of training the next generation.

Randy Smith: The most effective attack against Israel was:

Randy Smith suggested that if the word translated "thousand" actually meant "units" the actual number of Israelites leaving Egypt was likely:

Who wrote the book of Numbers?

When a command and a principle seem to collide or be at odds with each other, which should we follow?

T/F One principle we learn from the account of the Cloud/Pillar of Fire is that the most important aspect of leadership and direction is to trust and follow Jesus.

T/F From such passages as Numbers 11:17, 27:18, and others, we learn that the single-most essential qualification for Christian leadership is the presence of the Holy Spirit.

T/F From Balaam’s story we learn that even when God makes His will known, it is OK for me to try to convince Him to change His mind.

T/F Manna means “Bread from Heaven”

When the people rebelled against God at the border of the Promised Land, they said they wished they had died in Egypt or in the Desert and wanted to choose a leader to take them back to slavery in Egypt. They said this because they were afraid. True or False: Their root problem was they did not trust God, or believe (have faith) that He could or would do what He promised.

T/F The consequences for the adults of not trusting God and entering the Promised Land was that they died in the desert, as they requested, and never received the gift God had prepared for them.

T/F The four ingredients in the ritual cleansing after touching a dead body were: the ashes of the red heifer, hyssop, spruce, and scarlet yarn.

T/F The High Priest was the only one authorized to make the special offering of the Red Heifer.

T/F The Hebrew word Ra’ah, translated “look” (at the Bronze Serpent), means to “look with faith.”

T/F The story of Balaam and his Donkey is ironic because the donkey is portrayed as better than Balaam at the very things Balaam claimed to be.

T/F While Balaam appears to indeed be a non-Israelite servant of the true God, his desire for money led him astray in the end.

Although Balaam refused to curse God’s people, and did indeed speak the verbal blessing over them that God commanded, what did he do that ensured his own death at the hands of Israel?

In the story of the daughters of Zelophehad, we see an example of

The primary principle from Numbers 30:1-9 is that: