Beginnings and Covenants
Land and water were created on this day of creation.
What is the third day?
How old was Abraham when he was promised to have a son?
Bonus: How old was he when his son was born?
75
100
What river did Moses' mother put him in as a baby because the Pharoh was killing all baby boys?
Bonus: WHY was he killing baby boys?
The Nile River
Bonus: Population control for fear of an uprising against him. Ex1:9 states the Israelites had become more and mightier than the Egyptians.
What river did the Israelites cross into the Promised Land?
The Jordan River? (who else was in the Jordan later on?)
Who were the first three kings of Israel?
Bonus: How many years did each reign for? (Just one number)
Saul, David, and Solomon
Bonus: 40 years
Use the words "creator" and "creation" to define sin.
Sin is focusing on the creation over the creator.
After many times of acting out of self-preservation and lack of faith, this key event in Abraham's life demonstrated unwavering faith in God.
The binding of Isaac and showing willingness to sacrifice his only son with Sarah...the son who was to be the first in a long lineage of descendants.
Why did God bring the plagues into Egypt?
Bonus: How many? 1 point for as many as you can name!
The Pharoh refused to let the Hebrew slaves go.
Bonus: 10: Blood, Frogs, Lice/Gnats, Flies, Livestock, Boils, Hail, Locusts, Darkness, Death of firstborn
Why wasn't Moses allowed into the Promised Land?
Who succeeded him?
He struck the rock twice with his staff when he was told to speak to the rock for water. He lacked faith and disobeyed God's commandments.
Joshua
Which king was tall, dark and handsome...the stereotypical archetype of what the people thought a king should look like?
Saul
...it was all about looks...and his concern with how people saw him was his downfall. He had God's spirit until he acted as priest and offered burnt offerings before the priest (Samuel) arrived because he wanted the appearance of power to his men. God's spirit left, and a spirit of fear came instead.
After the Fall from the original sin by Adam and Eve, what promise of hope does God give to them? Bonus: What is the catholic word for this?
God promised that man will conquer evil through God one day.
"I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel." Gen3:15
Bonus: Protoevangelium (="First Gospel")
Jacob wrestled with an angel/God. What was his name changed to after this and what does it mean?
Bonus: Jacob meant "heel-grabber" or "supplanter." Why was he named that?
Israel = "He who struggles with God" or "God prevails"
Bonus: He held onto the heel of his twin, Esau, at birth...and later undermined him to take the blessing and birthright
List the 10 Commandments.
Bonus: WHY were they given to the people?
1. No other God before me 2. Do not worship idols 3. Do not take God's name in vain 4. Keep the Sabbath day holy 5. Honor parents 6. Don't murder 7. Don't commit adultery 8. Don't steal 9. Don't lie (bear false witness) 10. Don't covet neighbor's hose/wife/stuff
Bonus: to help reshape a polytheistic people into a new nation of followers of God, starting with a moral and ethical framework: Encouraged justice, protected human dignity, ordered community life, Corrected harmful behavior
How did the Israelites defeat Jericho? (per God's instructions)
Bonus: What was the name of the prostitute that helped gain access and intelligence on Jericho...and then went on to be an ancestor to Jesus?
Days 1-6: Army marched around the city 1 time in silence (except for priests' trumpets)
Day 7: Army marched around city 7 times, then priests sounded long blast, then people all shouted - at which point the great massive walls crumbled
Bonus: Rahab
In David's later life full of terribly bad decisions and mistakes (sleeping with Bathsheba, killing her husband Uriah, bad parenting (didn't address the fact that one son raped a daughter, son who tried to overthrow him), taking a military census), he showed repentance through what books of the Bible that he wrote? Of note, God's covenant with him was unconditional.
Psalms
How long did it rain in the Great Flood?
Bonus: list 3 other uses of this number
40 days and 40 nights
1. 40 years in the desert
2. Jesus into desert for 40 days
3. Moses on Mt. Sinai for 40 days
After years of fleeing from the wrath of his brother, Esau, what was Esau's response when he saw his brother Jacob again?
He ran to him, embraced him, they wept, and he forgave him.
Moses' life can be divided into 3 phases of 40 years. Summarize them.
1. Prince of Egypt - education, power, wealth
2. Shepherd - exile, wilderness, started family
3. Leader of Israelites - stood up to Pharoh, led people out of Egypt to Mt. Sinai and through desert for 40 yrs
How many judges make up the Book of Judges and served as tribal chieftans (think Braveheart) as Israel's morality spun more and more out of control?
Bonus: Were they consecutive or concurrent?
12
Bonus: Concurrent (overlapping)
Which king wrote Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes, and several of the Proverbs? He is known for his wisdom.
Solomon
DOUBLE! God made a three-fold covenant with Abraham that promised these three things that came to be realized through these three people.
Land/Descendants - Moses
Royal Kingdom - David
Blessed Lineage - Jesus
What did Joseph's brothers do to him, and why?
Bonus: Which of Jacob's sons continued the lineage to David and on to Jesus?
They sold him into slavery in Egypt because they were jealous of him.
Bonus: His 4th son, Judah
Through the daily gift of manna, what was one key lesson God wanted the Hebrews to learn?
To rely on God each and every day for their every need
After all of the judges, what was it that Israel wanted and asked for?...hint...Samuel helped to find and bless the first one.
They asked for a KING. They wanted to be a legitimate nation of their own.
What was the downfall of Solomon - the reason God was displeased and sent a prophet to tell Solomon all but one tribe of Israel would be taken from his son Rehoboam?
He was worshipping the other gods of his many wives....along with having 700 wives, 300 concubines, amassing a fortune etc.