By The Number
The number of books we read in full this year.
What is 7?
“How have you loved us?”
Nehemiah surveyed the state of Jerusalem’s wall at this time of day.
What is night?
Daniel challenged the guard to give him and his friends nothing but this for 10 days.
What are vegetables to eat and water to drink?
This person continued to pray openly despite a law that could get him killed.
Who is Daniel?
Chapters in Malachi.
What is 4?
“I sent him this reply: ‘Nothing like what you are saying is happening; you are just making it up out of your head.’”
Who is Nehemiah?
Nehemiah did this when he heard the news that the wall of Jerusalem remained destroyed and that the people lived in disgrace and exposed to their enemies.
What is weep? Also acceptable: mourned, fasted, and prayed for days
“Thus says the Lord of hosts: ________ to Me and I will ______ to you.”
What is return?
This book never directly mentions God.
What is Esther?
The number of days it took for the people to complete the wall.
What is 52?
“And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”
Who is Mordecai?
The first type of opposition Nehemiah and the people faced when rebuilding the wall.
What is ridicule and mockery?
God calls people to ______ Him — not just keep His laws.
What is love?
Before returning to Jerusalem, Ezra checked among the people and found they were missing these.
Who are the Levites?
The number of choirs that gave thanks during the dedication of the Wall of Jerusalem.
What is 2?
“Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?”
Who is the Lord through the prophet Haggai? (will take God or Haggai)
What is prayer?
This prophet instructed the Israelites to examine themselves and consider the way they were living.
Who is Haggai?
The statue in Nebuchadnezzar‘s dream had a head made of this metal.
What is gold?
The year of Cyrus’ rule of Persia in which the Lord moved the heart of Cyrus to make a proclamation for the Israelites to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple.
What is Cyrus’ first year?
“In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence.”
Who is Daniel?
Nehemiah’s response when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the people of Ashdod plotted an attack.
What is prayer and posting guards to protect the workers?
What is breath?
Zechariah emphasized that success would come “not by might nor by power, but by this.”
What is God’s Spirit?