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Prophets of the Israel
This week's lesson
The destruction of Judah
The restoration of Judah
100
Although both Israel in the north and Judah in the south repeatedly did evil in the sight of the Lord, this half of the divided kingdom was still promised to house the forefathers of the Messiah.
What is Judah?
100
Elijah challenged the prophets of this pagan god by asking them “How long will you waver between two options? If the Lord is God, then follow Him.”
Who is Baal?
100
Read Daniel 1:1-21.
100
This nation destroyed Judah and captured its people.
What is Babylon?
100
King Josaiah of Judah was grieved upon hearing that this had been lost and neglected in the Lord's temple.
What is the Law, the Torah, the Pentateuch, or portions of the Old Testament?
200
This king, known for his incredible misuse wisdom and his incredible misuse of it, was the last king over a united Israel before it split.
Who is Solomon?
200
After many warnings from the prophets Ahijah, Jehu, Elijah, Micaiah, Amos, Hosea, and others, Israel rejected repentance and was destroyed by this nation.
What is Assyria?
200
In relation to the Old Testament food laws, this is what Daniel and his fellow Judahites would have done if they had eaten the food given to them by King Nebuchadnezzar's officials.
What is broken the Torah, or disobeyed the Lord?
200
The people of Judah remained in exile for this many years.
What is 70 years?
200
Ezekiel’s vision in Ezekiel 37, a vision of the Lord bringing dry bones back to life in order to demonstrate that He can bring the spiritually dead into spiritual life, is an example of this literary genre.
What is apocalypse?
300
Having refused the council of his father, this is who Rehoboam consulted instead when challenged with how to reign as king.
Who are his friends, or young counselors?
300
Before his mentor was taken straight up to Heaven, this prophet mentee was unwilling willing to leave his mentor’s side and was even told by others that “the Lord will take your master away from you today.”
Who is Elisha?
300
In order to assimilate Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah into Babylonian culture, they were each given a new one of these.
What is a name?
300
In the time after Israel’s destruction but before Judah’s destruction, Micah prophesied against this kind of prophet plaguing Judah.
What are false prophets?
300
In his time prophesying for the Lord to the nation of Judah, Micah says that the Lord will throw this, which belongs to the people, into the depths of the sea.
What are the people’s sins?
400
Much like the children of Israel built at the base of Mount Sinai, Jeroboam built two of these - one in Bethel and one in Dan - to divert the people’s praise away from Jerusalem.
What are golden calves?
400
This king of Israel, known for being wholeheartedly evil, actually did repent after being confronted by Elijah the prophet and being cursed by God.
Who is King Ahab?
400
Which areas of your life do you find it easiest to compromise your faith and "go with the flow?"
[Open discussion time]
400
This is the prophet who prophesied of Judah’s destruction and exile.
Who is Jeremiah?
400
This is the prophet who prophesied of Judah’s return from exile and eventual restoration.
Who is Jeremiah?
500
As a result of Rehoboam sinning worse than all past generations by building many altars to pagan gods, the Lord sent this nation’s army to attack Jerusalem and rob the temple of its treasures.
What is Egypt?
500
In order for Hosea to best prophesy about the heartbreak that this sin causes the Lord, He commanded Hosea to marry a prostitute.
What is idolatry?
500
For Daniel and his fellow Judahites, rejecting the alure of the king's food and the social pressure of their fellow Jewish captives must've been incredibly difficult. It may have been impossible if they had not previously practiced this virtue which would later be called one of the fruits of the Spirit.
What is self-discipline, or self-control?
500
The people of the nation of Judah, as foretold by one of the Lord’s prophets, were to remain in exile because they failed to obey this command every seven years. [Leviticus 25:1-7, 2 Chronicles 36:20-21]
What is allow the land to rest/Sabbath?
500
Through the prophet Jeremiah, the Lord promised a new covenant that is unlike any past covenant because this new covenant will be written here.
Where is on the people’s heart?