The Prophets
What did the prophets warn if Israel would turn against God?
They warned Israel of divine punishment if the chosen people did not abandon their evil ways.
What is a solemn agreement between people or between God and man involving mutual commitments and guarantees?
Covenant
What do the “clean animals,” which Noah sacrificed after the flood, foreshadow?
Sacrifice of Christ.
What was the immediate reason for Christ’s supreme Sacrifice?
The immediate reason for Christ’s supreme Sacrifice of his life was God’s great love and his desire to atone for the sins of and redeem every human being.
In ancient times, the leader of the Egyptians, often worshiped as a god by the Egyptian people.
Pharaoh
Who conquered the Northern Kingdom of Israel?
The Assyrians conquered the Northern Kingdom of Israel.
What is the Greek word for "going out"
Exodus
What was the physical sign of the covenant with Abraham?
Circumcision
How can our personal suffering serve as a conduit to Christ, the Suffering Servant?
We can serve as a conduit to Christ through personal difficulties and painful situations.
Mt. Moriah
As Israel experienced chaos and collapse following the reign of Solomon, what did the prophets promise?
The prophets promised a Messiah who would restore Israel, defeat its enemies.
From the Greek prophetein, meaning to "speak for" or to "speak forth."
Prophecy
What was the symbol of the covenant?
A rainbow
How did Christ fulfill Isaiah’s prophecy of the Suffering Servant?
His willingness to serve by making satisfaction for sins extends even to his Passion and Death on the cross.
Adam and Eve's third son and eventual heir. His line carried on the true worship of God in contrast to the evil line of Cain.
Seth
How did the title “Messiah” become proper to Jesus, who is called Jesus Christ or simply Christ?
It became the name proper to Jesus only because he accomplished perfectly the divine mission that “Christ” signifies. People who are consecrated to God for a mission that he gave were in his anointed name.
Sarah
What were the three promises made by God to Abraham?
A land and a nation
A kingship and a name
A blessing for all nations
As Israel experienced chaos and collapse following the reign of Solomon, what did the prophets promise?
The prophets promised a Messiah who would restore Israel, defeat its enemies.
Name applied to the Virgin Mary, whose complete cooperation in God's plan of redemption reversed the effects of the disobedience and sin of the first women Eve.
New Eve
What threefold anointing did Jesus receive as Messiah?
Jesus fulfilled the messianic hope of Israel in hiss threefold office of priest, prophet, and king.
Who was the great prophet who guided the reforms of Hezekiah?
Isaiah
Why did God bless and love Abraham more than anyone who had come before him?
Because of his heroic fidelity and generosity.
What did the prophet Isaiah state clearly about the coming Savior?
Isaiah prophesied a great leader would come from Galilee.
From the Greek for "ten words"; the Ten Commandments given by God through Moses.
Decalogue