God Warns Israel
What is the difference between a "major" and a "minor" prophetical book?
The word “minor” just means the book is shorter than the major ones.
To which city (and nation) did God tell Jonah to go preach?
Nineveh in Assyria.
How are we all like Gomer and the people of Israel?
We sin and are unfaithful to God and his commands.
What did God command Hosea to do at the beginning of the book?
Take a wife.
What capital city of Israel did the Assyrians besiege?
Samaria
How can God punish sin since he is a God of love?
God is loving, but he is also just and must punish sin.
What did Jonah do in an attempt to flee from the presence of the Lord?
He got on a ship headed in the opposite direction (to Tarshish).
Why did Elisha refuse to take any of the gifts Naaman offered?
He wanted God to get all the glory for the miracle.
How did Gomer treat Hosea? What did she do?
She left him for other men. She was unfaithful.
What did the Assyrians do to the people of Israel after they were defeated?
Took most of them away to live in Assyrian/foreign cities.
Where was Amos from and to which nation did God send Amos?
From the southern kingdom of Judah. Sent to the northern nation of Israel.
How long was Jonah in the belly of the fish?
Three days and nights.
What did Jezebel do to get Naboth's vineyard for Ahab?
She wrote letters commanding the people in Naboth’s city to falsely accuse him of cursing God and the king.
How is God’s love for Israel like Hosea’s love for Gomer?
God still loved his people even after they’d sinned. He wanted to take them back and forgive them if they would repent.
How many years had God been patient, waiting for Israel to repent?
Two hundred fifty years.
Because the Israelites refused to repent, what adversary would God send against them?
The Assyrians.
Why didn’t Jonah want to go to Nineveh?
The people there (the Assyrians) were enemies of Israel, and he didn’t want God to have compassion on them. It was a wicked city.
How did God determine if a king was good or evil?
Good kings were obedient and faithful to God while evil kings were disobedient to God’s commands and worshipped false gods.
How was God planning to judge the people for their sins?
He would send an enemy, the Assyrians, to defeat and scatter them.
Name one reason King Shalmaneser moved captives among countries.
1.) They were less likely to rise up and fight against the king who defeated them. 2.) The king wanted to blend the people groups he conquered, so they would become “Assyrian” instead of separate unique people groups.
Why had God sent punishments of locusts, drought, blight, mildew, war, and pestilence upon Israel?
He wanted the people to return to Him and repent of their sins.
What lessons can we learn from the account of Jonah?
Possible answers: obey God the first time, realize that we can’t hide from God, love our enemies, and share the gospel with all people
How can we be sure the account of Jonah really happened and is not a myth or fable?
Jesus spoke of Jonah being in the great fish for three days exactly as recorded in the book of Jonah. because he is God, Jesus cannot lie. He had to be sinless in order to be the perfect sacrifice for sin.
God would punish his people, but what else did he promise to do?
One day bring them back to their land.
What is syncretism?
The blending of worship of false gods with the worship of the true God.