Random
What are the first five books of the Bible called? **Extra 100 points if you can name all five books in order
Pentateuch
What is the name of the book of the Bible that we think Solomon wrote, which he says "everything is vanity"?
Ecclesiastes
What did Solomon ask God for?
Wisdom
What is the first part inside of the temple called? Second part?
Holy place
Holy of Holies
Question and answer #3 of the WSC
What do the Scriptures principally teach?
The Scripture principally teach what man is to believe concerning God and what duty God requires of man.
Name the parts of the Liturgy? There are now 8 parts.
Call to Worship, Historical Reading, Confession and Pardon, Tithes and offerings, Preaching of Gods Word, Sacraments (Eucharist), Benediction, Doxology
Why does Solomon say "vanity, vanity, vanity, all is vanity"?
Meaningless, apart of from God, all things have no eternal worth.
What was the promise that was made by God to Solomon's father?
Your son will sit on the throne forever, his rule and reign will never end.
**Extra 200 points: What was this covenant called?
What was inside the ark of the covenant?
Manna, Aaron's staff, 10 commandments
7.) Is this the Answer to Question #7 of WSC, True or False?
The decrees of God are his eternal purpose, according to the councel of his will, whereby, for his own glory, he hath foreordained whatsoever comes to pass.
7b.) What does Foreordained mean?
True
Before time existed, God planned for all things to happen
What happened to Solomon's Temple in the year 586 BC? (This is about 600 years before Jesus was born)
Destroyed
**Extra 300 points: Who was the King who destroyed it?
Read Mark 8:36
How's does this fit with Ecclesiastes?
Riches, wealth, fame, honor mean nothing. Christ is everything.
Name Solomon's Father:
What did his father want to do for God?
What was God's response?
David
Build God a house
God will build David a house, but his son will build God's temple.
What's the significance of the altar of incense?
Sweet smelling, smoke rising up....Symbol for prayers going to God.
Question and Answer #14 WSC
What is Sin?
Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of the law of God.
How is Jesus the true and final Prophet, Priest, and King?
Prophet: Speaks God's words directly to us through the Scriptures
Priest: He is High priest and the perfect sacrifice
King: Rules and reigns forever
What does Solomon mean when he says:
read- Ecclesiastes 1:9
Nothing new under the sun: Whatever is goin on in life, whatever seems new, whatever seems especially difficult......it's all been done and seen and experienced before.
The wisest King of Israel failed miserably. What specifically led to his failure as a King and man of God?
Had many wives, and most were pagan which led him to build temples for false god's and false worship.
Read Hebrews 8:1-7
Explain
High priest, tabernacle/ temple point to true tabernacle, sacrifice now once for all, copy and shadow, new covenant in his blood.
Question and Answer #11 of WSC?
What are God's works of Providence?
God's Works of Providence are His most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all His creatures and all their actions.
What is Faith?
Explain to me
Knowledge, Ascent, and Trust
K: Must know the gospel, hear it, read it...
A: Believe its actually True
T: Rest in nothing else than what Jesus has done for salvation.
What is Wisdom and what is knowledge?
Give an example of each
Knowledge: Information
Wisdom: Application of knowledge
Solomon's wisdom:
He had two women come to him and they were both saying that the child was their's. How did he know who the real Mom was?
He said, to give half the child to one and the other half to the other. The real Mom loved her child too much, and said "no, give her the child".
What two things are outside Solomon's Temple?
What things are inside?
Alter of sacrifice and wash basin
Lamp stands, table of show bread, alter of incense
Ark of the covenant, cherubim on both sides
Question and Answer #12 of the WSC?
What special act of Providence did God exercise towards man in the state wherein he was created?
When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life with him, upon condition of perfect obedience, forbidding him to eat of the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil, upon pain of death.