Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Familiar Phrases

1. Multiple choice: What  did God cause Ezekiel to eat that Ezekiel described as "in my mouth like honey in sweetness"?  (a) Locusts; (b) a scroll; or (c) bread.

2. Fill in the blanks: When God warned Ezekiel that Israel would not listen to what he told them, He said, "Behold, I have made your  ---------  strong against their  --------, and your  ------- strong against their -------."

3. Sentence completion: Ezekiel delivered this message from God to Israel concerning the Babylonian conquest: "My eye will not spare you, Nor will I have pity; But I will repay your ways, And your abominations will be in your midst; Then you...!


1. (b) A scroll (Ezek. 3:3) The contents of the scroll was the message Ezekiel was to deliver to the exiles in Babylon (v.4).
 
 
2. Face...faces...forehead...foreheads" (Ezek. 3:8).
 
 
3. "Shall know that I am the Lord" (Ezek. 7:4).

Monday, October 8, 2012

Familiar Phrases

1. Sentence completion: When God told Jeremiah that Israel would be restored and the land inhabited again, Jeremiah prayed, "Ah, Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is..."

2. Fill in the blank: In reconfirming the new covenant with His people, God told Jeremiah," -------
shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel."

3. Multiple choice: In Ezekiel's vision of the four cherubim, each of the four had a face of the following except: (a) An eagle; (b) a fox; or (c) a man.


1. "Nothing too hard for You" (Jer. 32:17).
 
 
2. "David" (Jer. 33:17). The man who will sit on David's throne will be "a Branch of righteousness, "
the Messiah (v. 15).
 
3. (b) A fox (Ezek. 1:10).

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Familiar Phrases

1.Fill in the blanks:In his first letter to the exiles in Babylon, Jeremiah said, "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a  -------- and
a  -------. "

2. Sentence completion: Jeremiah wrote this message from God to the exiles in Babylon. "And you will seek Me and find Me, when you...."

3. Multiple choice: When they are restored, what did Jeremiah say God would make with the houses of Judah and Israel? (a) A new covenant; (b) a new nation; or (c) a new temple.


1. "Future...hope" (Jer. 29:11).
 
2. "Search for Me with all your heart" (Jer. 29:13).
 
3. (a) A new covenant (Jer. 31:31).

Friday, October 5, 2012

Familiar Phrases

1. Multiple choice: What did Jeremiah curse in his misery, when he was put in stocks? (a) His mother for giving him life; (b) becoming a prophet; (c) the day he was born.

2. Fill in the blanks: According to Jeremiah, the name of the rightous king which God will put over Israel and Judah  to save them and to keep them safe will be "THE LORD ------  -------."

3. Sentence completion: After twenty-three years of speaking God's word to the people, Jeremiah told them, "And the Lord has sent to you all His servants  the prophets, rising early and sending them, but you have not listened nor...."



1. (c) The day he was born (Jer.20:14). He did not curse God while ruing the difficulty of the life of a prophet. He praised God and His  power (vv. 11-13).
 
 
2. "OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS" (Jer. 23:6).
 
 
3. "Inclined your ear to hear" (Jer. 25:4).

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Familiar Phrases

1. Multiple choice: In Jeremiah's prayer concerning the drought, what did he tell God was "the joy and rejoicing of my heart"? (a) His judgment; (b) His word; or (c) His vengeance.

2. Fill in the blanks: The Lord told Jeremiah, "I... search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give every man according to his ------- , And according to the   -------  of his doings."

3. God told Jeremiah He planned to remold marred Israel when He  said. "As the  ------- is in the  -----hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel!"

 
 
 
1. (b) His word (Jer. 15:16).
 
 
2." Ways....fruit" (Jer. 17:10).
 
 
3. "Clay.....potter's " (Jer. 18:6). The potter did not throw away the clay of a misshapen vessel. He
crushed the bad pot and remolded the clay into a good one (v. 4).

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Familiar Phrases

By The Garden of Tomb

1. Fill in the blanks: God instructed  Jeremiah that His people had committed two evils: "They have  ---------  Me, the fountain of   -------- waters, And hewn themselves   ----------  broken  -------- that can hold no water."
 
 
2. Sentence completion: One of the charges Jeremiah brought against Jerusalem was that everyone from the priest to the prophet lied. "They have also healed the hurt of My people slightly, Saying,......".
 
 
3. Fill in the blanks: Jeremiah said that those accustomed to doing evil are as likely to do good as the leopard is to change his  --------- or the Ethiopian his  ---------.
 
 
 
 
1. ""Forsaken.....living....cisterns....cisterns" (Jer. 2:13).
 
 
 
2. Peace, peace!" When there is no peace". (Jer. 6:14).
 
 
3. Spots....skin (Jer. 13:23).

Monday, October 1, 2012

Familiar Phrases

1. Fill in the blanks: Isaiah ends with words of judgment Jesus would later quote. "For their  ------- does not die, And their  -------- is not quenched."

2. When God called Jeremiah to be His prophet, Jeremiah responded, "Ah, Lord God!, Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a -------- ."

3. Sentence completion: Jeremiah wrote, "The heart is deceitful above all things, And ...?


 
 
1. "Worm... fire" (Is.66:24; Mark 9:44, 46, 48). This judgment was pronounced against those who will oppose the Lord in the final battle of good and evil.
 
 
2, "Youth" (Jer. 1:6). The response of the Lord was that age was not the deciding factor. The  important thing would be that the Lord would command  Jeremiah what to say (v.7).
 
 
3. "Desperately wicked; Who can know it" (Jer. 17:9). Jeremiah immediately answered his own question, "I the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind" (V. 10).