Familiar Phrases

1. Fill in the blanks:  In describing the locust-like army of Judah's invaders, Joel said,  "They run like mighty men, They climb the wall like  -------- of  -------; Every one marches in formation, And they do not break ------- ."

2. Joel described nature's response to the relentless approach of Judah's invaders: "The earth  -------
before them, The  ------- tremble; The sun and moon grow -------, And the  -------- diminish their brightness."

3. Joel advised  Judah to repent and be saved from the disastrous, approaching army: "So rend your
-------, and not your garments; Return to the Lord your God.

1. "Men....war......ranks" (Joel 2:7).

 

2. "Quakes.....heavens....dark......stars" (Joel 2:10)  The literal fulfillment of this prophecy will come in the last days; its preliminary fulfillment came when the Babylonians captured Jerusalem.

 

 

3. "Heart" (Joel 2:13).

Familiar Phrases

1. Fill in the blanks: Hosea complained , "Ephraim has  -------  himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a  --------- unturned."

2. Hosea advised,  "Break up your  --------  ------, For it is time to seek the Lord."

3. In his prophecy of the imminent invasion of Judah, Joel described it as " A day of darkness and 
--------,  A day of clouds and thick  --------, Like the morning clouds spread over the mountains."

1. "Mixed......cake"  (Hos. 7:8).

 

 

2. "Fallow ground" (Hos. 10:12). The Lord was complaining about the harvest of wickedness

in the nation of Israel (v. 13) and encouraged the nation to prepare itself for a planting and harvest of righteousness.

 

 

3. "Gloominess.....darkness" (Joel 2:2).



Familiar Phrases

1.  Fill in the blanks: Hosea wrote of God, "I drew them with gentle cords, With ------- of -------."

2. God told Hosea,  "Go take yourself a wife of  ------- And -------- of -------."

3. Sentence completion: Hosea concluded, "My people are destroyed for ......"

 

1. "Bands....love" (Hos. 11:4).

 

 

2. "Harlotry...children......harlotry" (Hos. 1:2).

 

 

3. "Lack of knowledge". (Hos. 4: 6).

Familiar Phrases

1. Fill in the blanks: Gabriel explained to Daniel that from the "command To restore and build  -------
 Until  -------- the Prince, There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks......"

2. Multiple choice:  What did Daniel say would be set up when the sanctuary was defiled and the sacrifices were taken away? (a)  abomination of desolation; (b) an altar to Dagon; or (c) the tables for sellers and moneychangers.

3. Sentence completion:  After Daniel received the prophecy of the resurrections, he was instructed to "shut up the words, and seal the book until the ......"

1. "Jerusalem... Messiah" (Dan. 9: 25).

 

 

 

2. (a) The abomination of desolation (Dan. 11:31).  Antiochus Epiphanes set up a statue of Zeus in the temple at Jerusalem and sacrificed a sow on the altar in the second century B.C.  But  Jesus looked to yet future desecration of greater magnitude (Mark 13:14).

 

 

3. "Time of the end" (Dan. 12:4). The angel who spoke to the apostle John alluded to this verse when he said, "Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand"

Rev. 22:10). The angel implied that the time for the fulfillment of Daniel's predictions are at hand too.

Familiar Phrases

1. Fill in the blanks: According to two of Darius's governors, "It is the law of the  ------- and -------
that no decree or statute  which the king establishes may be changed."

2. Sentence completion: When Darius checked on Daniel in the lion's den Daniel reassured him concerning his condition, "My God sent His angel and ......"

3. In his interpretation of the horn of the fourth beast, Daniel said, "He shall speak pompous words against the Most High, Shall persecute the saints of the Most High, And shall intend to ...."

1. "Medes...Persians" (Dan. 6:15).

 

 

2. "Shut the lions mouths, so that they have not hurt me" (Dan. 6:22).

 

 

3. "Change times and law" (Dan. 7:25). The horn of the beast sprang up to replace three of the original ten horns (vv.20, 24).

Familiar Phrases

1. Fill in the blank: All King Nebuchadnezzar's men witnessed that the fire had no effect on Shadrach, Meshach, and  Abed-Nego; neither their hair nor their clothes were burned, "and the  -------
of fire was not on them."

2. Sentence completion: The inscription that King Belshazzar saw on the wall said.....

3. Fill in the blank: The men of Darius's court who wished to find fault with  Daniel knew they could find nothing against  him unless it concerned  "the  --------- of his God."

1. "Smell" (Dan. 3:27).

 

 

2. "MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN" (Dan.5:25). Belshazzar brought the judgment of God upon himself by using the captured vessels of the temple in a debauched banquet (vv. 1-4).

 

 

3. "Law" (Dan. 6:5).

Familiar Phrases

1. Fill in the blanks: Ezekiel prophesied this promise of God to restored Israel in the valley of the dry bones, "I will put  -------  ------ in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken it and performed it."

2. Sentence completion: In his prayer, Daniel praised God for revealing Nebuchadnezzar's dream to him by saying, "He reveals deep and ..."

3. When Nebuchadnezzar had commanded everyone to worship on command the image he had made, the herald announced: "Whoever does not fall down and worship shall be..."

1. "My Spirit" (Ezek. 37:14).

 

 

2. "Secret things; He knows what is in the darkness, And light dwells with Him" (Dan.2:22).

 

 

3. "Cast immediately into the midst of a burning fiery furnace" (Dan. 3:6).