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1. Fill in the blanks: Amos warned, "Prepare to meet  --------  ----------, O Israel!"

2. Amos requested, "But let ------- run down like water, And ------- like a mighty stream."

3. Sentence completion: Amos said of himself, "I was no prophet, Nor......"

 

 

 

1. "Your God" (Amos 4:12) Israel would meet God in the form of the invading army of Assyria. That army would be His Instrument of judgment.

 

 

2. "Justice... righteousness" Amos 5:24).

 

3. Was I a son of a prophet" (Amos 7:14).

Familiar Phrases

1. Fill in the blanks: Joel prophesied judgment on the gentile nations after the restoration of Judah, He described  "Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of  --------! For  the day of the Lord is near in the valley of  -------."


2. Amos wrote of oppressors, "They sell the righteous for silver, And the poor for a  ------- of  ------."


3. Sentence completion: Amos asked, "Can two walk together......"

1. "Decision...decision" (Joel 3:14).

 

 

2. "Pair.....sandals" (Amos 2:6).

 

 

3. "Unless they are agreed" (Amos 3:3). This is the first in a series of rhetorical questions that assume a negative answer. Israel and the Lord are in disagreement because of Israel's sin. They cannot expect blessing from God. (vv.3-6).

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1.Sentence completion:  Joel prophesied , The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into
blood, Before the coming of the ..."

2. Paul in Romans echoed Joel's promise of deliverance,  "That whoever calls on ....."

3. Fill in the blanks: Joel advised the gentile nations to prepare for war: "Beat your plowshares into  
-------- And your pruning hooks into  --------- ; Let the weak say, "I am strong."

1. "Great and terrible day of the Lord" (Joel 2:31).

 

 

2. "The name of the Lord Shall be saved" (Joel 2:32; Rom. 10:13).  Joel anticipated deliverance from the physical disaster of the day of the Lord. Paul anticipated deliverance from the spiritual disaster of judgment for sin.

 

 

3. "Swords...spears" (Joel 3:10). Isaiah and Micah, on the other hand, anticipated a time when Israel could beat its weapons into agricultural tools, the reverse of Joel's advice (Is 2:4; Mic. 4:3).

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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).

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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.