BIBL 105
Exam 1 – Study Guide
The Big Story – Deuteronomy
A. Class Introduction, , and the book of GenesisThe Big Story
1. State and explain the three ways we should not look at the Bible?
The Bible is not a road map for our lives.
The Bible is not an instruction manual for our lives.
The Bible is not a book of heroes and role models for my life.
2. State and explain the one way we should look at the Bible?
The Bible is God’s story about his plan to rescue, redeem, and restore what was lost
in the fall of humanity through the birth, life, death, resurrection, and ascension of
Jesus Christ.
3. How does the Bible’s one big story describe God’s redemption?
We have been set free by the completed work of Jesus Christ.
4. Who is at the center of the Bible’s Big Story?
Jesus is the central character of His story.
5. What is the difference between good news and good advice? Which of these two
messages
does Jesus come to proclaim?
Jesus proclaims a message of good news not good advice.
Good advice would simply give people more things to do.
God news is a proclamation of freedom.
6. How does a true view of God alter your life?
Jesus disrupts our lives.
7. State and briefly describe the three characteristics of God discussed in The Big
Story?
Sovereign – there are no limits to his power and rule.
Wise – God is absolutely powerful and has good judgment.
Good – God does not have to be feared that he may do unspeakable acts.
8. Based on the way we covered these stories in class, identify which of the
following themes/acts (God, Creation, Rebellion, Rescue, Home) the following
biblical stories/passages represent:
a. Genesis 3:15 - Rebellion
b. The Flood - God
c. The Red Sea – Rescue / Creation
d. The Tabernacle - Home
e. The Tower of Babel - Rebellion
f. Cain’s murder of Abel - Rebellion
g. God’s promise of land for Abraham and his decedents - Rescue
9. What are the five main acts/themes of the Bible according to ?The Big Story
1. God
2. Creation
3. Rebellion
4. Rescue
5. Home
10. According to Genesis 1, what does God want us to know about ourselves?
We are created in the image of God and we were proclaimed “very good” by him.
11. List the four great events of the book of Genesis.
Creation
Fall
Flood
Nations
12. List the four great people of the book of Genesis.
Abraham
Isaac
Jacob
Joseph
13. List and briefly describe the theories of origin discussed in class.
Literal Creation – completed in six days
Evolution: Slowly evolved over millions of years
Theistic Evolution: God began the evolutionary process
Day-Age Theory: Days of Genesis are long ages of time
Revelatory Day Theory: God revealed to Moses in six days what actually took
millions of years.
Progressive Creation: God intervened at every stage of creation separately.
14. According to the class notes, what is the most important chapter in the book of
Genesis?
3
15. What two things did Satan get Eve to question in tempting her to sin?
Question the word of God
Question the character of God
16. What were the immediate and ultimate consequences of The Fall?
Immediate: Guilt, Shame, Fear, Broken Communication, Knowledge of evil by
experience
Ultimate: Death, Pain, Expulsion
17. How did Abel die?
Cain lures him into a field and kills him.
18. What is Genesis 3:15 often considered?
The proto-evangelium or “First Gospel”
19. What is the meaning of the sign of the rainbow? What sign is better than the
rainbow and
what does it mean?
The rainbow was a sign that God will never again destroy the earth with a universal
flood. A better sign is Jesus Christ as the sign that God wants to save the people of
the earth.
20. What were the reasons for building the tower of Babel?
Pride, Rebellion, Religious Significance (contact God when they want)
21. What does Noah’s name mean and how does this relate to Genesis 3:15?
Rest or relief
22. How is Noah’s character contrasted to the world in which he was living?
Noah was just, blameless, in close fellowship with God, and raised a godly family.
The world was corrupt, filled with violence, evil.
23. List the biblical evidence given in class for a universal flood.
Unique Hebrew term “deluge”
Size of the ark, Nature of the flood, duration of the flood, God’s covenant promise
(Never again), The unique New Testament term (kataklusmos), the view of Jesus
24. Based on the life of Enoch, what does it mean to walk with God?
He was going the same direction as God, opposite direction of the culture, staying in
step with God
25. What is the birthright and the blessing?
The birthright: Leadership of the family
The blessing: Double portion of the inheritence
26. How did Jacob receive both the birthright and the blessing?
Rebeckah helped Jacob hustle his brother out of the birthright and blessing.
27. Which of Jacob’s children received the birthright and blessing?
Judah – birthright
Joseph - blessing
28. Who were Jacob’s two wives?
Leah and Rachel
29. How did Joseph get to Egypt?
His brothers sold him into slavery.
30. State and explain what it means to read the Bible morally.
Morally – We look to the OT as a showcase of moral examples to live by. We need to
be like Abraham, live like Jacob, be a leader like Moses, Joshua, or David. We should
fight like Samson, flee like Joseph, and stand up for God like Esther.
31. State and explain what it means to read the Bible Theologically.
We look first and foremost at what the passage teaches us about God. What is God
doing? How is he revealing himself? How is he going to overcome our sin, keep his
promises, and reestablish the Eden-like relationship he created for us.
32. What did God promise Abraham in the Abrahamic covenant?
God promises to bless Abraham and in turn he would be a blessing to the nations.
That blessing to the nations would come from one of his descendants.
33. What did God reveal to Abraham about the future nation of Israel and their time
in Egypt?
34. What is the spiritual significance behind the intended sacrifice of Isaac?
Test of faith: How would God provide is Isaac was sacrificed or how would God
provide if Isaac was spared.
Test of Hope: If Isaac died, how would he become a great nation and how would all
the nations be blessed through him.
Test of Love: Abraham loved his son but he loved God more.
35. How do the opening chapters of Genesis reveal the combination of God’s
Judgement and Grace in Genesis.
Adam and Eve were removed but there was a promise of a deliverer.
Cain murdered his brother but Seth was born and there was a new line of hope.
The flood destroyed all life but Noah was saved in the ark
God brought his judgment at the tower of babel.
B. Exodus
36. Where was Moses a shepherd and what two significant events happened while
he was a
shepherd?
Shepherd in Midian – Meets Jethro and marries his daughter Zipporah
Meets God and is called to liberate Israel from Egypt
37. How are the ten commandments divided by relationships?
1-4 Relationship with God
5-10 Relationship with others/man
38. What do we know about the ruling Pharaoh as the book of Exodus opens?
He doesn’t know Joseph, the Israelites are slaves, he has ordered all male babies
killed
39. What ultimately/theologically is Pharaoh trying to do by ordering the killing of all
male
babies?
Trying to stop God from fulfilling his promise to make Abraham/Israel a mighty
nation.
40. What two key events shaped the first forty years of Moses life?
Found by the Egyptian princess.
Fleeing from Pharaoh for the murder of an Egyptian.
41. What elements from the first Passover are singled out by Jesus Christ in the Last
Supper?
Bread, cup, bitter herbs, lamb
42.What did each piece of the tabernacle visualize?
The tabernacle – God lives among sinners
The altar – God saves sinners
The laver – God cleanses sinners
The showbread – God fellowships with sinners
The lampstand – God gives light to sinners
The incense – God hears sinners
The curtain – God is separate from sinners
The ark – God reigns over sinners
43. List the 10 plagues.
1. Water to Blood 2. Frogs 3. Gnats 4. Flies
5. Cattle 6. Boils 7. Hail and Fire 8. Locusts
9. Darkness 10. Death
44. How does God provide for Israel as they journey from Egypt to Mt. Sinai?
Water (bitter to fresh), manna, quail, water (from a rock), victory over the
Amalekites
45. How is God’s rescue of the Israelites from Egypt a picture of our deliverance
from sin?
God has delivered us for life in Heaven, our Promised Land
46. How did Moses respond to God’s call to liberate the Israelites?
Insecure and Incompetent
47. How is sufficiency and insufficiency a part of God’s call of Moses to liberate the
Israelites?
How does this correspond to our insufficiency?
Moses believes he is insufficient but God demonstrates that he is more than
sufficient. We must be reminded that our sufficiency is in Christ alone.
48. How much time has elapsed between the end of Genesis and the beginning of
Exodus?
400 years
C. Leviticus
49. How is the outline of the book of Leviticus like the Ten Commandments?
Rituals, priests, and purity – Relationship to God (1 st
half)
Purity, preists, rituals – Relationship to Others (2 nd
half)
50. What two things did the Day of Atonement highlight?
There has been a sacrifice for our sin and it has been forgived.
We have been set free of our sin.
51. What were the two representative roles that the priests fulfilled?
Represent the people in front of God
Represent God in front of the people
52. List the ritual offerings. What two things did these offerings give the Israelites
the
opportunity to do?
Thank you offerings – Grain offering, fellowship offering
I’m sorry offerings – Burnt offering, Sin offering, Guilt offering
53. List the feasts of Israel described in the book of Leviticus. What reminders were
communicated by the feasts?
Spring feasts – Passover, Unleavened break, First fruits, Pentecost
Fall feasts – Trumpets, Atonements, Tabernacles
Retold Israel’s story and reminded them of who they were and who God is to them.
54. What did the purity rituals remind Israel of?
God’s holiness effects every part of life
55. What was involved in keeping oneself morally pure? What was involved in
keeping oneself
ritually pure?
The Israelites could not have contact with reproductive fluids, have a skin disease,
touch dead bodies, touch mold, or eat unclean animals.
Involved Care for the poor, Sexual integrity, and Social justice
56. As discussed in class, what were the two qualifications for the priests?
Highest level of moral integrity
Highest level of ritual holiness
57. The book of Leviticus presents two types of purity. What are these types?
Moral and Ritual Purity
58. What is the center point of the book of Leviticus?
The Day of Atonement
59. According to the book of Leviticus, what does God graciously provide a way for?
God graciously provides a way for people to live in his presence.
D. Numbers
60. Who were the two spies that believed God would give Israel the promised land?
Joshua and Caleb
61. Who led a rebellion to overthrow the leadership of Aaron and Moses after the
Israelites
refused to go into the Promise Land?
Korah
62. According to the Apostle Paul, what/who did the rock Moses struck symbolically
represent.
Christ striking Satan
63. What story from Numbers did Jesus use in his conversation with Nicodemus?
Moses lifting up a serpent
64. Who was the prophet that attempted to curse Israel but was only able to
pronounce a
blessing on them? What was significant about the blessings he pronounced?
Balaam
65. What movement underscores the book of Numbers?
The movement from death to life.
66. Geographically, where does the book of Numbers begin and end?
Begins at Mt. Sinai, ends at the Promised land.
67. What event occurs at the beginning and end of Numbers?
A census
68. Who or what was at the center of the Israelite camp?
Levites
69. Who challenged the authority of Moses and was punished with leprosy?
Miriam
70. What age marked responsibility for the decision to disobey God in the conquest
of the
promised land?
Anyone over 20 was considered responsible.
71. How many years were the Israelites forced to wander in the desert?
40 years
72. Why was Moses not permitted to enter the promised land?
He struck the rock rather than speaking to it.
E. Deuteronomy
73. What does Deuteronomy mean?
Second Law
74. What does the book of Deuteronomy highlight?
The renewal of the covenant God made at Sinai with this new generation of
Israelites.
75. What significant piece of material from Exodus does Deuteronomy repeat?
God’s covenant with his people?
76. Where does the book of Deuteronomy take place?
Near the Jordan river on the entrance to the promised land.
77. What does Moses call Israel to in the (Deut. 6:4)?Shemah
Love God with all of their heart, soul, and might
78. What is the purpose of the book of Deuteronomy?
To remind Israel of God’s past and present grace towards his people, and to
articulate how Israel can maintain a covenant relationship with their God when they
enter the promised land.
79. Historically, Deuteronomy is what kind of material? What are they preparing
Israel for?
It is a sermon preparing Israel to enter and live in the promised land.
80. Who is chosen to replace Moses as the leader of Israel.
Joshua
81. What words or phrases are used numerous times in Deuteronomy in order to
emphasize
Israel’s relationship with God.
Hear is used 50 times
“Do, keep, observe” are used 177 times
82. What does the end of the book of Deuteronomy tell us about Israel’s faithfulness
in the
future? What does this result in?
They will not listen and will not be able to love because they have a heart of stone,
so they will be forced off the land and into exile.
83. What does God promise to change for his followers at the end of Deuteronomy?
God will replace their stone with a heart of flesh.
84. What book of the Old Testament did Jesus quote the most from? List two specific
incidences?
His resisting of Satan in the wilderness
His theological explanation of the greatest commandment
85. What book does Paul write that draws heavily from the book of Deuteronomy?
Romans
86. How old is Moses in the book of Deuteronomy?
120 years old
87. What does Deuteronomy show us about God’s grace?
God’s grace serves as the context and motivation for Israel keeping the law. God’s
grace in the future will meet the failure to live a holy life.
88. According to the class presentations, what are the two questions that the Old
Testament
seeks to answer?
Who is the one who will come and break the curse?
How in the world is the world blessed through Abraham?
