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Ancient History - Test 2
History of Ancient Israel
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Religious Studies
Graduate
03/02/2012

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Term
How did the High Priests dress?
Definition

- Underwear

- Linen coat

- Stones on both shoulders, 6 names of tribes on each stone

- Breastplate

- Hat w/ gold plate on it that says "Holy are the Holies unto the Lord."

 

HINT: ULS BH

Term
What were the requirements of the priest?
Definition

1) Son of Aaron - Needs to be a son.

2) Sanctified by office - chosen by God, not them

3) Publicly set apart

4) Perpetual office - lifetime thing

5) No physical blemish - No disabilities

6) Had to be 30 years of age

 

HINT: SS PPN30

Term
What were the duties of the priests? (Part 1 - #1-6)
Definition

1) Keep the Tabernacle

2) Light lamps

3) Continuing the sacred fire

4)Covering furniture to move

5) Offering sacrifices

6)) Burning of incense

 

Hint: KLC COB

Term
What were the duties of the priests? (Part 2 - #7-12)
Definition

7) Blessing the people - Asking God to bless them.

8) Blowing trumpets

9) Purifying the unclean

10) Diagnosing leprosy

11) Carrying the ark

12) Teaching the Law - public teaching

 

HINT: BBP DCT

DCT = DC Talk :P

Term
God's Feasts/"Holy Gathering"
Definition

1) His idea

2) HIs invitation

3) His distinction

 

Hint: IID

Term
What is the definition of the word "feast"? (dictionary)
Definition
Joyful; a relgious festival; eleborate meal; banquet
Term
Hebrew definition of the word "feast"
Definition
Dancing
Term
Greek definition of the word "feast"
Definition
A feast or a holy day; a day or season of religious joy
Term
Differences with other nations (feast)
Definition

1) Origin - difference of origin

2) Purpose - by how you're doing it, acknowledging how God is our provider

3) Content--Ethical behavior. 

4) Sacrifice - We have to be sorry of our sin, so we sacrifice something because He has forgiven us.

 

Hint: OPCS

Term
3 Major Feasts
Definition

1) Feast of Weeks - established the promise of the Promised land, lasts 1 day

2) Unleavened bread, Passover - 8 Days of celebration. 

3) Tabernacles, feast of booths - Celebrates that they used to live in the wilderness.

 

HINT: FUT

Term
What feast makes more sacrifices than any other feast in the Old Testament?
Definition
Feast of the Tabernacle
Term
Other Feasts...
Definition

1) Sabbath - a day of joy and rest.

2) Atonement - Required fast

3) Trumpets - Celebrates by blowing trumpets. Trumpets were sounded as sacrifices were made.

 

Hint: SAT

Term
Feasts that were never celebrated.
Definition

1) Sabbatical year - all debts were cancelled that year

2) Year of Jubilee - every 50th years, 50th year is rest.

Term
What feasts were not mentioned?
Definition

1) Purim - deliverance

2) Hanukkah - comes between NT and OT

 

HINT: PH

Term
New Testament Christian (6 points)
Definition

1) Sunday, the Lord's Day

2) Lord's Supper, communion - Rememberance of what He's done for us

3) Thanksgiving

4) Christmas

5) Easter

6) Marriage Supper of the Lamb

 

Hint: SLT CEM

Savior Loves The Children Ever Much

^LOL, i don't know! just an interesting acronym :P

Term
Numbering the people (Number 1-10)
Definition

1) Census at Sinai 

2) Men 20-50 years - 606,550

3) Total: 2-2.5 million

4) Levites numbered separately - Numbers 3

5) Redemption of firstborn 

6) Chapter 4-9 duties, laws and regulations 

7) Traveling with the presence; cloud, fire and trumpets 9:15-10:11.

 

Hint: CMT LR CT

Term

Sinai to Kadesh-Barnea (Numbers 10-12 (33)).

 

4 Major Incidents

Definition

1) Complaining

2) Appointed elders - God annointed these people, Moses needed some help!

3) Rebellion of Aaron and Miriam

4) Provision of quail (for a month) - They ate the quail for a month, but then got sick of it and threw it out.

 

 

Hint: CARP

Term

Refusing to enter the land (Numbers 13-19)

(4 Parts)

Definition

1) Spying out the land - found that the land is good, but there are people there. 

2) Reports and results

3) Korah's rebllion, Numbers 16:1-3 -  jealousy; 250 people side w/ him

4) 37 years, 6 months of wandering.

 

Hint: SRK#

 

Term

Kadesh-Barnea to Jordan (Numbers 20-21)

(6 parts)

Definition

1) Death of MIriam

2) Water from the rock

3) Request to Edom - asks permission to pass through the land of the Edomites.

4) Aaron dies - 129 y/o

5) Bronze serpent - They're complaining and a kind of scorpian bites them. They start to die off. God told Moses to make a bronze serpent in order to heal them. They just have to look at it and they'll be healed.

6) Return North

 

HINT: DW RA

 

DW from the show Arthur


RA = Resident Assistant 

 

BR = Bathroom

Term
At the Jordan (Numbers 22-30)
Definition

1) Balaam and Moabites, Midianites 

2) Request for land

3) Foreign wives, prostitution and plague

 

Hint: BRF

 

Term
What was in the tabernacle? How was it set up? (Part #1-4)
Definition

1)  Gate is always facing east

2) Brazen Alter - 4 1/2 feet high, square shaped

3) Laver - the place where the priests would wash after the sacrifices

4) Table of Showbread - 36"x18"x27", bread symbolic of provision

 

God Bought Love Thoughtfully

Term
What was in the tabernacle? How was it set up? (#5-9)
Definition

5) Candlestick -only light 

6) Bread - The bread of God's face, priests could eat the bread

7) Lampstand -one piece of gold, pure olive oil burned continuously.

8) The alter of incense - burned twice a day by the High Priest

9) Ark of the covenant - jar of mannah, Aarons rod, 10 commandments, top plate = mercy seat

 

Hint: Can Beans Light The Ark?

 

^HAHAHAHAHA i have no idea. it's so late and i can't think of any more acronyms!

Term
Conquest of Joshua - Whlie the people were entering the land and after they had crossed the river, they made camp and they did 3 things. What were they?
Definition

1) Circumcision

2) Passover - possibly the third time for celebrating within 40 years

3) Meets the captain of the Host of the Lord 

4) No more manna

 

Hint :CP MN

Term
The book of Judges
Definition

1) Moral, political, and religious conditions - They move from following God to getting involved with pagan gods; Gross sexual immorality;  no central gov't; very religious people

2) Basic theme - God rewards faithfulness to the covenant with peace and prosperity but faithlessness with oppression with othe rnations.

3) Key Word - Failure, they rejected God

4) Key verse - Judges 21:25

5) Canaanite religion, God's and worship - Primary religion are the Baal gods, many demoninations; Baal is the son of El and is the rain god; Father God is El; Anneth - god of war, Baal's wife/sister.  worship consists of prostitution, sometimes child sacrifices and sometimes snake worship.

Term

5 Phase Repeating Cycle of Judges

Definition

1.  Idolatry and evil – they move away from God and focus on that. 

 2. An oppressor—God raised up an oppressor (Philistines, etc.), that subdues these people and give harsh reality upon them (take their crops, demand high payments, etc.).

3. Cry for deliverance 

4. God sends a deliverer 

5. Peace until the deliverer dies 

Term
Ruth (7 points)
Definition

1) Author - unknown, would not have been rocorded until the time of David

2) Date/Setting - Bethlehem, during the time of Judges, took 50 years to write it.

3) Theme/Purpose - Neither environment nor family determines godliness, environment does not determine your destiny

4) Key verse - Ruth 1:16

5) Key word - Kinsman-redeemer - , the closest blood relative who has a right when a family member gets in trouble (maybe they lose their house, etc.) could redeem them by law.

6) Contribution—Line of messiah, connects us to the line of the messiah.

 

 

 

 7) Survey - Faithfulness demonstrated (Ch 1-2); Faithfulness rewarded (Ch 3-4)

 

 

 

 

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