Authorship/Dating of Daniel

• 165 B.C. after the Babylonia captivity.
• Daniel is predicting stuff way after his lifetime

1) What does the name Daniel mean?

2) What did he serve as during his mid-teens to his mid-80s?

3) What kind of family did he come from?

4) Where was he taken captive by and with what object?

5) What are Daniel's four characteristic traits?

1) God is my judge

2) Government official

3) Royal or noble in Judah

4) King Jehoiakim w/ the temple treasures

5) Faith, righteousness, courage, capability (FRCC...."Final's Really Cray Cray")

• Nebuchadnezzar

• Belschazzar

• Darius (Mede)

• Cyrus?

• History

• Apocalyptic

• Prophetic

HINT: HAP

• Hebrews 1:1-2:4a, 8-12 (Jews)

• Aramaic 2:4b-7:28 (Gentiles)

HINT: Ha!

• Sovereignty of the creator/redeemer over kingdoms and circumstances of life

• Chapter 1- Food test

• Chapter 2 - Dream test

 • Chapter 3 - Image of gold test

• Chapter 4 - Power test

• Chapter 5 - Revelation test (handwriting on the wall)

• Chapter 6 - Nature test (lion's den)

HINT: FDIPRN

Floppy Diapers, I Prefer Really Not

1) Historical and Political background of Hosea

2) Social Conditions

3) Religious Conditions

• Before /after Amos
• Assyria rising up
• Israel in for a quick succession of kings 
• Decay and calamity ahead

1) What does the name Hosea mean? 

2) Who's son is he?

3) One _____ of ______ Kingdom addresses his own people

4) Hosea is an allegory of what?

5) What was the names of Hosea's three children?

• Name - Salvation

• Son of Beeri

• a) Prophet ; 2)Northern 
• Spiritual lesson of Israel's unfaithfulness (married a woman who was a harlot/temple prostitute, unfaithful and worshiped false god's)

• Jezreel (son); Lo-ruhamah (daughter - not pitied or no compassion); Lo-ammi (son - not my people)

• The root sin is the people's unfaithfulness to God

• The nature of God's loving kindness to His people

• King -- >subjects

• Father --> child

• Husband --> wife 

• Verse 2 - Marriage

• Verse 3-9 - Children
• Verse 10-11 - Promise 

• Verse 1-13 - The sin of unfaithfulness makes you forget how faithful God is
• Verse 14-18 - Learning the difference between master and husband 

• Early date - Joash
• No reference to Assyria and Babylon
• Absence of ref. to king
• Similarities to Amos

• Late date - Post exile (Reference to early exile, Joel 3:2-3)
• Absence of reference to pre-exile sin problem
• Hostility to Edom 
• Temple operation

What's the occassion in Joel?

And what's the allegory assumptions of it?

A great locust plague. 

May mean:

1) Historical and literal

2) Invading armies 

3) Apocalyptic (end times)

• Poetry
• Metaphors

• Similies

• War imagery
• Imperatives
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• HINT: PMS WI 

• Desolation of locust plague

• Repentance leads to renewal of land

• Gifts of the HS
• Judgment of God's enemies

Three Themes Relating to the Spirit of God in the OT

• Presence

• Power

• Revelation 

○ Termination at Pentecost 

○ Fulfillment at Pentecost: Acts 2:17

○ Nonfulfillment

○ Typical fulfillment

○ Continuous

HINT: TFNTC

 The Fountain's Near The Center

How to Respond to Crisis with Results, Joel 2

• Blow a trumpet - sound an alarm, v. 1-11

• Return to God with all your heart, v. 12-14

• Gather people to fast and pray, v. 15-17

How to Respond to Crisis with Results, Joel 2

(stopped at notes 24)

• Rejoice and be glad, v. 21-24

• God will restore, v. 25-27

• God will pour out His Spirit, v. 28-31

• The day of the Lord will come, v. 31-32