Next Quiz/Test: Friday is Memory Quiz 7a: Hosea 6:1, 3, & 6 (NIV, 1984)
- Students have until Friday, Jan 27 to make up Memory Quiz 6b
Handouts: A Sampling of some Pre-Exilic Prophets
Reminders:
- Service Hours: There are three things to turn in for this on April 16: Essay, Record Form, Comm. Service Evaluation Form
Instructional Time: Unit 7: 2 Kings 1-10 and...
Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Nahum, Habakkuk, & Zephaniah
Journal 7-4: Open your Unit Handout to pg 42
- Read the three paragraphs & answer these:
- - Describe the connection between Jonah and Nahum
- - - Written about 150 years after Jonah visited & those people of Nineveh repented
- - Why do you think the Ninevites changed?
- - - Various answers.
- - Where have we seen changes like this already in the Bible?
- - - Israel & Judah kept obeying & disobeying God, swinging from one side to the other!
- - Nahum tells of God’s love and His… What?
- - - Justice
- - What country would capture Nineveh?
- - - Babylon
- Read Nahum 1:15 & 2:2, then summarize the hope given to Israel/Judah.
- - Good news and peace would come again to them!
- - God will restore them to their splendor of old, destroying their enemies.
A Survey of Amos: Unit Handout, Page 39
- Read Top Summary: Israel was making money, was very help, & had no strong enemies; but they only pretended to worship God, were greedy, were unfair to the poor, and were more interested in themselves than God!
- See Outline
- - Amos 1-2) Prophesies: Warning the Nations
- - - Read 3 paragraph summary: The 'Oracles Against the Nations'
- - Amos 3-6) Sermons: Speaking about Israel
- - - Read 3 paragraph summary
- - - Read ‘Sidelight’
- - Amos 7-9) Visions: The Future of Israel
- - - Read 4 paragraph summary
- - - - God relents from sending a locust swarm and then from sending consuming fire
- - - - God judges Israel next to a 'plumb line' (a cord with a lead weight at the bottom, at the top of a wall you dangle it down to see if the wall is really straight); God's standards are 'straight,' like the plumb line; but Israel was 'crooked,' full of sin.
- - - Read 2 paragraph summary of Ch 9
The Pre-Exilic Prophet Table: Nahum (pg. 660)
- From: Judah
- To: Nineveh
- Approx. Time: 686-612
- Major Theme: God’s jealousy protects His people
- Key Verse: Nahum 1:2-3
- Other Notes:
- - Nahum means, ‘Comforted by the LORD’
- - About 150 years after Jonah’s visit (Probably the great grandchildren of those who Jonah met)
- - - Nineveh again became very evil & cruel, this time without repenting!
- - Nahum prophesied that Babylon (being used by God as judgment) would destroy Nineveh (Assyria)
- - - Remember that Assyria has already destroyed Israel (Northern Tribes) at this time
- - God is universally ‘sovereign’ (in charge), over all history & nations (Not just Judah or Israel!)
A Sampling of some Pre-Exilic Prophets:
Students worked on the questions for Amos & Nahum from this.
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