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The Bible 24/7 January 2, 2012

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24/7 Notes Week Four

January 23-29, 2012

January 23

  1. Eliphaz says: “The wicked people are heavy and ________”
  2. Job proclaims he still has an advocate. Where?
  3. According to Bildad, how will the wicked be remembered?

 

January 24

  1. What does Job say will happen after his body has decayed?
  2. How does Zophar connect wealth and evil?
  3. Does Job say that prosperity is a sign of one’s righteousness?

 

January 25

  1. What does Eliphaz ask Job to do?
  2. According to Job, who is always watched by God?
  3. Bildad says that compared to God, mortals are mere _________.

 

January 26

  1. What vow does Job make?
  2. Where is wisdom to be found?
  3. What did Job formerly wear like a turban?

 

January 27

  1. What haunts Job’s days?
  2. What does Job proclaim regarding lust?
  3. Why would Job proudly face his accuser?

 

January 28

  1. Why was Elihu angry?
  2. What does Elihu say about repentance?
  3. Why does Elihu say that Job deserves the maximum penalty?

 

January 29

  1. Do our sins affect God, according to Elihu?
  2. Why did God send suffering to Job (acc. to Elihu)?
  3. Elihu: All who are wise show God what? 

 

Face-to-Face Questions

  1. Eliphaz says to Job, “Stop and think! Do the innocent die? When have the upright been destroyed? My experience shows that those who plant trouble and cultivate evil will harvest the same.” What has your experience been? Does your experience agree with Eliphaz or disagree?
  2. The book of Job is Wisdom literature, the same genre as the Proverbs and Ecclesiastes. Proverbs 10:16 says, “The wages of the righteous is life, but the earnings of the wicked are sin and death.” Ecclesiastes 9:2 says, “All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. As it is with the good, so with the sinful; as it is with those who take oaths, so with those who are afraid to take them.” Which passage is true for Job? Are the passages contradictory? What do you make of them? (Keep in mind that in context, neither passage is talking about the afterlife, both are describing matters of the present world).
  3. In summary, Job claims his suffering is unjust. His friends insist the opposite. Why do you think Job’s friends cannot accept Job’s claim? Have you ever had disagreements about God with your friends?
  4. Remember a time in your life when you were suffering. Were your friends helpful or unhelpful? In what ways were they either helpful or unhelpful?

 

 

24/7 Notes Week Three

January 16-22, 2012

January 16

  1. Joseph in disguise accuses his brothers of what?

  2. What did Joseph do with the golden cup?

  3. Who is responsible for Joseph’s slavery in Egypt?

 

January 17

  1. How did Egyptians feel about Hebrews and shepherds?

  2. Why was Goshen selected as a place for Jacob and his kin?

  3. What puts the people of Egypt and Canaan into slavery?

 

January 18

  1. What does Jacob take from Joseph?

  2. How is Christ presaged in the blessing to Judah?

  3. Where was Jacob buried?

 

January 19

  1. How does Job respond to losing all he had in the world?

  2. Why were Job’s friends silent for seven days?

  3. Of what does Eliphaz blame Job?

 

January 20

  1. Eliphaz: “Do not despise the _____________ of the Almighty”

  2. According to Job, what do his “friends” wrongly assume?

  3. Does Job hate God or just his own life?

 

January 21

  1. What is Bildad’s basic advice to Job?

  2. Does Job think God is good or just all-powerful?

  3. What is Zophar’s assumption about Job?

 

January 22

  1. What do the animals, birds, earth and fish know?

  2. Job: “God might kill me, but I have ___ ________ ______.”

  3. Why does Job wish to be hidden in a grave? 

Face-to-Face Questions

  1. Joseph says, “Don’t be angry with yourselves for selling me to this place. It was God who sent me here ahead of you to preserve your lives” Gen 45:5. If you were Joseph would you be able to see things that way?

  2. How does Joseph’s story fit into God’s plan? Hint: Gen 15:12-16. What reason is given for the period of slavery? Can you think of other reasons God might put His people through the experience?

  3. God will later say of Job’s friends that they spoke wrongly and that God is angry with them. How do Job’s friends go wrong? Have you had your own versions of Job’s friends in your life? How did you handle them?

 

24/7 Notes Week Two

January 8-15, 2012

January 8

  1. What are the meanings of Jacob and Esau’s names?

  2. How does “heel” connect Jacob with Eden?

  3. Where was Abraham buried?

 

January 9

  1. How does Isaac echo Abram in dealing with his fear of kings?

  2. What is Isaac’s blessing to his firstborn son?

  3. How does Rebekah feel about the HIttite women?

 

January 10

  1. What does Jacob do to deserve God’s blessing at Bethel?

  2. What is Rachel’s relation to Jacob?

  3. How does Laban get an extra 7 years’ labor out of Jacob?

 

January 11

  1. How does Jacob engineer flocks to his benefit?

  2. What does Rachel steal from her father Laban?

  3. What is the covenant between Laban and Jacob?

 

January 12

  1. How much is Jacob willing to give to have peace with Esau?

  2. How does Jacob’s name change to Israel and what does it mean?

  3. How do Simeon and Levi follow through with an agreement?

 

January 13

  1. Who were the Edomites?

 

January 14

  1. Why are Joseph’s brothers so resentful about his dreams?

  2. Who is the father of Perez and Zerah? 

  3. Why was Joseph imprisoned?

 

January 15

  1. According to Joseph, by what power does he interpret dreams?

  2. Who bails Joseph out of prison? 

  3. To what level of authority did Joseph rise in Egypt?

 

Face-to-Face Questions

 

  1. God ordains that Esau will serve Jacob. How does this plan work out? Who is responsible for the deceptions of Isaac and Esau that realize God’s plan?

  2. Look at Jacob’s response to his dream at Bethel (Gen 28:20-22). Many Christians balk at Jacob’s conditional faithfulness, how do you feel about it?

  3. The women of Genesis often outsmart the men. Can you think of examples? Which women do you most admire? Why?

  4. Jacob comes “face to face” with God in Gen 32:22-32. What does it mean to wrestle with God?

  5. Consider the story of Judah and Tamar in Gen 38. Why does God condemn Er and Onan? Do you agree with Judah’s final judgement that Tamar was more righteous than he? Why? 

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Week One: 

 

24/7 Notes Week One

January 1-7, 2012

 

January 1

  1. Is it more important to answer how the world was made or why and by Whom?

  2. What might it mean to be made in “the image of God”?

  3. What is the trail of blame for Adam and Eve’s disobedience?

  4. What are the consequences of the Adam and Eve’s fall from obedience?

 

January 2

  1. What motivates Cain to kill Abel?

  2. Between Noah and Adam, who lived the longest?

  3. Why does God choose to save Noah and his family?

 

January 3

  1. How many pairs of “clean” animals does Noah take along?

  2. God’s covenant with Noah echoes Eden and is sealed with what sign?

  3. What did Canaan do to anger Noah?

 

January 4

  1. What is the chief motive for building the tower in Babylonia?

  2. What was God’s unilateral, unconditional promise to Abram?

  3. How are Abram and Lot related?  Who is Melchizedek?

 

January 5

  1. What does the torch do and what is promised to Abram?

  2. What is the sign of the Abrahamic covenant?

  3. Who is Abraham’s firstborn son?

 

January 6,

  1. What does Isaac mean?

  2. Why do Lot and his family hesitate to leave the town of Sodom? 

  3. What the origin of the Moabites and Ammonites?

 

January 7

  1. What is God’s promise to Hagar?

  2. What does Abraham prove in Moriah? 

  3. How does Isaac “mark” Rebekah as his own?