Readings - Heritage Preparatory School

May 9th, 2008

Full Text: Psalm 74-75

Selected Text: Ps 74: 1-2, 12-14, 22-23; Ps 75: 1-9

Level 1 Questions:

Ps 74: Israel had faced disaster and ruin (vs 1-11), but the Psalmist turns to remembering what God has done and who he is (vs 12 - 17). Why did he do this?
Ps 75: What characteristics of God's judgement are described? What is the Psalmist's response?

Level 2 Questions:

Ps 74: Consider Romans 8:28 - how does the Psalmist remember the truth found in Romans as he writes the three phases of this Psalms (detailing crushing defeat/despair, remembering God's goodness, praying for God's victory)
Ps 75: What characteristics of God's judgement are described? What is the Psalmist's response?

May 12th, 2008

Full Text: Ezekiel 38. 39, Prov 20:12-17

Selected Text: 39:21-29

Level 1 Questions:

Ezekiel prophecies about judgment to come "in the latter days"? What similarities do you note with the judgment in Revelation ch.8?
Why does God bring these judgments on Israel and her enemies? (39:7)

Level 2 Questions:

What great event takes place after Israel's punishment as a sign of God's love and faithfulness? Do you note this in any other passages? (Great banquet - Psalm 23)
How is God jealous for His people? Describe His jealousy from ch. 39:25-29?

May 13th, 2008

Full Text: Ezekiel 40-42

Selected Text: 42:15-20

Level 1 Questions:

What great vision is given to Ezekiel as a promise of God's restoration?
Where is Israel when Ezekiel sees this vision? (40:1) How might this have encouraged the hearts of the nation?

Level 2 Questions:

Do you know what happens in this building?
Ezekiel describes a vision that God also give to the Apostle John in Revelation 21:9-27. What are similarities in their description?

May 14th, 2008

Full Text: Ezekiel 43-45

Selected Text: 43:1-5

Level 1 Questions:

After the building is established, whose presence comes to dwell in it?
What is Ezekiel's response to His arrival? Do other people in the Bible respond in this way?

Level 2 Questions:

What is the purpose of describing this building to Israel? (43:10-12)
Rather than land and possession, what is the inheritance of the Levites? (44:28). In the New Testament Peter calls the church a "royal priesthood, a nation, a people for his own possession" (1 Pet. 2:9). How does he relate our deliverance from sin and res

May 15th, 2008

Full Text: Ezekiel 46-48

Selected Text: 47:1-2, 48:35

Level 1 Questions:

What was one of the purposes for which Israel sacrificed in the temple? (46:20)
Since Jesus is our Passover Lamb, who was sacrificed for us, how do we communicate the same truth that Israel believed?

Level 2 Questions:

What is coming out of the temple?
In Revelation 22, John also sees this marvelous event. (1-5) Compare these two events, and the promise of God's name. (Eze. 48:35, Rev. 22:4). Where is the name of God placed in the New Testament as opposed to the Old Testament?

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