This Quiz: The Significance of Man

1.) Three Old Testament writers asked the question, "What is Man?" Who were they?
       Job, David, and Solomon
       Ezra, Isaiah and Jeremiah
       Asaph, Esther and Nehemiah
       Moses, Abraham, and Joseph

2.) Job wrote, "What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and...
       That thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
       That thou shouldest visit him every morning?
       That thou shouldest try him every moment?
       All of the above.

3.) The psalmist wrote, "Thou has made him a little lower than _____, and crowned him with glory and honor."
       Lucifer
       The angels
       The enthroned one
       God Himself

4.) The prophet Isaiah wrote this amazing prophecy to Cyrus, king of Persia, in which He said, "Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, I will go before thee, And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places. I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me." And then he told Cyrus why He had done all this. Why was it?
       He hated the people that Cyrus was going to plunder.
       Cyrus was a pre-Christian representation of Christ Jesus.
       Cyrus was a gentile, and as such was the first non-Jew to become a Jew.
       So that the whole world might know that God is the Lord and there is no one else beside Him.

5.) Which king wrote, "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out a matter."
       Solomon
       David
       Saul
       Cyrus

6.) Jesus explained why people who do not believe the gospel of the kingdom are condemned - why is it?
       They are fools, and do foolish things.
       God chooses whom He will love and whom He will hate.
       Light is come into the world, but men prefer darkness because their deeds are evil.
       Jesus paid such a high price for them, but they still get to choose.

7.) Jesus said, "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to...
       the measure with which he has meted.
       the law and the prophets.
       his riches in glory.
       his works.

8.) Jesus told a parable about a man who had some livestock that he left in the paddock while he went to search for one that had got itself lost, and how the man rejoiced to have the found one back. Then he explained what he was talking about - what was it?
       How the Father did not wish anybody to perish.
       How a shepherd should be kind to his animals.
       How valuable wool was in the marketplace.
       How stupid and gullible sheep are.

9.) In the parable of the unprofitable servant, the servant said to the master, "I was afraid" and the Master said, "You are wicked and slothful - you should have given the money to the exchangers, and then I could have received interest." What did the master say should happen to the servant?
       He should be sent to the synagogue to learn basic management.
       He should be made to work twice as hard to pay the debt.
       He should be cast into outer darkness.
       He should be killed.

10.) When Jesus sits on the throne of His glory, and all nations are gathered before Him, He will separate them as a shepherd separates sheep and goats. And to the sheep He will say, "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you...
       from the foundation of the world.
       from the time of the giving of the law.
       from the time of Calvary.
       this day.