A Walk through the Bible II:

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A Walk through the Bible II The New Testament
Story

Lesslie Newbigin
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Round Five
Gods Kingdom and Jesus

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Question 1

The children of Israel no longer inhabit their
own kingdom. . . . and Israel still longs for the
day when they will see the fulfilment of Gods
promise that he will ________ all of the nations
(45).
B. destroy
A. judge
C. forgive
D. reign over
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Questions...

The next four questions relate the different ways
in which Jewish groups expressed their hope for
Gods kingdom. Notice that their way of being
Israel as it awaits Gods rule says a lot about
what they think is wrong with the world and what
they think God is going to do to put it to
rights.
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Question 2

This Jewish group followed the example of the
Maccabees and engaged in political revolt as the
means by which they would establish Gods kingdom
in the land. Their battle cry was, No king but
God.(Newbigin does not actually name them.)
B. Sadducees
A. Pharisees
C. Dead Sea sect
D. Zealots
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Question 3

This Jewish group were the officially-recognized
authorities who collaborated with the imperial
Roman occupational forces. They are connected to
the temple, the religious, economic, and
political center of Judea.
B. Sadducees
A. Pharisees
C. Dead Sea sect
D. Zealots
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Question 4

This Jewish group was comprised of lay people,
that is, those without officially-recognized
authority. It was their faith that if Israel
could perfectly keep Gods law, then God would in
his own way and time intervene to establish his
kingdom (47).
A. Pharisees
B. Sadducees
C. Dead Sea sect
D. Zealots
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Question 5

This Jewish group withdrew from society and lived
in a monastic community of sorts out in the
wilderness of Judea and waited for the time when
God, with apocalyptic force, would establish his
kingdom. We know about them through their
scrolls.
B. Sadducees
A. Pharisees
C. Dead Sea sect
D. Zealots
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Question 6
This man appeared in the wilderness of Judea
calling for the Jewish people to repent and be
cleansed in preparation of the coming imperial
rule of God. He washed people in the Jordan
river, the same river the people of Israel had
crossed in order to enter the Promised Land
during the time of Joshua.

B. John the Baptist
A. Jesus
C. Peter
D. Bob the Builder
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Question 7

This man was baptized in the Jordan River along
with all of the other sinners who were repenting
of their sins in preparation for the empire of
God.
A. Jesus
B. John the Baptist
C. Peter
D. Bob the Builder
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Question 8

When Jesus was baptized the heavens were torn
apart, the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove
alighted upon Jesus, and he heard a voice out of
heaven saying to him, You are my beloved son
with you I am well pleased.
B. incorrect
A. incorrect
C. correct
D. incorrect
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Question 9

And that is why from the time of Jesus onwards
we have to rethink the very concept of God in
terms of Father, Son and Holy Spirit (51), the
technical term for which is ___________.
B. deism
A. unitarianism
C. trinitarianism
D. theism
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Round Six
Sacrifice

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Question 1

Most of Jesus hearers thought it was quite
clear. . . . To say that the kingdom of God is
at hand must mean that _________ is/are about to
be thrown out and that Israel is going to be once
again under the direct rule of God (57).
A. the Romans
B. Satan
C. the demons
D. the earth
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Question 2

Jesus has to use coded language in his teaching,
he speaks in _________ so that the scouts from
Jerusalem cannot pick up his words and use them
as a basis for an arrest. But . . . those with
ears to hear will be able to understand (58).
B. parables
A. symbols
C. metaphors
D. English
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Question 3

Out of all who followed, Jesus chose ______ to
be his special companions so that by living with
him, sharing in all his wanderings, in his
teachings, in his meals, they would learn to know
him in his own full reality as the presence of
the kingdom of God (58).
B. seven
A. three
C. twelve
D. seventy
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Question 4

Once Peter came to recognize Jesus as the Christ
(i.e., the Messiah), the king through whom God
would reign, Jesus immediately begins to teach
them what kind of kingship this will be (59). It
will involve _________.
D. rejection
D. suffering
D. vindication
D. humiliation
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Question 5

As they ate the Passover meal, part of Israels
Fourth of July celebration, Jesus took a loaf of
bread, blessed it, broke it, and gave it to his
disciples and said_____________.
A. This is my body.
B. Follow me.
C. Hocus Pocus
D. I love you.
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Question 6

Then he took a cup of wine and said, This is
_________ in my blood. Drink it all of you.
B. judgment day
A. not grape juice
C. the new covenant
D. a celebration
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Question 7

This cup will be the new covenant which Jeremiah
had promised, in which the law of God will be
written not on tablets of stone but _________ of
men and women (63).
B. on the hearts
A. on the heads
C. on the palms
D. in the Bibles
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Question 8

On the cross, Jesus cried out, My God, my God,
why have you forsaken me! Newbigin connects this
cry to when God cried out in the garden,
________, where are you?
B. My Son
A. Jesus
C. Adam
D. Eve
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Round Three
New Life New Communities

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Question 1

The resurrection of Jesus requires a radical
rethinking of everything we have under-stood
hitherto about the fundamental nature of the
world. And this is not a new problem. It is
rather silly to suggest that it arise because of
our modern scientific knowledge.
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Question 1

The fact that people who have been dead for
three days dont rise again on the third day was
well known long before the invention of
__________ (70).
B. computers
A. English cricket
C. the wheel
D. gravity
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Question 2

And the Christian Church as always maintained
that what happened on that Easter day was a kind
of __________, the beginning of a new era for the
world. The first fruit of Gods intention to
recreate the whole cosmos according to his
purpose.
B. illusion
A. old trick
C. new creation
D. eighth day
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Question 3

The gospel message of the early Christians was
first and foremost about the _________ of Jesus
(71).
A. lordship
B. love
C. death
D. forgiveness
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Question 4

In the Old Testament only particular individuals
received this in order to equip them for a
special task. In the New Testament, all of the
people of God receive this.
B. training
A. forgiveness
C. the Holy Spirit
D. a magic wand
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Question 5

The news about Jesus spread first among the Jews
and then among the _________ (72).
B. poor
A. Egyptians
C. Presbyterians
D. Gentiles
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Question 6

This man persecuted Jewish Christians until he
was encountered by the risen Jesus on the road to
Damascus, and then he became Christianitys
greatest defender. His Greek name is _______,
which rhymes with his Hebrew name, Saul (72).
A. Paul
B. Peter
C. Orange
D. Stephen
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Question 7

Jewish Christians struggled over whether Gentiles
must become Jews (that is, undergo circumcision
and follow the food laws) in order to belong to
the people of God. Paul said no by appealing to
Gods covenant with __________ (75).
B. Moses
A. Noah
C. David
D. Abraham
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Round Eight
Future Revelation

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Question 1

God has chosen Israel and Jesus to be the
bearers of his _______ for the whole of creation
and of the human race.
B. judgment
A. image
C. purpose
D. forgiveness
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Question 2

The book of the Revelation concerns itself with
Rome, that mighty power which dominated the
known world with its awesome military strength,
its vast commercial networks stretching right
across the known world, its propaganda machine
constantly saturating the world with its own
ideology of power and glory.
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Question 2

In Revelation a conflict rages between the
empires of Rome and of God. From one side it is
fought with all the weapons of military,
commercial and ideological power, on the other
side it is fought with the weapons of _______
(80).
D. hope
D. faith
D. sacrifice
D. suffering
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Question 3

At the beginning of this book I said that the
Bible gives us the whole ________ of creation
and of the human race and therefore enables us to
understand our own lives as a part of that
_______ (82).
A. story
B. scoop
C. kit kaboodle
D. everything
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Question 4

That is what my Indian friend meant when he said
that the Bible was not a book of religion but was
a unique inter-pretation of universal history and
. . . of the human person as a responsible
________ in history (83).
B. being
A. person
C. parent
D. actor
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Question 5

The Bible ends with a vision that enables us to
see the whole human story and each of our lives
within that story as meaningful, and which
there-fore invites us through Jesus Christ to
become responsible actors in history, not to seek
to run away from the responsibilities and the
agonies of human life in its _______ dimension
(85).
B. public
A. political
C. earthly
D. historical