This is a sample quiz that Kevin DeYoung gives at his church after a 12 week course for aspiring deacons and elders. It is the knowledge part of the quiz. This is my attempt without checking my Bible. I will put my answers after the break in case readers wish to have a go. My answers may be incorrect so feel free to correct me.
A. Who did the following?
1. Wrote the book of Acts?
2. Appeared with Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration?
3. Directed the rebuilding of the wall of Jerusalem?
4. Killed a thousand Philistines with a donkey’s jawbone?
5. Led the Israelites into the promised land?
6. Was exiled to the island of Patmos where he wrote Revelation?
7. Was going to curse Israel, but had to bless them?
8. Became the first King of the 10 tribes that broke away?
9. Rescued David from her foolish husband Nabal?
10. Was rebuked by Paul for refusing to eat with Gentiles?
B. Where geographically did the following events take place?
11. God gave Moses the Ten Commandments?
12. A silversmith caused a riot?
13. Elijah had a confrontation with the prophets of Baal?
14. Believers were first called “Christians”?
15. The river Jesus was baptized in?
16. The walls of the city collapsed after the Israelites marched around it?
17. Jesus walked on water?
18. The place where Jonah was supposed to be going when he fled to Tarshish?
19. The place where Paul was heading when he was blinded on the road?
20. The river Ezekiel was at with the exiles when he received a vision from God?
C. In which book of the Bible do you find the following?
21. Peter visits Cornelius where he learns that God accepts Jews and Gentiles?
22. Paul asks a runaway slave to be welcomed back?
23. Israel worships a golden calf made by Aaron?
24. The story of Joseph and he brothers?
25. Twelve men explore the land of Canaan, but only two trust God to give it to them?
26. God’s judgment on Israel is pictured by a prophet as horde of locusts?
27. A description of the armor of God
28. The words “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” in the Old Testament?
29. A prophet marries a prostitute?
30. The Magi visiting the Christ child?
D. In which book and chapter(s) do you find the following?
31. God first speaks the Ten Commandments?
32. The call of Abram?
33. The Sermon on the Mount?
34. The Great Commission?
35. The Holy Spirit coming upon the disciples in wind, fire, and tongues?
36. Just as Adam was the head of the old humanity, Christ is the head of the new: “Just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous”?
37. ”But these three remain: faith, hope, and love. And the greatest of these is love”?
38. A religious leader hears “Unless a man is born again he cannot enter the kingdom of heaven”?
39. Satan bound for a thousand years?
40. The three Hebrews saved from the fiery furnace?
E. Give the main topic or event of the following Bible chapters
41. Genesis 3
42. Isaiah 53
43. Romans 4
44. Psalm 119
45. Hebrews 11
46. Acts 15
47. John 17
48. Revelation 21-22
49. Luke 15
50. Exodus 3
F. Who said the following?
51. If I perish, I perish.
52. What is truth?
53. After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?…Will I really have a child, now that I am old?
54. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem…how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.
55. Grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit at your right and the other at your left in the kingdom.
56. The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?
57. He must increase; I must decrease.
58. Am I dog that you come at me with sticks?
59. I know my Redeemer lives and that in the end he will stand upon the earth?
60. Give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong.
G. If you encountered the following error, to which book would you turn for help? Choose the book that best addresses the error. Use each of the listed books only once: Genesis, Job, Song of Songs, Amos, John, 1 Corinthians, Galatians, 1 Timothy, James, Revelation.
61. ”As long as you believe the right things, it doesn’t matter how you live your life.”
62. ”I’m sure I don’t have any spiritual gifts. Only special people do.”
63. ”We are saved by Jesus, but we also have to do our part by obeying the law of the Old Testament.”
64. ”If you are sick, you must have sin in your life. Good people don’t suffer.”
65. ”God doesn’t care about the poor and oppressed. That’s the social gospel.”
66. ”I know God promises to bless me, but I can’t really trust him through the hard things in life, like famine, barrenness, and imprisonment.”
67. ”In the end it won’t make any difference who we followed or what we did with our lives. Jesus will treat everybody the same when he comes back.”
68. ”There’s nothing special about Jesus. He’s just one way among many, just another prophet or good moral teacher.”
69. ”The best way to pick your elders is by looking at how successful they are in the business world. Next, consider how many degrees they have. After that, popularity matters most. Finally, if you still can’t decide, go by good looks.”
70. ”The Bible doesn’t say anything about intimacy between a man and a woman. That’s too fleshly for God to care about.”
H. Arrange the following events in proper chronological order.
71–80.
a. The giving of the Law
b. The atoning death of Christ
c. Malachi prophesies
d. The promise to Abraham
e. Creation and fall
f. Pentecost
g. Exile in Babylon
h. David is King over Israel
i. Paul is shipwrecked
j. The Judges rule over Israel
I. Match the verse with the doctrine it best supports. Each doctrine from the list will be used only once: providence, atonement, election, justification, immutability, sanctification, inspiration, deity of Christ, Trinity, total depravity
81. Just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do. 1 Peter 1:15
82. God demonstrated his love for us in this, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8
83. What you meant for evil, God meant for good. Genesis 50:20
84. He chose us in him before the foundation of the world. Ephesians 1:4
85. I the Lord do not change. Malachi 3:6
86. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not count against him. Romans 4:8
87. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1.
88. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Matthew 28:19
89. For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. 2 Peter 1:21
90. There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. Romans 3:10-11
J. In which Old Testament book would you find the following Messianic prophecies? Books may be used more than once.
91. The Messiah would be born in Bethlehem.
92. He would crush the head of the serpent.
93. He would come riding on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
94. Born of a virgin.
95. Came to preach good news to the poor, bind up the brokenhearted, proclaim freedom for the captives, release the prisoners from darkness, proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and comfort all who mourn.
96. Would be a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.
97. Would be like a sun of righteousness rising with healing in its wings.
98. ”They divided my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.”
99. Buried with the rich in his death.
100. Like a lion’s cub of the tribe of Judah.
My answers
A. Who did the following?
1. Wrote the book of Acts?
Luke
2. Appeared with Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration?
Moses, Elijah
3. Directed the rebuilding of the wall of Jerusalem?
Nehemiah
4. Killed a thousand Philistines with a donkey’s jawbone?
Samson
5. Led the Israelites into the promised land?
Joshua
6. Was exiled to the island of Patmos where he wrote Revelation?
John
7. Was going to curse Israel, but had to bless them?
Balaam
8. Became the first King of the 10 tribes that broke away?
Jereboam
9. Rescued David from her foolish husband Nabal?
Abigail
10. Was rebuked by Paul for refusing to eat with Gentiles?
Peter
B. Where geographically did the following events take place?
11. God gave Moses the Ten Commandments?
Mt Sinai
12. A silversmith caused a riot?
Ephesus
13. Elijah had a confrontation with the prophets of Baal?
Mt Carmel
14. Believers were first called “Christians”?
Antioch
15. The river Jesus was baptized in?
Jordan
16. The walls of the city collapsed after the Israelites marched around it?
Jericho
17. Jesus walked on water?
Sea of Galilee (Lake Tiberius)
18. The place where Jonah was supposed to be going when he fled to Tarshish?
Nineveh
19. The place where Paul was heading when he was blinded on the road?
Damascus
20. The river Ezekiel was at with the exiles when he received a vision from God?
Difficult. ? something like Tabor? presumably coming off the Euphrates?
C. In which book of the Bible do you find the following?
21. Peter visits Cornelius where he learns that God accepts Jews and Gentiles?
Acts
22. Paul asks a runaway slave to be welcomed back?
Philemon
23. Israel worships a golden calf made by Aaron?
Exodus
24. The story of Joseph and he brothers?
Genesis
25. Twelve men explore the land of Canaan, but only two trust God to give it to them?
Numbers
26. God’s judgment on Israel is pictured by a prophet as horde of locusts?
?Joel
27. A description of the armor of God
Ephesians; though this is also in the Old Testament, I think Isaiah
28. The words “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” in the Old Testament?
Psalms
29. A prophet marries a prostitute?
Hosea
30. The Magi visiting the Christ child?
Matthew
D. In which book and chapter(s) do you find the following?
31. God first speaks the Ten Commandments?
Exodus 20 (repeated in Deuteronomy)
32. The call of Abram?
Genesis 12
33. The Sermon on the Mount?
Matthew 5–7
34. The Great Commission?
Matthew 28
35. The Holy Spirit coming upon the disciples in wind, fire, and tongues?
Acts 1 (or 2)
36.
Just as Adam was the head of the old humanity, Christ is the head of
the new: “Just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were
made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will
be made righteous”?
?Romans 5, though something similar about Christ the second Adam in Corinthians
37. ”But these three remain: faith, hope, and love. And the greatest of these is love”?
?1 Corinthians 14 (? following the love chapter 1 Corinthians 13)
38. A religious leader hears “Unless a man is born again he cannot enter the kingdom of heaven”?
John 3
39. Satan bound for a thousand years?
Revelation ? chapter 12
40. The three Hebrews saved from the fiery furnace?
Daniel ? chapter 6
E. Give the main topic or event of the following Bible chapters
41. Genesis 3
Fall
42. Isaiah 53
Suffering servant: prophecy of Jesus' death
43. Romans 4
?Abraham's faith
44. Psalm 119
Delighting in the law of God
45. Hebrews 11
Hall of Faith
46. Acts 15
Uncertain, before Paul in Athens. ? in Ephesus
47. John 17
?Jesus the true vine
48. Revelation 21-22
New Jerusalem
49. Luke 15
? Parables of the Father looking for the lost (lost coin, prodigal etc.)
50. Exodus 3
?Burning bush
F. Who said the following?
51. If I perish, I perish.
Esther
52. What is truth?
Pilate
53. After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?…Will I really have a child, now that I am old?
Sarah
54.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem…how often I have longed to gather your children
together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not
willing.
Jesus
55. Grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit at your right and the other at your left in the kingdom.
Mother of John and James
56. The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?
Isaac
57. He must increase; I must decrease.
John the Baptist
58. Am I dog that you come at me with sticks?
Goliath
59. I know my Redeemer lives and that in the end he will stand upon the earth?
Job
60. Give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong.
Solomon
G.
If you encountered the following error, to which book would you turn
for help? Choose the book that best addresses the error. Use each of
the listed books only once: Genesis, Job, Song of Songs, Amos, John, 1
Corinthians, Galatians, 1 Timothy, James, Revelation.
61. ”As long as you believe the right things, it doesn’t matter how you live your life.”
James
62. ”I’m sure I don’t have any spiritual gifts. Only special people do.”
1 Corinthians
63. ”We are saved by Jesus, but we also have to do our part by obeying the law of the Old Testament.”
Galatians
64. ”If you are sick, you must have sin in your life. Good people don’t suffer.”
Job
65. ”God doesn’t care about the poor and oppressed. That’s the social gospel.”
Amos
66.
”I know God promises to bless me, but I can’t really trust him through
the hard things in life, like famine, barrenness, and imprisonment.”
Genesis
67.
”In the end it won’t make any difference who we followed or what we did
with our lives. Jesus will treat everybody the same when he comes
back.”
Revelation
68. ”There’s nothing special about Jesus. He’s just one way among many, just another prophet or good moral teacher.”
John
69.
”The best way to pick your elders is by looking at how successful they
are in the business world. Next, consider how many degrees they have.
After that, popularity matters most. Finally, if you still can’t
decide, go by good looks.”
1 Timothy
70. ”The Bible doesn’t say anything about intimacy between a man and a woman. That’s too fleshly for God to care about.”
Song of Songs
H. Arrange the following events in proper chronological order.
71–80.
e. Creation and fall
d. The promise to Abraham
a. The giving of the Law
j. The Judges rule over Israel
h. David is King over Israel
g. Exile in Babylon
c. Malachi prophesies
b. The atoning death of Christ
f. Pentecost
i. Paul is shipwrecked
I.
Match the verse with the doctrine it best supports. Each doctrine from the list will be used only once: providence, atonement, election, justification, immutability, sanctification, inspiration, deity of Christ, Trinity, total depravity
81. Just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do. 1 Peter 1:15
Sanctification
82. God demonstrated his love for us in this, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8
Atonement
83. What you meant for evil, God meant for good. Genesis 50:20
Providence
84. He chose us in him before the foundation of the world. Ephesians 1:4
Election
85. I the Lord do not change. Malachi 3:6
Immutability
86. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not count against him. Romans 4:8
Justification
87. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1.
Deity of Christ
88. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Matthew 28:19
Trinity
89.
For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke
from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. 2 Peter 1:21
Inspiration
90. There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. Romans 3:10-11
Total depravity
J. In which Old Testament book would you find the following Messianic prophecies? Books may be used more than once.
91. The Messiah would be born in Bethlehem.
Micah
92. He would crush the head of the serpent.
Genesis
93. He would come riding on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Zechariah
94. Born of a virgin.
Isaiah
95. Came to preach good news to the poor, bind up the brokenhearted, proclaim freedom for the captives, release the prisoners from darkness, proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and comfort all who mourn.
Isaiah
96. Would be a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.
Psalms
97. Would be like a sun of righteousness rising with healing in its wings.
Malachi
98. ”They divided my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.”
Psalms
99. Buried with the rich in his death.
Isaiah
100. Like a lion’s cub of the tribe of Judah.
Genesis
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