PP 628 The Priesthood of believers 1.25 Credit hours
1. When did the teaching of the Priesthood of all believers get its start? With Martin Luther originally, but the acrostic actually began in the early 1960's to be precise.
2. When did the Baptists start using the acrostic B.A.P.T.I.S.T.S.? The early 1960’s
3. What is the key passage that Martin Luther and others today use to teach the priesthood of all believers? 1 Peter 2:5-9
4. How many times is the word priest, priests, or priesthood used by Paul, the apostle of the Gentiles in his epistles Romans through Philemon? None
5. Where does the word "priest" appear the first time in scripture? Genesis 14:18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
6. What order was Jesus a priest after? The order of Melchizedek
7. What was Salem later named? Jerusalem
8. What order was Israel's priesthood after? The order of Aaron
9. Where did the Jews scatter to first when there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem according to Acts 8:1? Throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria
10. Where did the twelve apostles remain at that time and why? At Jerusalem, because that was to be the future capital during the kingdom where they were to sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel
11. Where had the Jewish strangers scattered to when Peter wrote his first epistle to them? Throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
12. What were the first three promises made to the children of Israel concerning priesthood in Exodus 19? Exodus 19:5 if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: 6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.
13. Was this a conditional covenant? (If you do A then I will do B) Yes
14. Where did the name Israel come from in scripture? Jacob's name was changed to Israel in Genesis 32:28
15. Is the Church today? A. A body with Christ as its head B. A nation with Christ as its King
16. Did Israel keep God's covenant and become that peculiar treasure, that holy nation, that became a kingdom of priests? No
17. What tribe said they were on the LORD’s side, and soon became a tribe of priests? The tribe of Levi
18. How many Jews were slain on that day? 3,000
19. What latter feast day were those Jews slain on? Pentecost
20. Who replaced the firstborn as the priests according to Numbers 8? The Levites
21. What were the age requirements to be a priest under the order of Aaron in Numbers chapter four? You had to be between 30 and 50
22. Could a priest have any infirmities in the flesh either, of any kind? No
23. Why did Jesus healed every Jewish person he met regardless of their age, or what tribe they were from? He was preparing them to be priests in their soon coming kingdom.
24. Did Jesus heal only men that were between the ages of thirty and fifty and that were only from the tribe of Levi, while he ministered for three and a half years to Israel? No, he healed all who came unto him because the nation was to be a kingdom of priests in the kingdom that he preached was at hand.
25. What did God say he would do that would make Israel’s future priesthood a better priesthood than that of Aaron’s (the Aaronic Priesthood) according to Jeremiah? Jeremiah 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
26. Which house were the Levites a part of when God divided the nation because of sin? A. The house of Israel in the north. B. The house of Judah in south.
27. What was the sin that Jeroboam sinned which also made Israel to sin? He set up two calves of gold for Israel to worship in the north
28. Why would they think to worship the image of a creature instead of the Creator? It was the calves that literally brought them out of Egypt by pulling their carts. They look at their physical, not the supernatural deliverance that had occurred
29. Was Israel ever called a house like Peter was calling the Jews he was writing to? Yes, the house of Israel.
30. Was Israel ever called an holy priesthood, or a royal priesthood? Yes, back at mount Sinai in Exodus 19:5-6
31. Was the children of Israel ever called a peculiar people or treasure, or an holy nation before Peter mentions it? (If so where?) Yes, in Exodus 19:5 & 6
32. Did God promise that the children of Israel would be a kingdom of priest and an holy nation one day? Yes!
33. Did Peter call the Jewish people that he was writing to a royal priesthood, and holy nation? Yes he did.
34. Was 1st Peter 2:4-9 be a complete fulfillment of Exodus 19:5-6, or a partial one? A partial one
35. According to the prophecy in Zechariah what will ten Gentile men say and do to a Jew in their nation concerning the LORD? They shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.
36. What kind of sacrifices did Peter tell his Jewish readers who had trusted in Christ would offer up to God that was different from what God told the children of Israel at mount Sinai? They were to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
37. Why were no animals to be brought to a physical temple anymore according to Hebrews 10? Hebrews 10:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
38. Who were Jesus and the twelve apostles ministers unto according to Romans and Galatians? A. The circumcision B. The uncircumcision
39. Who was the book of the revelation written to? Israel his servants as it covers the events concerning the time of Jacob's trouble, not ours:
40. Who are the ones that were promised to be redeemed to God by his blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made them unto their God kings and priests: and they shall reign on the earth? Israel
41. Whose time is the time of trouble mentioned in Jeremiah 30:7 that they will have to go through? Jacob (Israel)
42. Who does Isaiah 61:1-9 speak about as preaching the good tidings to?
A. Israel B. The Gentiles
43. Who is it that will eat the riches of the Gentiles? Redeemed Israel
44. Whose seed will be known among the Gentiles? Reedemed Israel
45. Who is the seed that the Gentiles will say the LORD has blessed? Redeemed Israel
46. What was written about the saints of Peters day in 1 Peter that was identical to what the writer of Hebrews said about that same chosen generation in Hebrews 6:4 & 5? They were the ones spoken about in chapter six that were once enlightened, and had tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost. They had tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, and had the nation of Israel accepted their King, then the kingdom that was at hand in their day would have come into existence.
47. Since God promised the kingdom to the children of Israel and they rejected it who else could he give it to and still keep his word according to Matthew 21? Matthew 21:43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
48. Who was the nation that would bring forth the fruits thereof? The Little Flock or the Remnant of kingdom saints that lived in Jesus and the twelves day.
