Lesson 12: God's Festivals-Keys to Humanity's Future

What Old Testament event is paralleled by the giving of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost 31 AD?
The Exodus.
Giving the Law at Mount Sinai.
Crossing the Red Sea.
Entering the promised land.

What important event also occurs at Christ’s Second Coming?
The beginning of God’s spiritual year.
The Great White Throne Judgment
The resurrection of the firstfruits to eternal spirit life.
The beginning of the two witnesses’ ministry.

How should the annual Passover be observed?
Should be observed once a year just like any other memorial.
Is no longer necessary for Christians.
Has been abrogated by the Lord’s Supper, and should be kept four times a year.
Is cancelled out by New Testament teaching.

The Day of Atonement:
Signifies the putting away of Satan.
Is an unrevealed mystery.
Only reminds us of the annual Passover.
Has been done away.

The Last Great Day represents:
The third resurrection to condemnation.
The resurrection of all Gentiles only.
The Great White Throne Judgment period when the second resurrection occurs.
The resurrection only of all those who lived before the time of Christ’s First Coming.

How many times a year are God's festivals celebrated?
Three.
One.
Seven.
Two.

What does sacrificing the Old Testament Passover lamb foreshadow?
The Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
The Millennium.
The Olivet prophecy.
The death of Christ for our sins.

The Day of Atonement should be observed:
By staying home all day.
By fasting from sunset to sunset.
By eating a light breakfast.
Only by the Jews.

What will occur after the Great White Throne Judgment period?
Universal salvation is finally instituted by the resurrection of unregenerate sinners to eternal life.
The saints will leave this earth and finally go to heaven.
The earth is abandoned to its own devices.
God the Father descends to earth with the heavenly Jerusalem, dwelling with Christ and the spirit-composed saints forever.

Pentecost is the only biblical festival:
That is observed in one 24-hour day.
Whose date of observance is determined by counting.
That the Church should keep today.
That has no specific meaning in God’s plan.

Who is The Lamb of God?
John the Baptist.
The apostle John.
Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
The apostle Peter.

What type of resurrection does the Last Great Day picture?
One to physical life as human beings.
One to eternal physical life on this earth.
One to immediate eternal spirit life.
One of a limited number of good people.

How is God’s master plan primarily revealed?
Christmas and Easter.
Mary’s Magnificat.
The Ten Commandments.
Seven annual festivals along with the weekly Sabbath.

The Feast of Trumpets signifies:
The beginning of the Great Tribulation.
A future war between Europe and Israel.
The second resurrection on the Last Great Day.
The Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

The Feast of Tabernacles signifies:
The need to celebrate a future world religion embracing the advocates of Buddhism.
A perfect time in future history which physical human beings will never sin.
The need to live in booths all year round.
The righteous reign of Jesus Christ and the resurrected saints on earth for 1,000 years.

The Days of Unleavened Bread:
Represent Christ leading and assisting us to overcome sin.
May well be observed but no longer affect our salvation.
Have been done away.
Have been replaced by the Easter festivities.

In the Bible the Feast of Tabernacles is also called:
The Feast of Firstfruits.
The Feast of Weeks.
The Feast of Ingathering.
The Feast of Purim.

Pentecost was also known in the Old Testament as:
The Feast of Firstfruits.
The Feast of Purim.
The Last Great Day.
Hanukkah.

The Bible reveals that:
God has a master plan for salvation.
All things happen randomly on earth.
God lets humanity work things out solely without His intervention.
The vast majority of mankind will forever remain unsaved.

What does leaven, in the Bible, usually represent?
Only a substance that makes physical bread dough rise.
Human mistakes, but not necessarily sins.
Sin (which should be put away).
Flat bread.

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