Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church

Lay Academy – The Bible in Context

Early Christian Writings                 Revelation 2: 1-7                Revelation 2: 8-11

September 20, 2009

9:30 a.m.

Revelation 2: 1-7

(but read also Revelation Chapter 1)

 

“Hate the Nicolaitans”

 

Answers to the following may be multiple, or "none of the above".

  

Quotations are from NIV, unless otherwise stated. 

1.       John says that he testified to -- :

a.       seeing the Word of God

b.       seeing miracles

c.       seeing the destruction of Jerusalem

d.       seeing God in Heaven

 

2.       John describes Jesus as -- :

a.       a faithful witness

b.       the firstborn from the dead

c.       the ruler of the kings of the earth

d.       the First and the Last

 

3.       Where was John when he saw his visions?

a.       Jerusalem

b.       Ephesus

c.       Patmos

d.       Smyrna

 

4.        “Angel” translates a Greek word that means -- :

a.       witness

b.       spirit

c.       cherub

d.       messenger

 

5.      Whom have the Ephesians tested?

a.      men masquerading as apostles

b.      men telling the future

c.       men claiming to be Elijah

d.      men claiming to do miracles

 

 

6.       Ephesus contained one of the Wonders of the World -- :

a.       The Mausoleum

b.       The Artemesion

c.       The Hanging Gardens

d.       The Pyramids

 

 

7.       While Paul was in Ephesus -- :

a.       he debated Greek philosophers

b.       he encountered the Seven Sons of Sceva

c.       he was arraigned before Gallio

d.       he healed a slave girl

 

 

8.       Jesus accuses the Ephesians of -- :

a.       being neither hot nor cold

b.       tolerating the woman Jezebel

c.       forsaking their first love

d.       having little strength

 

9.       The Nicolaitans -- :

a.       were founded by Nicholas of Antioch

b.       approved of adultery

c.       ate food sacrificed to idols

d.       are otherwise unknown

 

10.     What will Jesus give to “him who overcomes”?

a.       a crown

b.       an angelic body

c.       the right to eat from the tree of life

d.       admission to Paradise