Week 3. Temptations: Jesus in the Wilderness

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        Below is a list of posts giving the questions posed in the third week. Feel free to respond with your own answers. Anonymous comments are permitted. Discussions are encouraged.
        So, enjoy exploring the word together.

Q1: The word “shema” means the imperative “hear attentively,” hence the name Shema for this famous passage. Whom is Moses addressing? (Deut. 6:3,4)

Q2: What is Moses preaching against when he affirms that the “LORD our God, the LORD is one”? (Deut. 6:4,14)

Q3: What is the good conduct of Israel to be based on? (Deut. 6:5,6)

Q4: How shall the children of Israel propagate belief in “these words”? (Deut. 6:7-9, 20-25)

Q5: What is about to happen? (Deut. 6:10-11)

Q6: What is Israel’s danger? (Deut. 6:12)

Q7: What is Israel’s primary allegiance? (Deut. 6:13)

Q8: Which of God’s characteristics are the people particularly to remember? (Deut. 6:15; Ex. 20:5)

Q9: What is the condition of possessing the land? (Deut. 6:18,19)

Q10: To fear the LORD is given as a command, so it is not an involuntary fear prompted by fright or immediate circumstances. What is fear of the LORD?

Q11: What does it mean to serve the LORD? Is this service exclusive?

Q12: How are the commandments and the possession of the land connected? (Deut. 8:1)

Q13: What were three purposes of the 40 years’ wandering in the desert? (Deut. 8:2)

Q14: What happened to Israel during the 40 years? (Deut. 8:3)

Q15: Where did the manna come from? (Ex. 16:15)

Q16: What was the lesson in the manna? (Deut. 8:3)

Q17: What other miraculous signs accompanied Israel in the desert? (Deut. 8:4)

Q18: What is the overarching purpose in the 40 years’ wandering? (Deut. 8:5,6)

Q19: Is there a symbolic parallel between the Christ’s forty days of temptation in the desert and the forty years’ wandering of the children of Israel in the desert?

Q20: Are there other parallels?

Q21: The devil prefaced his temptation with the premise, “If you are the Son of God...” Jesus’ Sonship had been declared by the Father and confirmed by the Holy Spirit at Jesus’ Baptism immediately before His retreat into the desert. What was the devil trying to do? (Matt. 4:3; Luke 4:3)

Q22: Jesus had the authority to turn the stones into bread. Why was this a temptation? (Matt. 4:1,2; Luke 4:1,2)

Q23: How did Jesus’ quotation of Deut. 8:3 answer the devil? (Matt. 4:4; Luke 4:4)

Q24: Again the devil prefaced his temptation with the premise, “If you are the Son of God...” What was the devil’s purpose? (Matt. 4:5; Luke 4:9)

Q25: What authority did the devil claim? (Matt. 4:6; Luke 4:10)

Q26: Why would not God rescue Jesus if He jumped off the Temple?

Q27: How did Jesus’ quotation of Deut. 6:16 answer the devil’s temptation? (Matt. 4:7; Luke 4:12)

Q28: Was the devil’s claim of sovereignty correct? (Luke 4:6)

Q29: Was the devil’s offer real? (Matt. 4:9; Luke 4:6,7)

Q30: Jesus revealed a flash of anger in his response to Satan. What prompted Him so? (Matt. 4:10; Luke 4:8)

Q31: How did Jesus’ quotation of Deut. 6:13 answer Satan’s temptation? (Matt. 4:10; Luke 4:8)

Q32: Are the devil’s propositions substantial?

Q33: What is the common feature among Jesus’ responses?

Q34: With whom does Jesus most closely identify?