Prophecy Quiz
True or False
1. The main job of a prophet is to predict the future. True?___ False?________
2. People today who call themselves prophets fit the Bible’s description only if God is talking to them in visions, dreams, or in person. True?__ False?______
3. Prophets seemed to believe that most of their predictions pointed to the distant future, not being limited to their own time. True?_______ False?_______
4. Predictions of God’s prophets were always right, since 100% accuracy was the mark of a true prophet. True?_______ False?______
5. In some Bible prophecies, Babylon was a code word for the Roman Empire, because the Romans, like the Babylonians before them, destroyed both the City of Jerusalem and the Jewish Temple. True? _____ False?______
6. The English word for hell in the Bible almost always translates a Hebrew word that refers to a valley in what is now Jerusalem. True? _____False ? _____
7. The mark of the beast, 666, is the number we get when we add up the letters in Emperor Nero’s name as it appeared on Roman coins. True?___ False? _____
8. John’s vision of the New Jerusalem, often interpreted as heaven itself, is a cube about half the size of the moon. True? ______ False? _______
9. The Bible’s descriptions of the world’s end, agrees with some of the more accepted scientific theories about how the world will end. True? ___False?__ _________
Adapted from “The Complete Guide to Biblical Prophecy,” (2010) Stephen M. Miller, Barbour Publishing, Uhrichsville, Ohio
