Year 4 - December

Year 1, December - Esther, Heroes of the Faith

Year 4, December 1, The King's Banquets – Esther 1:1-9

Questions

How many provinces did Ahasuerus rule over?

How many days did this feast last?

What sort of vessels were the drinks served in?

Who was Queen?

Year 4, December 2, Queen Vashti's Refusal – Esther 1:10-15

Questions

How many eunuchs did King Ahasuerus send to get Queen Vashti?

What was she to wear specially?

Did the queen obey?

How many princes or wise men of Persia were there?

Year 4, December 3, Queen Vashti's Refusal – Esther 1:16-22

Questions

What did the wise men say all wives would do?

What did they say should happen to Queen Vashti?

Where did the king send letters?

What did the letters order every man?

Year 4, December 4, Esther Chosen Queen – Esther 2:1-11

Questions

Who was to be gathered to the palace in Susa?

Who was in charge of the women?

Who was Esther’s uncle who brought her up?

What did Esther not tell Hegai?

Year 4, December 5, Esther Chosen Queen – Esther 2:12-18

Questions

How was the twelve months of beauty treatment divided up?

Who was in charge of the second harem?

Did the king make Esther his Queen just because of her beauty?

What did the king do when he made Esther Queen?

Year 4, December 6, Mordecai Discovers a Plot – Esther 2:19-23

Questions

Where did Mordecai spend a lot of time?

Who plotted against King Ahasuerus?

Who did Mordecai tell?

What happened to the two palace guards?

Year 4, December 7, Haman Plots Against the Jews – Esther 3:1-11

Questions

Who did the king promote?

Who did not bow down to Haman?

Who did Haman want to destroy?

How much did Haman bribe the king to kill all Jews?

Year 4, December 8, Haman Plots Against the Jews – Esther 3:12-15

Questions

What did the king’s scribes use to seal the order to kill all Jews?

When was this to happen?

Where were copies sent?

What happened to the city of Susa?

Year 4, December 9, Esther Agrees To Help – Esther 4:1-9

Questions

What did Mordecai and other Jews do when he heard this?

What did Mordecai not accept from Esther?

Who took messages between Mordecai and Esther?

Year 4, December 10, Esther Agrees To Help – Esther 4:10-17

Questions

What could happen to Esther if the king did not want to talk to her?

What did the king hold out to someone he did want to talk to?

What would happen to Esther if she didn’t speak to the king?

What were all the Jews to do for three days before she went to the king?

Year 4, December 11, Esther Prepares a Banquet – Esther 5:1-8

Questions

What did Esther wear to see the King?

What did the King do when he saw Esther?

What did Esther ask?

After the feast, what did Esther ask the King and Haman to do?

Year 4, December 12, Haman Plans to Hang Mordecai – Esther 5:9-14

Questions

How did Haman feel when he left the palace?

What made him angry at the gate?

Who did he tell all about his popularity with the King and Queen?

What did his wife and friends say to do about Mordecai?

Year 4, December 13, The King Honours Mordecai – Esther 6:1-9

Questions

What happened to the King that night?

What did the King’s records say about Mordecai?

Who was waiting to see the King?

Who did Haman think the King delighted to honour?

Year 4, December 14, The King Honours Mordecai – Esther 6:10-14

Questions

What did Mordecai have to do?

Where did Mordecai go after the street parade?

What did Haman’s wife and friends predict?

Who came for Haman?

Year 4, December 15, Esther Reveals Haman's Plot – Esther 7:1-6

Questions

What did King Ahasuerus ask Esther?

What did he promise her?

What did the King ask when Esther explained her problem?

How did Haman feel?

Year 4, December 16, Haman Is Hanged – Esther 7:7-10

Questions

How did King Ahasuerus feel?

What did Haman do?

What did a servant tell the King?

How high was Haman’s gallows?

Year 4, December 17, Esther Saves The Jews – Esther 8:1-8

Questions

What did King Ahasuerus give Esther?

What did he give Mordecai?

What still had to be done to protect the Jews?

What did the King tell Esther and Mordecai to do?

Year 4, December 18, Esther Saves The Jews – Esther 8:9-17

Questions

Who was summoned to write the edict?

Whose languages was the edict written in?

How were the copies sent to the 127 provinces from India to Ethiopia?

How did the people of Susa feel about Mordecai’s promotion?

Year 4, December 19, Enemies Destroyed – Esther 9:1-10

Questions

What day was the King’s edict to be carried out?

Who gained mastery?

Whose sons did the Jews kill?

Did the Jews take any plunder?

Year 4, December 20, Enemies Destroyed – Esther 9:11-19

Questions

What did Esther ask the King to allow after the thirteenth day?

What did they do with the bodies of Hayman’s sons?

How many enemies did the Jews kill altogether?

What did the Jews do on the fourteenth day ever after?

Year 4, December 21, The Feast Of Purim – Esther 9:20-28

Questions

Which days did Mordecai say to keep special?

Who were they to send gifts to?

What did they name this holiday?

Who else was to celebrate Purim?

Year 4, December 22, Esther And Mordecai – Esther 9:29-10:3

Questions

Whose command confirmed Purim?

How was it recorded?

Who did King Ahasuerus honour highly?

Why was Mordecai popular?

Year 4, December 23, Heroes Of The Faith – Hebrews 11:1-7

Questions

Who offered a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain by faith?

Who was taken up to heaven because he pleased God by faith?

What must we have to please God?

Who saved himself and his family in an ark, by faith?

Year 4, December 24, Heroes Of The Faith – Hebrews 11:8-16

Questions

Who left his home to go to a land of promise, by faith?

Who else were heirs of this promise?

How did Sarah find power to conceive Isaac?

Did these people receive the Promised Land?

Year 4, December 25, Heroes Of The Faith – Hebrews 11:17-22

Questions

Who offered up his son Isaac by faith?

Who did Isaac bless, by faith?

Who bowed over the head of his staff to bless his grandsons, by faith?

Who talked about the exodus of the Israelites before he died, by faith?

Year 4, December 26, Heroes Of The Faith – Hebrews 11:23-31

Questions

Whose parents hid him from Pharaoh by faith?

Whose reproach did Moses choose as greater wealth than all the treasures of Egypt, by faith?

Who crossed the Red Sea by faith?

Who did not perish in Jericho by faith?

Year 4, December 27, Heroes Of The Faith – Hebrews 11:32-40

Questions

Who are listed as heroes of faith in verse 32?

How did women receive back their dead?

How were some heroes killed?

Did these people of faith receive God’s great promise of Jesus?

Year 4, December 28, Heroes Of The Faith – Hebrews 12:1-3

Questions

Who is in the grandstand surrounding God’s people now?

Who are we to look to in the race of life?

What did Jesus endure for us?

Where is He now?

Year 4, December 29, Peter And Paul – 2 Peter 3:14-18

Questions

What are Peter’s fellow Christians waiting for? (Verse 13)

Who also wrote letters to Christians?

Is it always easy to understand what Paul wrote?

What did Peter want his dear friends to grow in?

Year 4, December 30, Paul's Final Greetings – 2 Timothy 4:9-17

Questions

Who is writing to whom? (Chapter 1 verses 1-2)

Who deserted Paul because he loved the world?

Who was very useful to Paul for ministry?

Who did Paul warn Timothy against?

Year 4, December 31, Paul's Final Greetings – 2 Timothy 4:18-22

Questions

Where did Paul want to be rescued to?

Who did Paul leave ill at Miletus?

Why did Paul want Timothy to come before winter? (Verse 13)

What else did Paul leave behind for Timothy to bring? (Verse 13)