DEEP Prayer Book Discipleship Course · Dr. Steve Foss

Final Exam

The Mighty End-Time Witnesses & Hidden Together

Chapters 17-18 · Cumulative Review of the Entire Course · 45 Questions · 75 Points · Dr. Steve Foss
About This Test
  • Chapter 17 - The Mighty End-Time Witnesses: the great multitude of Revelation 7; the measuring of the temple and the inner/outer court; Israel's irrevocable calling; Jew and Gentile as one new man; the Sackcloth Spirit and the golden bowls of accumulated prayer.
  • Chapter 18 - Hidden Together: Zechariah 4:6 and the sons of oil; the consistent pattern of the power of two throughout Scripture and revival history - Nash and Clary, the Smith sisters, Ulster, Sialkot, Uganda, Wales, Nairobi; the book's final call, "Here am I, Lord, send me."
  • Cumulative Synthesis: this exam also asks you to trace how these final two chapters gather up and fulfill what every earlier chapter planted - the Prayer Strike Force Team of Chapter 1, the costly agape of Chapter 8, the unity of Chapters 9-10, and the fourfold weapon of Chapters 13-16.

This is a concept test, not a memorization test - and it is longer than the section tests before it, because this is the final exam for the entire eighteen-chapter course. Every question asks you to apply what you understood, and several ask you to connect this course's final chapters back to everything you have already studied. A closing, non-graded Commissioning section follows the exam itself - because this course was never meant to end with a score. Click Submit & Grade My Exam for instant feedback on every question.

Part A
Multiple Choice - 30 Questions · 2 pts each · 60 pts
Chapter 17 - The Mighty End-Time Witnesses
Question 1

Revelation 7:9 and 14 describe a "great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues… These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." According to Chapter 17, who is this multitude?

Question 2

In Revelation 11:1-2, John is told to measure the temple, the altar, and those who worship there, but to leave the outer court unmeasured. According to Chapter 17, what does this act of measuring signify?

Question 3

Paul writes in Romans 11:28-29 that concerning election, Israel is beloved for the fathers' sake, "for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable." According to Chapter 17, what does this mean for Israel's ongoing role?

Question 4

Ephesians 2:14-15 says Christ "made both one… to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace." According to Chapter 17, what did the cross actually produce regarding Jew and Gentile?

Question 5

According to Chapter 17, the character of the end-time witness is defined by what it calls "the Sackcloth Spirit" - illustrated by Nehemiah's weeping, Daniel's confession, and Joel's cry for the priests to weep between the porch and the altar. What does the chapter say this authority actually comes from?

Question 6

Ezekiel 37 describes the valley of dry bones as a two-stage process: first bones come together with flesh and sinew, then the breath of God enters. According to Chapter 17, how does this pattern map onto Israel's modern history?

Question 7

Romans 11:11 says that through Israel's stumbling, salvation has come to the Gentiles, "to provoke them to jealousy." According to Chapter 17, what role does the Gentile witness play in this dynamic?

Question 8

Chapter 17 describes Revelation 8:3-5, where fire from the altar is hurled to the earth in direct response to the accumulated intercession of God's people, and states that the prayers of Moses, Elijah, and Daniel were never lost. What point does the chapter draw from this?

Question 9

In 2025, Steve stood atop Gibraltar over a cave once called the "Gate of Hades" and prophesied from Isaiah 13:2-3, later learning this overlapped with Aliyah, the Hebrew word for the prophesied return of Jews to Israel. According to Chapter 17, how does this account function within the chapter's larger argument?

Question 10

Chapter 17 opens by noting that sincere believers hold different views on the timing and sequence of end-time events, and that this chapter will not turn secondary prophetic debate into a wall between believers who love Jesus. According to the chapter, what does Steve hold with full conviction regardless of that disagreement?

Chapter 18 - Hidden Together
Question 11

Zerubbabel's temple lay unfinished for sixteen years due to opposition and weariness, until God spoke: "Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit" (Zech. 4:6). According to Chapter 18, why do the "sons of oil" finally finish the work?

Question 12

According to Chapter 18, God's pattern for releasing His greatest power throughout Scripture and revival history - Moses and Aaron, Joshua and Caleb, David and Jonathan, Elijah and Elisha, Barnabas and Paul - is almost always through what?

Question 13

Matthew 18:19-20 promises that if two agree concerning anything they ask, it will be done for them by the Father, and where two or three are gathered in His name, He is in their midst. According to Chapter 18, who does this promise actually describe?

Question 14

In 1949, two elderly Scottish sisters, Peggy (eighty-four, blind) and Christine Smith (eighty-two, arthritic), knelt in their unheated cottage twice a week until three or four in the morning, refusing to accept spiritual drought as final. According to Chapter 18, what did this partnership produce?

Question 15

In 2016, Steve declared in Nairobi that the spiritual drought was over, only to learn that Bishop Evans Kariuki had received the identical word independently in America months earlier, having never spoken to Steve. According to Chapter 18, what does the chapter call this event?

Question 16

Four young men in Kells, Northern Ireland met every Friday for six months with no visible results before the first soul was saved, eventually producing the Ulster Awakening of 1859 and an estimated one hundred thousand conversions. According to Chapter 18, what does this account illustrate?

Question 17

In 1904 Punjab, John Hyde and R. McCheyne Paterson committed to thirty continuous days of prayer, with eyewitnesses describing Hyde as "bowed down with sore travail of soul," missing meals and lying "as in great agony." According to Chapter 18, how does this account connect to earlier teaching in the course?

Question 18

In 1929 Uganda, brothers Simeon Nsibambi and Blasio Kigozi met to seek God together, confessing sin and crying out for cleansing, launching the East African Revival across four nations. According to Chapter 18, what pattern does this account reinforce?

Question 19

At the close of Chapter 18, the final chapter of the course, the call is made direct: "Here am I, Lord, send me." According to the chapter, what is God searching the earth for in this hour?

Question 20

Chapter 1 introduced Travis and Steve's partnership as their two-person "Prayer Strike Force Team," explicitly promising this would return as the book's closing revelation. How does Chapter 18 fulfill that promise?

Cumulative Synthesis - The Whole Course Converges
Question 21

Chapter 8 defined agape as a deliberate, costly choice of the will to act in another's best interest regardless of the cost - its "hardest edge" being a life laid down for others. How does this concept illuminate the hidden intercessors of Chapter 18, such as Father Nash or the Smith sisters?

Question 22

Chapters 9-10 taught that symphoneo (genuine agreement) - not volume, reputation, or identical opinions - is what activates the governing authority of Matthew 18's binding and loosing. How does Chapter 18 build directly on this earlier teaching?

Question 23

Chapters 13-16 built a triad-plus-intensity: the sword taken by means of prayer, the prayer language of tongues, high praise, and taking the kingdom by force. According to Chapter 18, how do the hidden revival partnerships (Nash and Clary, the Smith sisters, John Hyde) relate to this earlier teaching?

Question 24

Chapters 3-4 taught pisteuo (continual submitted loyalty) and genuine alignment (wanting what God wants, not mere compliance). How does the Nairobi 2016 testimony in Chapter 18 depend on these earlier concepts?

Question 25

Chapter 2 taught that the limiting factor for Elijah-level prayer authority is not natural exceptionalism but whether someone has entered the energeo dimension through yielding - since Elijah was "a man with a nature like ours." How does this connect to Chapter 18's claim that the end-time witnesses are not powerful because they are extraordinary?

Question 26

Chapter 17's distinction between the inner court (wholly surrendered, Spirit-filled worshipers) and the outer court (near the temple but not fully given over) echoes which earlier teaching in the course?

Question 27

Chapter 12 taught that the Lord's Table renews two covenants: the vertical covenant with Christ and the largely forgotten horizontal covenant with one another. How do the two-person partnerships of Chapter 18, such as the Nsibambi brothers or Nash and Clary, embody this earlier teaching?

Question 28

Across the entire course, from Chapter 2's energeo prayer to Chapter 13's statement that this anointing is "not the experience of a spiritual elite," a consistent claim reappears. According to Chapter 18's closing testimonies, how is that claim reinforced one final time?

Question 29

Chapter 18 closes the entire course with the words "Here am I, Lord, send me," explicitly stating that the sword, prayer language, high praise, taking it by force, the end-time witnesses, and the power of two "are not six separate lessons." What does the chapter say they actually are?

Question 30

Chapter 9 traced three great historical fractures (Chalcedon, the Great Schism, the Reformation) to pride and the fight for power, teaching that Psalm 133's oil of unity is blocked wherever love is replaced by pride. How does Chapter 18's teaching on the power of two answer this earlier warning about division?

Part B
True or False - 15 Statements · 1 pt each · 15 pts
Chapter 17 - The Mighty End-Time Witnesses
1. According to Chapter 17, the chapter claims to resolve every debate about the timing of the rapture and tribulation with total, final certainty for all believers.
2. According to Chapter 17, Paul states in Romans 11:28-29 that God's gifts and calling toward Israel are irrevocable, not subject to reversal.
3. According to Chapter 17, the Church has fully replaced Israel, and Israel's calling as a witness nation has permanently ended.
4. According to Chapter 17, the character of the end-time witness is defined by a "Sackcloth Spirit" of brokenness and costly communion with God, not by public prominence or performance.
5. According to Chapter 17, Revelation 8:3-5 connects the accumulated, unlost prayers of God's people directly to the judgments and purposes of God being set in motion on the earth.
Chapter 18 - Hidden Together
6. According to Chapter 18, God's greatest works throughout Scripture and revival history are shown to flow primarily through isolated individuals working entirely alone.
7. According to Chapter 18, Peggy and Christine Smith, two elderly and physically limited sisters, are credited as the origin of the entire Hebrides Revival of 1949.
8. According to Chapter 18, the four young men who sparked the Ulster Awakening of 1859 saw immediate, visible results within the first weeks of their prayer meetings.
9. According to Chapter 18, Steve and Bishop Evans Kariuki independently received the identical prophetic word about Nairobi's spiritual drought being over, without having spoken to each other beforehand.
10. According to Chapter 18, the book's final call, "Here am I, Lord, send me," is presented as a direct, personal invitation for the reader to respond, not merely a historical summary of the course.
Cumulative Synthesis - The Whole Course Converges
11. The cumulative teaching of this course suggests that the Divinely Energized End-Time Prayer anointing is reserved for spiritually exceptional individuals with unusual natural gifting.
12. Chapter 1's introduction of Travis and Steve's two-person Prayer Strike Force Team is directly fulfilled by Chapter 18's teaching on the power of two.
13. The costly agape love defined in Chapter 8 as a deliberate choice of the will, regardless of cost, has no meaningful connection to the hidden, self-denying intercessors described in Chapter 18.
14. The unity taught in Chapters 9 and 10 through the Greek word symphoneo (genuine agreement, not volume or reputation) becomes, in Chapter 18, the literal historical engine behind revival after revival through two-person covenant partnerships.
15. Taken together, this course teaches that the fourfold weapon of the sword, the prayer language, high praise, and taking it by force (Chapters 13-16) was being wielded, largely unseen, by the hidden intercessors described in Chapter 18.
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Part A - Multiple Choice (30 questions × 2 pts)
Part B - True or False (15 questions × 1 pt)
Total
Part C
The Commissioning - Not Graded, But Not Optional

You have now studied all eighteen chapters of this course. The sword taken up by means of prayer. The prayer language. High praise. Taking it by force. The mighty end-time witnesses. The power of two. Chapter 18 said it plainly: these are not separate lessons. They are one anointing - and it is now yours to carry forward.

1. Name Your Partnership

God's greatest works have almost never come through one person alone - Moses and Aaron, David and Jonathan, Nash and Clary, the Smith sisters, Steve and Travis. Is there a specific person God has already brought to mind - a spouse, a friend, a fellow believer - to seek Him with in this way? Write their name below, even if you have never said this out loud to them yet.

2. Declare Your Strike Force

Steve and Travis called themselves a Divinely Energized End-Time Prayer Strike Force Team - two people who took up the sword, the tongues, the high praise, and the force of holy violence together, on purpose, by name. This is not a title you need permission for. It is a decision.

3. Take Up the Fourfold Weapon

Chapters 13 through 16 gave you the sword taken by means of prayer, the prayer language, high praise, and taking it by force. Which of these four have you least actually practiced, compared to how well you can explain it? Be honest - this course was never meant to end in your head.

4. Answer the Call

Chapter 18 closed with Isaiah's own words, offered to you directly: "Here am I, Lord, send me." Not as a historical quotation. As your own. Write it as your own prayer of commissioning below - naming what you are asking God to send you into, individually and together with whoever you named above.

This section is not graded because it cannot be. No score measures whether you actually take up the oil and refuse to let it go. That part is between you, the partner God has shown you, and Him.