Did You Read The N.E.W.S.? Trivia Quiz

Answer: north

"For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the NORTH: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High."

In Isaiah 14:4-19 the king of Babylon is referenced first in the beginning of the chapter, but suddenly the focus segues over to Lucifer, whose history is told and whose future is fore-told.

Answer: west and south

In this passage, Jesus made reference to both the directions of west and south as he spoke of a cloud and the wind.

"And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the WEST, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is. And when ye see the SOUTH wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass. Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?"

Luke 12:54-56 (King James Version)

Answer: Beautiful

The formerly lame man followed Peter and John into the women's court after he was healed. Most likely this was due to the fact that the women's court was where those people entered who had no sacrifice to bring to the priests. Later, he followed them back through the gate called "Beautiful" or the Eastern Gate, into the court of the Gentiles and from there to eastern porch or portico of Solomon.

The restoration of the temple during the time of Herod was not without significance. It represented the re-establishment of the temple of God and showed a direct influence of the authority of Jewish law to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, even during the time of the Roman occupation of Palestine.

Answer: Yemen or Yamin

Benjamin's name means "Son of my Right Hand", or "Son of the Right Hand."

Yamin, means "of the right hand," or "to the right." The derived meaning, "south," seems to imply that one would be facing to the east or was engaged in an eastern posture in prayer, in which the right hand would be pointed toward the South. Compare this word of Arabic origin, yamin, meaning "right," to "Yemen," a region in Southwestern Arabia.

While the Negev desert region lies to the south of Israel and means something that lies to the south, the secondary translation is the more appropriate one regarding this word. Neghebh, or naghabh, means "to be dry," the word most often used to mean "of the South" when it seems to denote a particular region, i.e. to the South of Judah or Israel.

The nations of both Ethiopia (the Biblical region that is indicated as the land of the Queen of Sheba, and Yemen (the region mentioned in the Koran) are to the south of Israel, almost in a direct southerly direction, with Yemen being the closest, and Ethiopia lying just beyond, across the southern portion of the Red Sea.

When ancient (and even modern) peoples of the Middle Eastern regions faced eastward to pray, their backs were to the west, their right side was to the south and their left hand to the north.

Answer: east and west

In Matthew 8:5-13 we read of an incident of amazing faith and amazing grace that demonstrates what I believe to be the all-inclusive nature of a loving God:

"And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him. The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. And I say unto you, That many shall come from the EAST AND WEST, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour."

The "kingdom" spoken of in the latter part of the text, immediately after the kingdom of heaven, is the kingdom of the devil, I believe, and those who oppose God will be cast away from His presence.

Answer: north and south

In the 16th verse of chapter 4, Solomon metaphorically speaks to his love and then begins to 'command' the winds:

"Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits."

Solomon seems to desire both the hot, dry southern winds and the colder winds of the north to aid him in his pursuit of his love. He realizes perhaps, that the good, the bad; the pleasant and the not-so-pleasant are all a part of life and that it requires ALL things together to make a complete picture of his future with his bride-to-be.

Answer: north

"Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty."

Previously, in verse 9 of the same chapter, Job had this to say: "Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north."

The desert winds from the south could produce whirlwinds, but the calming effects of the colder air from the north would negate the power of such fierce winds.

Answer: they came from the east and went to the west

The locusts had been brought into the country by an east wind, and were later removed by a strong west wind, according to the 10th chapter of Exodus.

"And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.

And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an EAST WIND upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the EAST WIND brought the locusts.

And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.

For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.

Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only.

And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD.

And the LORD turned a mighty strong WEST WIND, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt."

Answer: Achsah

"And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife. And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife. And it came to pass, as she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou? Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs."

Debir, (meaning "oracle" or "word" was the then-current name for Kirjathsepher (meaning "city of books", and its name implies that it may be evidence that the Canaanites were acquainted with writing and books. The town may have had in its midst either a noted school, an oracle or may have been the residence of some learned priest. The "books" were probably engraved stones or bricks.

In modern times, this area which lies to the southwest of Hebron, is known as the valley of ed-Dhaberiyeh.

Answer: Gospel

Gospel; a word from the Middle English, comes from an Old English word, Godspel. (gōd = good and spell = tale or story).

This, in turn, came into the Old English from the Greek word, "euangelion", whereby the word "evangelism" also stems from. This word meant something akin to "good news" or "good telling", and applies to the first four books of the Christian New Testament.

Gospel then, can be interpreted as "GOOD NEWS", and that is indeed the overall focal point of the quiz, since Christians believe that Jesus IS the Good News of salvation for all of mankind.