How Do I Know? The Bible Tells Me So! Quiz

Answer: "...stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee."

Ezekiel 2:1-2 says this, "And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee. And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me."

God's spirit actually caused Ezekiel to stand in awe and reverence to God's Word being spoken. Some churches today require congregations to stand as the speaker reads from God's Word, the Bible. In Jesus' day, it was very common for the people to stand during the entire service in the synagogue.

Answer: an edict that would cancel out a previous order

Due to the evil actions that a man named Haman had applied against the Jewish people who were being held captive in Babylon, Queen Esther, (herself Jewish) pleaded with the king to negate a former edict that had been enacted against them. The king himself could not "undo" his former edict, but he gave permission to the queen to write as she pleased to "override" it.

In Esther 8:7-8 we see what happened after Queen Esther made her request of sparing her people known to the king:

"Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.

WRITE YE ALSO FOR THE JEWS, AS IT LIKETH YOU, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring: for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse."

Answer: a child

Note that in the following passage that Jesus does not say that a little child should be the greatest; he merely uses the child as an example to indicate that HE (Christ) would be the greatest, yet also implying that the heavenly Father would be greater still.

"And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way? But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest. And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all. And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them, Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me."

Answer: "...for thou art with me..." (meaning God)

David acknowledged God in nearly every aspect of his life, and below we see his dedication to the heavenly Father as he references mankind to a flock of sheep. This is perhaps only a natural perspective for a man who in his younger days had been a shepherd himself.

Psalm 23 (King James Version) reads:

"The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever."

Answer: do not harvest all of our field crops or grapes, so they can have some too

"And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God."

Granted, at the time that this was written, society as a whole was largely agriculturally driven, but the concept remains the same: allow others to benefit from your surplus. Who knows? One day you may BE on of those "others".

Answer: the heart and the mouth

For emphasis I have capitalized the key words that Paul mentioned in the text: the heart and the mouth.

"The word is nigh thee, even in thy MOUTH, and in thy HEART: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; That if thou shalt confess with thy MOUTH the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine HEART that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the HEART man believeth unto righteousness; and with the MOUTH confession is made unto salvation."

Sounds like a simple enough concept, huh?

Answer: Himself

"For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee."

The message here is that there is NO ENTITY greater than God. No idols; no man; no angelic beings; absolutely NOTHING that exceeds the greatness of God. Additionally, there is no peer or equal to God, either, so if anyone ever asks you the opposite of God, please do NOT respond "the devil".

The devil is a created being, made by the Creator, God. God HAS no equal, no peer, and nothing is greater than Him who created ALL things.

Answer: in the city of David

"So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David."

Several cities have been denoted as "the city of David". First, there was Hebron, which David conquered. Secondly, Bethlehem has often been referenced as the city of David, but most likely, the city referred to in this passage is Jerusalem itself.

Answer: the Euphrates

In John's vision, he saw things that he could only describe as best he could, probably having never seen anything in reality that even came close to his vision of future events as foretold in Revelation. The following excerpt is taken from Revelation 9:13-19.

"And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt."

Many people feel that these were some of the fallen angels that were cast out of heaven with Lucifer, during the rebellion in heaven that occurred before the earth was even created. These fallen angels are now commonly referred to as "demons."
(I tend to agree with those who believe this concept.)

Answer: a gourd and a worm

Jonah was pouting, plain and simple. He was the only preacher/prophet that I ever heard of that was MAD at God for giving people a chance to repent!
(In fairness to Jonah, the Ninevites had not been kind to the Jewish people, so it is kind of understandable that he would be upset with them "getting off scot-free", as he saw it, from God's wrath.)

In the middle of what might best be described as a one-man "pity party", God reveals some things to Jonah, in a graphic sort of way. (Jonah 4:5-8)

"So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city. And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd. But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live."

Poor Jonah. He wasn't God, and thus didn't understand that God's love is for ALL mankind, even Nineveh.