I am loving all the requests for Bible trivia! So, here you go!
(1) Besides Jesus, name the two men (in the Bible) who did not die (and are in heaven today).
(2) Who was the first person that Jesus spoke to after he was out of the empty tomb?
(3) How many days would it take a person to travel from Egypt to Canaan? What would be important about that distance in the Old Testament?
Thanks for playing!
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1.) Elijah and Enoch
ReplyDelete2.) Mary Magdalene
3.) It would take a person about 40 days to travel from Egypt to Canaan. The reason this is important is because God uses the number 40 as both as a time of consecration and as a period of trial. God tested Noah by making it rain 40 days and nights. Jesus fasted 40 days before starting His ministry. Although it took Moses 40 years to travel from Canaan to Egypt, God was testing His people as they wandered through the desert. Because His people would complain all the time and make their own idols to worship, God extended the 40 days the travel should have taken into 40 years.
1) Enoch and Elijah
ReplyDelete2) Mary Magdalene (John 20: 14-16)
3) Egypt to Canaan is about 250 miles, or a month's journey by foot. What's important is that it took the Israelites 40 years to get to the promised land even though it was only 250 miles away!
You got me by four minutes Matt, although we found slightly different answers for #3 in our research...
ReplyDeleteNice job on both of our parts I do say!!!
Great job guys! Matt, you are the winner this week. Wonderful response and well written! I wonder if there is a potential sermon in your response...
ReplyDeleteActually, while parts of Matt's answer is right, Jim got answer correct in an e-mail he sent me.
ReplyDeleteHere is what Jim said, "The 40 day walk to Canaan is pure conjecture and is most likely inaccurate as it's only 250 miles which would mean they only traveled 6 miles a day. Most bible historians I found on the Internet say it would be a 21 to 30 day journey at most. Second, the real reason it took 40 years is because God told Moses that only two people from the current generation (Caleb and Joshua) would go into the promised land; the 40 years timeframe was chosen by God so that the current generation of people would all die off in the 40 years of wandering. That was the Israelites penalty for not obeying God, for building the golden calf after Moses had received the ten commandments, etc. Therefore tying the 40 years to a 40 day walk is not biblically accurate or correct - the true biblical answer is found in God's promise that the current generation would die off before reaching the promised land. (Numbers 14: 28-33)"
Way to go, Jim! You hit it out of the park.
I knew Matt and I were both close with our first answer, but after thinking about it for some time I distinctly remembered that there was a passage in Numbers where God explained his true reasoning for the 40 years of wandering that wasn't tied to either of our first answers. It took me a while to find it and it was a great question Brian. Keep 'em coming!
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