Bible Trivia - Noah and the Flood

After the flood, what sign did God give to Noah to remind Him never to flood the earth again?

That's right! 
The Rainbow!


(See Genesis 9: 13-16)

Bible Trivia - Jonah (A Little Devotional from Lucy too!)

That's all really cool about Jonah and the Big Fish, Pete.
But you forgot to mention a few things.

Such as?

* That the name of the capital city that Jonah saved was Nineveh - the Northern Kingdom's most fierce enemy.
* This all happened during the reign of King Jeroboam II in the late 700s BC.
* That it shows how merciful God is even to the worse people (Because the Ninevites did things that were really bad in God's sight).
* But most important, Jesus told the story so that His early followers would understand how He would rise again after being THREE DAYS in the tomb. If God allowed Jonah, who didn't want to do God's will, to live after being in a fishes stinky, smelly stomach for three days, wouldn't He RAISE UP His Son?

Oh, yeah...I remember our Sunday school teacher saying something like that. But I didn't know this was going to be one of your devotionals, Lucy!

Do you wanna go play catch now?

It's not really a devotional, Pete! Well maybe kinda. But one without a prayer or a Bible verse or...
At Pete's bored look Lucy stopped speaking. This was his story and she shouldn't have interrupted him.

Okay, Pete! Let's play catch! 
Race ya! Come on, Caesar!

Meow...

Awesome Happenings in the Bible - Jonah and the Whale

The prophet who ran away from God, was thrown off his ship and became dinner to a big fish -- Who was he?

Hint: Jonah 1

Okay. You probably guessed (the name of the book kind of gives it away). That prophet was Jonah. I mean, who hasn't heard of Jonah and the Whale? But why is it an awesome happening in the Bible?

Because a man was in a belly of a great fish for three whole days (Man...what a tummy ache that fish must have had)! Look at this old painting by Pieter Lastman that Dad sent us a postcard of last week (Dad was at the museum in Dusseldorf, German and saw it himself). Here the great fish (we don't know for certain that it was a whale) was barfing Jonah up onto the beach! Gross, huh.
Anyway. Jonah didn't run away from his job then. He went to the capital city of the enemy of his country and told them they had to get their act together or else God was going to let them have it!

So other than the obvious, what's so awesome about this story?
1) It really happened - it's a real story, not a myth.
2) It shows - just like on the day the sun stood still when Joshua asked God to make the sun stay still - that God's in control of everything.

Even fish. Big fish.

Pretty cool, huh!

Bible Trivia: Answer

It’s Noah, of course!

If you're anything like me and don’t particularly like having to look up things in the Bible (but like to know the answers and where they come from) here are the verses:

The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. ² Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, ³ and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. ⁴ Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”

⁵ And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him. 

(Genesis 7: 1-5)

Bible Trivia: Question

What’s the name of the man who protected all the animals when a great flood came?

Hint: From the first book in the Bible, Genesis, look in the 7^th chapter at the first 5 verses. (Gen 7: 1-5)