- What man in the Bible had no parents? Answer: "Joshua the son of Nun" (Joshua
1:1)
- Who was the shortest man in the Bible? No, not Zacchaeus. It was
"Knee-HIGH-Miah"
- What sport was the apostle Paul good at? Boxing. He said he had "fought a
good fight" (2 Tim. 4:7)
- What other sport did Paul shine at? Golfing. He said that he had "finished
my course" (2 Tim. 4:7, KJV)
- Know what the first sport mentioned in the Bible was? Answer: Baseball.
God said "in the "Big inning."
- Who were the only ones that Paul did not want anything to do with?
Answer: "I do not want you ignorant brethren" (Rom. 1:13,
KJV and without the comma).
- Did you know that Paul, shame on him, taught that stealing was okay! Yeah,
look at Ephesians 4:28, "Let him that stole, steal" (of course you have to
add a comma and drop the rest of the verse!)
- On the Day of Pentecost the apostles rode in a HONDA? Sure,
they "were all with ONE ACCORD" (Acts 2:1)
- There
is a good reason for driving instead of flying. Why? "Jesus said "LO, I am with you always" (
Mt. 28:20)
- The little Mexican boy said that his name was in the Bible. When asked where,
he said in Mathew 28:20 where the Lord said "And LO, I am with you always..."
- Did you know that the apostle Paul was a "Southerner." Well
he sure talked like one. He said "you all" (Phil. 1:3,7)
- Hear of the denominational "Reverend" that said he was going to
preach from a certain text? He did alright - as usual he preached right
away from it!
-
The first "Lost" and "Found" column
is in the Bible: Where it reads "your
brother.... was LOST and is FOUND" (Lk.15:32).
-
What vegetable is found in he book of Hebrews?
Answer: Lettuce. Many times the writer tells us to take our "LET US"
(4:1,11,14,16,etc.)
- The first time a young and very nervous Christian gave thanks
at the Lord's Table he said, "Lord, we thank you for the the Fruit
of the Loom"!
- What is a good reason not to attend church? Friend, you
just might go asleep and fall out of a window and be taken up dead (Acts
20:7-9).
- When people fall asleep during the preacher's dry sermon it is
up to the preacher to wake him up. Well, he put him to sleep the first
place!
- Look at what you would be called upon to do if you didn't consider
the Bible in context ? You would open your Bible to Mt.27:5 where it
says
that
Judas "went
and hanged himself" and
then you
could turn and read read Lk. 10:37 where it says "Go and do likewise"!
And then you read John 13:27 where it says "What you do, do quickly"! Ouch!
- How about the first picnic in the Bible: Abraham was told his seed
would be "like the sand which is (sandwiches) on the seashore" (Genesis
22:17)
- What Bible character fathered the most children? Gideon, 71! (Judges 8:29-30)
and Ahab fathered 70! (2 Kings 10:1)
- What tight "not" did the devil have in his tail? Answer Gen. 3:4 where
it is recorded that he told mother Eve that God was all wrong and that
"You shall NOT surely die" for eating the forbiden "fruit."
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Did you ever read in the Bible about the seven
ducks in a muddy river? You can read about this in 2 Kings 5
when the cure for the leperous, Syrian commander Naaman came after
he "dipped seven
times in the Jordan"! (2 Kings
5:10-14).
- Before the great world-wide flood recorded in the book of Genesis
people lived to a very old age. Who lived the longest? Answer: Methuselah. "So
all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years; and he
died." 969
YEARS! (Gen. 5:27).
- Because she looked back Lot's wife turned into what? Answer: "a
pillar of salt" (Gen. 19:26).
A very true story (Lk.17:32).
- Did you know that king Solomon had "seven hundred wives, princesses,
and three hundred concubines"? 1000 women! Whew! That was 999 too
many!
- Can you beat this? Sampson "went and caught three hundred
foxes; and he took torches, turned the foxes tail to tail, and put a torch
between
each pair of tails..set the torches on fire...to go into the standing grain
of the Philistines..." (Judges 15:4-5).
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Where was Sampson's strength
- in his good looks, his great muscles, or in his long hair? Answer:
His long hair (Judges
16:5,17,22). Who proved to be stronger than Sampson? His wife Delilah!
(Judges 16:15-17). Beware of the power of an enticing woman! (Prov.
7:6-27).
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Do you ever believe that an iron "axe
head" would float? Well, Elisha performed some very unusual miracles. One recorded
in 2 Kings 6 is where Elisha "cut off a stick, and threw it in there
(the water) and he made the iron float" (2 Kings 6:5-6). As Ripley says,
"Believe it or not."
