Festival Frenzy
This Spring Feast, fulfilled by Jesus' death, was the foundational festival that Leviticus 23 commanded Israel to observe.
What is Passover?
This tribe had the largest population in the first census, totaling 74,600 men.
Whis is the tribe of Judah?
What is guardrails or Parapets?
Mark says that immediately after Jesus was baptized, this happened.
What is the Spirit drove Him to the wilderness?
In Mark, I always speak first and act later saying such things as "you are the Christ" and "let us build a tent for each of you"
Who is Peter?
On the Day of Atonement, this animal symbolically carried Israel’s sins into the wilderness.
What is a scapegoat?
This is the number of days the spies investigated the land
what is forty days?
Israel was required to allow a newly married man to stay home and for his first year instead of being called on for these two things.
What is military or civic service?
Immediately after Jesus predicts His death the second time, the disciples argue about this.
What is who is the greatest?
In Numbers we are the only people from the first generation to survive the wandering in the wilderness and enter the promised land.
Who is Joshua and Caleb?
The trumpet announcing Jubilee was blown on this festival.
What is the day of atonement?
God commanded the Israelites to build this many cities of refuge in Numbers 35 where justice could be carried out.
What is six cities?
For this crime a woman's hand be cut off.
What is intervening in her husbands dispute with grabbing the other man's "sensitive area".
When Jesus healed a paralytic man, He immediately knew the teachers of the law were thinking this.
What is, "who can forgive sins but God"?
In Mark, I am a synagogue leader whose daughter was healed by Jesus.
Who is Jairus?
This festival is the only one in Leviticus where leavened bread is explicitly commanded as part of the offering.
What is the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost)?
In Korah's rebellion this many people were consumed by the fire they tried to offer to God, though they were not priests or were using holy instruments.
what is 250 people?
A man could not take this item as collateral for a loan because it endangered the borrower’s life.
What is a millstone?
Immediately after Jesus breathes His last, this person makes a confession found only in Mark’s wording.
What is the centurion says, “Truly this man was the Son of God.”?
In Leviticus, I am the priestly son who died when fire came out from the Lord.
Who is Nadab or Abihu?
The Day of Atonement ritual required the high priest to sprinkle blood this exact number of times on the mercy seat and this number in front of it.
What is seven times on the mercy seat and seven times in front of it?
Numbers chapter 29 is one of the most number dense chapters in the entire book. In its plethora of information this number of a specific animal is required in sacrifices as part of the Feast of Booths.
What is 70 Bulls? (Plus goats, rams, and lambs)
If a man refused to accept his widowed sister-in-law in levirate marriage she was allowed to do these two things in front of the towns witness.
What is spit on him and take his shoe?
Mark uses “immediately” far more than any other Gospel writer. In the opening chapter alone, he uses it this many times.
What is 11 times?
In Numbers, I am the king who hired a sorcerer to curse the Israelites and when he couldn't I used him to tempt them.
Who is Balak?