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100

SHE SAID, "Psalm 118:6, 7. These verses remind me that our adversaries mean nothing when compared with the Grand Creator of the universe. He has everything under control, and humans are incapable of doing anything contrary to stop his will from being accomplished. I am in God’s secure arms!"

100

Not the  apple peeling but the ..........................

Hint:  1 Kings5:11




ANSWER:
What is a Cor(e)?

 How many gallons are in a core?

  • Cor (10 baths / 60 hins)

    220 L / 58.1 gal. Appendix B14-A

 


100

WHAT'S UP, WHAT'S DOWN? (Name this event where something/someone went UP,  while something/someone else went DOWN)

Wall Down People Up

ANSWER:
What happened at Jericho?

( the wall fell down, and the people went up)

Joshua 6:1-5-

"When the ram’s horn is sounded—as soon as you hear the sound* of the horn—all the people should shout a great war cry. Then THE WALL of the city WILL FALL DOWN flat,+ and THE PEOPLE MUST GO UP, each one straight ahead.”

This question comes with a a bonus question:  see BONUS QUESTION 1



100

666 creature

ANSWER:
What is the Wild Beast out of the sea,  Satan's worldwide political system?  --Rev. 13:1

The wild beast with seven heads introduced at Revelation 13:1 represents the worldwide political system.

ijwbq article 73 - Bible Questions Answered (ijwbq)

100

BONUS QUESTION #1

WHAT'S UP, WHAT'S DOWN? (Name this event where something/someone went UP,  while something/someone else went DOWN):          dress and go

Hint:  Ruth chapter 3


ANSWER:

What were Naomi's instructions  to Ruth?

"....dress UP and go DOWN to the threshing floor."

--Ruth 3:3

200

SHE SAID, “It is better to assume that you will face persecution and practice in your mind how you will act in difficult situations. For example, as you read about the events of Jesus’ final day on earth, it is clear that he had thought about how he would behave during his detention, . . . when he would speak, when he would remain silent, and what he would say if he did speak. ..........finds special meaning in the words recorded at Romans 8:38, 39."

ANSWER:
Who is Sister Anastasiya Guzeva?  (She was born in 1979, baptized in 1995)
https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/region/russia/Sister-Anastasiya-Guzeva-Faces-Imprisonment-for-Her-Faith/

200

The sun rises in the.........................

ANSWER:
What is the sun RISES in the (Y)east?  

--THIS QUESTION HAS A BONUS QUESTION:
  see Bonus Question #2.

https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/awake-no3-2021-nov-dec/life-tells-us-about-creation/


200

WHAT'S UP, WHAT'S DOWN? (Name this event where something/someone went UP,  while something/someone else went DOWN)

Set Up Fall Down

ANSWER:
What  happened on The Plains of Dura?

OR

What was Nebuchadnezzar's desire regarding the image of gold?

--Daniel 3:1-5

3  Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar the king made an image* of gold that was 60 cubits* high and 6 cubits* wide. He SET IT UP, on the plain of Duʹra ...  And they stood in front of the image that Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar had set up.   4  The herald loudly proclaimed: “You are commanded, O peoples, ...and language groups,  that when you hear the sound ....., you must FALL DOWN and worship the image of gold that King Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar has set up."

200

The great sea monster in the Nile



ANSWER:
What is pharaoh of Egypt?

--Ezekiel 29:3-5

200

BONUS QUESTION #2:
How long the yeast cell has been studied by scientists





ANSWERS:
What is Decades?

Scientists have been studying yeast cells for decades in order to understand human cells better. But they still have a long way to go. “There are just not enough biologists around to do all the experiments we want to do to understand how even yeast works,” laments Ross King, professor of machine intelligence at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden.

https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/awake-no3-2021-nov-dec/life-tells-us-about-creation/

300

I was in the( Lit.) “house of the [round] castle.” 

ANSWER:
Who was Joseph?  

Genesis 39:20 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References

"20 So Joseph’s master took him and gave him over to the prison house,* the place where the prisoners* of the king were kept under arrest,* and he continued there in the prison house.+"

  • footnote  Lit., “house of the [round] castle.” 

300

Not a mound, but a ___________!

ANSWER:
What is a (p)ound?

--John 12:3
How many ounces equalled a Roman Pound?  
327 g / 11.5 oz .  Appendix 14 B

--https://www.jw.org/en/library/bible/study-bible/appendix-b/bible-currency-and-weight/

300

WHAT'S UP, WHAT'S DOWN? (Name this event where something/someone went UP,  while something/someone else went DOWN)

Long Story

Hint: Acts 20

ANSWER:
Who is Eutychus, who fell down from a window, and was picked up dead?

--Acts 20:7-9

"Paul began addressing them, as he was going to depart the next day; and he proLONGed his speech until midnight...  Seated at the window, a young man named Euʹty·chus sank into a deep sleep while Paul kept talking, and overcome by sleep, he fell DOWN from the third STORY and was picked UP dead."

300

Sea Bugs

ANSWER:
What is the lobster?     --7/2012 "Awake!" pgs. 10-12  [“Sea Bugs” for Your Dining Pleasure]

 --THIS QUESTION HAS A BONUS QUESTION:
  see Bonus Question # 3

300

BONUS QUESTION #3

A major International source of sea bugs is _________________

ANSWER:
What is Maine?

--7/2012 "Awake!" pg. 11  [“Sea Bugs” for Your Dining Pleasure]

"A major international source of lobsters is Maine, in the northeastern United States."

400

WHO  & WHERE --Acts 28:30






ANSWER:

What is Paul, in his rented house?    
--THIS QUESTION HAS A BONUS QUESTION:
           see Bonus Question #5.

--During his first imprisonment in Rome, the apostle Paul was permitted to live under guard in a rented house. (Ac 28:16, 30) Roman guards typically restrained prisoners with chains. The prisoner’s right wrist was usually chained to the guard’s left wrist. This kept the guard’s right hand free. Paul referred to his chains, bonds, and imprisonment in most of the inspired letters that he wrote during his house arrest in Rome.—Eph 3:1; 4:1; 6:20; Php 1:7, 13, 14, 17; Col 4:3, 18; Phm 1, 9, 10, 13.  



400


ANSWER:
--What is the Tetragrammaton, YHWH: “He Causes to Become?”
&
--What is the verb HWH: “to become”

What is the difference in the 2 lines of writing?  

 There is NO "Y" in the verb, HWH, "to Become" (the second line)

 (the Last letter, "Y" is different in the top line)

 NWT, Study Bible, Appendix A 4, pg. 1735

400

WHAT'S UP, WHAT'S DOWN? (Name this event where something/someone went UP,  while something/someone else went DOWN)

Lots Of Ups And Downs

Hint: Gen. 19

ANSWER:
What were the adventures of Abraham and Lot?
("LOT'S wife, who was behind him, began to look back, and she became a pillar of salt.+)
--Abraham got UP in the morning, looked DOWN toward Sodom....LOT went UP from Zoar

--Gen. 19:26-30

"LOT'S wife, who was behind him, began to look back, and she became a pillar of salt.+

27 Now Abraham got UP early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before Jehovah.+ 28 When he looked DOWN toward Sodʹom and Go·morʹrah and all the land of the district, he saw quite a sight. There was dense smoke rising from the land like the dense smoke of a kiln!+ 29 So when God destroyed the cities of the district, God kept Abraham in mind by sending Lot out from the cities he overthrew, the cities where Lot had been dwelling.+

30 Later Lot went UP from Zoʹar with his two daughters .....";

400

Swarms of many kinds of fish

ANSWER:
 What are people who are revived by pure worship?

(Ezek. 47:8-11) So the prophetic picture conveyed a reassuring promise that pure worship would revive the PEOPLE, causing them to thrive. But a warning note was also sounded: Not all would accept Jehovah’s blessings; nor would all be healed.
--CLM Meeting:  January 17-23, 2022
--Life and Ministry Meeting Workbook—2022 | January
--https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1102017179?q=Ezekiel+47%3A10+fish&p=par#

400

BONUS QUESTION #4

Why the croc cries

ANSWER:
Why does a crocodile shed tears?

Actually, a crocodile sheds tears to rid its body of excess salt.

3/8/05, pg. 13

500

IN JEHOVAH'S MEMORY:
Two of Jehovah’s Witnesses, _____and _____, died in the Mai Serwa Prison near Asmara in early 2018. Both had been arrested and imprisoned in the summer of 2008 for their religious beliefs and suffered through nearly a decade of harsh prison conditions.

......refused to compromise his faith, despite unjust imprisonment and maltreatment. He is survived by his wife, Leterberhan Bezabih; four sons; and three daughters.

.... refused to compromise his faith, even though he was imprisoned without cause and mistreated. He is survived by his wife, Mihret Ellias, as well as a son and a daughter.

ANSWER:
Who are Brothers Habtemichael Tesfamariam and Habtemichael Mekonen?  
--Luke 20:38
"He is a God, not of the dead, but of the living, for they are all living to him.”
Photo:  Habtemichael Tesfamariam with his wife, Leterberhan Bezabih, before his imprisonment


Photo:  Habtemichael Mekonen and his wife, Mihret Ellias, before his imprisonment

500

Not spun but _______________.

hint:  Jeremiah 23:33

ANSWER:
What is a pun?  
(puns, plays on words, or jokes)

Jeremiah makes a play on the Hebrew words,
" mah-mas·saʼʹ and ʼeth-mah-mas·saʼʹ

  • in answer to the people’s question
    mah-mas·saʼʹ? [What is the burdensome message of Jehovah?]
    Jeremiah puns and replies,
    ʼeth-mah-mas·saʼʹ! [“You people are the burden.”]

    LXXVgc(Lat., vos eʹstis oʹnus),
    *For the rendering “You people are—⁠O what a burden!” see VT, Vol. VI, 1956, pp. 315, 316. Heb., ʼeth-mah-mas·saʼʹ! Thus

500

WHAT'S UP, WHAT'S DOWN? (Name this event where something/someone went UP,  while something/someone else went DOWN)

Fire Water

Hint:  1 Kings 18

ANSWER:
What happened during Elijah's Baal test?

Fire came down, licked up water 1ki 18:38-41

"At that the FIRE of Jehovah fell from above and consumed the burnt offering,+ the pieces of wood, the stones, and the dust, and it licked UP the WATER from the trench. When all the people saw it, they immediately fell faceDOWN and said: “Jehovah is the true God! Jehovah is the true God!” 40 Then E·liʹjah said to them: “Seize the prophets of Baʹal! Do not let a single one of them escape!” At once they seized them, and E·liʹjah brought them DOWN to the stream* of Kiʹshon+ and slaughtered them there.+  41 E·liʹjah now said to Aʹhab: “Go UP, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy DOWNpour."

500

Powerful, yet sensitive

ANSWER:
What is the crocodile's jaw?    
--THIS QUESTION HAS A BONUS QUESTION:
                  see Bonus Question # 4
--"Was it designed? the crocodile's jaw"                "THE crocodile has the most POWERFUL bite ever measured for animals that are now living. ... Yet, the crocodile’s jaw is also incredibly SENSITIVE to touch—even more sensitive than the human fingertip......

--https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102015251#h=1:0-5:87

500

BONUS QUESTION #5

31 Pauls

ANSWER:
Like the Apostle Paul, how many of our brothers in Russia are currently under house arrest?                                                           (as of 12/22/21)             https://www.jw-russia.org/prisoners.html

77 in prison 

31 UNDER HOUSE ARREST

584 total persecuted 

272 total cases 

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