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QUIZ FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST, 2019. Reading portion: Ex. 25:1-to the end.
QUESTION 1
God told Moses to take from those who would offer to him WILLINGLY to build a SANCTUARY that he may dwell among them. Explain why God is interested in WILLING offerings, and how one can make a SANCTURY for God to dwell in.
QUESTION 2:
The items that God told Moses to use in building His Sanctuary were full of precious things, like gold etc. Why was it necessary for such expensive things to be used for the Building?
b) What is a Sanctuary in our today’s version?
QUESTION 3:
God gave an elaborate description on how Moses was to decorate and managed The Ark of Covenant. Mention some of the things in connection with This Ark, and their significance in today’s WORSHIP OF THE TRUE GOD.

The ANSWERS TO OUR BIBLE QUIZ BELOW:
ANSWER TO QUESTION1:
God’s universal call is first of all to everybody on earth. That first call is to repentance from sin and unto Salvation from sin through the Application of His Son, Jesus Christ’s Blood by faith. The second call is to a closer walk with God, by Applying The same Blood of Jesus Christ by faith, over the soul, to uproot the root of sin- Nature, inherited from Adam by every man born into this world. This Second Christian Experience is Called, SANCTIFICATION. Sanctification makes the heart holy, and makes it easier for the person to obey God’s Commandment and to follow along with The Holy Spirit’s Leading each day. Sanctification makes the Saint of God live in unity with fellow Christians WHO HAVE ALSO GOT THIS EXPERIENCE IN THEIR LIFE. It makes the Saint to love everybody-souls of all mankind. God always calls the sanctified person into even greater spiritual height, and that is into The Baptism of Holy Ghost and Fire, evidenced by speaking in another language that the person has never learnt before. At the fullness of these God’s spiritual gifts above, the person is fully qualified to be called to a SPECIFIC WORK IN THE VINEYARD OF GOD, OR TO HIS `FIELD WORK` OUTSIDE THE CHURCH. The Baptism of The Holy Ghost and Fire helps the Saint to work for God without fear of what the devil may threaten him with. This Experience gives boldness(not arrogance) to him to FULLY FOLLOW GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS AND COMMANDS, WITHOUT UNNECESSARY RESPECT OR REGARDS TO HUMAN BEING. Because the person is fully immersed in The Holy Spirit Who now takes control of his being, the person’s flesh is completely dead to sin, and his preference in life is to live for God’s Glory.
We believe this was the stage of which Moses was, atleast during this chapter, although the Bible has no account where anybody received The Baptism of The Holy Ghost and Fire, in the Old Testament Time. But if Moses was not holy enough, he would not have been used by God to demonstrate The Power of God the way he was doing. He would not have been the only living man on earth who has seen God’s back, as he did at Mount Sinai. Today, anyone who possesses these Three Christian Experiences, is ready to be CALLED by God to do one significant job or the other for God, not necessarily to a job as great as He called Moses to do for His Glory. The more one is filled with The Spirit of God, the more close he is with God, and the more revelations he can get from God. So, that might have been why God, in the Bible chapter above, called Moses, AARON, NA-DAB, A-BI-HU, AND SEVENTY OF THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL to come close to Him-, TO WORSHIP AFAR OFF at the foot of Mount Sinai. BUT GOD INSTRUCTED THAT MOSES ONLY SHOULD GO CLOSER TO GOD WHILE OTHERS SHOULD STAY FAR OFF. These people were called out from the whole congregation of the children of Israel, who had left the land of Egypt, journeying to the land of Canaan, up to this point.

ANSWER TO QUESTION 2:
As Moses drew higher to the Mount, nearer to where God was, God spoke to him and instructed him to tell those words of The Lord and all the judgments to the whole congregation of Israel. When Moses came down from the Mount, he told the people all what God sent to them. Then the people promised to do all what God told them to do. Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and built an alter under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. And he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to The Lord. Moses also took the blood of the oxen and sprinkled on the book which he wrote the words of the Lord in. He read the Book of the covenant in the audience of the people, and the people said, “All that the LORD hath said we will do, and be obedient.” Moses sealed the covenant between The Lord and the people, with the blood of the animal which was sacrificed to the Lord. All the blood from the sacrifices that God told the children of Israel to make, for the forgiveness of sins among them, and for any other purposes, were POINTING TO THE INNOCENT PURE BLOOD THAT JESUS CHRIST, HIS SON, WOULD ONE DAY COME TO EARTH AND SHED FOR THE REMISSION OF MAN’S SINS.
ANSWER TO QUESTION 3:
Moses, AARON, NA-DAB, A-BI-HU, AND SEVENTY OF THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL, went back again to the foot of the Mount, and this time, God showed Himself to all of them, yet far up from the Mount. The lesson here is that, anything someone does to reference God and to win His Pleasure, God is happy and will draw closer to such a person. We believe that God was pleased with the little effort that Moses made when they went back to the congregation. Moses did build an alter to God and offered sacrifice to Him. All the people, including the ones mentioned here, listened to the words of God that Moses brought to them, and they all were happy and decided that they would keep those word, just as God wanted them to do. When Moses and the people mentioned above saw God, they were pleased and they celebrated as they ate and drank.
God then had another Assignment for Moses. He called Moses to come up into the mount and be there, so that He could give him the Ten Commandments. The more you desire to obey God, the more you please Him, and the more He reveals more of Himself to you, and what He wants you to do for His Glory and for your blessings.

OUR BIBLE QUIZ FOR THE MONTH OF MAY, 2019.
READING PORTION; EXODUS 24:1-18.

QUESTION1.
GOD CALLED MOSES, AARON, NA-DAB, A-BI-HU, AND SEVENTY OF THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL TO WORSHIP AFAR OFF. BUT GOD INSTRUCTED THAT MOSES ONLY SHOULD GO NEAR GOD WHILE OTHERS SHOULD STAY FAR OFF.
WHAT DO YOU THINK WAS THE REASON FOR SUCH A SEPARATION?

QUESTION2.
HOW DID MOSES ADMINISTER THE PROCESS FOR THE COVENANT BETWEEN THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL AND GOD?
B) WHAT WAS THE RESPONSE OF THE PEOPLE AND THE SIGNIFICANT OF IT TODAY?

QUESTION3.
WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF MOSES’ OVERALL ADMINISTRATION BEFORE HE WENT UP TO THE MOUNTAIN TO RECEIVE GOD’S TEN COMMANDMENT IN THIS CHAPTER?

QUICK INFO:
Since our quiz for this month comes out late(7/5/19, instead of the usual 1st of every month), the answer to the quiz will come out late too-on the 20th of the this month.

Bible quiz for the month of February, 2019. Reading Portion: Exodus 23:1-33.
ANSWER TO QUESTION 1:

OUR COMMENTS ON SOME OF THE VERSES IN OUR READING PORTION, FOR OUR FEB, 2019 BIBLE QUIZ:
Verse 1: God's Instruction, that His child should not raise a false report nor join with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness, draws our attention to Jesus' constant rebuke on the Jews of His days about their hypocritical worship of God. The rebuke was especially on the leaders, who supposed to have led the people by TEACHING THEM THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, AND ESPECIALLY, BY THE LIFE THEY LIVED BEFORE THE PEOPLE. But the Bible recorded that `these people worshipped God with their lips, but their hearts were far away from God`. The Bible recorded a period that God even commanded them not to bring to Him anymore sacrifices, that their sacrifices were an ABOMINATION to Him, and their prayers were annoying to Him, in so much that, when they would spread their hands to Him in prayer, God said He would hide His face. This was a complete reverse from what God lovingly commanded them to do. He had, prior to this time, commanded them to bring into His House, sacrifices and made prayers to Him. God promised that He would accept their sacrifices and answered their prayers, and would watch over them for good and for blessings. It seemed that these people had gone a bit too far in sin, without repentance for a long time. It seemed too that God was running out of patience and love for this hardened people, who supposed to be a loving folks to Him. Jesus, in His days, also seemed to have run out of patient on the Jews one time, when He rode triumphantly into Jerusalem with His disciples. On that day, when Jesus entered into the Temple, He was greatly grieved to see the Temple, The Holy House of God, meant for prayers and for Worship of God, turned into `market` place for trade. Jesus, with THE AUTHORITY FROM HEAVEN, AS THE SON OF GOD, overthrew their tables trade, and all the commodities for sales fell on the floor. Jesus, the Creator of man, whipped these disobedient leaders and their subjects, without mercy or regard to their positions they held in the Temple. Hallelujah! It is one of the inspiring performances done by The Son of God, Jesus, when He was on earth. Jesus did not spank(thrash) these Jews because He wanted to demonstrate His Authority over them, as their superior, no! He was jealous of the true worship which this people misplaced, and gave it not to The Lord God Almighty Who had been so faithful to them. Instead, they worshipped money and polluted the Sanctuary of God. Some days after this incident, these Jews crucified their ONLY SOURCE OF DELIVERANCE-DELIVERANCE FROM THE WOES OF THIS WORLD, AND DELIVERANCE FROM ETERNAL PAIN IN FIRE AFTER THIS LIFE.
So it is today, if the Spirit that was in Jesus Christ is in you, as a true follower of Christ, you CANNOT be comfortable to see the House of God turned into mockery(by unbelievers outside)place. If you are comfortable in a church that preaches and teaches the sound truth of the Bible, but in their ACTIONS(privately and openly at times), they bring reproach to The holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, just bear yourself witness that you are just as one of them, even though you may not exactly do what they do. That does not mean you should quit the church, which teachings can help you grasp Eternity with God at last. But there is something you can do. PRAY! Pray seriously that God should intervene for the sake of His Name and for the souls that could be blessed through the sound teachings, but who may be misled by the ACTIONS of these leaders/members, and then end in Hell. Pray for God to show you, and lead you to what you can do to help the Gospel of Jesus Christ to be portrayed in a way that it would attract many people to it, and have their souls delivered from Hell. Pray for God to get you established FIRMLY in His righteousness so that you too will not be derailed by the examples of these false leaders/false brethren. If you have The Spirit of God in you, making you to desire the good of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Glory of The God Almighty, a time like that will not be the time to fight with the leaders or with the members, just because you want to correct them. With grieve in your heart for the mishandling of the Pure Gospel, get LOST IN SERIOUS PRAYERS. God has many ways of delivering your soul from pollution around you, and for Salvation of souls. God has a rich REWARD, HERE AND AFTER HERE, FOR YOUR GENUINE INTEREST TO PROTECT THE GOSPEL AND FOR HIS GLORY! Let NOTHING OR ANY MAN, MAKE YOU LOSE YOUR REWARD. But to be such a MEDIATOR OR AN INTERCESSOR FOR SOULS AND FOR THE GOSPEL, YOU FIRST OF ALL MUST HAVE THE RIGHT SPIRIT-THE SPIRIT OF GOD IN YOU, AND MAKE SURE YOU ARE DAILY BEING LED BY HIM. You will know, for He will be speaking within you as you surrender yourself to Him in daily prayers and supplication. You will know, as you daily OVERCOME SIN AND ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, BY HIS GRACE! The verse in our reading portion(verse 1) warns that, nobody should put hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. In short, don't support any evil act, knowingly, otherwise, you are that evil person too, and God may give you your own share(according to the level of your support) when He shall judge the wicked. Dont join the wicked to bear false witness in order for him to prosper in his evil ambition or goal.
The next verse(2) commands that, you should not join hand to do evil, just because many people are doing the same thing. God always has a `LITTLE FOCK` for Himself. He always has a little group of people who stands for all the Commandments in the Bible and fights for it. This fight is not only in the mouth alone, but in ACTION as well. This fight is not only in the doctrine of the Bible that is easy to do, or only when it concerns another person. But it is a RIGHTEOUS AND HOLY FIGHT THAT COMES FROM THE HEART, AS THE RESULT OF THE LOVE IN THE HEART FOR GOD, AND FOR THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. THEREFORE, SINCE THE REASON(THE GOSPEL) FOR THE FIGHT IS HOLY, THEN THE FIGHT MUST BE FOUGHT ACCORDING TO THE LEADING OF THE HOLY GHOST AND ACCORDING TO HIS HOLY INSTRUCTIONS. IT MEANS THEREFORE THAT, THE PERSON THAT IS FIGHTING FOR THE CUASE OF THE GOSPEL MUST LEAN HEAVILY ON THE HOLY SPIRIT AND NOT ON HIS OWN WISDOM, NOR ON HIS HEART’S DESIRE ALONE.
Next verse instructs that, you should not look at faces, for example, a poor person, and use his disadvantageous position to judge or to treat him accordingly.
Next verse advises that you should do good to even someone who is your enemy. High standard, but yet, God wants us to reach that level! He has got the sufficient grace for whosoever will ask Him for it.
Verse 7, instructs that you NOT slay a righteous or an innocent person. God says here that HE ALONE IS THE PERSON TO DEAL WITH THE WICKED, AND IF YOU KILL THE RIGHTOEUS OR THE INNOCENT, KNOW FOR SURE THAT, HE WILL DEAL WITH YOU. Understanding is needed here to know that, it is not only when a physical action of taking someone’s life is carried through, that means killing. They are many other forms of actions that someone can take, and the result can be dead. If you desire NOT to contribute to someone’s death in any way, God will speak to your conscience and warns you faithfully, when you want to ignorantly take an action that could lead to the death of another person, or to yours.
We want to be a little bit silence about verse 8, because we, as Charity Organization, like it when we give out or share with others, the blessings that God has blessed us with. We like it when people are happy to receive from us, and may even use such opportunity to discover the God we serve, through our generosity. But we don’t think the verse we are considering here totally condemns taking of gifts, generally. We think it is addressing people in various positions, who may be tempted to misplace the way they treat certain people, because some other people may have been able to offer gifts, and thus `buy` for themselves some kind of favours through bringing of such gifts. But if the authority in question would receive the gifts with appreciation, and still stand their ground faithfully, fearing God and not man, when it is time to handle a case surrounding the give, irrespective of the gift he had previously offered, we believe God can even turn around and bless such a person, or the authority, for honouring God with fair judgement, irrespective of the gift he had received.
Verse 9 talks about receiving strangers with love and fairness. Anybody can find himself in a strange land at any point in time. Therefore, strangers should be treated the way you would want to be treated in another person’s land. Especially in the church, is this very befitting. Visitors to a church, especially a LIVING church that God has blessed with the WHOLE TRUTH OF THE BIBLE, TO KNOW, TO TEACH, AND TO PUT INTO PRACTICE; SHOULD BE WELL-RECEIVED AND GENUINE LOVE SHOWN TO THEM. You want the visitors among you to know The Truth too, and be set free by the Truth. Your ATTITUDE can help keep them in your church, and your attitude can help make them ARRIVE in Heaven at last.
Verses 10-12, talks about considering the poor people, especially those around you. Do all that God may put in your heart to do, in order to help relieve them of at least a moment’s need, if God has placed you in a better position than them. Verse 12 talks about honouring THE LORD’S DAY. AND THE LORD’S DAY IN THIS NEW DISPENSATION(INSTITUTED BY JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF, THE OWNER OF THE GOSPEL), IS SUNDAY. God expects you to be in His House on Sundays, especially, and to attend your church’s official schedule weekday Meetings, as much as God makes a way for you to do so. But first of all, MAKE SURE THE CHURCH YOU ATTEND, BASE THEIR TEACHINGS AND SERMONS ON THE TRUTH OF THE WORD OF GOD-THE HOLY BIBLE(ESPECIALLY, ST. JAMES’ VERSION, WHICH IS SIMILAR INTERPRETATION FROM THE ORIGINAL WRITINGS). If you are not sure if you are in the right church, pray to God to lead you to one. If you are sincerely hungry for the TRUTH, it is of God’s Pleasure to lead you to the Truth where your spiritual hunger will be satisfied.
Verse 13 hammers on NOT HAVING ANY OTHER gods BESIDE THE TRUE GOD. Dont worship a stick, a stone, moon, stars, animal, or any of those things that The God Almighty created into the world, and actually gave you the power to put them under your subjection. Dont devalue and abuse your position, by bowing down to such things in worship. EXPENSE ALL YOUR ENERGY TO WORSHIP THE REAL GOD IN HEAVEN, THE MAKER OF ALL THINGS IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH, YOUR CREATOR. If you do that, He will reward your effort far more than what you put in. There is no NET lasting blessing, or Eternal Reward in worshipping the work of your hand. Dont put anything before God as priority. Make God, and His Worship, your Priority all through your living on earth. That includes your work, position, man in one position or the other, money, lust, ambition and pursuits, etc. GIVE GOD FIRST PLACE AND FIRST LOVE IN YOUR HEART ABOVE ALL THESE THINGS, AS YOU PURSUE THEM!
Verses 14-16, talk about Seasonal Feast to honour God with, and to be in unity with other like-minded people. Today, there are also such Feasst or Seasons to observe, and thus draw your heart closer to God. Easter and Christmas Seasons do fit into this Seasons. If you call yourself a Christian, but you refuse to observe these Seasons, let your heart speak you the truth for once, and let you know if you are truly a Christian as you call yourself. Your argument may be because these Seasons do not fall into the EXACT times the incidents took place. Widen your knowledge and argument into asking yourself, `if you would refuse to abide by the EMPLOYMENT REGULATIONS, set by the company you applied to work for, and you have already been told of their laws and principles. Ask yourself if you would continue to be part of such company if you disobey their conditions of employment, just because you don’t agree with the conditions`! You will either work for them while obeying the employment conditions, or you go out. So it is with Christianity, you either call yourself a Christian, and observe the Seasons with other Christians around the world, who have happily agreed to believe on what these Seasons stand for, and Celebrate the significance of such Seasons, thousands of years ago, or you deny every other doctrinal point about Christianity, and denounce the Name too. Otherwise, you make yourself a mockery stock.
Verses 17-19, talk about orderliness in worshipping God. Each church doses have an order whereby they operate. Provided the leaders of such church are convinced by The Spirit of God that such service-order is of God’s Pleasure, each member has to follow, or he or she should not worship there, to avoid ugly interruptions. These worship principles are often not from the Bible, word to word. But they are put in place as the church’s `traditions` set by the leaders of the church, for the edification of worshippers and for the glory of God, at heart.
Verses 20-23, bring out the precious Reward of OBEYING AND OBSERVING ALL THE INSTRUCTIONS OF GOD, FROM VERSE ONE OF THIS BIBLE PORTION, TO THIS POINT!! To an individual member of a church, leaders and strangers(visitors to a church) who would abide by these Instructions from The Divine and Loving God, that God has promised him or her in these verses, an Angel to look after him or her, all through his or her journey in this world. God says that the Angel will keep you in the right way and brings you to the PLACE that He has prepared for you-HEAVEN! God further admonishes you that you should beware of the Angel, that is, set your eyes on him and on the way he is leading you. Therefore, it is your sole duty to obey the Angel, as he will be giving you further instructions, from God, on how to walk profitably on earth, and reach Heaven. God says: “Beware of him(the Angel), and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions; for my name is in him”. God further says that, if you would indeed obey the voice of the angel, and do all that He speaks(through the Angel), God says that He will be an Enemy to your enemies, and an adversary, to your adversaries! Wonderful! If God therefore will take over your battle to fight your enemies on your behalf, it will be then for you to sit down calmly and peacefully, enjoying any other good things the Lord will be sending your way!! Glory be to God. Let it be known here that, this angel is not made visible to you, but though invisible, his duties or assignment from God for you, does not diminish. For a True Child of God, The Holy Spirit is Given to you at the point of your sin-forgiveness. His Presence in your life is Increased, at the point of the Sanctification of your soul(Second Work of Grace, still through the Blood of Jesus Christ, at which point you are made holy). The Presence of The Holy Ghost in you comes to the Climax, at the point that God Baptizes you with His Spirit(The Baptism of The Holy Ghost and Fire, the Experience that Jesus told His disciples to wait at the Upper Room and received before they were worthy to go into the world and preach the Gospel). So, with the OVERWHELMING SPIRIT OF GOD IN YOU, TO LEAD YOU, GUIDE, GUARD, AND TO COMFORT YOU, IN ADDITION TO THE ANGEL OF GOD, THE MESSENGER OF GOD, DELIVERING MESSAGES FROM THE `THREE-IN-ONE GOD`, YOU WILL BE SURE TO FIND THE WAY TO HEAVEN, travelling with joy, peace in your heart and satisfaction that you are in God’s PERFECT WILL FOR YOUR LIFE AND FOR HIS PLEASURE, despite what may please Him to come across your path!
Verse 23&24 say that, you may happen to find yourself in a strange land, or among people who are not worshipping Him. But God wants you NOT to be like them, but rather to rebuke them(preach the gospel to them, both by words, and mostly, by the LIFE you life before them).
Verse 25 emphasizes that you should serve The God of Heaven, your True God, that if you do this, God says that the benefit will be:
God shall bless your bread. God shall bless your water. God shall take away sickness from your midst(from you and from your family). Your young ones will not die young. Nothing shall be barren among you(man or beast). God will fulfil the number of years that He has appointed for you. That means you don’t have to fear what anybody, offended by your STAND FOR HOLINESS, MAY DO TO YOU. BECAUSE NOBODY CAN CUT SHORT YOUR LIFE ON EARTH BEFORE THE YEARS THAT GOD HAS APPOINTED FOR YOU TO LIVE IN THIS WORLD. NOT EVEN SATAN CAN SHORTEN THOSE YEARS!! BUT YOU MUST KEEP YOUR DUTIES IN MIND, AS CONDITIONS TO RECEIVE THESE PROMISES-JUST OBEY, THROUGH THE GRACE OF GOD THAT IS AVAILABLE FOR YOU. IF YOU ASK FOR THE GRACE, GOD IS PLEASED TO GIVE IT YOU.
God’s promises for the children of Israel continue into verse 27-33. You may want to read again, if you did not. It is then you may be able to interpret these blessings in these chapters in your own words, and see how each one of it could be applicable to you in your journey from this world into your final destiny.

QUESTION 1:
GO THROUGH THE WHOLE READING PORTION. BRING OUT ALL THE POINTS THAT INTEREST YOU, AND THEIR SPIRITUAL BENEFITS.