October Harvest Quiz Answers

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This quiz is posted in General Discussion forum. The answers are posted here. 

 

1) What event does this verse pertain to in Genesis?
While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Answer: After the Lord promises not to curse the ground or destroy every living thing after Noah offers sacrifices after the flood. 

Genesis 8:20-22
And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. 

2) How many plump heads of grain did pharaoh dream about ?

Answer: Seven

Genesis 41:5
And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.

3) What does the Feast of Harvest celebrate?

Answer: The firstfruits of their labors. It is also called the Feast of Firstfruits

Exodus 23:16  And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.

4) Are you allowed to harvest on the sabbath in the Old Testament?

Answer: No

Exodus 34:21  Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest. 

5) What were the Israelites to do when they reaped their first harvest in the promised land?

Answer: Bring a sheaf of the firstfruits to the priest as an offering

Leviticus 23:10-11  Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.

6) In the Old Testament, were the Israelites permitted to harvest crops that grew on their own accord during the year of rest to the land?

Answer: No

Leviticus 25:5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land. 

7) What were widows, orphans, and aliens permitted to do at harvest time?

Answer: Glean the fields owned by others

Deuteronomy 24:19  When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.

8) In the days of which grain harvest did Samson attempt to visit his wife, only to be denied by his father in law?

Answer: Wheat 

Judges 15:1  But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in. 

9) Ruth and Naomi reached Bethlehem at the beginning of which harvest?

Answer: Barley

Ruth 1:22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

10) In Proverbs, it is written that he who sleeps in harvest is a son who does what?

Answer: Causes shame

Proverbs 10:5  He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.

11) In Proverbs it is written that honor is not right for a fool. This is compared to what event during a harvest?

Answer: Rain 

Proverbs 26:1  As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.

12) Jesus said to pray to the Lord of the harvest to do what?

Answer: Send workers into His harvest

Matthew 9:38  Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.

13) When Jesus speaks of the end times, He says He will tell the reapers to gather what first?

Answer: Tares. Also called darnel or weeds 

Matthew 13:30  Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. 

14) Who reaps the harvest in the end of the age, according to Jesus in Matthew 13?

Answer: Angels

Matthew 13:39  The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. 

15) In Romans, Paul calls Epenetus a firstfruits of what region for Christ?

Answer: Achaia

Romans 16:5  Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my wellbeloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.

16) Paul planted, Apollos watered but God did what?

Answer: God gave the increase

1 Corinthians 3:6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

17) In 1 Corinthians, Christ is called the firstfruits of who?

Answer: Those that slept

1 Corinthians 15:20  But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

18) In Revelation, who are called the firstfruits to God and the Lamb?

Answer: The 144,000

Rev_14:4  These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.

19) In Revelation 14, to whom does an angel say “reap for the harvest of the earth is ripe?”

Answer: The one who sat on the cloud, Jesus

Rev_14: 14  And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. 

Bonus question 

20) The Feast of Weeks takes place after the Feast of Harvest. It coincides with what New Testament event?

Answer: Pentecost 

Leviticus 23 and Acts 1 and 2