Christmas QUIZ

Questions surrounding the birth of Jesus, you'll find the answers in the Bible, the details are there,
and you may find the answers will address more than a few misconceptions.




1) Christmas Quiz: Who visited Jesus when He was in the manager?
What Bible verses describe this?



2) Christmas Quiz: Did the wise men visit Jesus in:

a) Jerusalem 
b) Bethlehem 
c) Nazareth 
d) Egypt

What verse in the Bible tells us where the wise men saw Jesus?





3) Christmas Quiz: Did the wise men see Jesus in:
a) Herod's palace
b) the temple in Jerusalem
c) the Bethlehem manager
d) a house



4) Christmas Quiz: Did the wise men see Jesus when he was:
a) a baby in the manager
b) a baby in the Temple in Jerusalem
c) a baby in a house in Bethlehem
d) a young child in a house in Nazareth



5) Christmas Quiz: When Mary and Joseph satisfied the requirements of Leviticus 12 they met two people in the temple.

What tribe was the prophetess in the temple from?
What was her name?
How old was she?
What passage talks about this?



6) Christmas Quiz: Mary and Joseph waited 8 days to circumcise Jesus, but how many days did 
they need to wait to complete her purification before they could go and offer a sacrifice at the temple?

What passage in the New Testament mentions this.
What passage in the Old Testaments defines the purification time?



7) Christmas Quiz: When the wise men came to Herod to find the King of the Jews, what was the 
Old Testament prophecy they cited to tell them He was to be born in Bethlehem?

What was the passage in the New Testament that discusses this?
What is the passage in the Old Testament that makes this prophecy?



8) Christmas Quiz: If Herod made a decree to have all male children two years and younger killed 
as based on the timing of the visit by the wise men, how old was Jesus likely to be when they saw him? 

If Herod died in 4 BC and if this was close to this event, what year would 
Jesus most likely have been born in?



9) Christmas Quiz: 
According to Luke, Joseph and Mary went to what city after the sacrifice was 
presented at the Temple when Jesus was 41 days old?

a) Bethlehem
b) Jerusalem
c) Cairo
d) Nazareth



10) Christmas Quiz: 
WHO said: "A LIGHT OF REVELATION TO THE GENTILES, And the glory of Thy people Israel."

a) Luke
b) Simeon
c) one of the wise men
d) Herod
e) Anna
f) Mary
g) Joseph
h) the high priest
i) a temple worshiper



11) Christmas Quiz: If Luke records that Joseph and Mary made it to the temple every year for Passover, 
and that Joseph had to flee with the young child to avoid Herod's death squads where did they go and for how long?

a) Jerusalem for 2 years
b) Bethlehem for 6 months
c) Egypt for less than a year
d) Nazareth for less than a year.



12) Christmas Quiz: 
What is the prophetic passage in Jeremiah that is quoted in Matthew 2:18 concerning Herod's death squads?



13) Christmas Quiz: In Matthew 2:15 what prophet is quoted and what passage in the Old Testament is it recorded?



14) Christmas Quiz: The wise men from the East likely knew astronomy and astrology. What would likely have been 
one of the primary constellations they would have observed to let them know that the King of the Jews was born? 
(remember that the Jews had been in captivity in the East and likely knew of Daniel and the other major prophets...)

What passage in the Old Testament mentions that the "lights in the firmament of the heavens 
to divide the day from the night: and let them be for **SIGNS** and season, and for days and years."?

HINT 
(re:constellation): One of the major pre-exilic prophets wrote extensively about the Jewish Messiah, 
the passage of Isaiah 7:14 would have been understood by the astrologers of the East... they would 
have understood the Gospel story as told in the stars. See Joseph A. Seiss, D.D. The Gospel in the Stars, 1882.



Merry Christmas!
Jesus is the reason for the Season...

Oh, one other detail, we that Jesus wasn't born on December 25th, that day
was selected by Constantine in 300AD to coincide with a pagan holiday when he Christianized the world...
Jesus was likely born Nisan 1, 6BC - because the shepherds would have been in the fields at night
to assist in the birthing of lambs, and event that only takes place once a year. A farmer friend 
confirmed that the lambs are born in spring and would be a great risk in cold weather.

UPDATE 2024: Jonathan Cahn has provided details related to the timing of Jesus' birth. 
    The shepherds would only be in the field at night because the sheep were giving 
    birth to lambs and they would need to assist, this happens in SPRING, March-April time frame,
    or in the Jewish month of Nisan.  Because of the Appointed Times in Leviticus 23 and 
    the work of Christ, he believes Nisan 1 was the birth date of Jesus.  
    He cites several passages from the Torah that make this date credible.
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptlsXtTf6n0
    He also provides details on the Magi.




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