Please Heed the Call Trivia Quiz

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In Genesis 6, God decided to flood the earth but spare Noah and his family. Noah, who walked faithfully with God, was considered not as bad as the other people living on Earth at the time. He was called by God to build an ark and save his family and animals. Noah built the ark, and only once it was finished and everybody and everything was on the ark did God send the flood.

In Genesis 12, Abraham (then called Abram) was called by God to go to a new land, and Abraham heeded the call without even knowing where this new land was. The new land was Canaan, and Abraham lived in Harran, about 400 miles away. In addition to Abraham, his wife Sarah, then called Sarai, and his nephew Lot, also joined him.

God first directly spoke to Moses in Exodus 3 through the burning bush. Moses was called to lead the Hebrews out of slavery and into the Promised Land of Canaan. Moses, the meekest man in the Bible, said he was slow of speech, so God had Aaron speak for Moses to the Egyptian pharaoh. Even while they were wandering the desert for 40 years, God continued to use Moses. This continued until the end of Moses's life at 120 years of age.

Following Moses's death, Joshua led the Hebrew people. In fact, it was Joshua who was the one to lead them to the Promised Land itself. Although Joshua was chosen to succeed Moses shortly before the latter's death (Numbers 27), it wasn't until Joshua 1 where God officially called Joshua. As one of two people to give a good report about the land they were entering (the other being Caleb), Joshua was allowed to enter Canaan despite being over 20. Apart from actually entering Canaan, Joshua led the Israelites in battle against the unGodly people who lived there, such as the Amorites and Hittites. The Israelites were to kill these people and not intermingle with them, lest they stop following God and live like the Amorites, Hittites, etc.

Judges 6 is where you can find God's calling to the prophet Gideon. It was God's desire to have Gideon save Israel from the hands of the Midianites. Gideon thought himself too lowly to be of this much importance to God (being part of a weak clan and the least in his family), but God saw his potential. Gideon did indeed save Israel with God's help and helped turn Israel away from foreign gods, even if the Israelites went right back to foreign gods after Gideon's death.

God decided to call Samson before Samson was even born. The angel of the Lord told Samson's mother that she would give birth to someone who would be a Nazirite (someone who was dedicated to God and didn't shave his or her hairs) and that this child would deliver Israel from the Philistines. While Samson, one of Israel's judges, did cause strife between the two, he never fully delivered Israel. In fact, like so many times in the book of Judges, Israel went right back to doing what is right in their eyes after Samson died.

The soon-to-be prophet Samuel was called by God in 1 Samuel 3. Interestingly, when God first called him, Samuel believed it was the priest Eli, who would eventually tell Samuel that it was God who was calling him. However, it was always God's plan to use Samuel. It would be Samuel who would succeed Eli as priest, interceding for other people. Samuel would also deliver God's messages and warnings to Israel. This would mainly involve when Israel demanded a king, so they could be like other nations, even though they already had a king in God. Samuel, as chosen by God, would anoint Saul as king. The same would be true when David was chosen as king.

The calling of King David can be found in 1 Samuel 16. God had called David to be king of Israel following Saul's multiple instances of disobedience. God had Samuel to the house of Jesse (David's father) to anoint David as king. Interestingly, this was still while Saul was on the throne and was still viewed as king. It is believed that David was fifteen years old when he was anointed and since David was thirty when he officially began his reign (according to 2 Samuel 5:4), this means David had to wait fifteen years between being anointed and ruling over Israel. Throughout all of these years, David never tried to have Saul killed and would rebuke others when they suggested it. Because of David's faithfulness towards God and willing to follow and obey Him, David became known as a man after God's own heart.

Jeremiah's calling can be found in Jeremiah 1. In fact, God even mentioned that He called Jeremiah as a prophet before he (Jeremiah) was even born. Jeremiah was to warn the people of the kingdom of Judah that if they did not repent from the idolatry and other sinful ways, it would cause destruction on Judah. Due to the sorrowful news and the fact Jeremiah felt grief for the people of Judah, he became known as the weeping prophet. The people would not repent, and Judah would fall to Babylon in 586B.C.

The prophet Jonah was called by God in Jonah 1, but the entire book of Jonah is about Jonah's calling to go to Nineveh. Jonah didn't want to go, because he didn't want God to show mercy on the Ninevites if they repented, since Jonah believed the wicked should be punished. Instead, Jonah decided to go to Tarshish, which was almost as far away physically from Nineveh as someone could get in Jonah's time. However, God was not done with Jonah and sent fish to save Jonah. Eventually, Jonah realized the error of his ways, preached to Nineveh ("Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned"), and the people there repented, even the king.

As for the incorrect choices, this doesn't necessarily mean they didn't have a calling from God or that they were unGodly. It simply means their calling cannot be found written in the Bible.