2006-07-21 12:01:12 · 15 answers · asked by reading_is_dangerous 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
My favorite little known person from the Bible is Enoch.
What Believer wouldn’t want to have an obituary like Enoch has in Genesis 5: 21-24
21 Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Methuselah.
22 After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters.
23 So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.
24 And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.
What better surprise could there be than to please God enough and be such good friends that one day while you are out for a walk with Him, God and you just keep walking up through the stars and into Heaven itself?
2006-07-21 12:28:20 · answer #1 · answered by S.R. E 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I forgot his name, but he was a prophet who kept asking the lord for help for this one king because he had offered him riches and stuff, and the lord wouldn't do it, but the lord says he can go with him. He does and on his way, he is going between these two walls and his donkey sees an angel with a sword, so he tries to go around it and smashes the guy's foot against the wall, he gets mad and hits the donkey (he can't see the angel). Anyway, this happens a couple more times, and the dude keeps hitting him, so the donkey stops and the bible says: "And the lord opened the donkey's mouth and it spoke, saying, Why has thou hit me these three times?"
I thought it was cool that the donkey actually talked...... (I think his name was either Nathan, or something wierd that starts with a "B". )
2006-07-21 19:10:30 · answer #2 · answered by phobic_42 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Micah. He's one of the minor prophets. But in chapter 14 he talks about things that are happening today. He talks about Babylon, the real one, which is a city close to Baghdad in Iraq. In the Living Bible what I'm getting is that God will send the Messiah to rescue His people there in Babylon, the real one, not Rome and not New York, but the real city of Babylon. ....Here's what God tells Micah to say: "True many nations have gathered together against you, calling for your blood, eager to destroy you. But they do not know My thoughts nor understand My plan, for the time will come when the Lord will gather together the enemies of His people like sheaves upon the threshing floor, helpless before Israel..... and you will trample to pieces many people, and you will give their wealth as offerings to the Lord, the Lord of all the earth."
2006-07-23 20:15:03 · answer #3 · answered by cathyhewed1946 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm, David. I don't know the names in english. Jonas, Zacarias, Jose (Joseph).
I liked David because with the help of God he was able to defeat a big giant when nobody else believed in him.
Jonas because he tried to escape from God because he didn't wanted to be his servant but he always knew where he was and he went through this very hard times, he got thrown out from a ship, swallowed by a whale etc.
Zacarias was a short man, I think he was an accountant who was a little greedy. Wow I have to read the Bible.\
and Joseph was a good story because he was the favorite son in his family and his brothers envied him and made their father believe he was dead, and years later he end up being king of Egypt I think and his brothers along with his father went up to him to get some food because their land was in a crisis, and he ends up telling them he was his brother and their brothers felt very sad and guilty but he end up forgiving him.
Wow this bring me old memories when I was in my christian school years ago. :sighs: I want to cry lol.
2006-07-21 19:05:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Little known? I would have to say the blind man that Jesus healed when He put saliva soaked mud on his eyes. I like him so much because his simplicity before the Sanhedrin put them all to shame. He showed them all up with his innocence and faith, in contrast to their spiritual arrogance and condescension
2006-07-21 23:40:24 · answer #5 · answered by novalee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Deborah. Because I've been told time and time again that I have the heart of Deborah. Deborah was a warrior for her people. She had a heart full of compassion for those that suffered under an unjust reign.
2006-07-21 19:20:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The Teacher" from the book Ecclesiastes, popularly thought to be Solomon, though Bible scholars don't believe so. He's one one guy I could relate to, questioning his faith and doing whatever it takes to find an answer.
2006-07-21 19:06:01 · answer #7 · answered by rabid_scientist 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simon of Cyrene... when Jesus was struggling to carry the cross up to Golgotha, Simon carried the cross for him.
"Must Jesus bear the cross alone and all the world go free? No, there's a cross for everyone... and there's a cross for me"
2006-07-21 19:05:38 · answer #8 · answered by Rev T L Clark 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mordecai from the Book of Ester, love how he just did what was right and it drove Haman farther and farther off the deep end.
2006-07-21 19:07:06 · answer #9 · answered by miknave 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abagail, I feel for her because of the horrible man she was married to Namon. He was a drunk but in the end God took care of her and Namon got his just desserts
2006-07-21 19:06:39 · answer #10 · answered by Wendy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋