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Children’s Bible Program – Level 2: Lesson 38 “Between the Army and the Sea”
Featured Passage: Exodus 13-15
God brought the children of Israel out of slavery with many miracles. They were finally headed for the land God promised them. God led the people across the wilderness to edge of the Red Sea where they stopped to camp. In the meantime, Pharaoh changed his mind again! He was angry that he had let his slaves go, so he sent his army after the Israelites. Israel was about to be trapped between Pharaoh’s army and the Red Sea. How would they escape? God had a plan to save them, but how?
Discuss:
- When the Israelites saw Pharaoh’s army coming, what did they say? What did Moses do?
- God worked many miracles to deliver Israel from Egypt. Why were they still afraid?
- The Israelites walked through the Red Sea between walls of water on dry ground. What do you imagine the Israelites may have seen?
- The Egyptian army thought they could cross over the Red Sea just as Israel did. What happened next?
- How did the Israelites react when they reached the other side of the Red Sea?
Memory Challenge:
Exodus 14:16 “But lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. And the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.”
Children’s Bible Program- Level 1: Lessons 34-37 Packet: Joshua
Includes the lessons:
- Lesson 34 “Joshua in Training”
- Lesson 35 “Joshua’s Faithfulness in the Wilderness”
- Lesson 36 “Joshua Becomes Israel’s Leader”
- Lesson 37 “Joshua’s Leadership in the Promised Land”
Children’s Bible Program – Level 3: Lesson 39 “Jeroboam”
Featured Passage: 1 Kings 11-12
As Solomon grew older, he began to turn from God and His laws and statutes. Before Solomon’s death, God warned him that his actions would result in the loss of half of his kingdom to Jeroboam, an energetic leader who oversaw many of Solomon’s building projects. God promised that this break-up of the kingdom of Israel would not occur until after Solomon died, but that his son Rehoboam would inherit the consequences of his sins. Despite Solomon’s best efforts to kill Jeroboam, his plans failed. More importantly, Solomon failed his kingdom when he turned his back on God, creating the ingredients for strife between Israel and Judah. Would Solomon’s son, King Rehoboam, learn the lesson that Solomon did not? And would Jeroboam obey God and establish a dynasty that would rule Israel down through history? Read 1 Kings 11-12 and find out!
Discuss:
- Why did God take the majority of the tribes from Rehoboam, Solomon’s son?
- When Solomon learned that God was going to give part of the kingdom to Jeroboam, he tried to thwart God’s plan by having him killed. Can anyone stop God from carrying out His plans? How did Jeroboam escape? What made him return to Israel?
- What special opportunity and blessing did God offer to Jeroboam and his descendants?
- Jeroboam set up idols for the people to worship, made priests of anyone, and established different holy days than those that God had ordained. What was his excuse for doing this?
- How did God respond to Jeroboam’s actions taking Israel into idolatry?
- When we disobey God, what do expect will happen? What would we expect God to do?
Memory Challenge:
1 Kings 11:31
And he said to Jeroboam, “Take for yourself ten pieces, for thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and will give ten tribes to you…’”
Children’s Bible Program – Level 2: Lesson 39 “Bitter Water Made Sweet”
Featured Passage: Exodus 15:22-27
God saved Israel by bringing them through the Red Sea, protected from Pharaoh and His army. After a great victory celebration, the Israelites continued their journey. They traveled for three days, but they started running out of water. After seeing so many miracles, you would think that the people would look to God to help them, right?
What did they actually do?
Discuss:
- Israel had witnessed many miracles that God had done, but they started forgetting them. Do you ever forget things? What helps you remember?
- The people complained to Moses because the water was at Marah was bitter. What should the people have done – instead of complaining?
- In this difficult situation, Moses didn’t complain. Instead, what did He do?
- Making the bitter water sweet was another example of God’s miracles that preserved and protected Israel. This is a good time to think back on God’s other miracles. What were some of those miracles?
Memory Challenge:
Exodus 15:26
If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.
Children’s Bible Program – Level 1: Lesson 38 “The Time of the Judges”
Featured Passage: Joshua 24 & Judges 1-3
Israel served God all the days of Joshua, and they continued to serve God under the elders who had been trained by Joshua. However, after Joshua and the elders he trained died, things quickly changed. They soon forgot all about God, and began to do their own thing. When they began to stop obeying God, one of the nearby nations would attack and oppress them. The Israelites would call out to God for help, and in His mercy He would soon send them a leader to save them. This happened again…and again…and again…and again…
Discuss:
- Joshua was a good and righteous leader. What is a leader? What does it mean to be a good leader?
- During this time, Israel did not have a human king. Who was their king?
- In the book of Judges, we see that Israel was led by people called (of course!) judges! What is a judge?
- God corrected the Israelites when they disobeyed him. Why did God correct them and why does He correct us? (Hebrews 12:6).
- Israel continued to make the same mistakes over and over – they didn’t learn from their mistakes. How can we avoid following their bad example…how can we learn from our mistakes?
- How did God show his love and mercy for Israel during the period of the Judges?
Memory Challenge:
Judges 2:18 “And when the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge…”
Children’s Bible Program – Level 3: Lesson 40 “Rehoboam’s Reign”
Featured Passage: 2 Chronicles 11 and 12
Rehoboam, the son of King Solomon, was selected to be king after Solomon’s death. Rehoboam was 41 years old when he took the throne. His first instinct when the ten tribes declared their independence was to declare war on Israel and bring them back under his rule. Would he succeed and rule over Judah and Israel? What type of king would Rehoboam be? In this lesson, we will learn more about King Rehoboam and the legacy that he left.
Discuss:
- God told Shemaiah to tell Rehoboam that He inspired Israel to be split. To his credit, Rehoboam did not try to subdue Israel; he accepted what God had done.
- The Levites who were living within the Kingdom of Israel left when they started worshipping idols and joined with the Kingdom of Judah.
- Why was Rehoboam strengthened when the Levites returned to Judah?
- What is the relationship between obedience and blessings? Rehoboam was blessed during the three years he followed God.
- Rehoboam started out well, and he had many great works. Rehoboam built walled cities for security and encouraged the people to worship God.
- Rehoboam had many wives, which is contrary to God’s instructions. What place in the Bible makes that very clear?
- People can often forget about God when things are going well (Deuteronomy 8:18–19). Was this what happened with Reheboam?
- God sent Egypt against Rehoboam because of his transgressions. The Egyptians took all the treasury back to Egypt with them. There is always a consequence for disobedience to God.
- Rehoboam reigned for seventeen years. He left a legacy of disobedience toward God, unlike King David.
Memory Challenge:
Deuteronomy 8:19
Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the Lord your God, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.
Children’s Bible Program – Level 2: Lesson 40 “What Is It?”
Featured Passage: Exodus 16
About a month after leaving Egypt, the Israelites arrived at a place called the Wilderness of Sin. They were running out of food and getting hungry. Again, instead of asking God for help, they complained to Moses. The people were forgetting the promises that God had given them. They still did not trust God to take care of them. Even though they did not have the right attitude, God still loved His people, and He was about to give them something to eat that no one had ever heard of before!
Discuss:
- The people blamed Moses and Aaron, saying they brought them out of Egypt to die of hunger. What should they have done?
- God does not like complaining. One way we can learn not to complain is by being thankful. What could the Israelites have been thankful for?
- God gave the Israelites food which they called “manna,” which means “what is it?” What do you think it would be like to be given food straight from God every day? Do you think it tasted good?
- Gathering manna would have been hard work. God showed the Israelites which day is the Sabbath by not giving them manna on the seventh day. Why didn’t God want them gathering their food on the Sabbath? How did God make sure they had enough to eat on the Sabbath day?
Memory Challenge:
Exodus 16:4
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you. And the people shall go out and gather a certain quota every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in My law or not.”
Children’s Bible Program – Level 1: Lesson 39 “Deborah”
Featured Passage: Judges 4:1-5
A woman named Deborah lived in the foothills of Ephraim. The Bible tells us that she was a prophetess and married a man named Lapidoth. Deborah lived during a time when an evil Canaanite king named Jabin ruled in the land. He and his powerful army persecuted the Israelites. Deborah and her people longed for relief from their cruel enemies.
Discuss:
- Deborah had faith in God and He gave her the help she needed to be a good judge. If we have faith, do you think God could use us to do amazing things?
- The people suffered greatly under the Canaanites. Why did God allow Israel to suffer? Remember, God promises that obeying Him brings blessings, but disobeying Him brings trouble (Deuteronomy 30:15–20).
- The Bible says that the evil king Jabin had 900 chariots made out of iron! The Israelites were crying out to God for help! Have you ever asked God for help when you were scared? How can we know He will help us?
Memory Challenge:
Judges 4:4-5
Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, was judging Israel at that time. And she would sit under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the mountains of Ephraim. And the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.