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Respecting Authority and Aaron’s Budding Rod
Numbers 17
The Israelites again began complaining. Are we really any different? Do we not also complain about our leaders? Of course they aren’t perfect, neither are we. Yet God’s Word teaches us to respect authority because it is God Himself who has allowed them to be in a position of authority. How did God solve this problem of complaining about authority? Numbers 17 tells the story of the leaders putting their staffs in the tent of meeting. These staffs represented their authority. God said they would know who was chosen to be High Priest because his staff would leaf out. In the morning, it was Aaron’s rod that had leaves. Just for good measure, God saw to it that it also had blossoms and almonds!
Interesting side note, as we see in Ezekiel’s vision ( ), the Hebrew word for “almond” is similar to “watching.” The almond tree was the first to bloom and was a signal of spring. Just like they watched for the almond blossoms, God watches us for signs of faith and growth.
In this lesson, the kids can decorate sticks with tissue paper blossoms and paper leaves (or you can use silk flowers) and almonds. For a special snack, you can have them make almond sticks out of almond flour or dip pretzel rods in melted chocolate and put on almonds. I added frosting flowers and leaves.
Moses & Israelites 3 — At Mt. Sinai
Exodus 19-40
The Israelites spent more than a year at Mt. Sinai. God made a covenant with them and gave them the Ten Commandments. He spoke with Moses and gave many other life saving guidelines and the instructions and blueprints for the Tabernacle. They stayed and constructed this beautiful example of God’s plan of salvation.
Starting with this page, instead of having all the program descriptions and downloads on this page, I’m going to have each one as a separate post. Hopefully this will make it easier to find them. This page will function as an informative middle page with all the links for the category of Bible stories, which, in this case are the stories that take place at Mt. Horeb.
So click on the title to go to the page where you can learn more about the PowerPoint, download the PowerPoint and download any craft or activity pages.
Kingdom Covenant and 10 Commandments Exodus 19-20.
The Golden Calf But the Covenant Confirmed Exodus 32-34
Offerings for the Tabernacle – the Outer Court – Exodus 35 and 38:1-9
Holiness – The Holy Place – Exodus 25 and 37
God With Us – The Most Holy Place and the Tabernacle Set Up — Exodus 40
Back to the Stories of Moses Main Page
Forward to the Stories of Going Onward to the Promised Land
Moses — Part 4 — Toward the Promised Land
On the Way to the Promised Land the First Time
Numbers 1-13 and Deuteronomy 1
God promised Abraham that that his family would have the land of Canaan. He accurately predicted that they would spend time in Egypt and that he would bring them out. The book of Numbers continues the story of their trip from Mt. Sinai to the Promised Land. Regretfully, faith does not overcome fear. The promise has to wait for 40 years of wandering in the desert, but that is Part 5.
Under Construction
Moses – God’s Agent — Leading God’s People
Moses was God’s chosen agent to free His People the Israelites. God kept His promises to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph by bringing their descendants back to the Promised Land.
We have the promise that Jesus is preparing a place for us and will come and get us to be with Him. Praise God! He will keep that promise too! Just like He kept the promise that Jesus, our Savior, would come to earth to show God’s love and save us from sin. We can believe that God’s Word is true. God is faithful and He will do it.
The life of Moses and the Israelite journey has many parallels of these other promises, too. Join us in learning and teaching these stories to the next generation.
Moses 1 From Nile to the Red Sea — Out of the Water (as a baby) Through the Water — Exodus 1-15
Moses 2 Journey to Mt Sinai — Journey to Mt Sinai — Exodus 13-18
Moses 3 At Mt Sinai — 10 Commandments and The Tabernacle — Exodus 19-40
Moses 4 Onward to the Promised Land — Going to the Promised Land, Spies & Decision — Numbers, Deuteronomy 1
Moses 5 Wanderings in the Desert — And back to the Promised Land — Deuteronomy 2-34
Moses 2 — Journey to Mt. Sinai — Exodus 13-18
Free at Last to Go Meet God at Mt. Sinai
God promised Abraham that that his family would have the land of Canaan. He accurately predicted that they would spend time in Egypt and that he would bring them out. The book of Exodus tells how this happened. God did bring his chosen people, the Israelite’s, to the land of Canaan, the promised land. Here are some presentations we have done during Zoom Sabbath School from the life of Moses. This part covers the stories of the Israelites on their way to Mt Sinai and while there. God established a covenant with them and made them a nation with a promise of land of their own.
Led by a Pillar Cloud and through the Red Sea — Exodus 13-15
In this presentation, the kids will get to make a craft and act out the story of the dramatic escape through the Red Sea. The Israelite’s were in a pickle; a God-designed pickle. How would they escape the Egyptians when they were stuck between mountains and the gigantic Red Sea? When we are in a pickle, we too can be calm, pray, and know that God will make a way. He will fight for us. He will lead us. He will always be with us!
Water! Bitter to Sweet at Marah — Exodus 15
After 3 days of traveling in the desert. The Isrealites didn’t have any more water! They couldn’t find water for days. When they did find water, it was bitter! While telling the story we make hot chocolate. The bitter baker’s chocolate makes us realize what a bitter surprise that would be. The people cried out to God and He healed the water at Marah. We have bitter times too. It may be someone being mean, a friend leaving us, death, or something else. We too can cry out to God. He will heal our bitterness — despair to delight; sadness to gladness; fear to faith… God healed the water and it was sweet. We add sugar, hot water, and cream to our hot chocolate. God didn’t stop there. He gives us abundant joy! Just like God then led the Israelites to a beautiful oasis of springs and trees, God promises to bring us to a place of peace and joy. Just trust and follow.
What is it? God provides Manna — Exodus 16
Let’s learn about a special day, the Sabbath, that God gives us to worship him. It’s the first holiday! I like to spread out a clean sheet and cover it with something like sweet cornflakes or rice-crispies. Then I give each child a quart jar so that they can gather ‘manna’ cereal while we review the story and talk about our wonderful God. This Sabbath activity teller gives kids and families great ideas to do on Sabbath. Print the pages back to back.
Water From the Rock at Horeb — God Satisfies our Thirst — Exodus 17:1-7
In this presentation we look at the short story found in Exodus 17:1-7. After traveling in the desert, the people were really thirsty! We talk about how we thirst for God. God will satisfy us. At the end, there is a BINGO game that reviews many water Bible stories and verses about how God quenches our thirst for His goodness.
Amalekites Defeated — God is our Banner — Exodus 17
In this short story, the Bible highlights the importance of God’s role in winning the fight against our enemies. While Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning the battle. Hur and Aaron helped keep his hands raised. At the end, Moses stated that the LORD is my banner. They had banners or flags like we do that represent our country, state, club, and ideals. God is who we pledge allegiance to. He is our Sovereign LORD. In this presentation we talk about various flags, what they represent, the meaning of their colors and symbols, and their pledge (if they have one). Two of the slides are shown above. The craft is to make a banner or flag that represents God.
Jethro visits Moses — Carrying One Another’s Burdens — Exodus 18
In this interactive presentation, the story starts out with Moses describing how God had freed and cared for the Israelites. As a review of the stories of Moses, the children are encouraged to pick a story picture and either do a charade, pictionary, or 20 questions to help others guess the story. Jethro stays in camp and witnesses Moses sitting down as judge to help the Israelites solve their problems. The children are encouraged to name types of problems they face and put a large stone in a large bucket for each problem. The full and very heavy bucket, later, is used to demonstrate how we need to carry one another’s burdens (Galatians 6:2). Have a very stout long stick on hand so they can all work together to carry the bucket of heavy stones. We finish by making paper bag puppets to practice bearing one another’s burdens by listening, praying, empathizing, encouraging one another, and being a helping hand.
Under Construction: Moses, God’s Agent — Part 3 — Nearing the Promised Land
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