FBkids: Lesson 17 - God Prepares Israel for Deliverance

Lesson 17

Hello again everyone! We are praying that you are doing well. We miss seeing all of you, but we are so grateful to be able to share our Bible lessons with you online.

This week we are moving on from Abraham, Jacob, and Joseph. We are going to be learning about Moses. I’m sure most of you have heard of Moses, right? He was a part of some amazing miracles and works of God. Today we are going to learn how Moses’ story started.

About 200 years after Joseph’s story, the Israelites were still living in Egypt and there were a lot of them. Their numbers grew so big that the Pharaoh of that day began to get nervous.

He was afraid the Israelites would eventually rise up against him, so he made them slaves. He made them work from early in the morning until late at night doing very hard work. Even if they were tired the Egyptians wouldn't give them a break, they would just make them work harder. It was very bad.

Pharaoh did all this and he still wasn't happy. The Israelites were still growing in number, so he decided to make a law. If any boys were born to the Israelites, he would have them killed.

One family decided to do all they could to protect their newborn baby boy. They hid him as best the could for 3 months. They knew this wouldn’t work forever so they decided to take drastic measures. They put him in a basket and sent him down the Nile river. His sister, Miriam, watched him as he traveled.

God intervened in Moses’ life by sending the Pharaoh’s daughter to the river. She saw the basket and found baby Moses inside. She raised him as her own son. In this way Moses was protected from Pharaoh’s evil plans and he was on a path to deliver all his people to freedom.

God appointed Jesus as an even greater deliverer than Moses, and when we cry out to Him, Jesus will set us free from our bondage to sin. Through Jesus, we trust God to deliver us too.