Hey
everyone! Now that our church is open for normal services and activities, we
won’t be
posting to the blog for a little while. Once we figure out what things are
going to look like over the next few months, we will adjust the blog
accordingly. Thanks for following along with our lessons. We are so grateful we
were able to share the Gospel with all of you, even when we couldn’t be together
in person.
We love
you all and we are always praying for you.
Hello everyone! We are back this week to learn about the
final plague that God sent to Egypt. Last week we talked about the first nine.
Today we are going to hear about the worst one of all.
God’s purpose in the first half of Exodus was to display His
power and deliver His people. But after the nine powerful plagues, Israel was still
enslaved by Egypt. So, God sent a tenth and final plague, the most powerful, to
deliver His people.
God announced the death of every firstborn male in all of
Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, to the firstborn of the slave, even the
firstborn of the livestock. Unlike the previous plagues, God Himself would go through
Egypt to accomplish this judgment on all the gods of Egypt.
In order to spare the children of Israel from the final
plague, God gave the Passover sacrifice. Each family chose a one year old, unblemished
lamb and kept it with them for 4 days. The sacrificed the lamb without breaking
any of its bones and used hyssop to brush it’s blood on the sides and tops of
their doorways. Then they stayed in their homes until morning.
They roasted them lamb, ate it with unleavened bread and
bitter herbs, and burnt any leftovers. When eating, they were ready to leave at
a moment’s notice.
When the Lord passed through Egypt, He saw the blood on the
doorposts and passed over those houses. He did not allow the destroyer to enter
their houses.
Obviously, this brought great sadness to Egypt. The Bible
says loud wailing filled the land because every house was affected. In their
agony, Pharaoh and the Egyptians urged the Israelites to leave immediately.
As Israel departed, God led them with His own presence,
appearing in a pillar of cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night.
God delivered His people and established the Passover, the
Feast of Unleavened Bread, and the consecration of the firstborn as reminders
of His power to deliver.
Many years later, Jesus would share his last supper with His
disciples on the night of Passover. During this celebration, Jesus identified
the unleavened bread and the cup of wine with His own body and blood. In doing
so, Jesus declared that deliverance from sin and from God’s wrath comes only
through His blood. Those who come to Jesus are protected by His blood just as
the Israelites who stayed inside were protected by the blood of the Passover
lamb.
When theLordgoes through the
land to strikedown the Egyptians,
he will see the bloodon the top and sides
of the door frame and will pass overthat doorway, and he
will not permit the destroyerto enter your houses
and strike you down.
Exodus 12:23
Coloring & Activity Pages
Craft Time!
1. Print out the templates onto cardstock
2. Cut out images and color
3. Place red strokes around door
4. Fold, assemble, and glue house together
**You can also just color the red strokes onto
your house
Hello again everyone! We are so excited that our church is
starting to open back up. We are praying that we can have Adoration Station in
person real soon. In the meantime we will keep sharing our video lessons with
you.
We’ve been learning about Moses and the past two weeks we
learned how God prepared him to lead the Israelites out of captivity from Egypt.
Today we are going to talk about how God used Moses to reveal His power to the
Pharaoh and all of Egypt.
When Moses and his brother Aaron got to Egypt the Lord told them
what to do. He said, "Go to Pharaoh and tell him to let the
Israelites go. He will be very stubborn, and it will take many signs and
miracles before he will let you go; but everyone will know that I am God when
he finally frees the Israelites."
They
did what God asked and they went to see Pharaoh. In front of Pharaoh Aaron
threw down his staff and it became a snake (just as God told Moses it would).
Pharaoh’s magicians copied Aaron and caused snakes to appear as well. Aaron’s serpent
ate them all the others. Even still, Pharaoh’s heart was hardened. Because of
his hard heart, God sent the plagues.
A plague is an event or sickness that causes suffering, loss, and
usually death on a horrific scale. There were ten plagues, but the first nine came
in groups of three., with the tenth plague being the finale, and worst.
The plagues were:
Blood: Aaron struck the Nile with the staff so that all the water turned
to blood and all the fish died. Even water in containers became blood.
Frogs: They came out of the water and covered the land, and invaded
homes, beds, ovens, and bowls.
Gnats or Mosquitoes: These swarms of irritating insects irritated
the eyes, nose, and ears, and could also bite.
Swarms: These insects likely fed on blood and probably spread
disease among the livestock and maybe even humans.
Disease: This plague killed all the livestock of the Egyptians.
Boils: These were painful, blister like sores. They were on humans
and animals. They were very painful.
Hailstorm: This was the worst hailstorm Egypt had ever known.,
with lightning flashing back and forth across the ground. People and animals
that were outside were killed. Their crops were destroyed.
Locust: Locust are devastating. They consume all the crops and damage
trees and fruit as well. The Bible tells us that this swarm was larger than any
that has ever been.
Darkness: The Bible says that it was so complete that it could be
felt. Only the Israelites had light where they lived. The darkness lasted for 3
days. They Egyptians were overwhelmed by terror and despair.
We are going to talk more about the 10th plague next
week.
Moses told Pharaoh to let God’s people go, but just as God had
told Moses, Pharaoh hardened his heart. God continued to harden Pharaoh’s heart
in order to fully display the greatness of His power. With plagues from the earth
and plagues from the sky, with irritating plagues and deadly plagues, and with
plagues undermining all the Egyptian gods, God proved that He alone is God. He
wanted Israel to trust and serve Him alone, and He wanted all the earth to fear
His power.
God’s great power presents us with a choice. We can choose to be
like Pharaoh, who refused to humble himself before God. He was sorry when bad
things happened to him, but he did not repent. Or we can choose to do what God
said: we can trust Him as our deliverer and serve Him alone. If we do repent
and believe, then just as God powerfully crushed the rule of Pharaoh over Israel,
so He will powerfully crush the rule of sin, Satan, and death over us.
“But
for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name
may be proclaimed in all the earth”
Exodus 9:16
Coloring & Activity Pages
Craft Time!
1. Print as many frogs as you’d like.
2. Color and cut them out.
3. Hide them around your house for others to find.
1. Color and cut out each picture.
2. Glue the white tab onto a piece of construction paper or cardstock
in the order they happened.
