Dear Parents,
The Lord brought His
people into the promised land. Now they had a task set before them: conquer the
people living in the land. Before the Israelites crossed the Jordan River,
Joshua—in the way Moses had done decades before—sent scouts into the land. (See
Num. 13:2-3.) The first city the Israelites came to was Jericho. God told
Joshua that He had handed the city over to Israel.
The Lord’s reputation
went ahead of the Israelites, creating fear in the people of Jericho. With the
exception of one woman, the people of Jericho wanted nothing to do with God.
Rahab was unique
among the inhabitants of Jericho. She wanted to be on ...
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Dear Parents,
Thank
you for choosing to use the Gospel Project for Kids. You and your children have
been learning about the Israelites’ wandering in the wilderness. Forty years
later, it was time for the next generation to enter the land. Only one
geographical barrier separated the Israelites from the promised land of Canaan:
the Jordan River. When the Israelites arrived, the Jordan River was flooded due
to spring rains and snowmelt. Any other time, the river would have been
manageable, but crossing the swollen river would have been as daunting as
crossing the Red Sea. (See Josh. 4:23.)
The
Israelites had mourned Moses’ death for 30 days ...
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Dear Parents,
Decades
had passed since God used Moses to rescue the Israelites from slavery and lead
them toward the promised land. The Israelites had not trusted God then and had
refused to enter the land.
After
40 years of wandering in the wilderness, the Israelites were once again at the
edge of the promised land. But this time, it was a whole new generation of
Israelites—many of whom had not even been born when the people left Egypt and
came to this land the first time. Their leader, Moses, was 120 years old.
Moses
wrote the Book of Deuteronomy to tell the people all that God had done for them
and to repeat the laws and instructions ...
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Dear Parents,
God’s people, the Israelites, were in the wilderness.
They had arrived at the promised land decades earlier, but the people had
rebelled—refusing to trust God to give them the land. They believed it would be
better to die in the wilderness than follow God (Num. 14:2), so God sent them
into the wilderness for 40 years (vv. 28-29). In time, all of the adults died
except for Joshua, Caleb, and Moses. The children grew up and more children
were born. The Israelites disobeyed God time and again, but God still provided
for them. He planned to keep His promise to give Israel the promised land.
As the Israelites traveled, God gave ...
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Dear Parents,
Last week, kids learned that the Israelites believed
the discouraging report of the land of Canaan instead of Joshua and Caleb’s
good report. As a result, God punished the Israelites for their lack of faith.
The Israelites had been wandering in the wilderness when they complained to
Moses and to God. God had done some pretty amazing things for the Israelites—He
rescued them from the hand of Pharaoh, He parted the Red Sea so they could
safely cross, and He provided manna for them to eat. But to the Israelites,
this wasn’t enough.
God disciplined them because He knew their
dissatisfaction was a sign of a bigger issue: a heart ...
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Dear Parents,
Your kids have been learning about the Israelites—former slaves in Egypt—as they moved toward the promised land. Before God rescued His people from slavery in Egypt, He promised to bring the Israelites back to the land He had given to Abraham so many years before. (Ex. 3:8) From Egypt, the Israelites crossed the Red Sea and traveled toward Mount Sinai. When they were hungry and thirsty, God provided food and water. (See Ex. 16–17.) Israel spent one year at Mount Sinai, where Moses received God’s law, including the Ten Commandments.
Time
and again, the Israelites rebelled against God, Moses interceded, and God
pardoned the ...
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Dear Parents,
Thirteen of the last sixteen chapters of the Book of Exodus contain instructions for building the tabernacle. The word tabernacle means “dwelling place.” The tabernacle was a portable tent where God met with His people. God wanted to dwell among them. (See Ex. 29:45-46.)
Moses had been on the mountain talking with God for 40 days. God wrote the Ten Commandments, the words of the covenant, on tablets. When Moses returned to the camp, he called all of the Israelites together and gave them the instructions God had given him. (Ex. 24:3-4)
God’s directions for building the tabernacle were very detailed. God was not trying to ...
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