Moses Lifts Up the Brazen Serpent

Moses Lifts Up the Brazen Serpent

Today we continued learning about Moses.  After Moses and Eleazar returned from the mountain with out Aaron they returned to the people.  They were sad and had mourned for 39 days. Eleazar ad become the spiritual leader (Pastor) of the people in his fathers place.  Soon after that poisonous snakes entered the Israelite camp.  Many even died from the snakebites.  The people cried to Moses to pray to God to take the snakes away.  God still loved the people in spite of their sin and heard Moses' prayers.  God had a plan to take the snakes away and cure them from the deadly snakebites.  God told Moses to "make a snake out of bronze and put it on a pole in the desert"  He said. "Those who've been bitten should look at the bronze snake and they will live."

It may have seemed too easy to some, but it was God's only way for them to be cured and live.  They had to admit their sin and choose to believe God by looking at the bronze snake lifted up on the pole.  Then they could be healed.  After the people were cured of their snakebites, they continued their journey.  The praised God by sining songs of praise.


The Word Up! is:
God gives me victory!

The memory verse is:
John 3:17 "For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved."

Club February 21, 2011

Today we continued learning about Moses.  We talked about how after 39 years of waiting to get into the promised land that many of the followers were frustrated with God and were complaining about not having water for themselves or their animals.  God called Moses and Aaron to the top of the mountain and spoke to them telling them to go down to the people and talk to the rock and to use their staff and strike it and water would be available to the people.  Moses decided to not follow God and instead decided to hit the rock twice with his staff and water came out for the people; however, he chose not to obey God by talking to the rock first.  This angered God and then God asked that Moses and Aaron as well as Aarons son, Eleazar to return to the top of the mountain.  When at the top of the mountain God told Aaron to take off his robes and for his son to put them on.  Only Moses and Eleazar returned down to the people because Aaron had died.  God had punished them for disobeying and this made the people sad and they mourned for 30 days.

The Word Up is:
Trust God-obey. Him.

The memory verse:
John 13:17
Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

Happy Birthday to:
Ava Belle 5yrs old February 18
Teacher Marsha February 24