JBQ Lesson 2 Tower of Babel!
God Establishes His Covenant Topic: The Flood and After 16 2 Lesson Bible Fact-Pak Questions 38, 39 535 FOLLOW GOD S WAY (The Tower of Babel) Scripture references: Genesis 10 and 11; Proverbs 14:12 After the Flood, Noah s sons had children, then they had children. Soon the world began to be filled with people again. Then they began to turn away from God. 1. The Tower As the years went by, people stopped loving and worshipping God. They got together and decided to build a great city and a high tower that reaches to the heavens (Genesis 11:4). They wanted this tower to be a center point where all the people could become famous for their work together to reach heaven. The people did not want to be scattered over all the earth (Genesis 11:4). But God s command to the first man and woman was to fill the whole earth. By building this great city and high tower, the people were disobeying God. God could not allow them to continue. He took a drastic measure to stop the building. BFP: 38 2. Confusion and Separation Have you ever heard someone speak another language? Could you understand what the person said? If someone said to you, Buenos dias, would you know what that meant? After the Flood, everyone spoke the same language. Because everyone could understand one another, they were able to do great things together. God changed all this when He saw the high tower they were building. He decided to confuse their language so they wouldn t understand each other. Imagine your teacher is reading this lesson to you. Suddenly the teacher starts talking in another language. The teacher say, Hola, clase. Hoy estudiamos la lección diez y seis. Would you know what your teacher said? (Hello, class. Today we are studying lesson sixteen.) Confusion resulted! This was the reason the tower was called Babel, which means confusion. The building of the city and the tower stopped immediately. The people gathered together in groups that could still understand each other. The language groups moved away and scattered across the earth. BFP: 39 3. God s Way Is the Right Way The people had disobeyed God because they wanted to make a name for themselves (Genesis 11:4) instead of honoring God s name. In building the tower, they wanted either to honor a false god or to honor God in a false way. God does not live in earthly temples and He does not want us to worship images or self. The people of Babylon followed their own thoughts and plans in trying to become great. The Book of Proverbs tells us that we should not trust our own way. Only by following God s ways can we do what is right. BFP: 535
Monday Lesson 16 Follow God s Way (The Tower of Babel) Activities for younger children Some words in the answer below have been jumbled into confusion, much like the confusion in Babel. Unscramble the words and write them on the blanks. Question: After the Flood, how did the people rebel against God? Answer: By building a to reach. WERTO EVENHA Draw a picture to represent the tower of Babel the people built.
Tuesday Lesson 16 Follow God s Way (The Tower of Babel) Activities for older children Some words are missing from the question and answer (Bible Fact-Pak #39). Fill in the missing words, then find those words in the puzzle below. How did God the who built the of? By their so they couldn t one another. C T H E R E I S A W O U A Y T H R A T S N E B A B E L E M D F J S R W A I G E H U T T O N O A R M D S A T G N B S U G T I I U N T T H E E E N A N D A I T L E A G D S N P E O P L E T O D D E A T H S After doing the puzzle above, write the remaining letters below to find out why we should not trust our own judgment in choosing the right way to live.,. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS Why was building the tower so offensive to God? When God punished the people by dividing their languages, how did He show mercy? Why do you think the people so quickly turned away from following God?
Lesson 16 Wednesday Follow God s Way (The Tower of Babel) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ACROSS 2. God did this to their language. 5. God confused this. 6. Not following God s way leads to this. 9. What did the people want to do for themselves? (Genesis 11:4, 3 words) 10. To turn against God DOWN 1. What the people decided to build 3. The people did not want to be. 4. He lived at the time when the earth was divided. 7. The people built a high tower to reach the. 8. Means confusion
Lesson 16 Thursday Follow God s Way (The Tower of Babel) Find the words in the puzzle below. Words can read up, down, horizontally, diagonally, forward, or backward. When you are finished, cross out all the X s, K s, and Z s. Then write the remaining letters on the lines at the bottom of the page to find a hidden message. T H E R D E I C S A Z X W A O Y Z T O H S A T S O E E M S N R N I G L E B A B H F T E T F G N I D L I U B V K O K A M E A R S N A B L U T G I E N I T E H E E D E W N D N I H T L U B O E K A G D S T J O T E D E X A T K X U N D E R S T A N D H UNDERSTAND BABEL TOWER FLOOD CONFUSING HEAVENS JUDGE REBEL BUILDING.
Lesson 16 Friday Follow God s Way (The Tower of Babel) Start at the arrow and find your way through the maze, following the words to Proverbs 14:12 (NIV). right man to to appears seems appears seems to right (FINISH) START There that death to a be to is way end leads it but right a a in the in man man but
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