LESSON OVERVIEW FOR ADULTS In Numbers 22–24, a king named Balak became afraid of the Israelites because God had helped them win many battles. Balak hired a man named Balaam to curse God’s people. Balaam wanted the money, but God told him not to say bad things about the Israelites. When Balaam traveled on his donkey toward the Israelites, God
LESSON OVERVIEW FOR ADULTS In Numbers 21:4-9, the people of Israel were traveling through the wilderness and growing deeply impatient. God had been faithfully providing food and water for His people throughout their long journey, yet instead of responding with gratitude, they turned their frustration into complaint. They spoke against both God and Moses, calling the food God provided worthless
LESSON OVERVIEW FOR ADULTS In Numbers 20:1-13, we find the Israelites camped in the wilderness near a place called Kadesh. Decades had passed since God freed them from slavery in Egypt, and an entire generation had grown up wandering in the desert as a consequence of their ancestors’ disobedience and lack of faith. The people were exhausted, thirsty, and desperate.
LESSON OVERVIEW FOR ADULTS In Matthew 26-28, we find the most important story ever told. Jesus, knowing what was ahead, rode into Jerusalem on a donkey as crowds cheered and welcomed Him as King. He then shared a final meal with His twelve disciples, breaking bread, and sharing a cup with them, pointing toward the sacrifice He was about to
LESSON OVERVIEW FOR ADULTS In Numbers 1-3, God instructed Moses to count all the people of Israel and organize them into twelve tribes, each descended from one of Jacob’s sons. Because Jacob had previously adopted his two grandsons, Ephraim and Manasseh (the sons of Joseph), as his own, the tribe of Joseph was replaced by these two tribes. The tribe
LESSON OVERVIEW FOR ADULTS In Leviticus 10:1-3, we encounter a sobering moment in Israel’s history that reveals just how seriously God takes His own holiness. The Israelites had been set apart as a people who belonged to the one true God, and God had given extremely detailed instructions for how worship was to be carried out, from the design of
LESSON OVERVIEW FOR ADULTS In Matthew 21, Mark 11, Luke 19, and John 12, we find Jesus approaching Jerusalem during the busy Passover season, a time when thousands of Jewish people filled the city to remember how God had delivered their ancestors from slavery in Egypt. As Jesus drew near to the city, He sent two disciples ahead to retrieve
LESSON OVERVIEW FOR ADULTS In Joshua 24:1-28, near the end of his life, Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel at Shechem to stand before God. He recounted the entire sweep of God’s faithfulness to His people, beginning with Abraham’s calling out of a land of idol worship, through the miraculous deliverance from Egypt, the parting of the Red Sea,
LESSON OVERVIEW FOR ADULTS In Numbers 13:16-31, God instructed Moses to send twelve men (one leader from each tribe of Israel) into the land of Canaan to scout it out and bring back a report. After forty days, the men returned with samples of the land’s fruit, including a large cluster of grapes, and described what they had seen. The
LESSON OVERVIEW FOR ADULTS In Exodus 35:4–40:38, God gave His people a remarkable assignment while they were traveling through the desert. He asked them to build Him a home. This special tent, called the Tabernacle, was to be placed right in the middle of the Israelite camp so that God could dwell among His people. Every detail of its construction
