Unit Review

Prepare

Lesson Preparation

CCome On In

MMemory Verse

Lesson Theme Poster Review

Gather the Lesson Theme Posters from Lessons 51–59.

Review Game—Bingo

Print the following:

• Review Questions
• Bingo Cards (four variations)

Bring the following:

• Dry beans, buttons, beads, or pennies to mark the answers
• Optional: small rewards

GGo to Prayer

Optional Supplements

Hands-On Activities

PowerPoint

Come On In

As students arrive, direct them to the activity you chose for today .

Memory Verse

Studying God’s Word

Lesson Review

All right! Let’s see how well you remember the last nine lessons! We’re going to play a game afterwards, so you’ll want to listen carefully.

Lesson 51

In the book of Exodus, the descendants of Jacob, or Israel, were living in Egypt. God blessed them with big families. A pharaoh who didn’t know about Joseph came to power, and he made the Israelites his slaves. He was worried because there were so many of them, so he commanded all the Israelite baby boys be thrown into the Nile River!

Show Lesson 51 Theme Poster. But God protected Moses as a baby. God helped Moses’ parents hide him for the first three months of his life. Then God watched over Moses when his mother placed him in a basket and put it in the river.

God led Pharaoh’s daughter to Moses’ basket and gave her compassion for him. She named him Moses because she drew him out of the water. She adopted Moses as her own son, and he was raised as a prince of Egypt!

• After 40 years in the palace, Moses wanted to see how his own people, the Israelite slaves, were doing. Moses saw an Egyptian beating a slave. What did he do? He killed the Egyptian and hid the body in the sand.

  But Pharaoh found out what happened and wanted to kill Moses. So, Moses fled to Midian where he helped the daughters of a priest, and he joined their family.

  God never left Moses, and he never leaves us, either. God is our protector. Even during scary situations, like when Moses had to run for his life, God was still watching over him.

Lesson 52

Show Lesson 52 Theme Poster. Forty years later, God appeared to Moses in a burning bush and commanded him to remove his sandals because the ground was holy. God told Moses he knew the Israelites were suffering as slaves in Egypt, and he cared about them.

• What task did God tell Moses he wanted him to do? Lead the Israelites out of Egypt.
• Did Moses agree to go right away? No.

  Moses didn’t think he could do what God wanted. But God told Moses his name, I am, and gave him three signs to show the people if they didn’t believe that God had sent him.

• What three signs did God give Moses to show them? Do you remember? Staff changed into snake, hand covered in leprosy then healed, and water turned into blood.

  Moses told God that he wasn’t very good at speaking and then asked God to send someone else. God was angry when Moses didn’t obey immediately, but he said that Moses’ brother, Aaron, would help him. Finally, Moses obeyed and returned to Egypt with his family. He and Aaron showed the signs and spoke to the Israelite leaders, who were glad that God cared for them and had sent someone to free them from slavery.

Lesson 53

Show Lesson 53 Theme Poster. This lesson was a great reminder of God’s power. First, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him God commanded that he let the Israelites go. But Pharaoh refused. His magicians, using Satan’s power, challenged God’s power in a battle of serpents. After Aaron’s staff turned into a snake, the magicians threw down their staffs and theirs also became snakes!

• What did Aaron’s serpent do to the magician’s serpents? Swallowed them up.

  The magicians’ power was no match for God. Then God showed his power over the false gods that the Egyptians worshipped using nine miraculous plagues.

  God turned the water to blood, which killed the fish and made the water unfit to drink. He sent millions of frogs, gnats, and flies. Next, the Egyptians lost livestock to a terrible disease. Then they got painful boils on their bodies. After that, God sent a terrible hailstorm that killed any animals or servants who were outside. But God showed mercy by warning the Egyptians before this plague. Those who feared God brought their servants and animals inside, and they were spared.

  The plague of the locusts came next, destroying the food crops. And for the ninth plague, God sent darkness that could be felt for three days.

• After these nine plagues, did Pharaoh let the people go? No.
• Why not? He had a hard heart. He was stubborn and didn’t believe God.
• What does it mean to have a hard heart, like Pharaoh’s? Allow answers.

  A hard heart is one that refuses to obey God. It is proud and stubborn.

Lesson 54

• But the tenth and final plague finally caused Pharaoh to obey God. What was the final plague? The death of the firstborn.
• Slide #7
  Show the Lesson 54 Theme Poster. God designed a special way to protect the Israelites from this plague. What did the Israelites do to protect their homes? They sacrificed a perfect lamb and spread its blood on their doorposts.

  This was the first Passover. By sacrificing a perfect lamb and spreading its blood on their doorposts, the Israelites were saved from the punishment God brought on the Egyptians. At midnight when God struck the Egyptians’ firstborn, God passed over their houses and their firstborn did not die.

• The Passover shows us a picture of someone. Who is that? Jesus.

  Just like the blood of the perfect lambs protected the Israelites from death that night in Egypt, Jesus’ blood saves us from eternal death. Because of Jesus, we can have life in heaven with him. This eternal life is a free gift from God to all who understand that they are sinners, ask God to forgive them, and believe and trust in Jesus for salvation.

• What did Pharaoh finally do after the tenth plague that caused so many to die, including his own son? He said the Israelites could go.

Lesson 55

After the tenth plague, the Egyptians wanted the Israelites to leave—fast!

• What do we call it when many people are leaving at the same time? Remember, it’s the name of the second book in the Bible. Exodus.
  Slide #8
  Show the Lesson 55 Theme Poster. The Egyptians gave the Israelites gold and silver jewelry and clothing, which they took when they left. And God was faithful to lead them through the wilderness with a pillar of cloud and fire that they could see up ahead of them.
• But what did Pharaoh do after the Israelites left Egypt? He changed his mind and chased after them.

  Pharaoh and his army chased after the Israelites! He wanted to capture them and bring them back to Egypt. The Israelites were trapped at the Red Sea.

• What miracle did God do at the Red Sea to save his people? He parted the Red Sea.

  God parted the waters so that the Israelites could cross through the sea on dry land with all their animals and possessions. Then he dealt a final blow to Pharaoh and his army when they tried to follow the Israelites through the sea. God caused the parted waters to rush back into place, and all the Egyptians were drowned. The Israelites were saved! They didn’t need to be afraid of Pharaoh and his army anymore.

• Who did the Israelites praise and thank for all this? God.

Lesson 56

Even after seeing God deliver them in such a mighty way, it wasn’t long before the Israelites began to question God’s plan and complain to Moses about food. They wanted bread and meat like they’d had in Egypt.

Show the Lesson 56 Theme Poster. God showed his power and faithfulness to the Israelites by miraculously providing for all their needs. He gave them food, water, and protection from enemies.

• For the entire journey, God provided manna for all the people. Why did they call the flaky bread “manna”? What does that word mean? They didn’t know what it was and asked, “What is it?”

  God also told them how and when to collect the manna so they could learn to trust him each day. When they followed his directions, they all had plenty and could rest on the Sabbath day.

• When they needed water, what did the Israelites do? Did they pray for it? No. They grumbled and complained.

  That’s right. Instead of trusting God to provide, they blamed Moses and said he was trying to get them all killed in the wilderness.

  We talked about two times God provided water. Once, God told Moses to throw a log in the water so it turned sweet.

• What happened when God told Moses to strike a rock with his staff? Water gushed out of the rock.

  When the Amalekites attacked, we saw how God protected his people. He used Moses to give the Israelites victory in the battle that day.

• What did Moses have to do in order for the Israelites to win? Keep his hands/staff raised.

  Aaron and Hur went to the mountaintop with Moses and helped him keep his hands raised.

Lesson 57

The Israelites traveled to Mount Sinai and camped there. That’s where God gave the Israelites the Ten Commandments. God gave them these laws to show them how they should act toward him and toward each other. These laws were important for everyday life. But more than this, God wanted them to understand they were sinners who needed the promised Savior, Jesus.

Show the Lesson 57 Theme Poster. Let’s review the Ten Commandments that God gave. Use each picture and the Ten Commandments Poster to briefly review each command and what it means.

Lesson 58

Show the Lesson 58 Theme Poster. The Israelites quickly turned away from the Lord while Moses was with God on Mount Sinai. They wanted an idol to worship. They pressured Aaron to help them, and he took their gold and made a golden calf. The people gave this calf the credit for delivering them from Egypt. They broke God’s commands to worship him alone and to not make an idol or bow to it.

Moses came down the mountain to find the people dancing and singing and worshipping the golden calf. They were out of control, and Moses was furious. He threw down the stone tablets, which had the Ten Commandments written on them, and they broke.

God was ready to destroy the people, but Moses prayed and asked for mercy. God listened to Moses’ prayers. Because God is just, he sent a plague to punish the people, but because of his mercy, he didn’t wipe them out completely.

Lesson 59

Show the Lesson 59 Theme Poster. God chose to dwell among the Israelites. He gave instructions to Moses for how to build a tabernacle. There were six items in the tabernacle and tent of meeting. The bronze altar was where the priests offered the animal sacrifices to cover the people’s sin. Next, the bronze basin was used by the priests for washing. Inside the tent were two rooms. The holy place had the golden lampstand, the table of showbread, and the altar of incense. The most holy place, where only the high priest went once a year, contained the ark of the covenant. The ark had a mercy seat and two cherubim and was covered with gold.

• How did God tell Moses to make the furnishings, like the altar, table, and ark, so they were easy to carry? They had rings for poles so the Levites could lift and carry them from place to place.

  That’s right! God thought of all the details, like how to make everything easy to pack up and carry. He even told them the colors he wanted for the tent and for the priests’ clothing. The tabernacle and the priests were both set apart for God’s service.

  Then Moses asked the people to give the things they’d need for all they were commanded to build. And the people responded generously! They brought more than enough, and all the skilled workers completed the work. Then God sent his cloud and his glory over the tabernacle to show the people he was with them.

• God reminded the people of their sins and the punishment of death through animal sacrifices. What did the daily animal sacrifices that the priests made on the altar point to? The final, perfect sacrifice of Jesus.

  Right. He did that so they would look ahead to when Jesus the Messiah would come. Jesus would end the animal sacrifices by his one perfect sacrifice on the cross.

We encourage you to play the following review game.

Materials

Review Questions

Bingo Cards (be sure to use the four different card designs)

Dry beans, buttons, beads, or pennies to mark the answers

Instructions

Print one copy of the Review Questions for your use.

Print and cut out one Bingo Card for each student. Be sure to use all four variations of the cards to mix it up among the students. Pass out some markers to each student.

Ask the questions one at a time. Students will answer the questions and put a marker on ONE block with the correct answer on their card. Once markers are on the card, they cannot be moved to another block! Whoever fills in a row of five on the Bingo Card (across, down, or diagonal) will say, “Bingo!” or some other appropriate phrase. Check the student’s card to verify answers and declare a winner. Students can trade cards and repeat the game as time allows.

Optional: You may want to challenge the students to cover the entire card before saying, “Blackout!” Repeat the questions as necessary.

Group Prayer

Be sure to pray with your students before you dismiss them.

• Thank God for his mighty acts to deliver the Israelites from slavery and provide for them in the wilderness.
• Pray that we will be like Moses and run to God with any problem.