Use this Ezekiel Sunday School lesson to teach kids about the need to tell others about the faith.
Needed: Bibles, a volunteer to play Ezekiel (or you can do this yourself)
Needed: Bibles, a volunteer to play Ezekiel (or you can do this yourself)
Lesson: (Note: Always allow students enough time to think about and answer the questions before clarifying the teaching.)
The
two kingdoms of Israel and Judah had been conquered. God let the
Assyrians and the Babylonians conquer Israel and Judah because the
people of Israel and Judah had done so many bad things. They had
believed in and worshipped fake gods instead of the real God, and they
had done all the wrong things that God didn’t do want them to do. So God
let the Assyrians and the Babylonians conquer their kingdoms and carry
the Israelite people back to Assyria and Babylon.
(Read Ezekiel 1-2 with your students or read the following story as a summary.)
Summary Story:
Ezekiel:
Hi, everyone! I’m Ezekiel. I was an Israelite living in Babylon after
God punished up by letting the Babylonians conquer us and take us back
to their country.
One
day, while I was living in Babylon, I began to feel a lot of wind
blowing toward me. It was very strong. And there was a huge cloud over
my head with lightning in it and fire. Inside the fire were four angels.
These angels had four faces, one on each side of their head. One face
was a regular human face, but then they had a lion face and an eagle
face and a bull face. And they had six wings each, with eyes totally
covering their wings.
The
four angels were carrying a throne above their heads. God was on the
throne. He looked like a man, but from His stomach up, He looked like
glowing metal, and from His stomach down, He just looked like fire. I
don’t know if that’s how God looks all the time, but that’s how He
looked then.
How would all of you like to see God?
Do you think you would be scared?
Well, I can tell you that I was scared, seeing those angels and God. I just fell down on the ground and bowed before God.
Then
God said, “Ezekiel, I’m going to make you a prophet. I want you to go
preach to the Israelites living in Babylon and tell them to believe in
Me and do the right things that I want them to do. I am making you like a
guard on top of the castle. When the guard sees an enemy coming, he’s
supposed to warn the rest of the people. Now, I want you to warn the
Israelites. Tell them that if they don’t believe in Me and do the right
things that I want them to do, then I will punish them again.
“If
you don’t warn them, then you will be guilty of doing something wrong
too, because I told you to warn them. But if you do warn them, and they
still won’t believe in Me and do the right things, then only they will
be guilty. You will have done the right thing by warning them.”
So
from then on, I was a prophet. Whatever God told me to do, I did, and I
tried to warn the people of Israel to start believing in God again and
to do the right things that God wanted them to do. Some people believed
me and started believing in God, but other people didn’t. At least I had
done what I was supposed to do and warned them, right?
(Have students thank “Ezekiel” for coming to talk to them.)
Review Questions:
What did God tell Ezekiel to do? (To warn people to believe in God and do the right things that He wanted them to do.)
What
would happen if Ezekiel didn’t warn people to believe in God? (Then
Ezekiel would get in trouble for not warning people like God said.)
Do you think God wants us to tell other people to believe in God too? (Yes.)
What happens to people if they don’t believe in God when they die? Where do they go? (To Hell.)
But
God doesn’t want people to go to Hell, so He wants us to warn other
people to believe in Him so that they can go to Heaven when they die
instead of Hell, because God says that anyone who believes in Him will
go to Heaven and live with Him for ever and ever. So let’s do our best
to tell as many people as possible about God so that they can believe in
Him too and go to Heaven when they die.
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