3-5s
Theme: God is the boss over everything that will happen
Aim: That they don't stand against Him
Intro:
Guessing what will happen game - eg where will the spinning
top land, flicking a large pictorial coin
Teaching:
Recap - pictures from chapters 2-7. What do they remember?
Do you remember God changed King Neb
Do you remember that God stopped Belshazzar being the boss
and put Darius in His place?
God also knows what is going to happen next. God knows what
will happen tomorrow and next week. God even knows what will happen next year!
God tells Daniel what is going to happen to God's people all
those years ago.
God tells Daniel that a King will come who is really strong.
He will be the king of Persia .
But strangely God says that this King is a ram, a male sheep [have a toy sheep
with a crown on its head]. Only God knows what is going to happen next. Who
knows? Only God knows [get them to repeat]
Then God tells Daniel that another King is coming after. God
says that this King will be even bigger and stronger and scarier. He was from Greece . But
again God says that this King is like an animal - a goat! [have a toy goat with
a crown]. Our second king charges at the first king and knocks him out [act out
with the animals]. Only God knows what is going to happen next. Who knows? Only
God knows [repeat]
But then after that God says would come a King who is even
worse. Even bigger and more powerful than these two. And this King will hate
God and will pretend God isn't there. And it won't nice to be one of God's
people during this time. Only God knows what is going to happen next. Who
knows? Only God knows.
This King comes attacks God's people and worships his own
gods in God's special places. This was horrible for God's people.
And all this happens. It all comes true just as God had
said. Because God is in charge of all of this. He puts the kings in place and
takes away their crowns. only God knows what is going to happen next. Who
knows? Only God knows.
So there will be times for you and me, where we don't know
what's going to happen next. But God knows, only God knows. So we can trust Him
always. And He has sent a King far more wonderful than these Kings, King Jesus,
who is always good and will be boss forever.
Craft:
- Clock with 'Only God knows' written on
- Crowns
- Toilet roll ram/goat crafts?
Song:
- My God is so Big
- Who's the King of the Jungle?
- Jesus is the Mighty, mighty King
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5-11s
Theme: God is in charge of all history and knows that there
will be bad rulers
Aim: Trust their future to God, whatever it might hold
Intro:
Throwing the dice - they have to guess what number it will
land on. If they're wrong they're out. Keep throwing until they're all out.
Intro chat - what do you want to be when you grow up?
Teaching:
Recap - Bible timeline. Perhaps adapt and focus in on the
time between Daniel and Jesus coming.
Daniel has another weird dream where God is telling him what
is going to happen in the future.
Firstly, Daniel sees a ram. Read v3-4. [Dress one up in a
ram mask] What do you think is going on here? Later Daniel is told by an angel.
Read v15-20. He's the King of the Medes and Persians. God tells Daniel that
this King is going to come because God knows all of the future and has control
of it all.
Secondly, Daniel sees another animal. Read v5-8. [dress one
in a goat mask and act out]. This is strange isn't. Well we need to listen to
our angel again. Read v21-22. The King of Greece, this was a man called
Alexander the Great.
But then things get really nasty. Read v9-12. What is this
King going to do? The angel explains a bit more to us. Read v23-25.
Do you know, all this happened as God said it would. There
was a ruler called Antiochus Epiphanes. He was very angry with the Jewish people
and attacked them, killing many men, women and children. He burnt their Bibles
(v12 - 'threw the truth to the ground'), took over God's temple and made
sacrifices to his god, Zeus, there! This was awful.
But God knew this was going to happen. He is the true God
who has control over everything. So when you look at things that happened in
the past, the Vikings, the Romans, the Victorians, remember that this is all
the story of how God has acted in the past.
But history repeats itself, and there have been other kings
have set themselves against God. And there will be one king at the end of time
before Jesus returns who will set himself against God. Read 2 Thess 2:1-4.
Table time:
[have a pictures of a ram, a goat, plus some stick on
crowns, then label as we go through]
Knowledge
- What happens in Daniel's vision?
- Read v27 - How does Daniel feel about this?
Understanding
- Why does God give Daniel this vision?
- What does this vision tell us about God?
Application
- What do we expect will happen in the future?
- What should we remember about the past and the future?
- What does knowing that God is in charge drive us to do?
Pray for countries with anti-Christian dictators
Memory verse
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