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Lego Tower of Babel

Friday, October 4th, 2013

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When you teach your children the origin of world languages, you can have them build a Lego Tower of Babel. All they have to do is grab a base and start building a square three rows tall. Then move on to a different color, scooting in by one row of bumps. Build a stack of three again. Continue until you have run out of Legos.

lego-tower-of-babel-2I did this in a church nursery one time with Duplo Legos, and the structure was even taller. You have to have an enormous set of Legos to actually make a structure tall enough to look like a tower. If you don’t have a large enough Lego set, you can make your tower out of blocks or other building materials. A miniature Tower of Babel could be made from sugar cubes.

Explain to the children that all men on earth had one language, and that they worked together to build a tower that reached to the heavens. God had commanded Noah and his family to be fruitful and to fill the earth. They disobeyed by staying in one place. Some people have speculated that they wanted the tall tower for 3 reasons:

  1. To climb on if there was another world flood, so they wouldn’t drown this time.
  2. So that they could find this location from far away, because it was so tall. They did not want to scatter to fill the earth like God commanded.
  3. They wanted to show their prowess of how awesome they were, because they could build a limitless structure that would reach up to God Himself.

In other words, they could disobey God, avert God’s wrath, and become like God, dwelling in the heavens. God struck them with confusion as they suddenly were each speaking separate languages. They couldn’t understand each other! The builders couldn’t figure out how to proceed because everyone was speaking gibberish. Just to survive, they separated into different regions and towns, and they never finished building the structure.

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Cardboard Model of Noah’s Ark

Thursday, October 3rd, 2013

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Create a three-dimensional model of Noah’s ark by making a cutaway of the bottom deck of the ark. In this video, I will show you how to make a scale model of all the compartments on the bottom deck of Noah’s ark. You will need the following items for this fun activity:

  • lots of cardboard (preferably cardboard box lids)
  • packing tape
  • masking tape
  • brown paint
  • popsicle sticks
  • diagonal cutters or butcher knife
  • small plastic animals, 2 of each kind

Tape cardboard box lids together, as shown in the video. You can use any pieces of cardboard to create the same shape. Measure one foot across, and 6 feet long. These are the proportions of the ark, since it was 50 cubits wide and 300 cubits long. The ark was larger than a football field, with three decks.

After taping the cardboard together with packing tape for strength, place masking tape on top of it, so that the paint will adhere to it. Now paint the entire model of Noah’s ark whatever shade of brown you want, since nobody knows what color gopher wood was.

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Now have the kids build fences with popsicle sticks, gluing 3 half-pieces to 2 whole sticks. I show you how to do this in the video. Insert the fences into slits that you cut into the bottom of the cardboard. Now place the animals in the ark two by two.

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The reason God destroyed the earth was that every inclination of men’s hearts was to do evil continually. (Genesis 6:5) This caused God to have great sorrow, because no one on earth cared about having a relationship with Him. Noah was the only exception. God supernaturally saved him with his family by having Noah build an ark. Then God cracked open the foundations of the deep under the earth, and water poured over the earth from below and above. Scholars have conjectured that the continents were all connected until the flood, and that the major earthquakes of the waters under the earth breaking forth caused the present locations of the continents.

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Garden of Eden Terrarium

Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013

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When you teach your children about the Garden of Eden in Genesis, why not make a unique terrarium? You can use real plants to make a beautiful garden inside a glass salad bowl or any other large glass container or jar. Cascading tiny flowers would add a beautiful touch.

If you want to keep the Garden of Eden terrarium alive for longer than a day, you will want to put a layer of small pebbles on the bottom for drainage. Then add good gardening soil, adding the plants one by one, putting the larger plants in the back and the smaller ones in the front. Feel free to let the plants grow upward and out of the jar, overlapping the sides. Then add plastic animals throughout the terrarium. Imagine how God felt as He created the world for the first time, with the angels singing for joy in the background (Job 38:7)

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Read about the creation of the beautiful Garden of Eden, about the rivers that watered the land, about the fruit-bearing trees, and about what happened when Adam and Eve ate from the forbidden tree in Genesis chapters 1-3.

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Circumstances Don’t Dictate Our Faith

Thursday, September 20th, 2012

This morning when we were listening to the story of Esau approaching Jacob’s family with 400 men, I stopped the audio to ask the kids how they would feel. Esau had previously said that he would murder his brother Jacob for stealing his birthright and blessing through trickery and lying. Jacob knew that he was going to be killed, and he was scared half out of his mind.

“What would you have done to appease your brother’s fury and try to protect your family from being killed?” I asked this after they heard that Jacob had given a huge present of lots of animals to his brother.

“Give him presents” was the answer that seemed appropriate because Jacob had sinfully tricked Esau out of his father’s blessing, and Jacob had received double the inheritance that Esau had, because the right of the firstborn back then was to get a double portion of the inheritance. (To do the math, since there were two kids, the money was divided into three parts; the firstborn got 2/3rds, and the second son was supposed to get 1/3. If you had 8 kids, you divided the inheritance money into 9 parts, giving the firstborn a double portion.) Anyway, since Jacob had swindled riches away from his brother, it was only right for him to make up for his sin through money. Money back then (wealth) was counted through livestock and land. So Jacob was giving large amounts of livestock to his brother to appease his anger.

“But wait, Mom!” shouted my oldest son. “God told Jacob that he would prosper in the land back home. So there was no way that Esau would kill his brother. If he had trusted God, he would not have been scared.”

I paused. My son was right.

Circumstances are not reality. God’s Word is reality. If we can truly grasp this, we would never have fear, because God has promised that all our circumstances will work out for our good. I was shocked that my son had such deep spiritual perception.

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