God's prophets tell the truth
Children's Activity
Object:
Teachers or Parents: God makes it clear in the Bible that His
prophets always tell the truth. False prophets can be identified
when their predictions do not come true. Throughout all of
history, those things that were foretold by God's prophets were
proved to be true. In the life and death of Jesus, many of the
Old Testament prophecies about the Messiah were fulfilled. In
this Gospel reading, Jesus reads an Old Testament prophecy and
lets the people know that, in him, the prophecy has been
fulfilled. Let's instill in our children a respect for prophecy
in the word of God.
*Bring a weather report from the local paper (preferably one
that was in error), and show it to the children. Discuss with
them how weather reports are predictions of the weather and are
based on good scientific evidence, but are still often wrong. We
can never be absolutely certain that they will be accurate.
Compare this with the predictions made by the prophets in the
Bible. Show them, by using a few examples, how the predictions
made by God's prophets are always correct and we can depend on
them.
*Bring the astrology section from your paper and read some
of the astrological predictions listed for various signs. Show
them how phony these things are and even dangerous to believing
Christians. Compare these false predictions with the real
prophecy of Scripture and show them how God's prophets always
tell the truth.
Sunday school assembly opening:
*Pass out slips of paper and ask each child to predict
exactly when you are going to finish speaking to them. They must
predict it to the second. Start a stopwatch and read the Gospel
text for today. When you are done, see who made the best
prediction. Discuss the difference between guesses and the
prophecies of the Bible.
prophets always tell the truth. False prophets can be identified
when their predictions do not come true. Throughout all of
history, those things that were foretold by God's prophets were
proved to be true. In the life and death of Jesus, many of the
Old Testament prophecies about the Messiah were fulfilled. In
this Gospel reading, Jesus reads an Old Testament prophecy and
lets the people know that, in him, the prophecy has been
fulfilled. Let's instill in our children a respect for prophecy
in the word of God.
*Bring a weather report from the local paper (preferably one
that was in error), and show it to the children. Discuss with
them how weather reports are predictions of the weather and are
based on good scientific evidence, but are still often wrong. We
can never be absolutely certain that they will be accurate.
Compare this with the predictions made by the prophets in the
Bible. Show them, by using a few examples, how the predictions
made by God's prophets are always correct and we can depend on
them.
*Bring the astrology section from your paper and read some
of the astrological predictions listed for various signs. Show
them how phony these things are and even dangerous to believing
Christians. Compare these false predictions with the real
prophecy of Scripture and show them how God's prophets always
tell the truth.
Sunday school assembly opening:
*Pass out slips of paper and ask each child to predict
exactly when you are going to finish speaking to them. They must
predict it to the second. Start a stopwatch and read the Gospel
text for today. When you are done, see who made the best
prediction. Discuss the difference between guesses and the
prophecies of the Bible.
