CHILDREN'S SABBATH LESSONS
LESSON 5
The Tower of Babel
A long time ago there was a very bad man named Nimrod.
Nimrod was bad because he did not like
Yahweh. He wanted to be more important than Yahweh.
One day Nimrod decided to build a big tower. The tower was going to be so big
that it would reach up to the clouds.
Nimrod wanted people to like him and
treat him the way they should treat Yahweh. He did not want people to even like
Yahweh, so he told them that if they would build the tower, they would be better
than Yahweh.
You know that Yahweh is the greatest
one. No one can be better than Yahweh.
Yahweh knew that if He let the people
build the tower, people would think Nimrod was better than Yahweh. This would
not be good for the people.
So one day Yahweh caused something to
happen that stopped the work on the tower. He caused them to talk in different
languages so no one could understand anyone else. Because they didn’t understand
each other, they didn’t know what to do. To this day, we still have hundreds of
different languages. Yahweh does promises that one day He will restore a pure
language to His people.
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THINKING CAPS ON! |
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Have you been out somewhere, either with your
parents shopping or even perhaps in school when you heard someone
talking and did not understand a word they said? Maybe you asked Mom
or Dad and they told you that person was speaking in Spanish or
French. They are other languages. Now just think: If you worked for
someone who spoke Spanish, but you only understood English, what
kind of problems would you have? |
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Shalom is Hebrew; do you know what it means in
English? |
The tower was called the tower of Babel
because “babel” means “confusion.” We get our English word "babble" from the
Hebrew "babel." Because people could not understand each
other they could not work together and the tower was never finished.
Memory Verse
For Yahweh so loved the world
that He gave His one
and only Son, ...."
John 3:16a
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HalleluYAH!
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