CRS REVISION NOTE YEAR 2

THE STORY OF CREATION

Genesis 1:26 "Lets us make man in our image, after our 

likeness."

THE STORY OF CREATION

First Day: God made light

 

Second Day: God made the sky and the heavens

 

Third-Day: God made the earth, forest, seas, rivers, lakes and streams.

 

Fourth Day: God made the sun, moon and stars

 

Fifth Day: God made the birds in the air and the fish in the sea

 

Sixth Day: God made all the other animals. God then made man and put him in charge of the world.

God created Adam and Eve and put them in a beautiful 

the garden called "the Garden of Eden."

Seventh Day: God rested and blessed all His creatures.

THE CALL OF ABRAHAM

MEMORY VERSE:          

Genesis 12:1 "Go from your country and kindred and 

your father's house to the land that I will show you."

Terah, was the father of Abraham. They lived in Ur in the Southern Mesopotamia.

After the death of Terah, God called Abraham to leave his country to a new land that He would show Him. God said: "Go

 from your country and kindred and your father's house 

to the land that I will show you".

So, Abraham obeyed God without delay. He took Sarah his wife, Lot His nephew, his slaves and cattle and set out for the journey.

THE PERSON OF JACOB

Genesis 25:21-28; 29-34      

Jacob was a grandson of Abraham and a son of Isaac, Jacob was one of the great patriarchs ("fathers") of the nation of Israel. The name “Jacob” means "deceiver”.

 

Isaac and Rebecca were the parents of Jacob. He had a twin brother called Esau. Esau sold his birthright to Jacob in exchange for food.

Esau grew up and became a good hunter, while Jacob became a shepherd.

Jacob also deceived his father and took the blessing of his brother Esau, and ran away to his uncle called Laban in Haran.

THE STORY OF JOSEPH

MEMORY VERSE:

Genesis37:10 "What is this that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers bow down to you?”

Joseph was one of the twelve Sons of Jacob. His mother's name was Rachael. He had two dreams:

v  Joseph and his brothers were binding grass in the field and then his brothers' grass bowed to his.

v  Joseph saw the sun, moon and eleven stars bow to him.

His brothers do not like Joseph because of the following reasons:

v  Because he was his father's favourite son.

v  Because of his dream of greatness

When his father sent him to give food to his brothers who 

were looking after their cattle, they seized him and sold him to

 the Ishmaelite traders for twenty shekels of silver.

The traders also resold him to Potiphar in Egypt.

JESUS AND LAZARUS      

MEMORY VERSE: JOHN 11:43 Jesus prayed and cried

 out: Lazarus, come out."

Lazarus was a friend of Jesus. He lived in Bethany with his two sisters, Mary and Martha.

One day, Lazarus became sick and Mary and Martha sent for Jesus.

 By the time Jesus arrived, Lazarus had died and was buried.

Jesus prayed and cried out: "Lazarus come out."

Lazarus woke up and became alive again.

Moral Lesson: God wants us to help our friends like Jesus helped Lazarus.

THE ISRAELITES BECAME SLAVES IN EGYPT

Memory verse: Exodus 1:7 "Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew, women to nurse the child for you?"

                                                      

After the death of Joseph, there was a new king in Egypt who

 did not remember what Joseph had done for the Egyptians in

 saving them from famine.

The new king did not like the Israelites and the king made the

 Israelites slaves in Egypt. The Egyptians beat them and give them little food. But God made grow in number. The king

 decided to reduce their number. He gave orders to Shiprah and Puah, the two midwives, to kill all the male Israelite children at birth. When they refused, the king ordered that all their male children that were born should be thrown into the River Nile to die.

THE STORY OF JOSEPH

This is the story of a young man named Joseph.  

His father's name is Jacob, and they lived in Canaan from where his grandfather was from.

Joseph was seventeen and he had eleven brothers, and only had one brother younger than him.  Can you imagine having eleven brothers to play with, or fight with?

Because Joseph was one of the youngest sons, his father spent more time with him, and he became very special to him. 

 So Jacob had a special robe made for Joseph.  (They didn't have jackets back then, so this was a very special jacket). 

 It was very beautiful and had every colour you could imagine in it.

All of Joseph's older brothers saw this and they got very jealous.  The word jealous means that Joseph's brothers disliked him because they thought his father liked him more and because he got the special coat.  They got so jealous they couldn't even say a kind word to him.

One day Joseph had a dream, and he went to go tell his brothers.  He said, "Guess what?  Last night I had a strange dream.  We were tying up bunches of grain out in the field when suddenly my bunch stood up, while all of yours gathered around and bowed to me."  The brothers looked at each other in disgust, but Joseph continued.  "Then I had another dream that the sun, moon, and eleven stars bowed down to me."

"Who do you think you are?"  The brothers said.  "Do you think that you are better than all of us?  Do you think that we would ever bow down to you?"  This made the brothers dislike Joseph even more.

When he told his father about his dreams he said, "Those are strange dreams."  But he thought carefully about what Joseph had told him.

A few days later Joseph's father asked him to check on his brothers.  They were in the fields quite a distance away.  So Joseph went to find them.

When the brothers saw Joseph in the distance, they made a plan to kill him.  But when Reuben, Joseph's oldest brother heard this he said, "Let's not kill him, just throw him in a well out here in the field."  He said this because he was secretly planning to come back and rescue Joseph when the other brothers had left.

So when Joseph came to them, they took off his beautiful robe and they threw him in an empty well.  A little while later a group of people came by that were wanting to sell some things in Egypt.  One of the brothers spoke up, "Why don't we sell him to these people, this way we never have to see him again, and we don't have to kill him."

The other brothers liked this idea, so they sold him to the people who were going to Egypt.

Unfortunately, Reuben had been working and hadn't seen what happened.  When he returned to the well he noticed that Joseph was gone.  He had been sold to an important man named Potiphar, an assistant to the Pharaoh of Egypt.

The rest of the brothers took Joseph's beautiful robe and dipped it in animal blood and took it back to their father.  When the father saw this he cried, "Some animal has killed my son."  And he cried for many days, so much that nobody could comfort him.