Hey Parents!
Yes, I know, it's been a minute since I last posted up here. Life changes have taken me many places, and now preparing for a new life as a married woman, a pastor's wife, and locating to the USA, has really swallowed up any time I have for this ministry.
Today in this short nugget, I just wanted to share with you the blessing God poured out upon my daughter and I while we were going through her Bible History class. I post this because I want to encourage us to put our children on a Bible reading plan that they will go through daily in their own personal time with Jesus, for the fruits of such devotional time will surely pay off in the after years.
Our Bible History lesson is just that: Biblical history. In other words, we study the history of different countries, but from a biblical standpoint. On Wednesdays we study the book of Daniel, and today, in chapter eleven, we made use of the teaching tool: 'The Time of the End' booklet. As I read to her regarding the tribes of Edom, Moab and Ammon, we came across this verse which she told me she had read before on this page, but didn't see the connection:
Luke17:29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
Luke 17:30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
We re-read it and the only connection that I saw with the three-fold symbolic tribes in Daniel eleven escaping the hand of the papacy (the three-fold division of modern Babylon in Revelation), and Lot escaping out of Sodom, was just that: an esacpe taking place prior to God's judgments. As I was saying this to Rachel, all of a sudden her eyes lit up in what I call 'light bulb moment mode'. Her wheels started turning as she explained how Lot's daughters had sons who were called Moab and Ammon, but these sons came as a result of the daughters committing fornication. She jumped up in her seat in excitement as she realised that the word 'fornication' is also used in Revelation regarding the sins of Babylon.
Oh and it didn't stop there, for she rushed to her Bible and eagerly tried to find in Jeremiah where she had read something in her Bible reading time that she has every evening. God had brought what she had read at that time to her remembrance when she needed it! She excitedly stood up in the middle of the room, as a child in a candy shop! Then she read the following verses how they link with the word 'fornication', in connection with Moab and Ammon, and Revelation 17:
Jer 51:7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
Jer 51:8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
Jer 51:9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
The expression of excitement and joy on a child's face when the Lord touches their hearts and minds through the Word....you can't put a price on it!
Indeed it pays to form early habits of Bible reading, for none of what they learn during those times are wasted. God will use His Word to mould and polish their characters, and furnish them with solid morals, as well as help them connect the dots in the prophetic Word, so that they will see the time they are in.
Sow the seed, and watch the Husbandman bring it to harvest!
Happy Homeschooling!
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