Question to children:
What were the names of the two Moabite women who joined Naomi's family?
Answer: Orpah and Ruth. “…the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth. And they dwelt there about ten years.." Ruth 1:4
Question to intermediates:
Who was used by God so that Ruth might know the true God?
Answer: Naomi, through her testimony and faith in God. “For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.” Acts 2:39.
Question to adolescents:
Read Ruth, chapter 1, verses 3 and 4 and answer: Which family did Ruth join, where she had the opportunity to know the true God?
Answer: Answer: Naomi's family. " Then Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died; and she was left, and her two sons. Now they took wives of the women of Moab: the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth. And they dwelt there about ten years." Ruth 1:3-4.
Question to children:
Who made the good choice, Ruth or Orpah?
Answer: Ruth. "...your people shall be my people, and your God, my God." Ruth 1:16.
Question for Intermediates:
Why did Ruth choose to go with Naomi to Bethlehem?
Answer: Because she made the good choice to serve the God of Israel, the true God. But Ruth said: “Entreat me not to leave you, or to turn back from following after you; for wherever you go, I will go; and wherever you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God, my God.” Ruth 1:16.
Question for Adolescents:
Read Ruth 1:16 and answer: What was Ruth's choice when Naomi decided to return to Bethlehem?
Answer: She chose to go with Naomi, because she decided to stay among the people of Israel, serving the true God. But Ruth said: “Entreat me not to leave you, or to turn back from following after you; for wherever you go, I will go; and wherever you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God, my God.” Ruth 1:16.
Question to children:
Who made the good choice: Ruth or Orpah?
Answer: Ruth. “Your people shall be my people, And your God, my God.” Ruth 1:16
Question to the Intermediates:
Read Ruth 2:2, and answer: “What did Ruth do when she arrived in Bethlehem with Naomi?”
Answer: She went to work in Boaz’s field. “So Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go to the field, and glean heads of grain after him in whose sight I may find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.” Ruth 2:2.
Question to the Adolescents:
Read Ruth 2:2, and answer: what was Ruth doing in the field and what happened to her?
Answer: Ruth went to glean heads of grain, and God guided her to Boaz’s field, where she found plenty of food and was cared for. “So Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Please let me go to the field, and glean heads of grain after him in whose sight I may find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.” Ruth 2:2b.
Question to children:
Read Exodus, chapter 2, verse 9b and answer, "What did Moses learn from his mother Jochebed?"
Answer: Serving the true God. "So the woman took the child and nursed him." Exodus 2:9b.
Question to intermediates:
Read Exodus, chapter 2, verse 3 and answer: "How did Moses' mother preserve her son's life for the great work God had for him?"
Answer: She prepared an ark of reeds and covered it with pitch so that Moses would be spared. "But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of bulrushes for him, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank." Exo 2:3.
Question to adolescents:
Read Exodus, chapter 2, verse 3b and answer: "What does the bitumen inside and outside Moses' basket represent?"
Answer: The Holy Spirit and faith, which guards our hearts from evil. "She took an ark of bulrushes for him, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank." Exo 2:3b.
Question to children:
Read Exodus chapter 25, verse 9, and answer: What did God tell Moses to build?
Answer: The tabernacle. "According to all that I show you, that is, the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings, just so you shall make it." Exo 25:9.
Question for the intermediates:
Read Exodus chapter 25, verse 40 and answer: What did the Lord teach Moses on the mountain?
Answer: Obedience. "And see to it that you make them according to the pattern which was shown to you on the mountain." Exodus 25:40.
Question for the adolescents:
Read Exodus chapter 25, verse 8, and answer: What was the tabernacle?
Answer: It was the sanctuary, showing God's desire to dwell among His people. "And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them." Exodus 25:8.