Jesse Tree - Week 2
December 4-10

Day 8, December 4: Moses

Exodus 20:1-17  It was during the time when the people of Israel had become slaves in Egypt that God saved the life of a little Hebrew baby who was placed in a basket among the reeds of a river.  The baby was Moses and when he was grown, God chose him to lead the Hebrew people out of Egypt and slavery.  In the desert on the way to the Promised Land, Moses climbed Mount Sinai.  There God gave him the Ten Commandments, the laws God wants us all to obey.

Day 9, December 5: Aaron

Exodus 7:8-13  God told Moses to let his brother speak for him in trying to persuade the Pharaoh to the let the Hebrew people leave Egypt.  To show how powerful his God was, Aaron threw down his rod before the Pharaoh and it became a serpent, swallowing up the serpents that had been produced by the Pharaoh’s magicians and sorcerers.

Day 10, December 6: Joshua

Joshua 6:20  Moses died before he got to the Promised Land and Joshua was appointed the new leader of the Hebrew people.  Joshua planned to capture the city of Jericho.  He ordered the Israelites to march around the city seven times.  Then when the priests blew their trumpets and the people shouted, the walls of the might city fell.

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Day 11, December 7: Samson

Judges 16:21-30 Years later, the Israelites became enslaved by the Philistines and God sent them a new leader with incredible strength, Samson.  After winning many victories for his people, Samson was tricked and captured.  Taken to the pagan temple of the philistines, Samson stood between two pillars and knocked them down, causing the destruction of the temple.

Day 12, December 8: Ruth

Ruth 1:15-18 The symbol of gathered wheat stands for Ruth who collected grain from the fields of an Israelite farmer in Bethlehem.  She was a foreigner who had married a Hebrew.  After his death she took care of his mother Naomi and remained faithful to his God.  Later she married the farmer in whose fields she worked and God rewarded her goodness by sending her a son, Obed.  Obed became the father of Jesse and the grandfather of the great Jewish king David.

Day 13, December 9: Jesse

Isaiah 11:1-2 Many years after Jesse lived, the prophet Isaiah would foretell the coming of the Messiah and would trace Jesus’’ ancestry back to Jesse.  “there shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of its roots.”  And so it was in the family line of Jesse that Jesus Christ was born in fulfillment of the prophecies.

Day 14, December 10: David
Samuel 16:4-13 The Star of David has come to represent the nation of Israel.  As a shepherd boy, David’s faith in God enabled him to slay the giant Goliath.  Later he became a king and ruled Jerusalem for thirty-three years.  He was a great king because he trusted and obeyed God.  David made some mistakes, but he continued to turn to God for forgiveness and guidance and Israel became a strong nation under his leadership.