May. 11, 2008
Arrows in the Hand of a Warrior --- Volume 3: Lessons from the Epistles and Revelation -- Section 2, Revelation
Unit Study Guide for Revelation
Lesson 1: The Vision of Jesus - 3 days
Items needed: lampstand, construction paper, keys, dress-up clothes, powder, toy sword.
Books: What Is a Star? by Chris Arvetis and Carole Palmer.
1. Craft: Make 7 stars from construction paper. Use as part of the visual aid.
2. Read Rev. 1:1-20.
3. Visual aid: lampstand, 7 construction paper stars, keys, dress-up clothes, powder, toy sword. Use to dress up one child as Jesus with stars in one hand and a sword in his mouth. Powder his hair to make it white.
1. Make a flashcard set of the Greek alphabet.
2. Recite it daily.
1. Read What Is a Star? by Chris Arvetis and Carole Palmer.
2. Read about lamps.
a. Dip candles or make an oil lamp.
1. Independent reading on science subjects.
2. Write book report or research paper. Determine length of paper by child’s age and ability. Young children may narrate their reports.
3. Compose a spelling/vocabulary list from reading for each child. Use for handwriting practice as well as spelling/vocabulary study.
4. Write business letters requesting candlemaking information and free glow-in-the-dark star decals (Free Stuff or Kids).
1. Planetarium.
2. Watch a candlemaking demonstration.
Lesson 2: Letters to the Seven Churches - 3 days
Items needed: atlas.
1. Craft: Make seven scrolls from letters on pages .
2. Read them to the children.
1. Recite the Greek alphabet.
1. Find the location of the cities of these seven churches, as well as the island of Patmos, on an atlas.
2. Read about Asia Minor in the atlas.
3. Each child may make a map of this area.
1. Compose a spelling/vocabulary list from geography/cultural study for each child. Use for handwriting practice as well as spelling/vocabulary study.
2. Write business letter requesting stamp samples from around the world and foreign coin-banknote packet (Free Stuff for Kids).
3. Writing assignment: What would Jesus say to you if He wrote you a letter?
Lesson 3: God’s Throne - 4 days
Items needed: one large brown paper bag per child.
1. Craft: Each child makes a living creature costume from a large brown paper bag. On one side draw a lion’s face, on another a calf’s face, on another a man’s face, and on the last side an eagle’s face. Cut out eyes on at least one side. They may wear the costumes during the Bible reading.
2. Read Rev. 4:1-11 and Ezekiel 1:5-24.
3. Sing “Holy, Holy, Holy.”
1. Recite the Greek alphabet.
1. Read about lions, calves, and eagles.
1. Independent reading on science subjects.
2. Write book report or research paper. Determine length of paper by child’s age and ability. Young children may narrate their reports.
3. Compose a spelling/vocabulary list from reading for each child. Use for handwriting practice as well as spelling/vocabulary study.
Lesson 4: The First Six Seals - 2 days
Items needed: stickers, rocking horse (or other horse), white fabric, paper crown, red fabric, toy sword, black fabric, scales, dolls or puppets, black construction paper sun, red paper moon, and stars, wax and letter seal.
Advance preparation: 1. Make a scroll for use in lessons 4 and 5: On a sheet of paper, draw seven trumpets and seven bowls. Roll up and secure with seven stickers (seals). 2. Cut out a black construction paper sun, a red construction paper moon, and some stars. Have the children make them for a craft, if you wish.
1. Read Rev. 5:1-7:17. At appropriate times, break open each seal and use the following visual aids.
1st seal Cover a rocking horse with a white sheet (white horse). Have a child sit on it and give him a crown.
2nd seal Cover the rocking horse with a red cloth. Give the child a toy sword.
3rd seal Cover the horse with a black cloth. Hold up scales.
4th seal Show a toy sword.
5th seal Put dolls or puppets under a makeshift altar.
6th seal Show a black construction paper sun, red paper moon, and stars.
Rev. 7:3 Place a sticker on each child’s forehead.
1. Recite the Greek alphabet.
1. Read about the history of seals.
2. Melt wax and demonstrate use of a letter seal.
1. Independent reading on science subjects.
2. Write book report or research paper. Determine length of paper by child’s age and ability. Young children may narrate their reports.
3. Compose a spelling/vocabulary list from reading for each child. Use for handwriting practice as well as spelling/vocabulary study.
Lesson 5: Seventh Seal and the First Six Trumpets - 4 days plus garden care
Items needed: six party horns, incense, globe, paper sun, moon, and stars, key, toy locust, wormwood seeds.
Books: Rodale’s Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs.
1. Craft: Make seven “ram’s horn trumpets” from party horns. For each trumpet, cut two shapes similar to the one shown below from construction paper. Tape to each side of a party horn. Blow them at appropriate times during Bible reading.
2. Read Rev. 8:1-9:21.
Visual aids:
8:1 Break seventh seal.
8:3-4 Burn incense.
8:6-7 Blow first trumpet. Drop ice on a globe.
8:8-9 Blow second trumpet.
8:10-11 Blow third trumpet. Drop a paper star on globe.
8:12-13 Blow fourth trumpet. Paper sun, moon, and stars.
9:1-12 Blow fifth trumpet. Show a star, key, and toy locust.
9:13-21 Blow sixth trumpet.
1. Recite the Greek alphabet.
1. Read about wormwood in Rodale’s Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs.
2. Plant and care for wormwood in a garden.
1. Independent reading in science.
2. Keep journal of study of wormwood.
3. Compose a spelling/vocabulary list from reading for each child. Use for handwriting practice as well as spelling/vocabulary study.
Lesson 6: The Angel and the Little Scroll - 1 day
Items needed: small scroll, magnets.
Books: Why Does It Thunder and Lightning? by Chris Arvetis and Carole Palmer.
1. Read Rev. 10:1-11. While reading v. 9-10, stuff a small scroll in a child’s mouth. Ask him if it tastes like honey.
1. Recite the Greek alphabet.
1. Read Why Does It Thunder and Lightning? by Chris Arvetis and Carole Palmer.
2. Provide magnets for independent discovery.
1. Compose a spelling/vocabulary list from reading for each child. Use for handwriting practice as well as spelling/vocabulary study.
Lesson 7: Two Witnesses - 2 days
Items needed: picture or model of Temple, measuring stick, olives.
1. Read Rev. 11:1-14, Deut. 19:15, and Matt. 18:16.
Visual aid: picture or model of Temple, measuring stick.
1. Recite the Greek alphabet.
1. Read about olive trees and olives.
2. Eat olives (on pizza?).
1. Independent reading on olives.
2. Write book report or research paper. Determine length of paper by child’s age and ability. Young children may narrate their reports.
3. Compose a spelling/vocabulary list from reading for each child. Use for handwriting practice as well as spelling/vocabulary study.
Lesson 8: Seventh Trumpet - 2 days
Items needed: Paper sun and moon.
1. Craft: Make star crowns (12:1). For each one, cut out 12 stars from construction paper. Tape together in a star formation.
2. Read Rev. 11:15-12:17.
Visual aids:
11:15 Blow seventh trumpet.
11:19 Shake the table your children are sitting at for an earthquake.
12:1 Dress up a child: Tape a paper sun to her shirt, a moon to the bottom of her feet, and place a crown of 12 stars on her head.
1. Recite the Greek alphabet.
1. Read about earthquakes and hailstorms.
1. Independent reading in science.
2. Write book report or research paper. Determine length of paper by child’s age and ability. Young children may narrate their reports.
3. Compose a spelling/vocabulary list from reading for each child. Use for handwriting practice as well as spelling/vocabulary study.
4. Write business letter requesting “What’s the Weather” pamphlet (Free Stuff for Kids).
Lesson 9: The Two Beasts and the Mark of the Beast - 1 day
Items needed: eight small toy dinosaurs.
1. Read Rev. 13:1-18.
Visual aids:
13:1 Tie seven small toy dinosaurs together for beast.
13:11 Another dinosaur.
1. Recite the Greek alphabet.
2. Hebrew numbers
a. Using chart below, combine letters which total 666.
1. Compose for each child a spelling/vocabulary list from Bible reading. Use for handwriting practice as well as spelling/vocabulary study.
alef - 1 - (silent)
bet - 2 - b
gimel - 3 - c
dalet - 4 d
hay - 5 - h
vav - 6 - v
zayin - 7 - z
het - 8 - h
tet - 9 - t
yod - 10 - y
kaf - 20 - k
lamed - 30 - l
mem - 40 - m
noon - 50 - n
samech - 60 - s
ayin - 70 - (silent)
pay - 80 - p
tsadee - 90 - ts
koof - 100 - k
resh - 200 - r
shin - 300 - sh
tav - 400 - t
Lesson 10: The Harvest - 1 day
Items needed: juice, grapes.
1. Read Rev. 14:1-20.
Visual aid: 14:10 -- glass of juice (for wine)
14:18 -- grapes
1. Recite the Greek alphabet.
1. Read about winepresses and making juice and/or wine.
1. Independent reading in science.
2. Write book report or research paper. Determine length of paper by child’s age and ability. Young children may narrate their reports.
3. Compose a spelling/vocabulary list from reading for each child. Use for handwriting practice as well as spelling/vocabulary study.
Lesson 11: The Seven Bowls - 1 day Items needed: mirror, small toy people
1. Read Rev. 15:1-16:15.
Visual aids: 15:2 -- mirror for sea of glass
15:2-4 -- small toy people
15:7 -- paper bag living creatures from lesson 3
16:1-21 -- seven bowls and globe
1. Recite the Greek alphabet.
1. Read about islands and mountains.
1. Independent reading in science.
2. Write book report or research paper. Determine length of paper by child’s age and ability. Young children may narrate their reports.
3. Compose a spelling/vocabulary list from reading for each child. Use for handwriting practice as well as spelling/vocabulary study.
Lesson 12: The Great Harlot - 2 days
Items needed: doll or puppet, jewelry, purple and scarlet cloth, seven toy dinosaurs.
Books: atlas, world geography text, world history text.
1. Read Rev. 17:1-18.
Visual aids: 17:1-6 -- Dress doll or puppet up using jewelry and cloth of purple and scarlet. Tie seven dinosaurs together for the beast.
1. Recite the Greek alphabet.
1. Using an atlas or world geography text, find out which cities are built upon seven hills (verse 9). (Rome -- Catholicism; Babylon -- Nimrod)
1. Using a world history text, correlate verse 10 (the eight kings) with nations throughout history.
One possible interpretation is:
1) Egyptian (Hamitic)
2) Assyrian (Semitic)
3) Babylonian (Semitic)
4) Medo-Persian (Japheth)
5) Greek (Japheth)
6) Roman (Japheth)
7) Nazi Germany (Japheth)
8) Kingdom of the Antichrist (Japheth)
D. Language Arts
1. Independent research in history and geography.
2. Write research paper. Determine length of paper by child’s age and ability. Young children may narrate their reports.
3. Compose a spelling/vocabulary list from reading for each child. Use for handwriting practice as well as spelling/vocabulary study.
4. Write business letter requesting a communist banknote from the old Soviet Union (Free Stuff for Kids).
Lesson 13: Fall of Babylon and the Marriage Supper of the Lamb - 1 day
Items needed: cinnamon, spices, cloth, flour, incense, tea set, mothballs.
1. Read Rev. 18:1-19:21.
Visual aids: 18:13 -- cinnamon, spices, cloth, flour. Also burn incense.
19:7-9 -- tea set for marriage supper.
19:20 -- Smell mothballs.
1. Recite the Greek alphabet.
1. Each child may write a critique of the Bible lesson. Determine length of paper by child’s age and ability. Young children may narrate their reports.
2. Compose a spelling/vocabulary list from reading for each child. Use for handwriting practice as well as spelling/vocabulary study.
3. Write business letter requesting cooking/nutrition freebies (Free Stuff for Kids).
Lesson 14: The Millenium and Great White Throne Judgment - 1 day
Items needed: blank book.
1. Craft: Make a “Book of Life.” Write names of any believers you know in a blank book.
2. Read Rev. 20:1-15.
Visual aids: 20:1 -- key
20:8 -- sand
20:12 -- “Book of Life”
1. Recite the Greek alphabet.
1. Read about fire and brimstone.
1. Independent research in science.
2. Write book report or research paper. Determine length of paper by child’s age and ability. Young children may narrate their reports.
3. Compose a spelling/vocabulary list from reading for each child. Use for handwriting practice as well as spelling/vocabulary study.
Lesson 15: New Heaven and New Earth - 5 days
Books: Gem Stones by Cally Hall, Rocks and Minerals by Herbert S. Zim.
1. Read Rev. 21:1-22:5.
Visual aid: Draw a floor plan of the New Jerusalem as described in verses 12-14. Write the names of twelve tribes of Israel on the gates and the names of the twelves apostles on the foundation stones.
1. Recite the Greek alphabet.
1. Use Gem Stones by Cally Hall and Rocks and Minerals by Herbert S. Zim to research the stones, pearls, and gold described in verses 19-21.
2. Color the floor plan of New Jerusalem in the appropriate colors.
1. Sewing: Use the New Jerusalem floor plan as a pattern for making one from fabric. Use it as a wallhanging to remind you and the children of the Bible study or make a larger one and quilt it for a child’s bedspread. (See Revelation 21 Quilt Pattern below.)
1. Independent research in science.
2. Write book report or research paper. Determine length of paper by child’s age and ability. Young children may narrate their reports.
3. Compose a spelling/vocabulary list from reading for each child. Use for handwriting practice as well as spelling/vocabulary study.
Color Chart for Stones
Jasper (Diamond) -- Simon Peter. In ancient times, jasper designated any transparent stone. This could be a diamond.
Sapphire (Deep blue) -- Andrew.
Chalcedony (White) -- James, the son of Zebedee
Emerald (Rich green) -- John
Sardonyx (Red and white stripes) -- Philip
Sardius (Deep purplish red) -- Bartholomew
Chrysolite (Red, brown, or yellow) -- Thomas
Beryl (Green, light blue, yellow, or pink) -- Matthew
Topaz (Yellowish brown) -- James, the son of Alphaeus
Chrysoprase (Light green) -- Thaddaeus
Jacinth (Brownish-reddish orange) -- Simon the Zealot
Amethyst (Purple) -- Judas Iscariot or Paul
Lesson 16: Conclusion - 7 days Books: Choose a country and get a missions book, foreign language tapes, books about that culture, atlas, and an international cookbook.
1. Read Rev. 22:6-21.
1. Recite the Greek alphabet.
1. Missions emphasis. Discuss how to take the gospel to the world.
a. Read a missions book from your church library.
b. Learn about that country's language and culture (books, atlas, and foreign language audiotapes from the public library).
c. Prepare ethnic foods (international cookbook from public library).
d. Dress in ethnic clothes.
1. Independent reading in missions.
2. Write book report. Determine length of paper by child’s age and ability. Young children may narrate their reports.
3. Compose a spelling/vocabulary list from reading for each child. Use for handwriting practice as well as spelling/vocabulary study.