![]() If the following pictures are available, you may want to use some of them during the lesson: Daniel Refusing the King’s Meat and Wine (62094 Gospel Art Picture Kit 114) Three Men in the Fiery Furnace (62093 Gospel Art Picture Kit 116) and Daniel in the Lions’ Den (62096 Gospel Art Picture Kit 117). If you use the attention activity, ask two class members to prepare to tell briefly about a time when they or someone they know had to show courage to obey the Lord. The king honors Mordecai and grants Esther’s request to reverse Haman’s decree ( 8:1–17).Īdditional reading: Daniel 5 Esther 1–2 6 9–10. At the banquet Esther reveals Haman’s plot to kill the Jews ( 7:1–6). ![]() The king receives Esther and grants her request to come with Haman to a banquet ( 5:1–8). Esther learns of Haman’s plan to kill her people and risks her life by going to the king for help ( 4:1–17). ![]() Haman persuades King Ahasuerus to prepare a decree calling for the death of all Jews in the kingdom ( 3:5–14). Mordecai refuses to bow to Haman ( 3:1–4). The Lord sends an angel to protect Daniel ( 6:18–23).Įsther 3–5 7–8. As punishment for disobeying the decree, Daniel is thrown into a den of lions ( 6:14–17). In spite of the king’s decree, Daniel prays to God ( 6:10–13). King Darius’s men persuade the king to sign a decree that for 30 days all petitions must be directed to him rather than to any other man or to God ( 6:1–9). King Nebuchadnezzar casts them into a fiery furnace, and the Lord saves them from death ( 3:13–30).ĭaniel 6. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refuse to worship King Nebuchadnezzar’s idol ( 3:1–12). The Lord blesses Daniel and his friends with good health and wisdom ( 1:17–21).ĭaniel 3. Daniel and his friends refuse to defile themselves by eating King Nebuchadnezzar’s food ( 1:1–16 note that pulse was a food made of grains and edible seeds). Prayerfully study the following scriptures:ĭaniel 1. If a similar choice should ever confront us, may God give us the grace to say with Paul that ∼hrist shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death ( Philippians 1:20), and with Esther: If I perish, I perish.To help class members have the courage to live according to gospel standards. They loved not their lives unto the death ( Revelation 12:11), if it meant denying their Savior.īelievers in many nations are suffering such persecutions even today, and the time is coming when the last great God-rejecting king of the earth (called the beast in Scripture) will cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed ( Revelation 13:15). All the apostles (save John) died as martyrs, for example, and so have countless others throughout the centuries. God did deliver Esther and the three Jewish youths, but there have been many through the ages who have died for their faith rather than deny their faith. ![]() that we will not serve thy gods ( Daniel 3:17,18). But if not, be it known unto thee, O king. . . In the same spirit, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were willing to enter the fiery furnace rather than to worship the humanistic gods of Babylon, testifying to Nebuchadnezzar that our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. It was a capital crime for anyone to intrude into the kings throne room unbidden, but she was willing to do so in order to do the will of God, knowing that We ought to obey God rather than men ( Acts 5:29). This is the courageous testimony of Queen Esther as she prepared to risk her own life in order to save the lives of her people. ![]() Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish ( Esther 4:16). ![]()
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