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QUESTIONS

Outline the significance of the events that took place on the night of Passover.
1. What was the importance of the wilderness period to the Israelites
2. Why is it important for Christians to keep promises
Outline the significance of the events that took place on the night of Passover.
1. Show how Moses demonstrated his obedience to the God of Israel
2. What is the importance of the decalogue to Christians today
3. What can Christians learn about God on the call of Moses in the wilderness?
1. Explain five ways on how Moses was prepared by God to be the future leader of the Israelites
2. Identify six similarities between the Jewish Passover and Christian Easter
3. State four reasons why Christians should live by laws of God
1. State seven ways in which the Israelites worshipped God in the wilderness during the Exodus
2. Outline the new understanding Moses gave the Israelites about the nature of God from the Exodus
3. Give six reasons why Christians should not covet their neighbours property.
1. Describe the covenant making between God and the Israelites at Mt. Sinai (Exodus24:1-8)
2. Explain seven Israelites new understanding of God from the Exodus to the renewal of the covenant
3. Give reasons why some children disobey the commandment of obey your parents
1. Describe the call of Moses
2. Explain the conditions given to the Israelites during the renewal of the Sinai covenant
3. Explain the importance of modern day covenants
1. Outline the conditions that God gave the Israelites during the renewal of the Mosaic covenant
2. Identify the worship practices that the Israelites adopted in the wilderness after the covenant
3. What was the Israelites new understanding of the nature of God
1. Explain four ways in which Moses early life prepared him for his future role.
2. List seven plagues Moses had to perform in Egypt before the Israelites could be released.
3. State five lessons Moses learnt about God from his call.
1. With specific examples state clearly the role of Moses in the history of the Israelites
2. Outline eight conditions given by God to the Israelites during the renewal of the sinaic covenant
3. Explain the importance of a covenant to the Christians today
1. State ways through which God manifested Himself during the Exodus
2. Describe how the Sinai covenant was sealed
3. State seven leadership qualities a modern Christian can learn from Moses
1. Outline six commandments given to the Israelites that teach how to relate to one another
2. Explain four ways in which Moses early life prepared him for his future role as a leader
3. Outline six reasons why God made a covenant with the Israelites on Mount Sinai
Explain five reasons why the Pharaoh was reluctant to release the Israelites from Egypt
1. Explain ten moral teachings contained in the ten commandments.
2. State five ways the Israelites worshipped God in the wilderness.
3. State five ways Christians worship God today.
1. State seven nature of God as revealed on Mt. Horeb when Moses was called by God
2. Show how God cared for the Israelites during the Exodus
3. Give six reasons why some Christians have lost faith in God today
1. Mention five ways of how Israelites worshipped God while in the wilderness.
2. Give reasons why the Israelites broke the Sinai Covenant.
3. Why do Christians find it difficult to follow the laws of God?
1. Identify the commandments given to the Israelites that teach on how to relate to one another
2. What conditions were the Israelites given during the renewal of the Sinaic covenant
1. Mention five ways of how Israelites worshipped God while in the wilderness.
2. Give reasons why the Israelites broke the Sinai Covenant.
3. Why do Christians find it difficult to follow the laws of God?
1. Identify the reasons why pharaoh mistreated the Israelites.
2. Enumerate the incidences that show that God protected and guided Moses.
1. State six conditions given by God to the Israelites during the renewal of the Sinai covenant.
2. Explain the new understanding that Moses gave his people about the nature of God.
3. Give four examples of modem covenants. .
1. Identify the reasons why pharaoh mistreated the Israelites.
2. Enumerate the incidences that show that God protected and guided Moses.

ANSWERS

Each family was to sacrifice a young lamb or goat without blemish to signify the innocence and purity of the sacrificial animal.
Blood of the sacrificial animals was to be collected and applied on door post so as to
distinguish the house of the Israelites from those of the Egyptians so that the Angel of death would spare the first born males of Israelites.
The sacrificial meat was to be roasted whole to signify the hurry the Israelites were in to leave Egypt.
The Israelites were to eat while standing dressed and luggage packed to signify the hurry to leave.
Israelites women were to ask for jewellery from the Egyptians. This was to act as compensation for their fee labour to the Egyptians
Everyone was to remain indoors till morning to be protected from
1. For purification against pagan influence
  To worship God
  T learn to accept Moses as their leader
  To witness God’s providence
  To be given the ten commandments
  To realize the saving hand of God e.g. he saved them from the Amalekites
  To be moulded into a special nation by God/ for God to use them to bring salavation to human kind
  To strengthen them against future challenges
2. Keeping promises minimized mistrust/ promote trust
  It promotes cordial relationship between different parties
  Keeping promises minimizes conflicts in the society
  It strengthens family relations
  It promotes good relationship between man and God
  Keeping promises enables one to feel happy/ not guilty of breaking promises
  It is obeying the commandments of God/ Though shall not bear false witness
  God himself keeps (fulfills) his promises to us, therefore we should emulate God’s example
  It enhances team work/ togetherness
Each family was to sacrifice a young lamb or goat without blemish to signify the innocence and purity of the sacrificial animal.
Blood of the sacrificial animals was to be collected and applied on door post so as to
distinguish the house of the Israelites from those of the Egyptians so that the Angel of
death would spare the first born males of Israelites.
The sacrificial meat was to be roasted whole to signify the hurry the Israelites were in to leave Egypt.
The Israelites were to eat while standing dressed and luggage packed to signify the hurry to leave.
Israelites women were to ask for jewellery from the Egyptians. This was to act as compensation for their fee labour to the Egyptians
Everyone was to remain indoors till morning to be protected from.
1. When asked to remove his sandals during his call- he obeyed
  When asked to throw down his rod, to pick it up, to put his hand in his bosom, to remove it….. he obeyed
  He accepted to carry out God’s instructions in Egypt- leading to the ten plagues that faced the Egyptians
  He struck the waters of the Red Sea with his rod and a way was provided for the Israelites
  In the provision of food and water for the Israelites as they journeyed through the wilderness- Moses obeyed God’s instructions
  He prepared the Israelites to meet with God as instructed at Mt. Sinai
2. Teaches that there is only one God
  Helps Christians to worship the true God and not idols
  Helps Christians to honor leisure time
  Helps Christians to respect life as God given
  Helps Christians to respect other peoples property
  Helps Christians to love their neighbors by not bearing false witness
  Helps Christians to be contented with what they have thus they avoid coveting
  Help Christians to live a chaste life by avoiding sexual immorality
3. Christians should obey God
  Christians should respond to God’s call
  Christians have to repent before God
  Christians must humble themselves before God
  Christians must believe God/ have faith in God
  Christians should present their needs before God
  Christians should not fear any challenges when called by God
1. His life was spared when he was rescued by pharaoh’s daughter and brought up as a prince
  He was nursed by his own mother through Gods plan and design
  He acknowledges his family background and the true God through his mother who gave him his true identity as an Israel.
  Life in the wilderness hardened him to be bold and to preserver hardships.
  He learnt to be patient, keen and responsible as a shepherd.
  He learnt family responsibility through taking care of his own family and that of Jethro.
  He acquired leadership qualities while living in pharaoh’s palace.
  He learnt literacy and numeracy skills while in the palace.
  He was not stranger to pharaoh and Egypt hence he could approach him freely
2. Both are annual events
  Both involves sacrifice i.e. lamb and Jesus.
  In both cases there is movement from slavery to freedom.
  Both incidences are important historical events
  Both are central points to belief and worship of Judaism and Christianity respectively.
  They both point towards God’s saving power
3. Laws help Christians to keep off idolatry
  Laws help one to respect other people’s property
  They encourage sexuality uprightness/avoid sexual immorality
  They help Christians to avoid telling lies and accusing other people falsely.
  They help Christians to respect life and not to take it away
  By obeying laws Christians escape Gods judgment
  By obeying laws Christians receive blessings from God
  They enable Christians to develop obedience to everybody around and hence create a peaceful co-existence
1. Approached God altars with respect/reverence.
  They honoured the altar of God/kept it tidy
  They built an altar of earth and in cut stones for God in places where God appeared to them.
  All men folk presented themselves to God 3 times in a year.
  Celebrated yearly festivals, the Passover, the Pentecost and tabernacle to honour God.
  Kept ten commandments to guide them in their daily license to God.
  Gave offering of various articles such as silver, gold, bronze, to God.
  Assembled /held the covenant ceremony at Mt. Sinai
  Observed the Sabbath as day of worship.
  Prayed to God.
  Concentrated the tent of meeting.
2. God of their fore fathers – Abraham, Jacob and Isaac.
  Powerful than other gods – led them across the Red Sea on dry land.
  Holy – restriction on Mt. Sinai to avoid contact with people.
  Provider – gave food/manna/quills etc.
  Personal God – initialed covenant ceremony on Mt. Sinai
  Just God – punished idol worshipers
  Demands total obedience – His instruction during the renewal of the Sinai covenant.
  God is awesome – shown in peoples fear of Him at Mt. Sinai
  God is omnipresent – moved with them in pillar of cloud/fire.
  God is jealous, expressed in the commandments.
3. it’s a caution against greed/selfishness
  it instills the virtues of hard work/honesty
  create satisfaction/contentment amongst them
  it’s away of self control
  to avoid the deliberate will to wish to posses what is coveted.
  To create dependent trust in Gods in his providence.
1. At Mt .Sinai, God entered into a covenant relationship with the Israelites
  God promised to make the Israelites his own possession, a kingdom of priests and a holy nation if they obeyed him
  The Israelites unimarsly agreed to obey God
  God promised to meet the Israelites on the third day
  They prepared to meet God by abstaining from sex, purifying themselves, washing their clothes and marking boundaries on the mountain
  On the third day, God appeared to them in form of thunder, lightening, earthquake, trumpet, thick cloud, fire and smoke
  The Israelites frightened the Israelites hence they asked Moses to be their mediator to speak to God on their behalf
  Moses prepared for a special ceremony for seal covenant
  He built an altar at the foot of Mt. Sinai and set up the 12 stones to represent the 12 tribes of Israel
  Young men sacrificed oxen as fellowship offering
  Moses took hay of the blood of the animals and put it in basin
  Half of the blood was sprinkled on to the altar, a place of meeting with God
  Moses then read the book of the covenant to the Israelites
  Moses took the blood in the basin and sprinkled it on the people
  Moses told the people that the blood had sealed the covenant
2. God is slow to anger
  God’s compassionate
  Good leaves no sin unpunished/ just
  He is a jealous God who does not tolerate the worship of other gods
  He is all powerful/ omnipotent
  He is the controller of a natural forces
  God of
  He is a faithful/ keeps his promises
  He reveals himself through nature
3. Affluence/ riches i.e. when children get more than their parents they disregard them
  Permissiveness in the society allows one to so as he/she pleased feels
  Urbanization it affects / influence children negatively
  Traditional valves towards parents are decaying
  Poor role models from parents
  Drug abuse/ alcoholism
  Expose to pornographic literature
  Poor parental discipline / removal of cane from schools
  Westerness i.e. when a child get modern education they become proud and disobey parents
  Children’s rights under the UN convention makes children to wise hence disobedience
  Negative peer influence from the environment
1. Was called while herding his father –in – law flock on Mt. Sinai.
  He saw a burning bush that was not being consumed.
  Moses heard his name being called.
  He was told no to move nearer.
  He was instructed to remove his shoes as he was standing on a holy ground.
  God told Moses he had chosen him to go and liberate them.
  Moses inquired the name of the God sending him and he was told it is “ I AM WHO I AM”.
  Finally Moses went to Egypt to carry out the task.
2. To obey what God commanded them.
  Not to make nay treaty with people of the land where they were going.
  To destroy their altars/smash their sacred stones/cut down their Asherah.
  Not to worship any idol/other god.
  To keep the feast of unleavened bread
  To rest on the seventh day.
  Not to intermarry with foreigners
  Not to make idols
  To offer to God the first fruits of their crops.
  To dedicate all their first born male children and first born male of their domestic animals to God
3. Modern day covenants promote peace.
  They help Christians to be organized as order is promoted.
  Covenants such as trade agreements help countries to develop economically.
  Unity between people is promoted for instance through reconciliation covenant enable people to develop trust in relationship.
  They promote understanding in the society.
  People are enlightened of their rights.
  Religious covenants encourage people to have the right relationship with God.
  Commitment to Christian principles enable people to face and overcome emerging daily challenges that are part of life.
  Secular covenants remind and encourage office bearers to serve the nation in the spirit of total loyalty.
1. They obey the Decalogue/ commandments
  Not to make treaties with foreign nations
  To destroy all idols and their high place
  To observe the Jeinshi religious festival
  To offer the first harvest to the temple
  Not to intermarry
  To observe the Sabbath
  To dedicate their first born to God
2. Observing the Sabbath
  Offering sacrifices and offerings to God
  Observing God’s commandments (the mosaic law)
  Honoring the Ark of the covenant by placing it in the tabernacle
  Celebrating the Jewish religious festivals annually
  Not having treaties with foreign nation
  Not intermarrying with foreigners
3. God is loving and caring
  God is forgiving and merciful
  God is moral and Holy
  God punishes evil
  God cares for his chosen people
  God is just
  He fulfills his promises
  He is powerful
  God hates sin
  God is concerned with the salvation of human being
1. God used pharaoh’s daughter to rescue Moses life
  Moses learnt skills of leadership in the palace
  He received the best education in the palace
  Moses learnt his true identify as a Jew and not an Egyptian
  Learnt about Jewish and Egyptian gods
  Moses lived with shepherds –it hardened him and made him more responsible
  He married and had a family.
2. Turning water into blood
  Frogs filling Egyptian land
  Swarms of flies
  Boils
  Hail storm
  Swarm of locust
  Darkness filling the land
  Death of cattle
  Death of Egyptian first born sons
  Gnats
3. Yahweh is God of history
  God is loving and caring
  God is holy
  God is beyond human understanding (transcendent)
  Gods chooses whomever he wills to carry out his plans
  God expects total obedience and faith
  God is all knowing/ omniscient
  God uses events to reveal himself
  God punishes the enemies of his people
1. He received God’s call with a mission to liberate the Israelites
  He performed extra-ordinary miracles for the purpose of overpowering Pharaoh to liberate to Israelites
  He liberated and delivered the Israelites from Egyptian bondage.
  He led the Israelites throughout the wilderness during the Exodus.
  He mediated between God and the Israelites who complained and asked him for provision
  He endured suffering for the sake of the Israelites who complained and asked him for provision
  He led the Israelites into making the Sinai covenant with God
  He was given 10 commandments by God to guide the Israelites to live according to the covenant.
  He sought God’s providence for Israelites e.g. manna & water
  He made the Israelites renew the covenant with God
  He protected Israelites against hostile desert tribes e.g. the Amalekites
  He led them during the crossing of the Red sea
2. To obey God
  Not to make any treaties with other tribes
  To destroy the altars of gods of other tribes & places of idol worship
  Not to make or worship other gods
  To observe 3 main festivals feast of unleaven bread feast of weeks and the feast of the inganering
  To celebrate Sabbath & keep it holy
  No to intermarry with foreigners
  To dedicate first born males to God
  To give the first fruits of their fields and flocks to God
  To give a tenth of their produce to God
3. Fosters commitments
  Fosters trust in one another
  Protects the parties form exploitation
  Fosters faithfulness & accountability
  Promotes peaceful & harmonious living
  Promotes moral uprightness
  Bounds one loyalty to their promises
  Promotes communal living as the witnesses to the covenant have the collective responsibility to ensure no one breaks it.
1. Pillar of cloud/thick cloud
  Earthquakes
  Trumpet bast
  Thunder
  Lightning
  Pillar of fire during the night
  Smoke /fire
  Ten commandments
2. Moses built an altar of 12pillars to represent the 12 tribes of Israel
  He then sent young men to offer/sacrifice oxen to the Lords as burnt offering
  He took half of the blood and poured in a basin
  Half of the blood was sprinkled in tee altar
  He then took the book of th covenant and read it to the Israelites
  The people promised to obey God
  He took the remaining blood and sprinkled it upon the people
  The blood was the covenant that the Lord made with the people
  God promised to bless them, if they obey Him
  A new relationship was established between God and the Israelites
3. A leaders should have confidence in God
  He should be courageous/brave
  He should be wise/educated/talented/intelligent
  He should be humble/compassionate/loving
  He should obey/respect God
  He should be determined/endure
  He should be diplomatic
  He should be inquisitive
  He should be patient
1. Honour your father and mother
  You shall not kill
  You shall not commit adultery
  You shall not steal
  You shall not bear false witness angst your neighbours
  You shall not covet your neighbours property or wife
2. he was brought up in pharaoh’s house and learnt leadership skills
  his expensive as an Egyptians prince helped him to handle pharaoh
  his Egyptian education helped him to write the Decalogue
  he was brought up by his mother so he was familiar with the customs of the Jews
  his experiences in the desert hardened him to be bold to persevere hardships
  he as a shepherd of his father in law and this helped him to be keen and responsible
  he married while in Midian this helped him to show love, tolerance and concern for the Israelites
  his early experience in Egypt helped to demonstrate the power of Yahweh
3. because God is faithful to his promise
  God wanted to guide them on how to relate with him
  God wanted them to remember that he was powerful and had rescued them to come and worship him at mt. sinal
  God wanted to guide them on how to relate to each other
  God expected that after the covenant the Israelites would obey and have faith in him whole heartedly
  God wanted to enable the Israelites to enjoy his blessings
  God wanted to provide guidance to the people as they entered Canaan
He wanted free labour
He was revenging. At one time the Egyptians were ruled by Semitic Pharaohs
He wanted the Israelites to continue worshipping him as God
God was using him to fulfill the promise he had made to Abraham
1. It stresses respect of parents and elders
  It stresses people to respect and not use God’s name in vain
  It stresses love of God and other people in the society
  It tells us to respect other people’s property and not to steal
  It wants us to speak the truth all the time
  It wants us to be faithful to our marriage partners
  It wants us to be contented with what God has given us and not covet
  It directs us to work hard for six days then rest on the seventh day
  It directs us to respect human life. We should preserve it
  It directs us to worship only one true God and not to be involved in devil worship
2. They worshipped Yahweh as the only God
  They celebrated the three yearly feasts i.e. Passover, Pentecost and the feast of tabernacle
  They build an altar for God where they sacrificed the holocaust and communion sacrifices
  They observed the ten commandments to guide them in their day to day living
  They observed the Sabbath and kept it holy
  They prayed, sung and danced to God
  They paid tithes
  They moved from place to place with the ark of the covenant where the stone tablets containing the 10 commandments were kept )
3. They read the Bible
  Priests interpret the scriptures for them
  They attend church service on Sundays
  They observe important events in the history of Christianity e.g. Easter, Christmas e.t.c.
  They sing songs of praise and dance to God
  They undergo baptism
  They give offerings to God
  They lead exemplary Christ like life
1. God fulfills his promises
  God is holy
  God can use anyone to pursue his purpose
  God is powerful
  God is loving
  God is protector
  God is omnipresent
  God cannot be described using human terms / He is spirit
  God forgives
  He reveals himself through natural phenomena
2. Liberated Israelites from slavery in Egypt
  He helped the Israelites to cross the Red sea
  He made the Egyptian soldiers to perish in Red sea
  Provided water/manna /quails to satisfy their needs
  Helped the Israelites to defeat the desert tribes e.g Amelikites
  Led Israel by a pillar of fire at night and pillar of cloud during day time
  He gave Israel 10 commandments to safeguard them and relate with God
  Hr accepted to renew the covenant with Israel after breaking it/ forgave Israel after worshipping the Golden Calf
  He dwelt among the Israelite through the Ark. of the covenant
  He provided leaders e.g Moses /Harun/Joshua
3. Their prayers are not answered
  Why they suffer and die and yet non-Christians prosper and lead good life
  Why there should be prolonged poverty/starvation/famine and drought
  Wrangling in Church leadership
  Bad examples by Church leaders due to corruption/immorality
  Over delaying of Jesus coming
  God’s failure to punish law –breakers
  Some leaders fail t condemn evils in society/compromising abuse of justice by leader
1. Sacrifices
  Festivals
  Altars
  Tent of meeting.
  Offerings
2. Moses overstayed on the mountain.
  Haron was a weak leader.
  They needed a visible God.
  They had not forgotten the worship of gods.
  They had lost faith in God and Moses.
  They hoped that the golden calf would represent the same strength and fertility in the Egyptian gods.
3. Lack of faith.
  Worldly pleasures.
  Poverty
  Lack of exemplary Christian leaders.
  Influence from non-Christians.
  Indulgence in traditional beliefs and practices.
  Influence of western culture.
  Negative influence of the media.
  Lack of committed Christian community
  Political persecution.
  Due to lack of quick response by God to their prayers.
  Influence of secularization.
1. You shall not kill
  You shall not covet your neighbours property
  You shall not steal
  You shall honour your father and mother
  You shall not commit adultery
  You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour
2. Not to worship any other God other than Yahweh
  To keep the feast of unleavened bread
  To obey God’s command
  Not to make any treaty with those who were in the land where they were going
  Not to intermarry with people of other tribes
  To breakdown cananites altar, smash the sacred stones and cut down their Asheral
  Not to make cast idols & images
  To observe the sabath day
  To sacrifice and offer their best produce and animals to God
  To dedicate all their first born male children and first male domestic animals to God
1. Sacrifices
  Festivals
  Altars
  Tent of meeting.
  Offerings
2. Moses overstayed on the mountain.
  Haron was a weak leader.
  They needed a visible God.
  They had not forgotten the worship of gods.
  They had lost faith in God and Moses.
  They hoped that the golden calf would represent the same strength and fertility in the Egyptian gods.
3. Lack of faith.
  Worldly pleasures.
  Poverty
  Lack of exemplary Christian leaders.
  Influence from non-Christians.
  Indulgence in traditional beliefs and practices.
  Influence of western culture.
  Negative influence of the media.
  Lack of committed Christian community
  Political persecution.
  Due to lack of quick response by God to their prayers.
  Influence of secularization.