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Study Section 5: Israel conquers Canaan, The Assyrians
The Land of Greece, Israel - the Center of the World

5.1 Connect.

Have you ever had someone promise you something, but did not come through? Perhaps your
father or mother promised to come to a special event but did not come. Years ago I was on a
baseball team as a youth. Our team made it into the final championship game. My dad
promised to come, but never showed up. It was the only game during my baseball career that I
hit a home run and won the game for our team. I was even pictured in the newspaper the next
day as they guys carried me off on their shoulders. While it was an amazing experience, it fell
short because of the disappointment I experienced because my dad did not keep his word.

The Lord promised Israel a land. And for hundreds of years they camped out on another’s land. Today,
God, who is always faithful to keep his word, will fulfill his promise and bring Israel into their Promised
Land. It is an exciting time in the life of Israel. Let’s study it….

5.2 Objectives:

1. The student should be able to explain how God fulfilled His promise to give Israel and Land.

2. The student should be able to describe how disobedience has consequences. Israel’s
disobedience cost them their land and their lives. God used Assyria to judge them.

3. The student should be able to explain how God can use foreign powers to prepare the world for the
coming Messiah. He used the Greek Empire to lay a foundation for delivering the New Testament to
mankind.

5.3 Moses leads Israel out of Egypt

God had made a promise to Abraham
over 500 years before Moses came on
the screen in Egypt to give the Children
of Israel a land in Canaan.

For 430 years, Abraham’s descendants
had been slaves in the land of Egypt. God sent
Moses to tell Pharaoh to free the Israelites to go
and worship Him.

Pharaoh would not listen to Moses or God, so God
sent 10 terrible plagues upon the land of Egypt.
God used the hardened heart of Pharaoh to
demonstrate His incredible power to not only the
Egyptians, but to the children of Israel. The last
plague brought the death of the first-born of every

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