Jesse Tree - Day Ten and Eleven

Whew...we are still moving right along with our Jesse Tree! We have two new additions to our tree now, a burning bush and a passover door.

Day 10: Moses and the burning bush...Genesis 1:1-14 and 3:1-12

Day 11: The Passover...Genesis 12:1-39

Both of these ornaments were really fun to make. For the bush, the girls collected twigs which we tied together and put green cotton on top. Then for the fire, they tore up bits of yellow crepe paper. The passover ornament was pretty easy. We cut out a door from a piece of cardboard and the girls used red glitter paint to paint the doorframes to represent the blood of the lamb that the Hebrew people put on their door frames.

My kids have seen the cartoon movie, The Prince of Egpyt. And for whatever embellishments or faults it might have, it really does a nice job of portraying Moses and the Israelites departure from Egyptian bondage. When we read the stories together the past two days both Vera and Wendy had a good picture in their mind of what we were talking about.

And, of course, there is this great song on the Andrew Peterson album I mentioned in a previous post...

It is called 'Passover Us' (Lyrics below). And so we remembered today the Spotless Lamb whose blood covers over us here.

Well, we all remember Moses on the banks of the river
He said "Pharaoh, you've got to let my people go.
You don't want me to have to tell you this ten times over--
Denial ain't just a river, you know"

And we all remember Pharaoh, he just wouldn't do it
So the plagues they came upon Egypt one by one
His heart was hard and the other nine just couldn't move it
So the last was the worst: the death of the firstborn son

But the Lord, he gave to Moses a word for the people
He said their firstborn sons could live to see another day
"Put the blood of a lamb on the doorway and death will pass right over"
That night all of the children of Israel prayed,

"Lord, let your judgment passover us
Lord, let your love hover near
Don't let your sweet mercy passover us
Let this blood cover over us here"

So the years went by and the people they whined and they wandered
And only sacrifice atoned for the sins of the land
So you see the priest he placed upon the holy altar
The body of a spotless lamb
And he prayed,

"Lord, let your judgment passover us
Lord, let your love hover near
Don't let your sweet mercy passover us
Let this blood cover over us here"