Nights 18 & 19 – The Flight to Egypt and the Beginning of a Perfect Life

We had a fair amount to cover tonight due to last night’s missed LEGO Advent evening. We picked up the boys immediately from school and rushed to the movie theater to enjoy The Hobbit with Grandpa and the Happy Meals from McDonalds accompanied us afterwards. So LEGO’s were not something we had a lot of time for when we got back home around 9:00pm.

Tonight, we began with a review of Herod’s hatred for Jesus and the reasons for fear that Mary and Joseph would have had for their new child Jesus. Herod was intent on finding the infant Jesus and stealing his life from Him and he went to the point of slaughtering countless thousands to make it happen. But what an example of the Father’s sovereignty that not even Herod’s plot could steal the Father’s plan. Joseph took his family to Egypt due to the angel’s warning about Herod’s plot and they began a difficult journey of some 200-300 miles.

Once Herod was gone from this world, they returned to Israel for Jesus to begin living his perfect life.

We talked about what Jesus would have been like as an infant and small child. I asked the boys to give a list of ways Jesus would have been no different than other children and here is what they came up with: He went to school, He had hair and a face, He cried and laughed, etc. Josiah provided the comic relief for the evening when he declared that Jesus probably attended Bixby Elementary School. Then I asked the boys to give a list of ways Jesus would have been very different than the other children and all others and the one reason they came up with was that he didn’t sinned and always obeyed. At that point, we went back to our lesson on the O.T. sacrificial system and I reminded the boys of the insufficient sacrifice of that lamb and all other animals and why Jesus’ blood would be enough. I gave them a bit of a taste of tomorrow night’s lesson (the most important of the season) and we will talk about why Jesus was called the Lamb of God. It’s Gospel time!

As you can tell, our LEGO creations were the pyramids and a camel to symbolize their journey to Egypt and back. Annie added a replica of the sphinx for “kicks and giggles.”