“Glory, and Power, Be unto…the Lamb for Ever”

Weekly Outline:

• Improving Our Teaching
• Scripture Focus
• FHE Idea
• Helps in understanding Revelation
• Christ knows me personally
• Christ is central to God’s plan
• White temple clothing
• The gospel can help me overcome temptations

Improving Our Teaching:

Encourage questions. Questions are an indication that family members are ready to learn and give insight into how they are responding to what they’re being taught. Teach your family how to find answers in the scriptures. (See Teaching in the Savior’s Way, 25–26.)

Scripture Focus:

FHE Idea:

Telestrations is a mix between “Telephone” and “Pictionary”. Each player plays simultaneously, passing the booklets along to the next player after each round. When the booklet gets to you, you are either going to “Sketch It” or “Guess It”. When everyone gets their starting booklets back, you see how closely the end guess matches the secret beginning word. It’s really funny, because everyone has their own interpretations.

You can make a booklet with some 3×5 cards stapled together. Some pieces paper (either full page or cut smaller) stapled to make it. When I made mine I used 4 pieces of paper. I just folded the paper in half both ways and cut along the vertical line. Then, I stapled in the middle.

Write on the first page the word or sentence. You can write beforehand on the booklets the word or sentence or you can have pieces of paper that each player chooses with a word or sentence. Pass the booklet to the player on the left. When everyone has their neighbor’s booklet, read the word or sentence and start drawing on the next page – Sketch It. Everyone has 1 minute. When the time is up, pass the booklet on to the player on the left. This time when everyone gets a booklet, they look at the drawing and make their guess on the following page. Be sure to WRITE your guess and not draw it.You don’t need a timer for this. When everyone is done, continue to pass to the person on the left. This time you are back to drawing what is written.

Ideas of things to write and sketch from this weeks lesson. Here are some ideas from the Ensign:

• Lamb = Christ (Revelation 5:6; 7:13–14)
• Candlestick = branch of Christ’s Church (Revelation 1:12, 20)
• Stars = Christ’s servants or leaders (Revelation 1:16, 20 [footnote b])
• Dragon = Satan (Revelation 12:3, 9)
• Bride = Church of the Lamb (Revelation 19:7–8)
• Two-edged sword = word of God (Revelation 19:21; Hebrews 4:12)

Maybe you could have some family members draw the symbol and then other draw the meaning and then see if you can figure out what goes together as you read through the scriptures.

Helps in understanding Revelation:

Bible Dictionary, “John.”Bible Dictionary, “Revelation of John.”
“Understanding the Book of Revelation.” In this Ensign article, Elder Bruce R. McConkie (1915–1985) “Seeing the Book of Revelation as a Book of Revelation.” In this Ensign article, Gerald N. Lund“Messages of the Book of Revelation for Latter-day Saints.” In this digital-only Ensign article, Richard D. Draper,New Testament Student Manual [Church Educational System manual, 2014], 525–68.I spent hours studying these resources.

I especially liked the New Testament Student Manual. I feel like I was able to dig into my scriptures and really get a lot of inspiration and direction as I did so.

Christ knows me personally:

Revelation 2:2, 9, 19

2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:

9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

19 I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.

Christ is central to God’s plan

White temple clothing

Revelation 7:9, 13-14: John saw many people dressed in robes “made … white in the blood of the Lamb” (verse 14). The imagery is so beautiful in these verses. Blood is supposed to stain, but through Christ’s blood we are made clean.

In the Come Follow Me manual for primary it suggests: Show the children a piece of white cloth, and let them get it dirty by marking it with a pen or putting dirt on it. Explain that sin makes our spirits dirty. Show a picture of Jesus in Gethsemane (such as Gospel Art Book, no. 56), put the dirty cloth away, and show them a clean white cloth. Testify that through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, we can become clean.

What can these verses teach us about why we wear white for temple ordinances? I love that Elder Bednar in April of 2019 encouraged us to teach our family about the temple at home.

Here are some good resources from the church if you want to talk more about that: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/temples?lang=eng

The gospel can help me overcome temptations

The smoke that darkened the air in Revelation 9:2 could be likened to temptations ( 1 Nephi 12:17). How can we help others who are in the dark spiritually? Watch the video “Choose the Light” (LDS.org). What did you learn from the biker? Are we sometimes like the biker without the light? What are the responsibilities of the biker with the light?

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