God's Special Tent: The Story of the Tabernacle and What Came After (Activity)

Excellent book and worth the price. Great for small children in bible study class with plenty of drawings. Easy to understand.

this was a very good study for my sunday school kids we all learned a lot and it has launched a lot of new discussion and study.

I was very excited to make the tabernacle with the directions for our children's bible study. I even showed it to my pastor and his wife. They were excited too. Thank you.

Great buy!

Good teaching tool

awesome book for the price

Such a neat book to demonstrate and teach your children about the tabernacle.

Have you ever noticed how much of the Old Testament is devoted to the planning, building and use of the tabernacle? 2 Timothy 3:16-17 tells us: "All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work." Even the long, detailed sections about the tabernacle.The tabernacle, and the temple after it, were just a shadow of a promise God later fulfilled through the coming of Christ and the New Covenant. Long story short, if we're going to teach our children about the Bible, we need to teach them the story of the tabernacle and the priestly system. That can be a daunting task. A new book written by Jean Stapleton, God's Special Tent (Christian Focus Publications, 2013) can help. Written for ages 8-12, God's Special Tent is a 44-page activity book. The book contains plenty of writing (it is intended for the middle grades, and it delivers). Twenty-four sections tell about some aspect of the tabernacle, such as `The Mountain Where God Spoke', `The Priests', and `The Tent at Jerusalem'. Read in order, the sections tell the story of the tabernacle, and an abridged version of the story of the temple. The book ends with the triumphant fulfillment of the shadow the tabernacle represents. Christ fulfills the promise of the priesthood, sacrificial system, and the tent. We, the people of God, have become living stones in the house of God. It doesn't get any better than that! Each section has pictures to color (they are pictures worthy of middle grade colored-pencil work), and a `Find Outs?' section with three short Scripture references which help children find out more about the subject they are studying. Just a note: There are no pictures of Christ. I believe that is an area that Christian Focus Publications is particularly careful of. The last aspect of this activity book was one which particularly excited me. Ms. Stapleton has included the blueprints to make a cardstock tabernacle. There are 3 pullout pages to help you construct the tabernacle itself, the furnishings, and the pillars and curtains. The boys and I were delighted to spend a week working on tabernacle models. I found God's Special Tent to be a delightfully helpful resource. Not only were we able to learn about the tabernacle as a type or shadow, to learn about the story of the tabernacle and its design, we were also able to construct our own tabernacles. I know my boys will be coloring the pictures in the activity book for quite a while during our history read-alouds. (I had to pry the book out of their hands a number of times just to finish reading it to them!)