hello my name is tubby I live here in this wonderful library and I love to eat books I live here with my friends gumbo and freckles gumbo freckles come out come out wherever you are over there on that great book is grand old holy she is really old wise and tells us wonderful stories when she is awake that is story yes it's story time well today I shall tell you a story about how God was angry with the Israelites have thought of punishing them long ago the people of Israel found it very difficult to follow the first commandment of God it was hard for them to worship a God who could not be seen they needed to learn how to do it so they all went to Aaron Moses his brother and told him to make a god for them this would make it easier for them to worship so Aaron said bring me old gold earrings that your wives and daughters and sons are wearing people got him all that he asked for Aaron melted the earrings and poured them into a mold and made a golden calf he also built an altar in front of the calf and said there shall be a festival - owner of the Lord the next morning the people gathered to honor the golden calf this angered God because the people had not followed his commandment of not worshiping idols he wanted to punish them for not listening to him and breaking the first commandment Moses pleaded to God not to be angry with them and that he would go and talk to the people himself Moses came to the place where the people were worshiping the golden calf he took the golden calf melted it grounded into fine powder and mixed it with water then he made the people of Israel drink it till no signs of the idol remained now you know children that you should listen to what God tells and try not to disobey him yes we know and we all love god so today's question is what did Aaron made out of the gold earrings he made a golden calf for the people to worship very good freckles all right then should we begin with the story well today's story is called the Jonah and the Whale long long time ago there lived a man called Jonah Jonah was a prophet who lived in Israel one day God appeared to Jonah Jonah I want you to go to the city of Nineveh and warn the people there tell them that I'm going to destroy all of them and their City if they do not stop disobey me Jonah was not very happy with the job God asked him to do NInave was a city full of bad people and Jonah knew that he was very scared to go there so instead of going to Nineveh he decided to go the other way which would take him far far away from Nineveh hopes God would pick someone else to do this particular job of warning the people there Jonah got onto a ship which was going to the farthest city he could find he was feeling really tired so Jonah went down to the bottom of the ship to take a quiet map God was very angry with Jonah for he had disobeyed him he knew exactly where Jonah was caused enormous storm to come up sailors on the ship were afraid that the storm would sink their ship he started throwing everything into the sea who to light their ship storm god worse they started praying to God to see Jonah knew what the problem was and he also knew that there was only one thing to do God didnt stop the storm until Jonah did not do the job God asked him to do Jonah asked the sailors to roll him into the sea he knew God was there with him to protect him the sailors did what Jonah asked them to do and immediately the storm quieted and all was calm the sailors where astonished they had no idea what was happening in the sea Jonah sank deeper and deeper but God had different plans for him he did not want Jonah to drown he only wanted him to obey his orders so God sent a huge fish to swallow Jonah to take him down to the sea Jonah felt very scared he prayed to God for forgiveness for disobeying him finally after three days being inside the dark stinky belly of the fish the fish rose up to the top of the sea and spit Jonah out onto the shore Jonah then went to the city of Nineveh and told them to stop doing all the bad work but they were doing as this was making God very angry the people of the city believed Jonah and God saved them oh my my how did Jonah even managed to live inside this stinky belly of the fish for three whole days that's because God was there to protect him so did you kids enjoy the story oh yes we loved it thank you for the wonderful story holy yes this story Oh yes this story should be interesting the story is about why God chosen mew king after Saul Ok Lets begin with the story then God chose Saul as the first king of Israel but unfortunately Saul always did not make good decisions once Israel was in an ugly war with the Philistines and for seven days Saul and his men hid at a place called Jogol where they waited for Samuel to arrive as that was what Samuel had asked them to do the Israelite soldiers so afraid to fight the Philistines that they started fleeing one at a time so Saul decided to take matters in his own hand and offered a burnt sacrifice to God the moment he finished with the sacrifice samuel arrived and asked what are you doing my men are afraid to fight the philistines and they are starting to run away I had to stop them I was seeking God's help because without his help is impossible to fight the war if you had obeyed God's command then he would have made you the king of Israel forever but now that you have disobeyed him your reign must end as God has already chosen a new king whose heart follows his Samuel said another time so once again disobeyed God by not destroying the Amalekites as he was ordered instead he captured the king and let his all soldiers take a lot of cattle and sheep when Samuel challenged his disobedience Saul had an excuse yes I have brought back the King but the rest of the nation is all wiped out we brought back the best of sheep and cattle to use them to make our sacrifices to God he wants our sacrifices yes he wants our sacrifices but he wants to obedience more and you have disobeyed him it is obedience that pleases God samuel said firmly god was done that Saul's excuses and he chosen a new king for Israel who Samuel would anoint very soon Saul shouldn't have disobeyed god and should have followed his command yes but he didn't so what is today's question Holi today's question is with whom did the Israelites get into an ugly battle the amalakites Oh no no the philistines are you sure freckles ooh yes i think so am i wrong no you are correct all right today I shall tell you the story of the Tower of Babel there was a time when the earth was filled with evil so God decided to destroy everyone and everything except one good man Noah and his family over time the descendants of Noah spread around the world and settled in the land of Shinar at that time everyone spoke the same language one day the people of Shannara decided to make a great tower that reached the heavens and a fine city out of bricks for themselves they thought that by doing so they would become very powerful and other people would envy them they would no longer have to live in the countryside either one day God decided to visit when he saw what the people were doing he was very sad the people would no longer loyal or pure hearted they had greed in their hearts God knew that once the tower was built there would be no end to their greed nothing could stop them so God decided to confuse the language of all the people their people would no longer be able to understand each other and the building of the tower came to a stop the tower came to be called as the Tower of Babel which got its name from the babbling sound everyone made when they were talking the people of Shannara stopped building the tower and moved away in all directions now for the question what was the name of the land when Noah's descendants settled we know we know they settled in the land of Shinar right that is correct children today I am going to tell you the story of the call of Gideon as time passed people forgot that God and had started praying to other gods this made God angry and sad so he sent the army of Midianites to punish them the Midianites was strong tribesmen who raided their farms and stole their crops and animals for seven years the Midianites kept going to the city of the Israelites and attacking them and destroying their farms the Israelites were tired and so after seven years they finally went to the God of their ancestors they pray god we are foolish people please forgive us and help us in our time of need God relented and visited Gideon a poor farmers son God said Gideon you are to drive the army of Midianites out of the city city but first you must destroy every place of worship of other gods they make if you do that I promise you will win Gideon promised to drive out the Midianites he had a small army of only 300 people he was scared that the soldiers would not be enough to defeat the strong Midianites gideon knew that God was on their side and also he was clever he thought of attacking the Midianites camp at night he gave each of the soldiers a trumpet and a torch hidden in a jug as night set the army of Gideon got ready to attack on his signal the soldiers brought the jugs and blew the trumpets all the noise and the lights gave an impression that a very big army was attacking the Midianites got scared and ran away and never came back so are you ready for the question yes we are who did God choose to drive out the Midianites I know this answer God chose Gideon that is right very good