The Minor Prophets
Help your students to discover the message of the Minor Prophets through these FREE Sunday School lessons. Spend one lesson on each Prophet (Joel, Jonah, Amos, Hosea, Micah, Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Obadiah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi), create a timeline and discuss the major themes of each with games and activities. Click the links below to download the lessons.
Locusts everywhere! Learn about the great and awesome Day of the Lord and locusts.
Enter the belly of a fish and act out this entire book.
God’s Word is our plumb line. Explore how even a little tilt or stray can upend our structure.
A tricky book to teach to kids, but this lesson gently explains the allegory with a prison break game and a lesson on the mountains of blessings and curses.
Trample sins and seek the promises of heaven to remind us what Jesus did on the cross in this lesson.
Zephaniah prophesied during a time of great reform under King Josiah. In this lesson, reenact the destruction of high places.
We are called to have hearts that are soft, not hardened. Do a science experiment to bend wood, rather than break it.
Habakkuk was willing to praise God while he waited. Let’s act out other Bible characters who waited and use a scratch off ticket to guess who it is!
Obadiah is written against Edom- kin to the Israelites. Let’s learn about family, serving our siblings, and standing up for each other with games.
During the time of Haggai, the people of Israel were called to rebuild the temple. In this lesson, build your own temple with apples and toothpicks or sticks from outside.
This lesson came on Easter Sunday for us, so we spent time in Zechariah’s prophecies about Jesus’ first and second comings. Play a game of scattering sheep and split a Mount of Olives cookie.
In Malachi, the people’s hearts have become indifferent to God. Go through the questions the people ask of God with object lessons and experiments and find the true answer in Jesus
Check out other free lesson plans here and Bible study resources here.
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