Bible Stories featured in the game

David and Goliath
David, the youngest of the 8 sons of Jesse was a shepherd who protected his sheep like God protects his children. He was strong and brave and sang songs of praise to God while he played his harp. One day his father asked him to bring lunch to his brothers who were preparing to fight the Philistines and he overheard the giant Goliath say that if anyone could beat him the Philistines would surrender and serve their enemies. David volunteered. Though he was much smaller and no warrior, he slung a stone that brought Goliath down, then he took his own sword and killed him. He was made king. Faith in God helps us to do things we otherwise wouldn’t have the strength, talent or training for.

Jacob's Ladder
Jacob’s parents, Rebekah and Isaac, sent him away from where they were living to find a wife and to escape his brother Esau’s wrath at him for stealing his father’s last blessing. Along his way he stopped to rest and fell asleep with a rock as his pillow and dreamed a beautiful dream of a ladder, or stairway, which reached all the way to heaven where angels were coming and going. At the top of the ladder he saw a pool of flight and a vision of God that said to him, “I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed…I will watch over and protect you wherever you go.” Jacob’s ladder is a phrase commonly used today, but remember its meaning as God’s promise that children of God are watched over and protected. With faith in God you can climb the ladder to Heaven.

Lion's Den
Daniel was a young man captured by a king of Babylon. This king saw that Daniel and his friends were fine men. He also learned that Daniel could reveal the meaning of dreams. Darius made Daniel a king and for this the people were jealous and envious. They urged the king to make a law restricting prayer in order to challenge Daniel and his faithful practice of praying to God three times a day. Daniel continued his practice, breaking this new law, knowing that the punishment was to be thrown to a den of lions. God sent angels to close the lions’ mouth and Daniel was spared any harm. His faith in God allowed him to do what he knew to be right.

Red Sea
The children of Israel were slaves to the Egyptian pharaoh. Ten plagues were sent upon the Egyptians before the pharaoh finally agreed to free the Israelites. No sooner were they free than he decided he could not do without so many slaves so he set out to capture them with a great army. Approaching the Red Sea with nowhere to turn and an army at their backs, God told Moses to raise his rod out over the sea and it would part, allowing his people to pass safely to the other side where there was light. From the darkness, baffled at how the sea had parted, the Egyptians raced into the gap to try to capture them when suddenly they were all swallowed by the sea as the gap closed after the last Israelite was safe.

Staff of Aaron
Moses was 80 and Aaron 83 when God told them to go to the pharaoh of Egypt and say as He commanded. Aaron was to tell the pharaoh to let the Israelites go free. When the pharaoh said to perform a miracle to prove it was the command of God, Aaron threw his staff down to the ground before him and it turned to a snake. The pharaoh still did not believe because he said his magicians could do the same, so he did not free anyone. Then Aaron’s staff turned the waters of the Nile to blood, brought forth frogs from the rivers, streams and ponds to cover the land, and changed dust to gnats and flies that covered the pharaoh and his court, but not the people of Israel. Pharaoh still did not believe. Later Aaron’s staff sprouted, budded and produced almonds and was placed in front of the people as a sign to the rebellious not to resist God’s command.

Tower of Babel
In the beginning of creation there was only one language. The people could all understand one another. After the floods, God wanted the people to disperse and spread his message. Instead they cleaved together and decided to construct a tower that would take them into the sky to study the stars and seek a way to reach up to Heaven without God’s help. They became very proud and boastful of their accomplishment and started to seek praise for themselves and not for God. So God changed them and made them speak all different languages so that they could not understand a thing. They were then dispersed across the land and now we have many languages, but still one common ground as children of God.

Wall of Jericho
Jericho is the oldest known inhabited city in the world. Around 1400BC Joshua led the siege on this great walled city after listening to the Lord’s battle plan to circle the city with an army while priests blew ram’s horns and no one spoke. On the 7th day they would circle the city 7 times and on Joshua’s signal a great shout would cause the walls of Jericho to fall flat so they could run in and burn everything and everyone. Joshua was a trained military man with many years experience and probably had his own ideas of how to take the city, but he trusted that God knew best and followed His plan to victory.

Jonah's Whale
Jonah lived in Isreal 700 years before the birth of Jesus. God had told Jonah to go to the town of Neneveh and speak out against their wickedness. Jonah didn’t want to do it so he set off for Spain (then called Tarshish) aboard a ship instead. During his voyage a great storm threatened to kill everyone on board. Jonah said it was his fault because God was displeased with him, so they reluctantly through him overboard. He was taken and swallowed whole by a whale and lived 3 days in the belly of the whale praying to God for deliverance. He was delivered and then brought the message of God to Nineveh, that they would be destroyed for all their evil in 40 days. They repented and God forgave them and did not destroy them. Jonah was mad at God until he realized God’s all pervading wisdom and forgiving nature, even toward those who have done wrong. Jonah’s lesson was to do God’s will and then to love and forgive all.

Other stories included in the game are:
Noah's Ark, Seven Days, False Idols and Leap of Faith