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2 Peter 3 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: The Lord Is Patient

Answers here are a guide. Welcome any answer that shows a child is thinking about the story, and celebrate their effort. Talk About It questions are open, so they have no set answers.

PreschoolGrow in Grace

Seedsunplantsstars

Coloring and finding page: any careful coloring is a win. Help your child point to and name each picture above.

KindergartenGrow

SEED → picture 4DAY → picture 3GROW → picture 1SKY → picture 2

Grade 1God Keeps His Promise

One day is like a thousand years. → picture 5The Lord is patient. → picture 1New heavens and a new earth → picture 4Grow in grace. → picture 2To him be the glory. → picture 3

Grade 2God Is Patient

  1. What do some people say about Jesus? He is not coming back
  2. What does God always keep? His promise (circle)
  3. What is one day like to God? A thousand years (circle)
  4. What will God make? A new heaven and a new earth
  5. What should we grow in? Knowing Jesus (circle)
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Grade 3New Heavens and a New Earth

  1. What will mockers ask? Where is the promise of his coming?
  2. How did God make the heavens and the earth? By his word
  3. Why is the Lord patient? He does not wish that anyone should perish
  4. How will the day of the Lord come? Like a thief in the night
  5. What dwells in the new heavens and new earth? Righteousness
1: Where is the promise of his coming?2: But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.3: But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Grade 4Not Slow but Patient

  1. What do mockers forget? That God created the world by his word and once flooded it
  2. How does Peter explain God’s timing? One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day
  3. What does the Lord want for all people? That all should come to repentance
  4. How should believers live while they wait? Holy and godly lives

Word bank: 1. promise; 2. day; 3. God; 4. patient; 5. new

Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

Grade 5Righteousness Dwells

  1. Why did Peter write this second letter? To stir up sincere minds by reminding them
  2. What do the mockers willfully forget? That God formed the world by his word and once destroyed it by water
  3. What does Peter say looks like delay but is really patience? The Lord’s waiting for people to come to repentance
  4. What does Peter say some people do with hard passages in Paul’s letters? They twist them

Word bank: 1. promise; 2. day; 3. God; 4. new; 5. grow

Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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