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Ezekiel 15 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: The Useless Vine

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.

PreschoolThe Vine

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

KindergartenGrow Good Fruit

VINE → picture 4TREE → picture 3WOOD → picture 1FRUIT → picture 2

Grade 1The Vine Wood

A vine grows in the forest. → picture 5Other trees make good wood. → picture 1Vine wood cannot make a pin. → picture 4It is put in the fire. → picture 2A vine is for fruit. → picture 3

Grade 2What Is a Vine For?

  1. What did God ask about? A vine (circle)
  2. Can you make a table with vine wood? No (circle)
  3. Can you make a peg with it? No (circle)
  4. What is a vine good for? Growing fruit (circle)
  5. What did God want His people to grow? Good things (circle)
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Grade 3The Vine Tree

  1. What did God compare the vine tree to? Any tree of the forest
  2. Can vine wood make a pin to hang a vessel on? No
  3. What is a vine planted for? To bear fruit
  4. How had God's people acted? Unfaithfully
1: Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, the vine branch which is among the trees of the forest2: Will wood be taken of it to make anything3: Is it profitable for any work4: Behold, when it was whole, it was suitable for no work
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Grade 4Is It Profitable for Any Work?

  1. Why is vine wood not useful for building? It is thin and twisted and cannot make anything, not even a pin
  2. What is the vine's only purpose? To bear fruit
  3. Who did God say was like the vine wood? The people of Jerusalem
  4. Why would the land be desolate? Because they acted unfaithfully

Word bank: 1. vine; 2. wood; 3. fire; 4. work; 5. God

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

Grade 5The Vine Wood

  1. Why does God point out that vine wood is useless as timber? To show that Israel's value lay only in bearing fruit, not in being the vine
  2. What does the vine burned at both ends represent? Jerusalem, which had already been through the fire
  3. What reason does the final verse give for judgment? They acted unfaithfully
  4. What New Testament verse describes bearing fruit by remaining in Christ? John 15:5
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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