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Genesis
I. |God's creation—1:1-2:25A. |God's desire and purpose—1:1-2:3
1. |God's original creation—1:1
2. |Judgment and corruption—1:2a
3. |God's restoration and further creation—1:2b-2:3
a. |The Spirit, the word, and the light coming, the first day—1:2b-5b. |The waters under the expanse separated from the waters above the expanse, the second day—1:6-8c. |The earth separated from the seas and the plant life generated, the third day—1:9-13d. |The light-bearers appearing, the fourth day—1:14-19e. |The living creatures in the water and in the air generated, the fifth day—1:20-23f. |The living creatures on the earth generated, the sixth day—1:24-31(1) |The animals of the earth—vv.|24-25(2) |Man—vv.|26-28(a) |The conference of the Godhead—v.|26(b) |Created by God male and female—v.|27(c) |Blessed by God to be fruitful—v.|28(3) |Man and all other living creatures satisfied by God's provision—vv.|29-30(4) |Everything being very good to God—v.|31g. |God resting in satisfaction, the seventh day—2:1-3B. |God's procedures to fulfill His purpose—2:4-25
1. |The background—no rain from heaven, no man on the ground, no life in the field, only a mist from the earth—vv.|4-6
2. |The first step—creating man as a vessel to contain God as life—v.|7
3. |The second step—having man receive God as life—vv.|8-17
a. |Placing man in front of the tree of life—vv.|8-9b. |Putting man in the garden with its river—vv.|10-15c. |Allowing man to have free choice—vv.|16-17
4. |The third step—working God into man as life to be His complement—vv.|18-25
a. |Man, typifying God, needing to have a complement—vv.|18-20b. |Man gaining a complement in and by life—vv.|21-25II. |Man's fall through Satan's corruption—3:1-11:32A. |The first fall—from God's presence to man's conscience—3:1-24
1. |The serpent's (Satan's) temptation and man's first fall—vv.|1-7
2. |God dealing with man's first fall—vv.|8-24
a. |Seeking man—vv.|8-13b. |Judging the serpent—v.|14c. |The promise regarding the seed of the woman—v.|15d. |Disciplining man through suffering—16-19e. |Redemption anticipated—vv.|20-21f. |Closing the way to the tree of life—vv.|22-24B. |The second fall—from man's conscience to others' control—4:1-26
1. |The background—vv.|1-2
2. |Man's presumption, anger, murder, lying, and arrogance—vv.|3-9
3. |God's dealing with man's second fall—cursing man and making him a fugitive and a wanderer—vv.|10-15
4. |Man producing a culture without God—vv.|16-24
5. |The way to escape man's second fall—man realizing his fragility and calling on the name of Jehovah—vv.|25-26
C. |The generations of the saved revealing the ultimate issue of man's fall and the way to escape it—5:1-32
1. |The ultimate issue of man's fall—death—vv.|1-21, 25-27
2. |The way to escape death—walking with God—vv.|22-24
3. |The family of salvation finding comfort and rest—vv.|28-32
D. |The third fall—from others' control to human government—6:1-8:3
1. |The evil spirits mingling with man and man becoming flesh—6:1-4
2. |God dealing with man's third fall—blotting out man from the earth—6:5-7
3. |The way of salvation from the third fall—6:8-8:3
a. |Walking with God—6:8-10b. |Building the ark—6:11-7:16(1) |Receiving the revelation—6:11-21(2) |Preparing the ark—6:22(3) |Entering the ark and being shut in the ark by Jehovah—7:1-16c. |Saved through water—7:17-8:3E. |Life in resurrection—8:4-10:32
1. |The ark resting upon the mountains, signifying resurrection with Christ—8:4-5
2. |The raven being sent forth, signifying the fleshly ones going back to the world judged by God—8:6-7
3. |The dove being sent forth, signifying the spiritual ones staying with the church and caring for life in the Spirit—8:8-12
4. |Going forth from the ark in resurrection—8:13-19
5. |Making burnt offerings to Jehovah on an altar, signifying the offering of Christ to God through the cross—8:20-22
6. |Fulfilling God's purpose to express and represent Him—9:1-7
7. |Living under God's covenant—9:8-17
a. |No more judgment through death's waters—vv.|8-11b. |The rainbow as the sign of God's faithfulness in keeping His covenant—vv.|12-17
8. |The failure of the leader and deputy authority—9:18-29
a. |Caused by the success of his work—vv.|18-21b. |Ham exposing the failure, and Shem and Japheth covering the failure—vv.|22-24c. |Ham's son receiving the curse, and Shem and Japheth receiving the blessing—vv.|25-29
9. |The nations issuing forth with Babel as the consummation—10:1-32
F. |The fourth fall—from human government to rebellion under Satan's instigation—11:1-9
1. |Building a city and a tower to rebel against God, to renounce God, and to make a name for themselves—vv.|1-4
2. |God dealing with man's fourth fall—scattering them in living and confounding them in language—vv.|5-9
G. |The generations from man's salvation through water to Jehovah's calling—11:10-32III. |Jehovah's calling—12:1-50:26A. |The first aspect—the experience of Abraham—12:1-25:18
1. |God's calling—12:1-7a
2. |Living by faith—12:7b-14:24
a. |A life of the altar and the tent—12:7b-8b. |The trial of the called—12:9-13:18(1) |Famine—12:9-13:4(2) |The brother's striving—13:5-18c. |The victory of the called—14:1-24(1) |The brother being captured—vv.|1-12(2) |Fighting for the brother—vv.|13-17(3) |Ministered to by Melchizedek—vv.|18-20(4) |Overcoming the temptation of earthly substance—vv.|21-24
3. |Knowing grace for the fulfillment of God's purpose—15:1-17:27
a. |God's covenant with Abraham—15:1-21(1) |Concerning the seed—vv.|1-6(2) |Concerning the land—vv.|7-21b. |The two women—an allegory—16:1-16c. |God's covenant confirmed with circumcision—17:1-14d. |The birth of Isaac promised—17:15-27
4. |Living in fellowship with God—18:1-24:67
a. |Communion with God on the human level—18:1-22b. |A glorious intercession—18:23-33c. |The negative record of Lot—19:1-38(1) |A defeated righteous man and a pillar of salt—vv.|1-29(2) |The seed by incest—vv.|30-38d. |A hidden weakness and a shameful intercession—20:1-18e. |The birth and growth of Isaac—21:1-8f. |Hagar and Ishmael cast out—21:9-14g. |Two wells—two sources of living—21:15-34h. |The offering up of Isaac—22:1-24i. |The death and burial of Sarah—23:1-20j. |The marriage of Isaac—24:1-67
5. |Having no maturity in life—25:1-18
B. |The second aspect—the experience of Isaac—25:19-21, 27-28; 26:1-27:4, 27b-41; 28:6-9
1. |Gaining twin sons—25:19-21
2. |Living in the natural life like Jacob—25:27-28; 28:6-9
3. |Inheriting the promise given to his father—26:1-5
4. |Having natural weakness like Abraham—26:6-11
5. |Reaping a hundredfold and becoming great—26:12-14
6. |Finding wells in many places—26:15-22
7. |God confirming His promise to him at Beer-sheba, the unique place of God's appearing for the fulfillment of His purpose—26:23-35
8. |Not having much maturity in life—27:1-4, 27b-41
C. |The third aspect—the experience of Jacob (with Joseph)—25:22-26, 29-34; 27:5-27a; 27:42-28:5; 28:10-50:26
1. |Being dealt with—25:22-26, 29-34; 27:5-27a; 27:42-28:5; 28:10-32:21
a. |Being chosen to be born second—25:22-26b. |Being forced to leave the loving mother and the father's home—25:29-34; 27:5-27a; 27:42-28:5(1) |Supplanting the birthright—25:29-34(2) |Supplanting the father's blessing—27:5-27a(3) |Being instructed by his mother to go away—27:42-46(4) |Being blessed and sent away by his father—28:1-5c. |The dream at Bethel—28:10-22d. |Being led in God's sovereignty to meet Rachel and Laban—29:1-14e. |Being cheated by Laban to marry Laban's two daughters—29:15-30f. |The competition, envy, and wrestling between Jacob's wives in bearing children—29:31-30:24g. |Being squeezed by Laban and tricking him, but being blessed by God—30:25-31:16h. |Fleeing from Laban and being pursued by him—31:17-55i. |Fearing Esau—32:1-21
2. |Being broken—32:22-34:31
a. |Wrestling with God—32:22-32b. |Being welcomed by Esau—33:1-16c. |Returning to Canaan but only to Shechem—33:17-20d. |Still needing the dealing in his circumstances—34:1-31
3. |Being transformed—35:1-29
a. |Being reminded by God at Bethel—vv.|1-15b. |Deeper and more personal dealings—vv.|16-26(1) |The death of Rachel—vv.|16-20(2) |The birthright being changed through the defilement of Jacob's concubine—vv.|21-26c. |Entering into full fellowship—v.|27d. |Released from the tie with his father—vv.|28-29(The descendents of Esau—36:1-43)
4. |Being matured—37:1-2a, 32-36; 42:1-5; 42:29-43:14; 45:25-47:10; 47:28-50:13
a. |The process of maturity—dealings in the last stage—37:1-2a, 32-36; 42:1-5; 42:29-43:14(1) |Being robbed of the treasure of his heart (Joseph) under God's sovereign hand—37:1-2a, 32-36(2) |Being stricken with famine and forced to send his sons to Egypt to buy grain—42:1-5(3) |Having his second son, Simeon, detained in Egypt—42:29-38(4) |Being stricken with severe famine and sending his youngest son, Benjamin—43:1-14b. |The manifestation of maturity—45:25-47:10; 47:28-50:13(1) |Assigning no blame at hearing that Joseph was still alive—45:25-28(2) |Offering sacrifices to God at Beer-sheba—46:1-4(3) |Meeting Joseph again—46:5-34(4) |Blessing people all the time—47:1-10; 47:28-49:28(a) |Blessing Pharaoh—47:1-10(b) |Blessing Joseph's sons—47:28-48:22(c) |Blessing his own sons—49:1-28(5) |Departing in an excellent way—49:29-50:13
5. |The reigning aspect of the matured Israel as seen in Joseph—37:2b-31; 38:1-41:57; 42:6-28; 43:15-45:24; 47:11-27; 50:14-26
a. |Being a shepherd and the father's beloved—37:2b-4b. |Viewing his people as sheaves of life and as the sun, the moon, and the stars of light—37:5-11c. |Ministering to his brothers according to the father's will—37:12-17d. |Living as a sheaf of life—37:18-31e. |Living as a star of light—38:1-39:12(1) |His brother Judah indulging in lust—38:1-30(2) |Overcoming lust and shining in darkness—39:1-12f. |Being delivered into the prison of death—39:13-41:13g. |Being resurrected from the prison of death—41:14-39h. |Being enthroned with authority and receiving glory and gifts—41:40-44i. |Becoming the savior of the world, the sustainer of life (the revealer of secrets)—41:45-46j. |Supplying people with food—41:47-57k. |Being recognized by the children of Israel—42:6-28; 43:15-45:24(1) |Being wise in dealing with his brothers and showing them love—42:6-28(2) |Testing his brothers further—43:15-44:34(3) |Revealing his exaltation and glory to his repentant brothers—45:1-15(4) |His brothers participating in the enjoyment of his reign—45:16-24l. |Reigning—47:11-27; 50:14-26Outline of Genesis
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