What was the result of Satan’s rebellion? Explain how we know that the earth becoming “waste and emptiness” was not a part of God’s original creation but the result of God’s judgment.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
3. God’s Restoration and Further Creation (1) –\u00a0Process<\/h4>\n\n
How may we say that Genesis 1:2b-2:3 does not refer to God’s original creation but to God’s restoration? Explain how the brooding of the Spirit of God is related to our experience of life.<\/li>\n
What is the main purpose of God’s restoration and further creation? What is the difference between the image of God and the likeness of God?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
7. God’s Restoration and Further Creation (4) – Purpose<\/h4>\n\n
What are the nine items of life mentioned in Genesis 1 and what is the two-fold purpose of God’s restoration and further creation?<\/li>\n
What is the sphere and intention of God’s dominion in Genesis 1:26?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
8. God’s Restoration and Further Creation (5) – Ultimate Consummation<\/h4>\n\n
What is the ultimate consummation of God’s restoration and further creation?<\/li>\n
What is the ultimate issue of man’s fall and the way to escape it? Explain how Enoch’s walking with God establishes the principle of rapture (i.e., walking with God is our going upward).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
What was the issue of man’s fall and why did God determine to flood the human race and condemn them all to death? How does such a condition prefigure the present age?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
28. The Way of Salvation from Man’s Third Fall (1)<\/h4>\n\n
What is the first aspect of the way of salvation from the third fall? Explain how Noah’s finding grace enabled him to walk with God.<\/li>\n
What is the second aspect of the way of salvation from the third fall? How can we be today’s Noah?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
30. The Way of Salvation from Man’s Third Fall (2)<\/h4>\n\n
Explain the significance of the dimensions and size of the ark involving the numbers three and five showing how they relate to God’s building throughout the Bible.<\/li>\n
Explain what it means to be saved through water in the context of Noah’s generation. Describe how God’s judgment is a two-fold salvation for the children of Israel.<\/li>\n
What does it mean that these eight persons, typifying the church life, were living under God’s covenant? What is the significance of the rainbow that God set in the cloud?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
33. \u5fa9\u6d3b\u7684\u751f\u547d (2)<\/h4>\n\n
What was the cause of the failure of God’s deputy authority and how does our response to such failure by God’s authority bring us either curse or blessing?<\/li>\n
Why were God’s covenanted people originally one and why were they eventually divided? Explain how different goals in the church life bring in division.<\/li>\n
Explain what the seed of division issues in and how it develops and is harvested in Revelation 17 and 18? In what way are we today’s Noahs and Abrahams in the context of the book of Genesis?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
35. \u5fa9\u6d3b\u7684\u751f\u547d (4)<\/h4>\n\n
How is God’s deputy authority a shadow of the kingdom in Genesis 9? Explain the progression and issue of human government before and after the flood.<\/li>\n
Explain how the church being the reality of the kingdom today brings in the manifestation of the kingdom in the next age with God’s overcomers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
What were the two factors of the cause of the fourth fall of man? Explain the progression of man’s fall from God’s presence to being under Satan’s instigation, and from not using his spirit to being fallen to the uttermost.<\/li>\n
What were the five steps of the process of man’s fourth fall and its two results? What do we have in the church life that preserves us from living in this fall?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
37. The Significance of God’s Calling<\/h4>\n\n
What are the three sections of Genesis and how does Satan’s work afford God the opportunity to display His wisdom?<\/li>\n
What is the significance of God’s calling and how is it seen in the called ones-in Abraham, in Isaac, in Jacob, and in the believers?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
38. The Background and Origin of God’s Calling and the Experience of the Called<\/h4>\n\n
Describe the background of God’s calling and the origin of Abraham’s experience of being called.<\/li>\n
What were the three aspects of the motive and strength to accept God’s calling? What is the difference between a true and false Christian? Relate God’s calling and appearing to your experience.<\/li>\n
What were the contents of God’s promise to Abraham? Explain how God’s promise to Abraham implies God’s eternal purpose and how the contents of God’s purpose, promise, gospel, and fulfillment are the same.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
40. The Progress in Answering God’s Calling<\/h4>\n\n
What were the seven stages of the progress in Abraham’s answering God’s calling? Why did God need to repeat His calling?<\/li>\n
From God’s point of view, what does it mean to be saved? Refer to Abraham’s journey into the good land of Canaan. What did Abraham do when he reached God’s goal?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
41. \u6191\u4fe1\u5fc3\u751f\u6d3b<\/h4>\n\n
What is the strength for living by faith? What is the significance of living by faith as seen in Abraham’s three altars?<\/li>\n
What is the spiritual significance of Abraham’s tent? Make sure to mention how the Bible ends with a tent.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
42. \u8499\u53ec\u7684\u8a66\u7149<\/h4>\n\n
In what way was the famine a trial to test Abraham’s living by faith? What lesson should we, like Abraham, learn from this trial?<\/li>\n
What were the steps of Lot’s defeat and the factors of Abraham’s victory?<\/li>\n
Who was Melchizedek and how was Abraham’s victory related to him? How may we also gain the victory today?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
44. Knowing Grace for the Fulfillment of God’s Purpose-The Seed and the Land<\/h4>\n\n
How did Abraham’s experience of God, beginning with Genesis 15, turn from something outward to something inward? What kind of faith was it that was reckoned to Abraham as righteousness?<\/li>\n
Describe the two things required for the fulfillment of God’s purpose in Abraham’s day. How do they apply to our experience of Christ today?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
45. Knowing Grace for the Fulfillment of God’s Purpose-God’s Covenant with Abraham<\/h4>\n\n
48. Knowing Grace for the Fulfillment of God’s Purpose-The Unveiling of the Divine Title and the Changing of the Human Names for the Fulfillment of God’s Purpose<\/h4>\n\n
How is the unveiling of the divine title, El-Shaddai, related to the fulfillment of God’s purpose?<\/li>\n
How do the changing of the names of Abraham and Sarah relate to the fulfillment of God’s purpose in the church life today?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
49. Knowing Grace for the Fulfillment of God’s Purpose-Circumcision for the Fulfillment of God’s Purpose<\/h4>\n\n
Why is there the need of circumcision for the fulfillment of God’s purpose?<\/li>\n
50. Living in Fellowship with God-Communion with God on a Human Level<\/h4>\n\n
Describe the four major sections of Abraham’s experience of God in Genesis 11-24 and how God appeared to Abraham in each section. In which of these four sections are you?<\/li>\n
What were the four conditions or aspects of Abraham’s fellowship with God on the human level? Be sure to include the two matters of God’s revelation to Abraham in your answer.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
51. Living in Fellowship with God-a Glorious Intercession<\/h4>\n\n
53. Living in Fellowship with God-a Pillar of Salt<\/h4>\n\n
How does our heeding of the Lord’s warning to His disciples in Luke 17 to “remember Lot’s wife” (v. 32) relate to our being prepared for the Lord’s coming?<\/li>\n
Explain how the two wells represent two kinds of living and relate to the two sources and two results of the two persons-Isaac and Ishmael.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
57. Living in Fellowship with God-the Offering of Isaac (1)<\/h4>\n\n
How should we apply Abraham’s suffering and his testimony to our own spiritual experience?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
60. Living in Fellowship with God-the Marriage of Isaac a Practical Living in Oneness with the Lord<\/h4>\n\n
What is the purpose of the marriage in Genesis 24? How can we see Abraham’s practical living in oneness with the Lord?<\/li>\n
How can we see a practical living in oneness with the Lord in the record of Abraham’s oldest servant and in the record of Rebekah?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
61. Living in Fellowship with God-the Marriage of Isaac a Type of Christ Marrying the Church<\/h4>\n\n
What four main persons do we see in Genesis 24 and how do they relate to the subject of the New Testament? What is the Father’s plan?<\/li>\n
What four ways does the Spirit function to carry out the Father’s plan? How do we see the church’s corresponding response to each function from Rebekah’s experience in Genesis 24?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
What aspect of the Christian life can we see from the experience of Isaac? Why must we first have Abraham’s experience before Isaac’s experience?<\/li>\n
What is grace? Briefly mention six aspects of Isaac’s life that show his life was a record of the experience of grace.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Describe the six experiences of Isaac’s resting and enjoying life. Why is it important to take care of the proper place for our enjoyment?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Related to the experience of Jacob, what are ten conditions related to God’s selection? Give verses to confirm each point.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
67. \u88ab\u8655\u7406 (1)<\/h4>\n\n
Why is the record of Jacob’s life the longest of any person in the book of Genesis? In what ways did God use Jacob’s family to deal with him?<\/li>\n
How do we see God’s sovereignty in the arrangements of Jacob’s life and in fulfilling the purpose of His selection? As God’s chosen people, what is our birthright and how can we preserve it?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
68. \u88ab\u8655\u7406\uff082\uff09<\/h4>\n\n
What is the significance of Jacob’s dream? What is the significance of its location and timing?<\/li>\n
How does the ladder in Jacob’s dream typify Christ? Practically, how do we come to Bethel?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
69.\u88ab\u8655\u7406\uff083\uff09<\/h4>\n\n
Give a bird’s-eye view of the process of transformation from Genesis 1 and 2 to Revelation 21. Specifically develop the significance of the stone introduced in Genesis 28.<\/li>\n
What is the relationship between God’s dealings and God’s promises? What was Jacob’s reaction to his dream?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
70.\u88ab\u8655\u7406 (4)<\/h4>\n\n
What was God’s intention when He led Jacob to Rachel and Laban?<\/li>\n
How did Jacob’s experiences with his wives and children help to further transform him?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
71.\u88ab\u8655\u7406\uff085\uff09<\/h4>\n\n
Describe how Laban “squeezed” Jacob. Why did Jacob need these experiences?<\/li>\n
What was Jacob’s response to the squeezing? Why was Jacob’s response unnecessary?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Why was God’s promise not given in Padan-aram, Succoth, or Shechem, but only in Bethel? How does such a vision related to the church life uplift our Christian experience?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n