History of God in His Union With Man, The

Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

This book is composed of messages given by Brother Witness Lee in Anaheim, California, on August 28, 1992, through March 20, 1993.

God’s history in eternity past _ch.1

Outline
The name of God
Jehovah, meaning “I am who I am” — self-existing and ever-existing
Elohim (“God”), implying the faithful strong One
God being eternal
From eternity to eternity
Uncreated (as the creating One)
Without beginning and without ending — self-existing and ever-existing
Eternal in His Trinity
God being triune
Elohim being plural, indicating that God is triune
The name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit
The Father being the source of the Triune God, the Son being the expression of the Triune God, and the Spirit being the reaching, the application, of the Triune God
The three coexisting and coinhering at the same time from eternity to eternity
The Son coming from with the Father and in the Father’s name
The Spirit being sent from with the Father in the Son’s name
Among the three of the Divine Trinity, there being distinction but no separation
God making an eternal economy
God in His Divine Trinity holding a council in eternity
The second of the Divine Trinity preparing to carry out His “goings forth” from eternity into time to be born in Bethlehem as a man
God blessing the believers in Christ with the spiritual blessings in the heavenlies before the foundation of the world
Choosing them to be holy, to be sanctified unto Himself with His holy nature
Predestinating them, marking them out, unto sonship, making them sons to Himself with His divine life
According to the good pleasure of His will to the praise of the glory of His grace

God’s history in time (from the creation of the universe to the final judgment at the great white throne — Genesis 1:1 — Revelation 20:15) (1) _ch.2

Creating the universe and judging Satan and the universe
Outline
The history of God revealed through human stories
God in eternity past
God in time
Creating the universe
God created the heavens and the earth
God created the heavens with all the living things in the heavens
God created the earth with all the things on the earth
Laying the foundations of the earth
In the proper measurements with the solid bases and the marking cornerstones
Spreading forth the earth and what springs up from it
The morning stars sang together and all the angels, the sons of God, shouted for joy at God’s beautiful building of the earth
God’s initial creation of the universe before Satan’s rebellion
Judging Satan and the universe
Satan was one of the early angels created by God at the “morning” of the universe
He was in Eden, the garden of God, upon the holy mountain in the heavenlies, and was anointed by God to be the chief archangel
As the ruler of the world
As the cherub covering the Ark
He rebelled against God
The issue of Satan’s rebellion

God’s history in time (from the creation of the universe to the final judgment at the great white throne — Genesis 1:1 — Revelation 20:15) (2) _ch.3

Restoring the judged universe and creating man
Outline
God’s intention to have man for His expression
God entering into time through creation
The Spirit of God brooding over the deep to produce life
The higher lights bringing in the higher life
The creation of man
God creating man in His image and according to His likeness
The form of man
The breath of life
Creating man with many virtues
Placing man before two trees
A flowing river and three precious materials
The producing of a couple

God’s history in time (from the creation of the universe to the final judgment at the great white throne — Genesis 1:1 — Revelation 20:15) (3) _ch.4

Saving man from His fall
Outline
Dealing with the fall of man
Its initiation
Its nature
Its issue
Satan entering into man to be man’s indwelling sin
Sin entering into mankind
Sin bringing death to mankind
Sin bringing vanity and the slavery of corruption to all the creation
Man’s soul being corrupted, man’s body being changed in nature, and man’s spirit being deadened
Man attempting to cover himself and hide himself from God
God not permitting man to eat the tree of life
God driving man out of the garden of Eden and closing to man the way to the tree of life
Saving man from his fall

God’s history in time (from the creation of the universe to the final judgment at the great white throne — Genesis 1:1 — Revelation 20:15) (4) _ch.5

Working on His saints from Abel to Noah and judging the world from Cain to Babel
Outline
Working on His saints from Abel to Noah
After saving Adam, God continuing to work on some of his descendants who took God’s way of life
God having regard for Abel and for his offering
God appointing Seth to replace Abel
God beginning to have His name called upon by Enosh
God prophesying concerning the deluge through Enoch naming his son Methuselah
God gaining Enoch to walk with Him for three hundred years and taking Enoch away from the earth before the deluge
God gaining Noah to walk with Him and to prepare the ark for the salvation of him and his whole family
God being pleased with the satisfying fragrance of Noah’s burnt offerings
God prophesying through Noah concerning his three sons
The above being the works that God did before His calling of Abraham
Judging the world from Cain to Babel
God judging the rest of Adam’s descendants who took Satan’s way of death
God having no regard for Cain and for his offering
God judging Cain, causing him to become a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth to invent the human, godless culture
God judging the corrupted world, composed of men who had become flesh, by the deluge to terminate the age of Cain
God judging at Babel the world, which had abandoned Him and had joined Satan as one, to terminate the race of Adam
God’s judgment on the world being a strong evidence that the God-created yet rebelling world is still under His sovereign ruling

God’s history in time (from the creation of the universe to the final judgment at the great white throne — Genesis 1:1 — Revelation 20:15) (5) _ch.6

Working on his elect from Abraham to Joseph (1)
Working on Abraham and judging Sodom and Gomorrah
Outline
Working on Abraham
Calling him
The first time
The second time
God’s promise to Abraham
Appearing to him the third time
Saving him from Pharaoh’s insulting of his wife
Promising to give him and his seed all the land that he saw
The priest of God, as God the Most High, blessing Abraham
Speaking in a vision to Abraham that He was his shield and his exceedingly great reward
Not speaking to Abraham for thirteen years
Appearing the seventh time to Abraham when he was ninety-nine years old
Appearing the eighth time to him by the oaks of Mamre
Saving His wife from Abimelech, king of Gerar
Giving Him Isaac and casting out Ishmael
Speaking to him the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth times
Blessing him and leading his old servant to secure Rebekah as wife to his son Isaac
Judging Sodom and Gomorrah

God’s history in time (from the creation of the universe to the final judgment at the great white throne — Genesis 1:1 — Revelation 20:15) (6) _ch.7
God’s history in time (from the creation of the universe to the final judgment at the great white throne — Genesis 1:1 — Revelation 20:15) (7) _ch.8

Working on his elect from Abraham to Joseph (3)
Working on Isaac and Jacob with Joseph (1)
Outline
Working on Isaac
Raising him as the unique heir to Abraham
Making him a type of Christ as the son of Abraham
As the only begotten Son of the Father
Given by the Father all that the Father has
Offered to God for God’s satisfaction and resurrected from the dead
Gaining the Gentile church as his counterpart through the Holy Spirit
Putting him under His rich blessing
Given by his father all that he had
Given by God two sons as twins
God appearing to him and promising him
Prohibited by God from going down to Egypt
Becoming rich and continuing to grow richer
God appearing to him again and promising him
God making him an heir
Working on Jacob with Joseph
Having loved and chosen him
Raising him as an heir to Abraham and to Isaac
Having destined Him to live a struggling life all his days
Struggling from his mother’s womb to be the firstborn
Struggling to receive the blessing of the firstborn
Forced to leave his parents and go to his uncle Laban
Suffering loneliness and homelessness in the journey to his uncle
Arriving at his uncle Laban’s home by suffering a long, lonely journey
Marrying four wives and begetting eleven sons
Endeavoring to become rich by deceiving his uncle Laban

God’s history in time (from the creation of the universe to the final judgment at the great white throne — Genesis 1:1 — Revelation 20:15) (8) _ch.9

Working on his elect from Abraham to Joseph (4)
Working on Isaac and Jacob with Joseph (2)
Outline
Escaping from his uncle Laban
Facing the trouble of Laban’s pursuing and overtaking him
Facing the trouble of Esau’s dealing with him
Wrestling with God
Facing the trouble of his daughter Dinah
Being purified and returning to Bethel
Taking care of the burial of Deborah
Suffering the death of Rachel
Suffering his son Reuben’s incest with his concubine Bilhah
Suffering the loss of his beloved son Joseph
Suffering the danger of losing Simeon and Benjamin
Releasing him from all his sufferings
God’s causing him to be transformed and matured
Being transformed from a supplanter to a prince of God
Being matured to bless all people whom he contacted
Causing him, with Joseph, to go through a long period of suffering and to be exalted as the sovereign ruler
Going through a long period of suffering
Being exalted as the sovereign ruler

God’s history in time (from the creation of the universe to the final judgment at the great white throne — Genesis 1:1 — Revelation 20:15) (9) _ch.10

Working on his elect from Abraham to Joseph (5)
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
Outline
Jehovah Elohim
The self-existing and ever-existing Triune God
The Triune God who was, who is, and who is to be
The great eternal I Am, the I Am Who I Am
The complete Triune God of the three sections of the life of a corporate person
God the Father loving man and choosing man, in the section of Jacob
God the Father calling man, justifying man, and equipping man to live by faith and live in fellowship with Him, in the section of Abraham
God the Son blessing man with the inheritance of all His riches, with a life of the enjoyment of His abundance, and with a life in peace, in the section of Isaac
God the Spirit working in all things for the good of His lovers, transforming man, and making man mature in the divine life so that man may be able to bless all the people, to rule over all the earth, and to satisfy all the people with God the Son as the life supply, in the section of Jacob with Joseph
The Triune God’s preparation for the carrying out of His eternal economy
Initiating it in a man
Issuing in three persons
Resulting in one people
To bring forth Christ, the God-man
For the producing of the Body of Christ
As the organism of the processed and consummated Triune God
Consummating in the New Jerusalem
The God of the tabernacle
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
The Triune God embodied in the Son being incarnated to be His tabernacle on the earth

God’s history in time (from the creation of the universe to the final judgment at the great white throne — Genesis 1:1 — Revelation 20:15) (10) _ch.11

Working on His elect through Moses (1)
Delivering Israel out of Egypt and bringing them into the wilderness
Outline
Coming down to deliver Israel out of Egypt
Through Moses
From the Egyptian slavery and tyranny
Dealing with Pharaoh and smiting Egypt with ten plagues
Through the passover
Redeeming them from the death-judgment
Delivering them from the house of bondage
Through the Angel of Jehovah (Christ) and the pillar of cloud and of fire (the glory of God)
Through God’s mighty power to divide the Red Sea for Israel
Bringing them into the wilderness
Israel fallen into Egypt
Predicted by God to Abraham
Prohibited from serving God
God bringing them into the wilderness

God’s history in time (from the creation of the universe to the final judgment at the great white throne — Genesis 1:1 — Revelation 20:15) (11) _ch.12

Working on His elect through Moses (2)
Bearing them through the wilderness and bringing them to Himself at Mount Sinai
Outline
Bearing them through the wilderness
As on eagles’ wings
Changing the bitter waters into sweet waters
Providing them with twelve springs of water and seventy shading palm trees
Feeding them with manna
Quenching them with the living water
Defeating the Amalekites
Establishing them as a kingdom with authorities
Bringing them to Himself at Mount Sinai
Making them His own personal treasure
Exposing them by giving them the law as His testimony
Revealing to them the way to partake of the Triune God
To get them washed from the dirt of the earth in the laver
To get them redeemed from their sins through the offerings
To enter into the tabernacle as the dwelling of the Triune God on earth
To feed on the table of the bread of the Presence
To be enlightened by the lampstand
To be accepted by God in prayer
To meet God through the propitiatory blood on the propitiation cover of the Ark

God’s history in time (from the creation of the universe to the final judgment at the great white throne — Genesis 1:1 — Revelation 20:15) (12) _ch.13

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