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Book messages «Life-Study of Genesis»

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Life-Study of Genesis

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Genesis—the General Sketch and Central Thought _{Msg. 1}
Satan's Rebellion and Corruption _{Msg. 2}

2. Satan's rebellion and corruption
a. The origin of Satan
b. The rebellion of Satan
1) The cause
2) The purpose
3) The process
4) The result
a) Satan was judged by God
b) The heavens and the earth were judged
c) The rebellious angels and the demons were judged

God's Restoration and Further Creation (1) — Process _{Msg. 3}

3. God's restoration and further creation — Gen. 1:2-31; 2:1-3
a. Process
1) The Spirit came — Gen. 1:2b
2) The Word came — Gen. 1:3a
3) The Light came — Gen. 1:3
4) The separation of light from darkness — Gen. 1:4-5
5) The separation of waters under the expanse from waters above the expanse — Gen. 1:6-8
6) The separation of the earth from the waters — Gen. 1:9-10

God's Restoration and Further Creation (2) — Process _{Msg. 4}

7) The plant life was generated
8) The light bearers appeared
9) Some rule was established
10) The living creatures in the water were generated
11) The living creatures in the air were generated
12) The living creatures on the earth were generated

The Fourth-Day Lights (A Parenthesis) _{Msg. 5}

I. The sun — Christ and the saints
II. The moon — the church
III. The stars — Christ and the saints
IV. To rule for discernment
V. For signs — mainly for movement
VI. For seasons — appointed by the moon, mainly for growing
VII. For days — set by the daily rotation of the earth for new starts
VIII. For years — set by the yearly revolution of the earth for greater beginnings
IX. Shadows of Christ
X. Lights strengthened
XI. Ultimately there will be no more night

God's Restoration and Further Creation (3) — Process _{Msg. 6}

13) The conference of the Godhead
14) Man as the center was generated
b. Central points
1) To recover the earth
2) To have man
3) To generate life
c. Purpose
1) To have man to express God
a) With the image of God inwardly
(1) The image of God is Christ
(2) Man Was Created in Christ's image
(3) Adam was the type of Christ
(4) Christ was made in the likeness of man
(5) Man can be transformed into and conformed unto the image of Christ
(6) Our body will be transfigured into the likeness of the glorious body of Christ
b) With the likeness of God outwardly
A further word

God's Restoration and Further Creation (4) — Process _{Msg. 7}

Purpose
2) To have man to exercise God's dominion
a) Sphere
(1) Over all things in the seas
(2) Over all things in the air
(3) Over all things on the earth
b) Intention
(1) To deal with God's enemy
(2) To recover the earth
(3) To bring in God's authority
(4) The fulfillment
(a) With Christ
aa. When Christ came, the kingdom of God came
bb. Christ cast out demons to bring in the kingdom of God
cc. Christ gave His disciples authority over the power of the enemy
dd. Christ received all authority
(b) With the church, including the saints:
aa. The gates of Hades cannot prevail against the church
bb. The saints have been given authority to bind the enemy
cc. God will crush Satan under the feet of the saints
dd. The saints have to fight against the enemy
ee. The overcoming saints will have authority over the nations
ff. All the saints will reign for eternity

God's Restoration and Further Creation (5) — Ultimate Consummation _{Msg. 8}
God's Restoration and Further Creation (6) — Ultimate Consummation _{Msg. 9}

2) God blessed man to be fruitful
3) Man and all other living creatures were satisfied
4) Everything was very good
5) God rested — God was satisfied
a) The reason for rest
b) The miniature of rest — the rest of creation
c) The types of rest
d) The foretaste of rest
(1) With the saints
(2) With the church as the Body
e) The fulfillment of rest — the rest of the millennium
f) The consummation of rest
g) Man also rested with God
(1) God's seventh day was man's first day
(2) The Sabbath was made for man
(3) Man rests because god rests
(4) Man rests when God's work on man reaches His goal

God's Procedures to Fulfill His Purpose (1) _{Msg. 10}

B. God's procedures to fulfill His purpose — 2:4-7
1. By life
a. Life conforms the believers to the image of God and brings them into glory
b. Resurrection life gives authority
2. The first step — creating man as a vessel to contain God as life
a. The background
1) God had not caused it to rain upon the earth
2) There was no man to till the ground
3) No life had grown out of the earth
4) A mist went up from the earth
b. The way — Genesis 2:7
1) To form man's body with the dust of the ground
2) To breathe into man's nostrils the breath of life
a) The breath of life and the spirit of man
b) The spirit of man was specifically formed by God
c) The spirit of man is where the Spirit of God works and the Lord stays
3) To make man a living soul
4) To make man a tripartite being — spirit, soul, and body

God's Procedures to Fulfill His Purpose (2) _{Msg. 11}
Transformation for Building in the Flow of Life _{Msg. 12}

I. Causing man to have the divine nature — gold
II. Causing man to be regenerated — pearl
III. Causing man to be transformed into the image of Christ — precious stone
IV. For the building of God's redeemed people

The Two Trees (1) _{Msg. 13}

b. Allowing man to have free choice — 2:16-17
1) The tree of life
a) Signifying God
b) Its contents, nature, and result
c) Its principle — to be dependent
2) The tree of the knowledge of good and evil
a) Signifying Satan and all things apart from God
b) Its contents
c) Its nature and result

The Two Trees (2) _{Msg. 14}

d) Its principle — to be independent
3) The realization of the two principles
4) A further word
5) The triangular situation
c. Charging man to bear responsibility — to cooperate with God — 2:15
d. Warning man — giving him the prohibition — 2:17

The Line of Life Throughout the Scriptures _{Msg. 15}

I. Abel — contacting God in God's way
II. Seth and Enosh — calling upon the name of the Lord
III. Enoch — walking with God
IV. Noah — walking with God
V. Abraham — living in the appearing of God and calling upon the name of the Lord
VI. Isaac — living in the appearing of God and calling upon the name of the Lord
VII. Jacob — living in the appearing of God and calling upon the name of the Lord
VIII. Moses — living in the appearing and the presence of God
IX. The children of Israel — journeying in the presence of the Lord
X. Joshua — living and working in the presence of the Lord
XI. Gideon — fighting in the presence of the Lord
XII. Samuel — praying and calling upon the Lord
XIII. David — trusting in God, looking to Him, and enjoying God's life
XIV. Daniel — praying to God
XV. Jesus — as the Son of God living by God
XVI. The New Testament believers — living by the Lord
XVII. Paul — living out the Lord
XVIII. The church as the body of Christ — living by Christ as life
XIX. The New Jerusalem — sustained by the river of life with the tree of life

The Line of Knowledge Throughout the Scriptures _{Msg. 16}
To Work God Into Man as Life _{Msg. 17}

4. The third step — to work God into man as life — 2:18-25
a. The background — 2:18-20
1) Not good for God to be alone
2) No one like God to be his complement
b. The process — 2:21-24
1) To become a man — Adam created
2) To pass through death — Adam sleeping
3) To flow out His life — Adam's rib taken out
4) To be resurrected — Adam wakened
5) To bring forth the church — Eve builded
6) To be one with man — Adam and Eve becoming one flesh
c. The result
1) A bride gained — Eve gained by Adam
2) One with man — Adam and Eve becoming one flesh
3) Living with man — Adam living with Eve

The First Fall of Man _{Msg. 18}
God's Dealing with Man's First Fall (1) _{Msg. 19}

4. God's way of dealing with the first fall of man
a. Seeking man
b. Judging the serpent
1) Creeping on the belly — limited to moving on the earth
2) Eating the dust — limited to eating the earthy things
c. The promise to man
1) The background
2) The contents
a) Causing enmity between the serpent and the woman
b) Causing enmity between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman
(1) Enmity between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman
(2) The seed of the woman bruising the head of the serpent
(3) The serpent bruising the heel of the seed of the woman
(4) Enmity between the serpent and the overcomers
3) The center
4) The fulfillment
a) In the people of God
b) In all the overcomers
c) In the Lord Jesus

The Serpent, the Woman, and the Seed of the Woman _{Msg. 20}

I. The serpent
A. Having injected himself into mankind
B. Men having become "serpents"
C. Men having the serpentine nature and life
D. As the evil spirit working in fallen man
II. The woman
A. Signifying all the people of God
B. Attacked by the serpent
III. The seed of the woman
A. Christ
B. The overcomers
IV. The result
A. The serpent to be cast into the lake of fire
B. The woman to issue in the New Jerusalem
C. The seed of the woman to be the center of the New Jerusalem

God's Dealing with Man's First Fall (2)l _{Msg. 21}

d. The discipline of man by suffering
1) The purpose
2) Concerning the woman
a) Suffering in childbearing
b) The ruling of the husband
3) Concerning the man
a) The ground growing thorns and thistles
b) Sorrow, sweat, and labor during his whole life
(c) Returning to the ground
e. The anticipated redemption
1) The bleeding sacrifice — substitution
2) The covering skins — union
f. The closing of the way to the tree of life
1) The reason
2) The means
a) The cherubim — the glory of God
b) The flame — the holiness of God
c) The sword — the righteousness of God
3) The examples
a) God on Mount Sinai
b) God in the Holiest place of the tabernacle
4) The time limit
a) Until the accomplishment of redemption on the cross by the Lord Jesus
(1) The requirement of God's glory
(2) The requirement of God's holiness
(3) The requirement of God's righteousness
b) A new and living way opened
c) Man permitted to approach God and enjoy Him as life

The Second Fall of Man (1) _{Msg. 22}

B. The second fall
1. The background
2. The cause
a. The Devil's gain
b. Man's presumption in forsaking God's way of salvation
3. The process
a. Man's presumption in offering "the fruit of the ground" to God
b. Man's anger
c. Man's murder of his brother

Cain and Abel _{Msg. 23}

I. Cain
A. Working and living for himself — "a server of the ground"
B. Worshipping God according to his own concept which originated with Satan
C. Going his own way
D. Gained by the Devil
E. Persecuting God's true worshippers
II. Abel
A. Working and living for God — "a feeder of sheep"
B. Worshipping God according to God's revelation
C. The first priest of God
D. Persecuted by the worshippers in the flesh
E. A type of Christ

The Second Fall of Man (2) _{Msg. 24}

d. Man's lie and arrogance
4. The result
a. The greater curse
b. The vagabondism
c. Being cast out of the presence of God
d. To produce a culture without God
1) The reason
2) The process
a) Building a city for self-existence
b) Inventing cattle-raising for making a living
c) Inventing music for amusement
d) Inventing weapons for defense
3) The issue

The Second Fall of Man (3) _{Msg. 25}

5. The way to escape
a. Not presumptuous according to one's own concept
b. Living for God and worshipping Him according to His way
c. Realizing the vanity of human life
d. Realizing the fragility of man
e. Calling on the name of Jehovah — the "I am"
1) The definition of calling on the Lord
2) The history of calling on the Lord
3) The purpose of calling on the Lord
a) To be saved
b) To be rescued from distress, trouble, sorrow, and pain
c) To participate in the Lord's mercy
d) To partake of the Lord's salvation
e) To receive the spirit
f) To drink the spiritual water and to eat the spiritual food for satisfaction
g) To enjoy the riches of the Lord
h) To stir up ourselves
4) How to call on the Lord

The Way to Escape the Ultimate Issue of Man's Fall _{Msg. 26}

C. The ultimate issue of man's fall and the way to escape it
1. The genealogy of the saved
2. The ultimate issue of man's fall — death
3. The Way to escape death
a. To walk with God
b. To believe in God
c. To believe in God's word
4. The end of this genealogy

The Third Fall of Man _{Msg. 27}

D. The third fall
1. The cause
a. The evil spirits mingled with man — the fallen angels joined with man through illegal marriage
1) The sons of God being the fallen angels
2) The fallen angels committing fornication with the strange persons
3) Causing a mixture of the human race with the fallen spirits and producing Nephilim
b. Man became flesh — the fallen man
2. The process
3. The issue
a. The withdrawing of the Holy Spirit — signifying God's forsaking
b. The coming of the deluge
4. A prefigure of the present age

The Way of Salvation from Man's Third Fall (1) _{Msg. 28}

5. The way of salvation from the third fall
a. Walking with God
1) Finding grace in the eyes of the Lord
2) By faith
3) Justified by God
b. Building the ark
1) Receiving the revelation
2) Believing in God's Word
3) Preaching righteousness
4) Preparing the ark
5) Entering the ark with his family and all other living creatures
6) Being shut in the ark by the Lord

The Life and Work that Changed the Age _{Msg. 29}

I. The life
A. Inheriting the godly ways of the fathers
1. Adam's way of salvation
2. Abel's way of offering
3. Enosh's way of calling
4. All the fathers' way of living and begetting
5. Enoch's way of walking with God
B. Receiving more revelation
1. Concerning the generation
2. Concerning God's intention
3. Concerning God's desire
C. Believing and practicing the revelation seen
II. The work
A. Preaching righteousness
B. Building the ark
1. According to God's revelation by faith
2. Against the tide of the age

The Way of Salvation from Man's Third Fall (2) _{Msg. 30}

C. The ark
1. The size
2. Three stories
3. One window toward the heaven for light
4. One door on the side
5. Material — gopher wood
6. Covered within and without with pitch
7. A type of Christ
8. Not only for mankind but also for all living things

Saved Through Water _{Msg. 31}

D. Saved through water
1. Noah saved by the pitched ark from God's judgment
2. Noah saved through the judging water from the condemned world
a. The world with all its ages condemned by God
b. God's people saved from the world by God's judgment on the world
3. Baptism with water signifying the judging death of Christ which saves us from the world condemned by God
a. Typified by the flood of the deluge
b. Typified by the waters of the Red Sea
c. Signified by the laver, the brass sea, and the sea of glass
d. No more world and no more judging water in the new heaven and the new earth

Life in Resurrection (1) _{Msg. 32}

E. Life in resurrection
1. A shadow of the church
a. Resurrected with Christ
b. The fleshly ones, signified by the raven, going back to the world judged by God
c. The spiritual ones, signified by the dove, staying with the church and caring for life in the spirit
d. Offering Christ to God signified by the offerings and through the cross signified by the altar
1) Satisfying God
2) Keeping the curse away
3) Bringing blessing to the earth
e. Fulfilling God's purpose
f. Living under God's covenant
1) No more judgment of death
2) With the rainbow as the sign of God's faithfulness in keeping his covenant

Life in Resurrection (2) _{Msg. 33}

g. The failure of the leader and the deputy authority
1) Because of the success of his work
2) Ham, the father of canaan, received the curse by exposing the failure
3) Shem and Japheth received the blessing by covering the failure

Life in Resurrection (3) _{Msg. 34}

h. Issuing in the denominations signified by the nations
1) One originally
2) Divided eventually
i. Consummating in Babylon signified by Babel
1) From the line of the curse
2) Nimrod being the first king of Babel and bringing in idolatry

Life in Resurrection (4) _{Msg. 35}

2. A shadow of the kingdom
a. The beginning of human government
1) Man being given authority over others
2) Noah being the deputy authority
3) God's kingdom on earth among men
b. Before that kingdom
1) The earth being filled with violence
2) Man not caring for God's interest
c. In that kingdom
1) The earth being filled with peace
2) Man being recovered back to the beginning
d. Resulting in the rebellion of Babel
1) Satan usurping man to misuse the God-given Authority to form nations
2) Satan instigating man to rebel against God
3) Judged by God
e. The church being the kingdom in reality
1) The church built, the kingdom established
2) The church life being the kingdom
3) The church people being in the kingdom today
f. The church bringing in the kingdom in manifestation
1) The church producing the overcomers
2) The overcomers ushering in the kingdom
g. Reigning in resurrection
1) With Christ in a new age
2) Over the nations
h. Resulting in rebellion
1) Satan loosed to expose man's rebellious nature
2) Both man and Satan judged by God

The Fourth Fall of Man _{Msg. 36}
The Significance of God's Calling _{Msg. 37}

V. God's calling
Introduction
1. God's creation, revealing God's purpose and procedure
2. The serpent's corruption, causing man's fall
3. The Lord's (Jehovah's) calling, fulfilling God's purpose by God's procedure
A. The significance of God's calling
1. The new beginning of God
2. The transfer of race
3. The transfer of life
4. As seen in the called ones
a. In Abraham
1) Firstly relying upon Eliezer
2) Then begetting Ishmael by the strength of his flesh
3) His name being changed and his flesh being circumcised
4) Eventually bringing forth Isaac by the strength of God's grace
a) After the death of the strength of his flesh
b) By Jehovah's visitation
b. In Isaac
c. In Jacob
1) Firstly being the supplanter Jacob
2) Eventually transformed into Israel, the prince of God
d. In the believers
1) Beginning with regeneration
2) Accomplished by the experience of spiritual circumcision
3) Completed at the redemption and transfiguration of our body

The Background and Origin of God's Calling and the Experience of the Called _{Msg. 38}

B. The background of God's calling — Babel
1. Forsaking God
2. Exalting man
3. Denying the right of God
4. Serving Idols
C. The origin of God's calling — God
1. The appearing of God
2. The calling of God
D. The experience of the called
1. Three being one
a. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob being one God
1) The God of Abraham — the Father
2) The God of Isaac — the Son
3) The God of Jacob — the Spirit
b. The respective experiences of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob being three aspects of a complete one
1) Abraham's experience
2) Isaac's experience
3) Jacob's experience

The Motive and Strength of Being Called _{Msg. 39}

2. The first aspect — the experience of Abraham
a. Called
1) The motive and strength
a) God's appearing
b) God's calling
c) God's promise
(1) To make the called "a great nation"
(2) To bless the called
(3) To make the called a blessing to all families of the earth
(4) God's promise being the gospel preached to Abraham
(5) Implying God's eternal purpose
(6) The contents in God's eternal purpose, promise, gospel, and fulfillment being the same
(a) In God's Eternal Purpose — with Adam
(b) In God's promise — to Abraham
(c) In the gospel — with the believers
(d) In the fulfillment — in the New Jerusalem

The Progress in Answering God's Calling _{Msg. 40}

2) The progress
a) Called the first time at Ur of Chaldea in Mesopotamia
b) Not obeying God's calling right away
c) Taken to Haran by his father after his brother's death
d) Called the second time at Haran after his father's death
e) Obeying God's calling in a dragging way
f) Removed by God into the land of Canaan
g) Passing through the land to the place which God confirms

Living by Faith _{Msg. 41}

b. Living by faith
1) Strength — the appearance of God
a) After arriving at Canaan
b) After the separation of Lot
2) Significance — the altar
a) The first altar
b) The second altar
c) The third altar
3) Expression — the tent
a) Because all the things he had were for God and he trusted in God
b) At the place of testimony
c) At the place of fellowship
d) Sojourning by faith as in a strange country
e) Waiting with expectation for a city with foundations
f) Living in a shadow of the New Jerusalem

The Trial of the Called _{Msg. 42}

4) Trial
a) Famine
(1) Sinning by lying
(2) Being kept by God
(3) Having learned the lesson that God takes care of him in everything and that everything is in God's hand
b) The striving of the brother

The Victory of the Called _{Msg. 43}

5) Victory
a) The captivity of the brother
b) Fighting for the brother
c) The ministry of Melchisedec
d) Overcoming the temptation of earthly substance

Knowing grace for the fulfillment of God's purpose — The Seed and the Land _{Msg. 44}

c. Knowing grace for the fulfillment of God's purpose
1) Two categories of God's doings for the called
a) For him to exist
b) For Him to fulfill God's purpose
2) Two things needed for the fulfillment of God's purpose
a) The seed
(1) Not what Abraham had
(2) But what God promised to work out
(3) God's promise and Abraham's faith counted for righteousness
b) The land
(1) The definition of the land
(2) God's promise and Abraham's lacking of faith

Knowing grace for the fulfillment of God's purpose — God's Covenant with Abraham _{Msg. 45}

(3) God confirming His promise by making a covenant with Abraham through Christ
(a) Three cattle signifying the crucified Christ
(b) Two birds signifying the resurrected Christ
(c) As fowl from the air, Satan and his angels coming to make Christ of none effect
(d) The covenanting God passing between the pieces of the sacrifices
e) The called one identified with Christ by offering Him to God
(4) The affliction of the promised seed (a) signified by the great darkness
(b) From Ishmael's persecution of Isaac to the exodus out of Egypt
(c) As a sign for the fulfillment of God's covenant

Knowing grace for the fulfillment of God's purpose — The Allegory of the Two Women _{Msg. 46}

3) The allegory of the two women
a) The freewoman, Sarah, signifying the covenant of promise (grace)
b) The bondwoman, Hagar, signifying the covenant of law
c) The covenant of promise (grace) being made first
d) The covenant of law being brought in later
e) The produce (Ishmael) by the effort of the flesh with the law
f) The produce (Isaac) by the promise of grace

Knowing grace for the fulfillment of God's purpose — God's Covenant Confirmed with Circumcision _{Msg. 47}

4) God's covenant confirmed
a) God's disappearing for thirteen years because of Abraham's exercise of the flesh
b) Perfection required by God's all-sufficiency
c) The changing of name
d) The covenant confirmed with circumcision
e) The birth of Isaac promised
(1) After Abraham had become as old as dead and Sarah had become out of function
(2) Not by Abraham's natural strength but by God's visitation
(3) Ishmael, the seed produced by the flesh, being rejected by God
(4) Isaac, the seed brought forth by God's grace, established for the fulfillment of God's purpose

Knowing grace for the fulfillment of God's purpose — The Unveiling of the the Divine Title and the Changing of Human Names for the Fulfilling of God's Purpose _{Msg. 48}

5) The unveiling of the divine title and the changing of human names for the fulfilling of God's purpose
a) God's desire to work Himself into man
b) The unveiling of the divine title
c) The changing of human names
d) The sufficient grace for fulfilling God's purpose

Knowing grace for the fulfillment of God's purpose — Circumcision for the Fulfillment of God's Purpose _{Msg. 49}

6) Circumcision for the fulfillment of God's purpose
a) The significance of circumcision
(1) To put off our flesh
(2) To bring us into resurrection
(3) Equal to baptism
(4) Corresponding to the changing of human names
b) Not outwardly in the flesh, in the letter, but inwardly of the heart, in the spirit
c) The circumcision of Christ
d) Not I, but Christ
e) Not I, but the grace of God

Living in fellowship with God — Communion with God on the Human Level _{Msg. 50}

d. Living in fellowship with God
1) Communion with God on the human level
a) After Abraham's circumcision
b) As a friend of God
c) Receiving revelation from God
(1) Concerning the birth of Isaac through Sarah (a) The promise confirmed
(b) At the time of life, the appointed time
(c) Abraham becoming old as dead and Sarah becoming out of function
(d) A wonderful and marvelous doing of the Lord
(2) Concerning the destruction of Sodom (a) Abraham walking with God to bring him on the way
(b) God not hiding His intention from Abraham
d) Remaining in the presence of God

Living in fellowship with God — A Glorious Intercession _{Msg. 51}

2) A glorious intercession
a) According to God's revelation
b) Apparently for Sodom, actually for Lot
c) According to God's heart
d) According to God's righteous way
e) Expressing God's desire
f) Carrying out God's will
g) Until the Lord Has finished his speaking

Living in fellowship with God — A Defeated Righteous Man _{Msg. 52}

3) A defeated righteous man
a) Passively brought into God's way by others
b) Never having God's appearing
c) Never taking the initiative in taking God's way
d) His relationship with God being under the influence of others
e) Leaving others' spiritual influence because of material substance
f) Drifting into a situation which was wicked and sinful before God
g) Sovereignly warned by being captured
h) Rescued from captivity by the Lord's overcomer, but not helped to come back to the way of God
i) Going back to live in the wicked city which was condemned by God and was to be destroyed by the judgment of God
j) His children being corrupted
k) He himself barely saved through the overcomer's intercession
l) His wife being saved from destruction but becoming a pillar of salt
m) His life issuing in bringing forth Moabites and Ammonites

Living in fellowship with God — A Pillar of Salt _{Msg. 53}

4) A pillar of salt
a) Lot's wife
b) People who are not absolute in following the Lord
c) Believers who live in the world as the worldly people and seek to save their soul
d) Children of God who do not abide in the Lord as the anointing teaches
e) Believers who do not watch for the Lord's coming back and live a proper life
f) God's people who do not live and walk according to His economy

Living in fellowship with God — The Seed by Incest _{Msg. 54}

5) The seed by incest
a) The family — the group
(1) Apart from God's witness and testimony
(2) Drifted into the wicked city
(3) Rescued yet still having self-preference
(4) Isolated farther off from God's witness and testimony
b) The father — the leader
(1) Being drunk with worldly wine by the desire of securing seed
(2) Slumbering and sleeping
(3) Being befuddled
c) The mother — the helper in life
d) The daughters — the members
(1) Having lost the sense of morality
(2) Desiring to have the seed regardless of the means
(3) Having committed incest
e) The seed by incest
f) The far-reaching and unsearchable mercy of God

Living in fellowship with God — The Hidden Weakness and a Shameful Intercession _{Msg. 55}

6) The hidden weakness and a shameful intercession
a) The hidden weakness
(1) Journeying toward the south
(2) Repeating the old failure
(3) The hidden weakness exposed
(4) Preserved by God's sovereign care
b) A shameful intercession

Living in fellowship with God — The Birth and Growth of Isaac _{Msg. 56}

7) The birth and growth of Isaac
a) Isaac born — Christ brought forth through us
b) Isaac grown up — Christ formed in us
c) Ishmael's mocking of Isaac
d) Hagar and Ishmael cast out
e) Two wells — two sources of living
(1) The well for Ishmael (a) In the wilderness close to Egypt
(b) Making Ishmael an archer
(c) Leading to the joining to Egypt
(2) The well for Isaac
(a) In Beer-sheba close to the land of the Philistines
(b) At the cost of seven ewe lambs — Christ's complete redemption
(c) By a covenant — the new covenant
(d) For planting
(e) With the calling on the name of Jehovah, the Eternal Mighty One
(f) Making Isaac a burnt offering
(g) Leading to the offering to God on the mountain in Moriah

Living in fellowship with God — The Offering of Isaac (1) _{Msg. 57}

8) The offering of Isaac
a) Abraham tested by God
(1) To offer to God what God has given Him in grace
(2) To offer to God his only son whom he loves
(a) A life grown up by the well of the oath with the calling on the name of the Eternal God
(b) Offered to God on Mount Moriah where God's temple was built
(c) For a burnt offering for God's satisfaction
(d) Returned in resurrection for the fulfillment of God's eternal purpose
b) Abraham's obedience by faith
(1) Believing in the resurrecting God
(2) Acting according to God's revelation
(a) Going to Mount Moriah, the place of God's choice
(b) Traveling for three days
(c) Building an altar and offering Isaac

Living in fellowship with God — The Offering of Isaac (2) _{Msg. 58}

c) Isaac typifying Christ
d) Isaac replaced by a ram
(1) Provided by Jehovah-jireh
(2) Typifying Christ as our substitute
e) Abraham blessed by God
(1) With the seed multiplied
(2) With Christ as his unique seed
f) Christ revealed in three ways

Living in fellowship with God — The Death and Burial of Sarah _{Msg. 59}

9) The death and burial of Sarah
a) In Hebron — the place of fellowship with God
b) Sarah's early death
c) Abraham's suffering
d) Abraham's testimony
e) A sepulcher of choice

Living in fellowship with God — The Marriage of Isaac—a Practical Living in Oneness with the Lord _{Msg. 60}

10) The marriage of Isaac
a) A practical living in oneness with the Lord
(1) Abraham
(a) Moving in accordance with God's economy
(b) Charging his servant with the Lord
(c) Believing in the sovereign Lord
(2) The oldest servant
(a) Faithful in responsibility
(b) Trusting in the Lord for his responsibility
(c) Looking for the Lord's leading in the environment
(3) Rebekah
(a) Chaste, kind, and diligent
(b) Absolute
(c) Submissive
(4) Laban and Bethuel
(5) Isaac
(6) Fulfilling the purpose of God

Living in fellowship with God — The Marriage of Isaac—a Type of Christ Marrying the Church _{Msg. 61}

b) A type of Christ marrying the church
(1) The Father's plan
(2) The Spirit's errand
(a) To reach the chosen bride
(b) To bring the riches of Christ to the bride
(c) To convince the bride
(d) To bring the bride to Christ
(3) The church's response
(a) Doing what the Spirit expects
(b) Receiving the gifts
(c) Following the Spirit
(4) The son's marriage

Having No Maturity in Life _{Msg. 62}

e. Having no maturity in life
1) Marrying Keturah after Sarah died
2) Begetting another six sons after Isaac
3) Died without maturity in life
4) Buried with Sarah in the cave of Machpelah
f. Needing Jacob and Isaac for his completion
1) Jacob's being chosen
2) Jacob's maturity in life
3) Isaac's enjoyment of the inheritance

Inheriting Grace _{Msg. 63}

3. The second aspect — the experience of Isaac
a. Inheriting grace
1) Born of grace
2) Grown in grace
3) Being the heir in grace
4) Obeying in grace
5) Inheriting all from the father
6) Inheriting the promise given to his father

Resting and Enjoying _{Msg. 64}

b. Resting and enjoying
1) Living in Beer-lahai-roi
2) Securing a choice bride
3) Gaining twin sons
4) Receiving a hundredfold harvest and becoming great
5) Finding the "well of living water"
6) Coming back to Beer-sheba

Having Natural Weakness as Abraham and Living in the Natural Life as Jacob _{Msg. 65}

c. Having natural weakness as Abraham
d. Living in the natural life as Jacob
e. Not having much maturity in life
f. Died in faith at the fullness of days

Being Chosen _{Msg. 66}

4. The third aspect — the experience of Jacob
a. Being chosen
1) Before his birth
2) According to the foreknowledge of God
3) Not of his own strife
4) Not of his own works
5) Of God who calls
6) Of God's mercy
7) Of God's grace
8) Followed by God's predestination
9) Followed by God's calling
10) For God's purpose

Being Dealt With (1) _{Msg. 67}

b. Being dealt with
1) Being born the second
2) Being forced to leave the loving mother and the father's home
3) God's sovereignty in fulfilling the purpose of His selection

Being Dealt With (2) _{Msg. 68}

4) The dream at Bethel
a) Wandering on his lonesome journey
b) Sleeping homelessly with a stone as his pillow
c) Dreaming of a ladder which typifies Christ

Being Dealt With (3) _{Msg. 69}

d) Being met by God the first time
e) Being promised to by God the first time
f) His reaction
(1) Calling the place the house of God
(2) Calling the place the gate of heaven
(3) Making the pillow-stone a pillar and anointing it
(4) Naming the place "Bethel"
(5) Vowing

Being Dealt With (4) _{Msg. 70}

5) God's sovereignty in leading Jacob to meet Rachel and Laban
6) Laban's cheating in marrying his two daughters to Jacob
7) The competition, envy, and wrestling between Jacob's wives in bearing children

Being Dealt With (5) _{Msg. 71}

8) Laban's squeeze
9) Jacob's trick
10) God's blessing

Being Dealt With (6) _{Msg. 72}

11) The stone with oil poured upon it and the house of God
a) A homeless, restless situation
b) The stone
c) The oil poured upon the stone
d) The house of God

Being Dealt With (7) _{Msg. 73}

12) The change of Jacob's circumstances
13) Jacob's fleeing from Laban
14) Laban's pursuing after Jacob

Being Dealt With (8) _{Msg. 74}

15) Jacob's fear of Esau
a) Met by the angels of God
b) Still trusting in self-striving
c) Also calling on the Lord
d) Further striving by himself
e) Esau's welcome of Jacob
16) Jacob's return to Canaan

Being Broken _{Msg. 75}

c. Being broken

After Breaking _{Msg. 76}

d. After breaking
1) Having only returned to Shechem
2) Still needing the dealing in his circumstances

A Bird's-Eye View of God's Building in the Scriptures _{Msg. 77}

The seven eyes
The goal of God's economy
Christ as the stone for God's building
God's redemption being for His building
God's eternal purpose
A bird's-eye view of the Old Testament
A bird's-eye view of the New Testament
The main street
A thorough clearance for God's building
The church as the tabernacle
Our need to see a governing vision

Being Transformed (1) _{Msg. 78}

e. Being transformed
1) God's reminding — back to Bethel
2) Jacob's response
a) Making a thorough clearance
(1) Putting away their foreign gods — idols
(2) Purifying themselves
(3) Changing their garments
(4) Burying their earrings
(5) Terrifying the enemies
b) Going up to Bethel
3) God's clearing

Being Transformed (2) _{Msg. 79}

4) At Bethel
a) Jacob having built an altar to God
b) God appearing to Jacob
c) God blessing Jacob
d) God reminding Jacob of his new name
e) God promising Jacob
(1) To be fruitful and multiply
(2) To be a nation with kings
(3) To inherit the land with his seed
f) Jacob's reaction to God's promise
(1) Setting up a pillar of stone
(2) Pouring a drink offering on the pillar
(3) Pouring oil upon the pillar
(4) Calling the place Bethel

Being Transformed (3) _{Msg. 80}

5) The experience at Bethel
a) Jacob's altar
b) God's appearing
c) God's blessing
d) Jacob's experience of his new name

Being Transformed (4) _{Msg. 81}

e) God's promise
(1) Not in Padan-aram
(2) Not in Succoth or in Shechem
(3) Only in Bethel

Being Transformed (5) _{Msg. 82}

f) Jacob's doing
(1) Building a pillar
(a) A general sketch
aa. For the temple
bb. For the building of the church
cc. In the New Jerusalem
dd. The need to be in Bethel
ee. Coming to Bethel twice
ff. The Christ on whom we rest being constituted into a pillar
gg. Being perfected to be a pillar

Being Transformed (6) _{Msg. 83}

(b) Related to the building of the temple
aa. By Solomon through Hiram
bb. Two pillars
cc. Of brass
dd. Eighteen cubits high apiece
ee. Twelve cubits round
ff. Two capitals
gg. Nets of checkerwork and wreaths of chainwork
hh. The capitals being of lily work
ii. Two hundred pomegranates
jj. The capitals being four cubits in diameter
kk. Two Pillars standing in the porch of the temple

Being Transformed (7) _{Msg. 84}

ll. Two bowls of the two capitals on the top of the two pillars, two cubits high
mm. Four hundred pomegranates on the two networks
nn. Out of one hundred pomegranates, ninety-six being exposed to the open air
oo. Of the four hundred pomegranates, sixteen (four of each hundred) being hidden
pp. The pillars being hollow and their thickness being four fingers
qq. The two pillars measured with one height of thirty-five cubits with one cubit covered
rr. The network and the chainwork on the two capitals being seven on each
ss. The number three being hidden
tt. The brass, the lily, and the pomegranates all being on the two pillars

The Builder of the Pillars—the Skillful Hiram (1) _{Msg. 85}

I. His mother being a woman of the daughters of Dan
II. His father being a Tyrian
III. The marriage of His parents being against God's holy regulation
IV. Becoming one of the tribe of Naphtali
A. A hind set free
1. Trusting and rejoicing in God
2. Walking upon high places
3. Living in resurrection
B. Giving beautiful words
V. His Tyrian father dying and his Danite mother becoming widowed

The Builder of the Pillars—the Skillful Hiram (2) _{Msg. 86}

VI. Hiram's transfer to the tribe of Naphtali being mysterious
VII. The Tyrian father, the source of secular skill, having to die that the son who learned this skill through the worldly father may be released from the wordly tie
VIII. The Danite mother, signifying human existence, remaining as a widow
IX. The secular skill being useful for God's building only in resurrection after the worldly father has died and the learned son has been transferred to the tribe of Naphtali
X. The transferred Naphtalite needing to be fetched out of Tyre and to come to King Solomon in Jerusalem where God's building is
XI. The cases of Moses with Joshua and Paul with Timothy

Being Transformed (8) _{Msg. 87}

(c) Related to the building of the church
aa. The apostles being the pillars of the church
bb. The church being the pillar of the truth
(d) Consummated in the New Jerusalem
aa. The overcomer who keeps the Lord's word and Denies not his name being made a pillar in God's enlarged temple
bb. Bearing the name of Christ's God, the name of the city of Christ's God, and Christ's new name

The Way to be Perfected as a Pillar _{Msg. 88}

Our need to be in today's Bethel
A personal testimony
One flow
The ministry responsible for the flow
The secret to being perfected to be a pillar
Feasting on the positive things
Finding the flow and getting into it

Being Transformed (9) _{Msg. 89}

(2) Pouring a drink offering upon the pillar
(a) In addition to the basic offerings after the experience of the riches of Christ
(b) For the priestly service
(c) For the Nazarite
(d) For the church life
(3) Pouring oil upon the pillar
(4) Realizing Bethel

Being Transformed (10) _{Msg. 90}

6) Deeper and more personal dealings
a) The death of Rachel
(1) Bringing in Christ as the Son of sorrow (Benoni) and as the Son of the right hand (Benjamin)
(2) Rachel having brought forth Joseph, a Nazarite, a type of Christ
b) The defilement of Jacob's concubine, Rachel's maidservant, having changed the birthright
7) Entering into fellowship
8) Released from the tie with his father

The Three Pillars and the One Tower in Jacob's Life _{Msg. 91}

I. The three pillars
A. The pillar at Gilead
B. The pillar at Bethel
C. The pillar on the way to Bethlehem
II. The one tower

Being Matured — The Process of Maturity (1) _{Msg. 92}

f. Being matured
1) The process of maturity
a) The dealings in the last stage
(1) Jacob being robbed of the treasure of his heart under God's sovereign hand
(a) Joseph bringing his father evil reports of his brothers
(b) Israel loving Joseph more than all his sons
(c) Joseph's brothers hating him
(d) Joseph having two dreams that caused his brothers to hate him more
(e) Joseph's brothers going shepherding
(f) Joseph sent to see his brothers
(g) Joseph's brothers conspiring to slay him
(h) Reuben wanting to deliver Joseph out of his brothers' hands
(i) Judah proposing to sell him and not to slay him
(j) Joseph being sold to Ishmaelites of Midian
(k) Jacob losing the treasure of his heart
(l) The Midianites bringing Joseph to Egypt and selling him to Potiphar

Being Matured — The Process of Maturity (2) _{Msg. 93}

(2) Jacob being stricken with famine
(3) Jacob being forced to send his sons to Egypt to buy grain
(4) Jacob's second son, Simeon, being detained in Egypt
(5) The famine becoming severe
b) Jacob's reaction

Being Matured — The Manifestation of Maturity (1) _{Msg. 94}

2) Manifestation of maturity
a) No blame at hearing that Joseph was still alive
b) Offering sacrifices to God at Beersheba before going to see Joseph
c) No excitement showing looseness of self at seeing Joseph
d) No begging after arriving in Egypt
e) No activity for himself while living in Egypt
f) Blessing people all the time

Blessing _{Msg. 95}

I. The principle of blessing
II. The meaning of blessing
III. The first case of blessing
IV. The blessing of the priests
V. The blessing of the Apostle
VI. The Lord's blessing crossing man's natural maneuvering
VII. Man's natural concept holding back the Lord's blessing hand
VIII. Jacob's supplanting hands becoming blessing hands

The Shiftings of the Birthright in the Scripture _{Msg. 96}

I. From Esau to Jacob
II. From Zarah to Pharez
III. From Reuben to Joseph
IV. From Manasseh to Ephraim
V. From Israel to the church

Being Matured — The Manifestation of Maturity (2) _{Msg. 97}

g) Prophesying with blessing
(1) Four requirements for prophesying with blessing
(a) Knowing God
(b) Knowing people
(c) Having the riches
(d) Having a strong, active spirit
(2) Not a gifted prophet
(3) A God-constituted person
(4) Jacob, the father in the flesh, and Israel, God's mouth

Being Matured — The Manifestation of Maturity (3) _{Msg. 98}

(5) Concerning Reuben
(a) Being the firstborn to have the Preeminence in dignity and in power
(b) Having lost the Preeminence of the birthright because of his ebullition in lust
(c) In danger of dying and decreasing
(6) Concerning Simeon and Levi
(a) Receiving no blessing because of their cruelty
(b) To be scattered in Israel
(c) Simeon being omitted in Moses' blessing
(d) Levi receiving the priesthood because of his faithfulness to the Lord
(e) The scattering of Levi becoming a blessing to the children of Israel

Being Matured — The Manifestation of Maturity (4) _{Msg. 99}

(7) Concerning Judah
(a) Praised and worshipped by his brothers
(b) A young lion conquering the enemies and a lion and a lioness resting in conquest
(c) Producing kings, rulers, and Christ
(d) Having Shiloh
(e) Rich in wine and milk
(8) Concerning Zebulun and Issachar
(a) Zebulun being at the haven of the sea
(b) Zebulun rejoicing in going out
(c) Issachar being a strong ass couching between the sheepfolds
(d) Issachar enjoying rest in the rich land and becoming a servant under taskwork

The Spiritual Significance of the Blessing Prophesied Concerning Judah, Zebulun, and Issachar (1) _{Msg. 100}

I. Concerning Judah — the glad tidings of CHRIST
A. The victory of Christ
1. Christ as the young lion overcoming the enemies
2. Christ as the lion couching in satisfaction after enjoying the prey
3. Christ as the lioness producing cubs
B. The kingdom of Christ
1. The authority and kingship of Christ
2. Christ coming as the peace-bringer
3. The submission and obedience of the nations
C. Rest in the enjoyment of Christ's riches in life
1. Ceasing from labor and resting in the enjoyment of Christ's life
2. Soaking our behavior in the enjoyment of the riches of Christ's life
3. Being transformed with the rich enjoyment and rich nourishment of Christ's life

The Spiritual Significance of the Blessing Prophesied Concerning Judah, Zebulun, and Issachar (2) _{Msg. 101}

II. Concerning Zebulun — the preaching of Christ's glad tidings
A. Shipping out the riches of Christ
B. Reaching the Gentile world
C. Rejoicing in going out
III. Concerning Issachar — the church life
A. Resting in the church
B. Enjoying the pleasant Christ
C. Issuing in taskwork as a tribute to the master
D. Rejoicing in the church life
IV. The consummation
A. The peoples invited to the mountain of God
B. Sacrifices of righteousness offered to God
C. The church and the kingdom becoming our enjoyment

Being Matured — The Manifestation of Maturity (5) _{Msg. 102}

(9) Concerning Dan
(a) A young lion fighting for more land
(b) A Serpent, a horned snake on the way, biting the horse's heels and causing the rider to fall backward
(c) Jacob waiting for the Lord's salvation
(d) Still being one of the tribes (scepters) judging his people
(e) His tribe omitted in first chronicles and revelation, but included as a tribe in the millennium
(10) Concerning Gad
(a) Raided by a raiding band and raiding their heels
(b) Enlarged by God
(c) Dwelling as a lioness, tearing the arm, even the crown of the head of the prey
(d) Providing the first part of the good land for himself
(e) Coming with the heads of the people to execute the justice of the Lord and his ordinances with Israel
(11) Concerning Asher
(a) Rich food and royal dainties
(b) More blessed than the sons and most favored among his brothers
(c) Dipping his foot in oil
(d) Iron and copper under his sandals
(e) His rest being as his days
(12) Concerning Naphtali
(a) A hind let loose
(b) Giving beautiful words
(c) Satisfied with favor and full with the blessing of the Lord
(d) Possessing the sea and the south

The Spiritual Significance of Dan, Gad, Asher, and Naphtali _{Msg. 103}

I. The apostasy of Dan
A. Gaining more Christ by his victorious life
B. Being individualistic and independent
C. Setting up a divisive center of worship and ordaining a hired "priest"
II. The recovery with Gad
A. Coming back to the victory of Christ
B. Enlarged by God
C. Crushing the enemy by the productive life of Christ
D. Taking care of the brothers
III. The sufficiency of Asher
A. The exceeding blessing and surpassing grace
B. The rich provision of life
C. The bountiful supply of the Spirit for our daily walk
D. The absolute rest with peace, strength, security, and sufficiency
IV. The consummation with Naphtali
A. Experiencing the resurrected Christ and uttering the beautiful and pleasant words of life
B. Satisfied with God's grace and full with God's blessing
C. Taking the earth for the Lord

Being Matured — The Manifestation of Maturity (6) _{Msg. 104}

(13) Concerning Joseph
(a) A son of a fruitful tree by a fountain
(b) His branches running over the wall
(c) Having Been harassed by the archers
(d) His bow remaining firm and the arms of his hands being made strong and agile
(e) Helped by the God of his father and blessed by the all-sufficient
(f) His majesty being like the firstborn of his ox, and his horns being like the horns of the wild ox
(14) Concerning Benjamin
(a) A tearing wolf
(b) Dwelling by the Lord, and the Lord covering him all the day long and dwelling between his shoulders

The Spiritual Significance of Joseph and Benjamin (1) _{Msg. 105}

I. Fruitful
A. A son of a fruitful tree
B. Branching over the wall
II. Victorious
A. Overcoming the archers' attack
B. Being made strong by the mighty one
C. Tearing like a wolf
D. Pushing like an ox
III. Trusting

The Spiritual Significance of Joseph and Benjamin (2) _{Msg. 106}

IV. Blessed
A. With the precious things of heaven
B. With the dew
C. With the deep, the springs, lying beneath
D. With the precious fruits brought forth by the sun
E. With the precious things put forth by the moon
F. And G. With the best things of the ancient mountains and with the precious things of the eternal hills
H. With the precious things of the earth and its fullness

The Spiritual Significance of Joseph and Benjamin (3) _{Msg. 107}

I. With the Blessings of the Breasts and the Womb
J. With the good pleasure of him who dwelt in the bush
V. Dwelt
A. By the Lord between Benjamin's shoulders
B. Benjamin dwelling in safety by the Lord

The ultimate consummation of God's operation in the Bible _{Msg. 108}

I. The universal blessing — the new heaven and new earth
A. All things made new
B. No more sea
C. No more tears, death, sorrow, crying, and pain
D. No more curse
E. No more night
II. The eternal dwelling — the New Jerusalem
A. The tabernacle of God with men
B. Constituted of God's redeemed
C. God and the Lamb being the temple
D. God being the light, and the Lamb being the lamp
E. God's throne being the source of supply
F. The river of water of life with the tree of life being the supply
G. God's authority, face, and name being the chief enjoyment

Being Matured — The Manifestation of Maturity (9) _{Msg. 109}

h) Departing in an excellent way
(1) Asking Joseph to put his hand under his thigh
(2) Considering death as sleep
(3) Charging Joseph not to bury him in Egypt, but in the good land
(4) Worshipping God on the top of his staff
(5) Remembering Rachel's sorrowful death
(6) Realizing that God had shepherded him all his life long
(7) Prophesying concerning his twelve sons
(8) Buried with high honor

Being Matured — The Reigning Aspect of the Matured Israel (1) _{Msg. 110}

3) The reigning aspect of the matured Israel
a) Joseph's life — being the generation of Jacob
b) Joseph being a type of Christ
(1) A shepherd
(2) The father's beloved
(3) Ministering to the brothers according to the father's will
(4) Hated and harassed by the brothers to whom he ministers
(5) Viewing his people as sheaves of life and as the sun, the moon, and the stars of light
(a) As sheaves of life
(b) As the sun, the moon, and the stars of light
(c) Positioned in heaven, but living on earth
(d) Actually being sinful
(e) Christ still coming through them
(6) His people to be under his reign

Joseph's Living Corresponding with His Vision _{Msg. 111}

I. Living as a sheaf of life
A. His brothers giving vent to their anger
B. Joseph emerging from anger, surviving in a death situation
II. Living as a star of light
A. His brother Judah indulging in Lust
B. Joseph overcoming lust, shining in darkness
III. Living the kingdom life
IV. Enjoying the Lord's presence
A. Prospered by the Lord
B. The favor with the Lord's blessing

Being Matured — The Reigning Aspect of the Matured Israel (2) _{Msg. 112}

(7) Betrayed
(8) Delivered into the prison of death
I. Joseph tried by his dreams not being fulfilled
II. Joseph having the faith and the boldness to interpret the dreams of his two companions in prison
III. Joseph confirmed and strengthened by the fulfillment of the dreams of his companions in prison
IV. Joseph tried further by his dreams not being fulfilled for another period of time

Being Matured — The Reigning Aspect of the Matured Israel (3) _{Msg. 113}

(9) Resurrected from the prison of death
(10) Enthroned with authority
(11) Receiving glory
(12) Receiving gifts
(13) Becoming the savior of the world, the sustainer of life (the revealer of secrets)
(14) Taking the church
(15) Supplying people with food

Being Matured — The Secret of Joseph's Release and Exaltation _{Msg. 114}

I. Joseph becoming qualified in age after the further suffering of two years
II. Joseph released from prison indirectly through his interpretation of the cupbearer's dream
III. Joseph given authority directly through his interpretation of Pharaoh's dreams
IV. Joseph ministering food to people through his interpretation of dreams
V. Joseph's life being a life of dreams

Being Matured — The Reigning Aspect of the Matured Israel (4) _{Msg. 115}

(16) Recognized by the children of Israel
(a) The whole earth being under famine
(b) Food being only where Christ is
(c) The children of Israel forced to turn to Christ
(d) Ignorant concerning Christ
(e) Christ testing them
(f) Christ disciplining them
(g) Christ showing love to them
(h) Ignorant of Christ's love

Joseph's Dealing with His Brothers _{Msg. 116}

I. Joseph not out of control in seeing his dreams fulfilled
II. Joseph not hasty to show his glory to his brothers
III. Joseph being wise in dealing with his brothers
A. Causing them to realize their guilt in hating and selling him
B. Disciplining Simeon
C. Testing them with respect to Benjamin
IV. Joseph showing love to his brothers

Being Matured — The Reigning Aspect of the Matured Israel (5) _{Msg. 117}

(i) The children of Israel further forced to turn to Christ
(j) Still being ignorant of Christ
(k) Christ showing more love to them
(l) Still being ignorant of Christ's love

Being Matured — The Reigning Aspect of the Matured Israel (6) _{Msg. 118}

(m) Christ giving the remnant of Israel the last test
(n) Still remaining ignorant of him
(o) Christ acknowledging the ignorant Israel
(p) Eventually recognizing Christ

Being Matured — The Reigning Aspect of the Matured Israel (7) _{Msg. 119}

(q) Christ's revealing his exaltation and glory to repentant Israel
(r) Israel participating in the enjoyment of Christ's reign

Being Matured — The Reigning Aspect of the Matured Israel (8) _{Msg. 120}

(17) Reigning
(a) Supplying people with food
(b) Keeping people alive
(c) Keeping the land producing
(d) Taking special care of Israel

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