Truth Pursuit – Genesis

Study Questions


  1. What does it mean that the Bible is the breath of God?
  2. What are the four items we should never forget in the book of Genesis?
  3. How does God use the record of creation and the biographies of eight persons to show us that Genesis is a book of life?


  1. What was the cause and purpose of Satan's rebellion?
  2. What was the result of Satan's rebellion?
  3. Although Satan, the fallen angels, and demons have been judged, why are they still moving and working still today?


  1. When the Bible first mentions the Spirit, what is the Spirit doing? How can we relate this to our experience?
  2. What are the six requirements of generating life?


  1. What is the significance of land emerging out of water in our experience?
  2. What is the spiritual significance of the sun, moon and the stars? How are they related to our growth in life?
  3. What is the significance of the fish, bird and cattle in our experience?






  1. How does the moon represents the church? 
  2. What are the seasons, days, and years for?
  3. Why do we need the forth-day lights?






  1. How is the human life the maturity of all created life? 
  2. What are the central points of of God's restoration and further creation?
  3. What was the first purpose of God's restoration and further creation?


  1. What does it mean to have man exercise God's dominion?
  2. What are the three aspects of God's intention in giving man dominion is to recover the earth ?






  1. What is the ultimate consummation of God's restoration and further creation?
  2. What does it mean that the New Jerusalem will look like God's appearance?
  3. How can a city, the New Jerusalem, exercise God's authority?


  1. What is the qualification for us to receive God's blessing? How is this related to the fruit bearing?
  2. How can we experience the real rest today with the saints and in the church?






  1. What is the means by which God to fulfill His purpose?
  2. What are the steps that God takes to fulfill His purpose seen in Genesis 2?






  1. Why did God place man in a garden?
  2. Who does the tree of life typify?
  3. How are the materials for God's habitation brought in?


  1. Why is there no silver found in Genesis 2 and Revelation 21?
  2. What is the requirement of transformation? How can we relate this to our own experience with the divine life?
  3. What are the functions of the wall of the New Jerusalem? How is this wall built?


  1. Why did God give man freedom of choice?
  2. What is the principle of the tree of life?
  3. What are the things included in the contents of the tree of knowledge?






  1. What is the principle of the tree of knowledge?
  2. What is the ultimate consummation of the line of knowledge and the line of life?
  3. What if life? What is the principle of life?







  1. What are the two results, two consummations, of the line of life and the line of knowledge?

  2. How was Abel's way of contacting God different than Cain's?

  3. What does it mean to abide in the Lord and to allow the Lord to abide in us?




  1. How can even our reading of the Bible be on the line of knowledge?

  2. How does 2 Corinthians 3:6 relate to our experience?




  1. What does it means to say that God is "incomplete"?

  2. According to the picture in Genesis 2, what is the church?

  3. What is the result of the picture of Adam and Even in Genesis 2?





 



  1. What was the inward cause of man's first fall?
  2. What was the first step in the process of man's fall ?
  3. What was the result of man's first fall?






  1. What was God's way of dealing with the first fall of man?
  2. How does Genesis 3 and Revelation 12 correspond to one another?


  1. What does it mean that man has the serpentine nature and life?
  2. What is the result of the serpent, the woman, and the seed of the woman in Revelation 20 through 22?


  1. What is the purpose of the sufferings ordained by God?
  2. Why did God close the way to the tree of life?
  3. How can we have the boldness to approach God as the tree of life?


  1. By seeing the example of Abel, what should be the main aspect of our living? 
  2. In what way should we serve?
  3. How did the second fall of man begin?



  1. What is the ultimate consummation of Abel and Cain?

  2. What was the reason that God refused to accept or to look upon Cain and his offering?

  3. What should the way we worship God be according to? 



  1. What does it mean to be driven out of the face of the earth?
  2. What is the reason for human culture to be invented?
  3. What are the four items invented by the first human culture?






  1. What are the five aspects of the way to escape the second fall of man?
  2. What is the meaning of calling on the name of the Lord? And why do we need to call on the name of the Lord?
  3. How should we call on the name of the Lord?


  1. What is the difference between the record in the Genesis 4 and 5?
  2. What is the way to escape the ultimate issue of man's fall?
  3. What does it mean to walk with God? How can we walk with God?


  1. What is the third fall of man?
  2. What are the two causes of the third fall of man?
  3. What are the two results of the third fall of man?






  1. What is flesh? And what is grace? How are they related to each other?
  2. What is the highest product of grace?
  3. How did Noah build the Ark? How can this be applied to us today?


  1. What are the ways the Noah inherited from his forefathers?
  2. What is the ark today that God needs to change the age?
  3. How should we respond to God's revelation concerning the church life?






  1. What is the significance of number three and five in the Bible?
  2. What is the significance of the three stories of the Ark in relation to our experience of the divine Trinity?
  3. How can we see Philippians 2:12-16 portrayed in the experience of Noah? How can we apply this to our experience?


  1. What is the spiritual significance of the judging water of the flood and the Red sea?
  2. How can we see God's full salvation from the story of Noah and Israelites' crossing the Red Sea? How can this be applied in our experience?
  3. What is the spiritual significance of the sea of glass in Revelation 15?


  1. What is the spiritual significance of the life of Noah's family after coming out of the Ark?
  2. What is the first thing in the church life?
  3. What is the intrinsic significance of God's covenant with Noah? How could we apply this to our christian life and church life?


  1. What can we learn from Noah's failure?
  2. Why was Ham cursed? How can we apply this in our church life today?
  3. How can we see the fulfillment of the prophecy related to Shem and Japheth?


  1. What were the two factors that kept God's people to be one seen in the beginning of the life of Noah's family after the flood?
  2. What were the four ways that people were divided seen in Genesis 10? How can we see this in Today's society and Christianity?
  3. How can we be saved from division?


  1. What is the relationship between the church and the kingdom?
  2. What is the reality of the kingdom today in the church life?
  3. What is the relationship between the overcomers and the kingdom? How can we become such overcomers today?






  1. What are the four falls of man?
  2. What is the two-fold cause of the fourth fall of man?
  3. What does it mean to "burn bricks to build up Babel" in today's age? What should we do instead in the church life?






  1. What are the three sections of Genesis?
  2. What is the meaning of God's calling?
  3. What is the meaning of being transferred in life? How can we experience this transfer seen in Abraham, Issac and Jacob?


  1. What is the background of God's calling Abraham?
  2. How can we see the experience of the Triune God in the life of Abraham, Issac and Jacob?
  3. How can we see the principle of the Body of Christ in the experience of Abraham, Issac and Jacob?






  1. What are the three factors that become the motivation and strength of Abraham's calling?
  2. What is God's calling in your experience?
  3. How can we see God's eternal purpose in God's promise to Abraham?






  1. What is the difference between the first two callings of Abraham by God?
  2. What does it mean to be saved?
  3. What is the significance of God's reappearing to Abraham?






  1. What enabled Abraham to live by faith?
  2. What does it mean to build an altar to God in our experience? What are the differences between the three altars that Abraham built?
  3. What does it mean to pitch a tent in our experience? How is this related to the New Jerusalem?






  1. How can we see God's sovereignty in Abraham's first trial?
  2. What is the lesson that God wanted Abraham to learn in his first trial? How can we see Abraham learned this lesson in his second trial?
  3. How should we respond to the trials sovereignly arranged by the Lord?


  1. How can we see the Lord's sovereignty in arranging the gentile warfare for His people?
  2. What is the beginning of Abraham's victory? And what is the beginning of Lot's defeat?
  3. What is the difference between the order of Melchizedek and Aaron in terms of priesthood?






  1. What are the two things that fulfill God's purpose?
  2. What is the difference between grace and blessing? How are they related to the fulfillment of God's purpose?
  3. What are the five aspect of the land as a type of Christ and the church?






  1. How did God enacted the covenant with Abraham in Genesis 15? What is the spiritual application of this?
  2. What is the significance of the three cattle and two birds? How are they related to the church life?
  3. How is the affliction of God's people related to the fulfillment of God's purpose seen in Genesis 15?






  1. What is the spiritual significance of Sarah and Hagar? How are they related to our christian life and work?
  2. What lesson can we learn from Abraham's experience of producing Ishmael and Issac?
  3. What is the safeguard of our christian life and work?


  1. What is the cause of God's disappearance from Abraham for thirteen years? What can we learn from this?
  2. What is the meaning of "El shaddai"? How is this related to us being perfect?
  3. What is significance of the changing of names of Abraham and Sarah in Genesis 17?


  1. What is God's purpose? What is the way for God to fulfill this purpose?
  2. What is the progressive unveiling of God's divine titles in Genesis?
  3. What is significance of changing names in Genesis 17? How is this related to the unveiling of the divine title of God?


  1. What are the two basic points regarding God's eternal purpose?
  2. In order for God's purpose to be fulfilled, why is there the need for circumcision?
  3. What is the two-fold significance of circumcision? How is this related to the changing of names in Genesis 17?






  1. What are the four sections of Abraham's experience of God?
  2. What is the significance of Abraham being God's friend?
  3. What are the two aspects of revelations Abraham received from God? How can we apply this in our experience?


  1. What is the first basic principle of intercession?
  2. How can we say the proper intercession is to challenge God in a friendly conversation?
  3. According to the experiences Abraham passed through to become an intercessor, how can we become the intercessors that God is after?


  1. What is the cause of Lot's eventual defeat? What spiritual lesson can we learn from Lot?
  2. What is the reason for Lot and his family to lose the sense of morality? How can we apply this in our experience?
  3. What is the reason for Lot's wife to become a pillar of salt?


  1. What is the significance of Lot's wife becoming a pillar of salt? How is this related to the Lord's second coming?
  2. How is losing the soul life related to Lot's wife's experience?
  3. How can we apply 1 John 2:28 in our experience?






  1. How can we see the seed of division developing from Lot's separation from Abraham until today's Christianity?
  2. What is spiritual incest in today's Christianity? What is the proper way for us to bring forth the increase?
  3. How can we see God's far reaching and unsearchable mercy in the experience of Ruth? How can we apply this to us today?






  1. What lesson can we learn from Abraham's failure even after so much positive experience of the Lord?
  2. What is the hidden weakness of Abraham in Genesis 20?
  3. What lesson can we learn regarding intercession in Abraham praying for Abimelech?







  1. What is the significance of the birth and growth of Isaac in our experience?

  2. How can we see the two persons, two sources, and two kinds of living in Genesis 21? How can this be related to our experience?

  3. What is the spiritual significance of tamarisk tree in Genesis 21? How is this related to the calling on the Lord as El Olam?





 



  1. What is the test that God put Abraham on after the birth of Isaac? How can we apply this in our experience?
  2. How can we become Isaacs today to be the burnt offering for God?
  3. What is the meaning of Moriah? How is this related to our experience in the church life?


  1. How can we see Isaac being a type of Christ?
  2. What is the spiritual significance of ram replacing Isaac in his being offered by Abraham?
  3. What are the two categories of the descendants of Abraham?






  1. What is the significance of the place where Sarah was buried?
  2. What can we learn from Abraham's experience after Sarah's death?
  3. Why was the sepulcher so important and given so much detailed description and Abraham's attention?






  1. How can we see Abraham's living in oneness with the Lord in Genesis 24?
  2. How can we see Abraham's servant living in oneness with the Lord?
  3. How can we see Rebekah's living in oneness with the Lord?






  1. How can we say Issac and Rebekah's marriage is a type of the marriage of Christ and the church?
  2. How can we see from Genesis 24 that the Triune God is working together to gain a bride for Christ?
  3. What is the significance of Rebekah's receiving golden ring on her nose and golden bracelet on her hands?


  1. How can we see there is no maturity in Abraham's life?
  2. How can we see God's selection in Jacob and his maturity in life?
  3. How can we be Abraham and Isaac at the same time in our christian experience?






  1. What is the greatest frustration for us to enjoy grace? 
  2. What is the relationship between Abraham's and Isaac's experience 
  3. What is grace? What is the difference between grace and blessing? 






  1. How can we say that the normal christian life is a resting and enjoying life from the experience of Isaac? 
  2. According to Isaac's experience, how do we see that enjoyment and blessing alone doesn't justify our standing? 
  3. What is the difference between proper standing and improper standing? 


  1. From the experience of Isaac, how can we say that the enjoyment of grace does not depend on our spiritual condition?
  2. How can we see in Isaac the weakness of Abraham and natural life of Jacob?






  1. What is our salvation and birthright a result of? What does is not depend on ?
  2. What is the purpose of God's calling?






  1. Why is the record of Jacob so long in the book of Genesis? What was God's purpose in choosing Jacob?
  2. The birthright, which God intends to give to His chosen people, include?
  3. Why did Esau despise his birthright?


  1. What was the purpose of God's sovereign arrangement in Jacob being born second?
  2. What is the significance of Jacob taking a stone and making it his pillow? How can we apply this to our own personal experience?
  3. What is Christ, as the heavenly ladder, doing?


  1. How can a place be called the house of God? How is this portrayed in Genesis 28?
  2. What is the significance of land, seed and blessing that God promised to Jacob? How is this related to Genesis 1:26?
  3. What is the significance of oil poured upon the stone being the house of God and the gate of heaven?






  1. Why is it important to see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph as one complete unit?
  2. How was Laban used as an instrument by God to deal with Jacob?
  3. How can we see the matter of our preference and God's will in Leah and Rachel?






  1. Who are the three parties in this message? What do we see each of the parties doing?
  2. According to this record of Jacob, how can transformation be accomplished?
  3. How can we see from Genesis 31 that the blessing Jacob received is not from his trickery but God's sovereign and blessing hand? How can we apply this in our experience today?


  1. What is the significance of a dream? How can we relate this to our own salvation?
  2. In typology, what does oil signify?
  3. What does the stone in Genesis 28 signify? How can we relate this to our experience?a


  1. How can we see Jacob as a prototype of God's selection and transformation in the bible?
  2. How does Genesis 31 show us that God sovereignly prepares everything for our transformation?


  1. Why was Jacob's prayer in Genesis 32 a very good prayer?
  2. While wrestling with Jacob, why did the Lord not subdue him immediately?


  1. What is the spiritual significance of God wrestling with Jacob as a man?
  2. What is spiritual of God's hiding His name after wrestling with Jacob? Why was there the need for this wrestling to last for such a long time?
  3. What is the spiritual significance of Jacob's thigh being touched by the Lord? From this how can we see the difference between religious practice and the Lord's touching?


  1. How could we see God's perfecting hand on Jacob in Genesis 34?
  2. Why does God allow "storms" to occur in our life?
  3. What is the difference between Jacob's life in Shechem and Bethel? How can we apply this to our christian life?


  1. What is the goal of God's economy?
  2. How can we see from Acts 4 that salvation is for building?
  3. Give a bird's eye view of God's building in the Old Testament and New Testament.


  1. How can we see the purifying effect of the church life in Jacob's experience of returning to Bethel?
  2. What is an idol? And what is meaning of "changing our garments"?
  3. What is the spiritual significance of the death of Deborah and her burial under an oak beneath Bethel?


  1. How could Jacob use the title "El-Beth-el" at Bethel but not in Shechem? How could we apply this in our experience?
  2. What is the significance of God's reminding Jacob his new name? How can we apply this in our experience?
  3. What is the significance of the drinking offering? How can we become a drinking offering to God?


  1. What is the crucial and radical turn in Genesis 35?
  2. What is the spiritual significance of the altar in Bethel? How can we apply this in our experience of the church life?
  3. What are the blessings that Jacob experienced at Bethel? How can we apply them in our experience?


  1. What are the three ways that Genesis 17 and 35 correspond to each other?
  2. How is the experience of God being the all sufficient one related to God's building? How can we see it in our experience of the church life?
  3. What is the relationship between preaching of the gospel and bearing fruit? How can we bring forth fruit that would remain in the church life?


  1. What was the purpose and function of the two pillars in the temple?
  2. If we are to be a pillar of stone, where must we be?
  3. What is the difference between living for Christ and living by Christ?


  1. What is the significance of the pillars of stone and the pillars of brass?
  2. What is the significance of living a life of a lily as it relates to the pillars?
  3. What does it mean to express pomegranates?


  1. What are the three positive and two negative aspects concerning the pillars? How are they related to one another in our experience?
  2. What is the significance of the height of the capitals of the pillar being three cubits for base and two cubits for bowls?
  3. What is the significance of the four hundred pomegranate with ninety six on each row being shown and four on each row being hidden?


  1. What is the significance of the origin of Hiram's mother and father?
  2. What is the spiritual significance of Naphtali being a hind?
  3. What is the significance of the death of "A Tyrian father" in order to become a pillar builder?


  1. What is the significance of the history of Hiram being mysterious?
  2. What does it mean practically for our "Tyrian father" to die and to take care our "Danite mother"?
  3. What is the significance of Hiram being fetched from Tyre to Jerusalem by Solomon?


  1. How can we be transformed to become pillars? How can we see this in Peter's experience?
  2. What is truth? What does it mean for the church to be the pillar and base of the truth?
  3. What does it mean for the Lord to write "the name of My God", "the name of the city of My God", and "My new name" on the overcomers?


  1. In order to be perfected as pillars, where should we be?
  2. What is the sercret to be perfected as pillars?


  1. what is the significance of the drink offering in our experience?
  2. How is the drink offering different from the basic offerings? And how is drink offering accompanied with the basic offerings?
  3. What is the relationship between the drink offering, the Holy Spirit and the pillars?


  1. What is the significance of the death of Rachel? How is this related to Bethel, the church life?
  2. What is the purpose of God not allowing Jacob to have Rachel according to his time and way? How can we see this in our experience?


  1. What is the significance of the three pillars Jacob built?
  2. How can we progress from the experience of the second pillar to that of the third pillar?
  3. What is the significance of the tower of Eder?


  1. What is the main subject of Genesis? How can we see this in the experience of Jacob and Joseph?
  2. What is the last stage of dealing that Jacob experienced to cause him to mature in life?


  1. What is the difference between transformation and maturity in life?
  2. How are the sufferings that Jacob passed through related to his being mature in life?


  1. How can we see the maturity of Jacob in his spirit and heart being divided?
  2. Why should we not imitate the characteristics of Jacob's maturity in life? What should we do instead?
  3. What is the strongest sign of Jacob's maturity in life?


  1. How can we be persons who can bless others?
  2. What is the meaning of blessing? How can we see this both in the Old Testament and the New Testament?
  3. How can we see that God's blessing crosses man's natural maneuvering?


  1. How can we see from Jacob's experience that obtaining the birthright is a matter of God's predestination?
  2. How can we see in the New Testament the shifting of the birthright from Israel to the church?


  1. How can we see the maturity in life in Jacob's speaking?
  2. What are the four requirements for us to prophesy with blessing?
  3. How can we see the high peak of Paul's Christian experience in 1 Corinthians 7?


  1. What can we learn from Reuben's failure which issues in the losing of the birthright?
  2. What can we learn from the contrasts between Simeon and Levi in terms of disposition? How can our disposition be useful to God?


  1. What is the significance of Judah being the young lion, couching lion and lioness?
  2. What is the meaning of "binding foal and donkey to the choice vine"? What is the significance of "eyes red with wine and teeth white with milk"?
  3. What is the spiritual relationship between Zebulun being the haven of ships and Judah being the victorious, couching and producing lion?


  1. What are the main truths concerning Christ in the New Testament?
  2. How can we exercise the authority of Christ?
  3. What does it mean for us to bind our "donkey" to Christ as the vine? How is this related to the victory of Christ?


  1. How can we see that Zebulun typifies the shipping out of the gospel by the Spirit?
  2. How can we see that Issachar typifies the enjoyment of Christ in the church life?
  3. What is the spiritual consummation of Judah, Zebulun and Issachar?


  1. What is the significance of Dan being the young lion yet became serpent to stumble the rider of the horse?
  2. What are the good points concerning Gad? How can we apply this in our experience?
  3. What is the significance of Naphtali being hind let loose who speaks beautiful words and possesses the sea and the south?


  1. Describe the apostasy of Dan seen in the history of the children of Israel. What lessons can we learn from Dan's apostasy?
  2. What is the best aspect of Gad that brings him the success? How can we apply this in the church life?
  3. What is the spiritual significance of Asher's feet dipping in oil? And how can we be a Naphtali to give beautiful words to others?


  1. What is the significance of Joseph being the son of the fruitful tree whose branch ran over the wall?
  2. What are the ten aspects of blessing upon Joseph?
  3. what is the signifiance of Benjamin being the tearing wolf and having the Lord dwelling by him?


  1. How can we see the branching out of Joseph's fruitfulness in his history? How can we see this in the church life today?
  2. What is the significance of Joseph's branch ran over the wall? How can we apply this in our christian life and church life today?
  3. How can we see Joseph's victory over his opposers? Where do the fruitfulness and victory of Joseph come from?


  1. What are the precious blessing from heaven on Joseph? What is spiritual the signifinace of each of these blessings?
  2. How can we see that all things are blessings to us?


  1. What is the significance of the blessing of the breasts and the womb? How can we see this in the New Jerusalem?
  2. What is God's good will in relation to His dwelling? Why this is the last and ultimate blessing of all the blessings?


  1. How can we see God's salvation in the blessing of the twelve sons of Jacob?
  2. What are the eternal blessings we see in the new heaven and new earth? How can we apply this to our experience today?
  3. Describe the eternal dwelling place of God with man.


  1. What are the three "circumcisions" that Jacob experienced in his life?
  2. What is the spiritual significance of Joseph's hand being put under Jacob's thigh at his departure?
  3. What is the spiritual signifiance of Jacob worshipping God while leaning on his staff?


  1. How can we see Jacob and Joseph being the two aspects of the matured saints who fulfill the two aspects of God's eternal purpose?
  2. How can we see Joseph's being a type of Christ as the constituion of the matured believers?
  3. What is God's heavnely view concerning the believers seen in the two dreams of Joseph? Explain why we should never speak negatively concerning any saint.


  1. What is the reason for Joseph's excellent living?
  2. How is seeing the vision related to our overcoming our lusts and anger?


  1. What does it mean to be "betrayed" in our experience? how can we see this in the experience of Joseph and the Lord Jesus?
  2. Why did Joseph experience being in prison after his dreams instead of being enthroned immediately? How can we see this in our experience?
  3. What is the secret of spending time in our "prisons" seen in Joseph's experience?


  1. What are the gifts Joseph received after his enthronement? What are the significances of these items?
  2. What is the significance of Joseph's name given by Pharaoh?


  1. Why does Joseph need to wait for two more years before his release from prision?
  2. How did Joseph get released from prision? How can we apply this to our experience today?


  1. What are the eight aspects of the recognition of Christ by the children of Israel typfied by Joseph's dealing with his brothers?
  2. What is the spiritual signifiance of famine? What is the purpose of this famine to Israel and to us today?


  1. How can we see Joseph being a person with the rulership of the Spirit? How can we see the resurrection life of Christ typified by Joseph's life?
  2. How can we see Joseph being wise in three ways?
  3. In contacting and helping the saints, what can we learn from Joseph's dealing with his brothers?


  1. What is the purpose of Joseph's dealing with his brothers without revealing himself directly?
  2. Why were Joseph's brothers not able to recognize Joseph despite of so many hints from Joseph? What can we learn from this?
  3. How can we know the Lord with His loving care in our situations?


  1. How can we see Joseph's patience and wisdom in his dealing with his brothers? How can we have such patience and wisdom?
  2. Why was there no need for Joseph to forgive his brothers?


  1. What is the relationship between the realization of the kingdom and the denying of the self? How can we see this in Joseph's life?
  2. How can we see Romans 8:28 in Joseph's life? How can we also live such a life?
  3. What does it mean to bear the cross seen in Joseph's life? How can we live such a life to usher in the kingdom?


  1. What is the relationship between Joseph's sufferings and his being the supplier of life? How can we apply this in our experience?
  2. What are the four kinds prices people need to pay to get food from Joseph? What are the spiritual significances of them in our experience?
  3. How could we see both Jacob and Joseph died in faith with regard to resurrection?