Truth Pursuit of Genesis

Week 14

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WEEK 14

Level 1

Scripture Reading and Copying: Gen. 13
Life-study Message Reading: Msg(s). 27, 28
 

Level 2

Title: The Judgment on the Serpent and the Promise Regarding the Seed of the Woman

Verse: Genesis 3:14-15
Assigned Reading: Life-study of Genesis, msgs. 19, 20

Supplemental reading:

God’s Eternal Intention and Satan’s Counterplot, ch. 2;
Truth Lessons, Level One, Vol. 1, ch. 6;
Truth Lessons, Level Three, Vol. 1, ch. 3;
Revelations in Genesis: Seeing God’s Way of Salvation in Man’s Fall, ch. 3

Study Questions: 

1. What is the significance of “Upon your stomach you will go, and dust you will eat all the days of your life” in Gen. 3:14 and its application to us?
2. What have you come to know and realize regarding the enmity between the seed of the serpent and the woman, between the serpent’s seed and the woman’s seed?
3. What is the significance of the phrase, “He will bruise you on the head, but you will bruise him on the heel?”
 
 

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Week 13

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WEEK 13

Level 1

Scripture Reading and Copying: Gen. 12
Life-study Message Reading: Msg(s). 25, 26
 

Level 2

Title: Satan’s Temptation and Man’s Being Deceived

Verse: Genesis 3:1-13
Assigned Reading: Life-study of Genesis, msg. 18

Supplemental reading:

God’s Eternal Intention and Satan’s Counterplot, ch. 1
The History of God in His Union with Man, ch. 4
Authority and Submission, ch. 2
Truth Lessons, Level One, Vol. 1, ch. 5
The Collected Works of Watchman Nee, Vol. 46, Conferences, Messages, and Fellowship (6), msg. 165
Revelation in Genesis: Seeing God’s Desire and Purpose in Creation, ch. 8
Revelations in Genesis: Seeing God’s Way of Salvation in Man’s Fall, ch. 2

Study Questions: 

1. Consider the serpent’s temptation of man in Genesis 3. Particularly the questions posed to man by the serpent.
2. Why did the woman succumb to the serpent’s temptation?
3. Consider the line of the serpent in the Scriptures.
 
 

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Week 12

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WEEK 12

Level 1

Scripture Reading and Copying: Gen. 11:10-32
Life-study Message Reading: Msg(s). 23, 24
 

Level 2

Title: Eve as Adam’s Helper and Counterpart

Verse: Genesis 2:18-25
Assigned Reading: The Glorious Church, ch. 2

Supplemental reading:
The Glorious Church, ch. 3
The Central Thought of God, chs. 3-4
The Central Thought of God, ch. 4
Truth Lessons, Level Three, Vol. 1, ch. 2
Revelation in Genesis: Seeing God’s Desire and Purpose in Creation, ch. 7

Study Questions: 

1. What is the significance of the word “counterpart?”
2. What is the significance of the phrases “bone of my bones…flesh of my flesh, “a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife”, and “they shall become one flesh?”
3. What is the significance of Gen. 2:25, that the man and his wife were naked and were not ashamed before each other?
 
 

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Week 11

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WEEK 11

Level 1

Scripture Reading and Copying: Gen. 11:1-9
Life-study Message Reading: Msg(s). 21, 22
 

Level 2

Title: God’s Command Concerning Eating

Verse: Genesis 2:16-17
Assigned Reading: The Life-study of Genesis, msg(s). 11, 17

Supplemental reading:
The Tree of Life, ch. 1
The Tree of Life, ch. 14
The Divine Economy, ch. 5
Enjoying the Riches of Christ for the Building Up of the Church as the Body of Christ, ch. 6
Revelation in Genesis: Seeing God’s Desire and Purpose in Creation, ch. 6

Study Questions: 
1. What did God command man with respect to eating?
2. What is the death in Gen. 2:17
3. Why did God not explicitly mention the tree of life in the command to man concerning eating?
 
 

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Week 10

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WEEK 10

Level 1

Scripture Reading and Copying: Gen. 10
Life-study Message Reading: Msg(s). 19, 20
 

Level 2

Title: The Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

Verse: Genesis 2:8-9, 16-17
Assigned Reading: The Life-study of Genesis, msg(s). 13-16

Supplemental reading:

The Tree of Life, ch. 2
The Divine Economy, ch. 4
Truth Lessons, Level Two, Vol. 2, ch. 13
Truth Lessons, Level Three, Vol. 1, ch. 1
Revelation in Genesis: Seeing God’s Desire and Purpose in Creation, ch. 5

Study Questions: 
1. From the name of the two trees, consider their differences.
2. Why did God forbid man to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Do we feel the same as God?
3. Consider the line of the tree of life and the line of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil through the Scriptures. 
 
 

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Week 9

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WEEK 9

Level 1

Scripture Reading and Copying: Gen. 9
Life-study Message Reading: Msg(s). 17, 18
 

Level 2

Title: The Garden of Eden

Verse: Gen. 2:8-17
Assigned Reading: The Life-study of Genesis, msg(s). 12

Supplemental reading:

The Divine Economy, ch. 3
The Believer’s Experience of Transformation, chapter 2
The Central Thought of God, ch. 5
Crystallization Study of Genesis (1), msg. 7

Study Questions: 
1. Why did God put man in the garden in Eden?
2. What is the significance of trees, the rivers, and the minerals in Eden?
3. What is man’s responsibility given by God, with respect to the garden in Eden, and what does this responsibility mean in our experience?
 
 

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