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Chapter 1
Highlights:
The covenant that God promised us. Jesus is God’s wisdom existing before all creation. The meaning of the word
"Genesis". Significance of the Spirit and water in the Bible and in our church. Order of creation. Difference
between humans and animals. Significance of light and darkness, and day and night in the Bible.
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Chapters 1-2
Highlights:
The 7 days of creation. The Sabbath and what it represents today. Description of the Garden of Eden. Why is our
Sabbath on Sunday? Men and women are created equal in the image of God. The tree of life and the tree of knowledge
of good and evil.
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Chapter 3
Highlights:
The meaning of the word "knowledge". The serpent represents Satan. How the serpent convinced Adam and Eve to sin.
Adam loses the spirit of God, and is later saved with Jesus’ resurrection. God’s punishments for Adam, Eve and the
serpent. God’s promise to Adam and Eve. Significance of the tree of life. Summary of the first 3 chapters.
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Chapters 4-5
Highlights:
Genealogy of Adam. The Ungodly line of Cain. The Godly line of Seth.
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Chapters 5-7
Highlights:
God's covenants. Enoch. Corruption on earth. Noah.
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Chapters 8-11
Highlights:
God's covenant with Noah. The curse on Canaan. Genealogy of Noah's sons. Tower of Babel.
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Chapters 12-14
Highlights:
God calls Abram. Abram and Lot. Melchizedek king of Salem.
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Chapter 15
Highlights:
Melchizedek king of Salem. God promises Abram children.
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Chapters 16-17
Highlights:
Hagar. God's Covenant with Abraham. Circumcision.
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Chapters 18-20
Highlights:
God promises Abraham and Sarah a son. Abraham intercedes for Sodom and Gomorrah. Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Abimelech.
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Chapters 23-25
Highlights: Sarah's Death and burial. A bride for Isaac. Abraham and Keturah. Abraham's death and burial.
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Chapters 25-27
Highlights:
The families of Ishmael and Isaac. Esau sells his birthright. Isaac and Abimelech. Isaac blesses Jacob. Esau's lost hope.
Jacob escapes from Esau.
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Chapters 28-30
Highlights:
Esau marries Mamalath. Jacob's vow at Bethel. Jacob meets Rachel. Jacob marries Leah and Rachel. The children of Jacob.
Jacob's agreement with Laban.
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Chapters 31-33
Highlights:
Jacob flees from Laban. Laban pursues Jacob. Laban's covenant with Jacob. Esau comes to meet Jacob. Wrestling with God.
Jacob and Esau meet. Jacob comes to Canaan.
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Chapters 34-35
Highlights:
The Dinah incident. Jacob's return to Bethel. Death of Rachel. Death of Isaac.
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Chapters 37-38
Highlights:
Joseph dreams of Greatness. Joseph sold by his brothers. Judah and Tamar.
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Chapters 39-41
Highlights:
Joseph sold as a slave in Egypt. The prisoner's dreams. Pharaoh's dreams. Joseph's rise to power.
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Chapters 42-45
Highlights:
Joseph's brothers go to Egypt. The brothers return to Canaan. Joseph's brothers return with Benjamin. Joseph's cup.
Judah intercedes for Benjamin. Joseph revealed to his brothers.
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Chapters 1-2
Highlights:
Significance of the book of Exodus. Outline of the book Exodus: before departure, departure and after departure. Israel's
suffering in Egypt. The birth of Moses and the significance of his beauty. Moses kills the Egyptian. Moses flees Egypt.
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Chapters 3-4
Highlights:
Preparing Moses for Exodus. The burning bush. Moses returns to Egypt and speaks to Pharaoh. God gives
Moses miraculous signs.
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Chapters 4-7
Highlights:
Review of chapter 3. Hardening Pharaoh's heart. Moses first asks Pharaoh to allow his people to go for three days.
Pharaoh makes their job tougher. God assures his people's deliverance. The family of Moses and Aaron. The first plague:
water turns to blood. The significance of turning water to blood.
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Chapters 8-10
Highlights:
The next eight plagues: frogs, lice, flies, death of Egypt's livestock, boils, hail, locust and darkness. The power of the
word of God (a two-edged sword). Freedom achieved through the word of God and the Passover sacrifice.
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Chapters 11-12
Highlights:
The last plague: death of the Egyptian firstborns. The Passover. End of the pre-exodus stage. Prophecies from Isaiah 60
and Revelations 21. Characteristics of the Passover lamb and its resemblance to Christ. The psalms read during Jewish
Passover celebration. The sufferings of Christ on the cross.
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Chapter 13
Highlights:
The four psalms of the Passover. The four wine cups of the Passover. Christ drinking the Passover cups. The meaning of
the Passover cups: suffering and death. Consecration of the firstborns. The unleavened bread representing sin. Chastising
in the church. The way through the wilderness.
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Chapters 14-15
Highlights:
Review of previous lecture. Crossing of the Red Sea. The baptism of the Israelites through the water of the Red sea and
the cloud. The cloud of God guided the Israelites and also shielded them from the Egyptians. The song of Moses. God
sweetens the waters of Marah.
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Chapter 16
Highlights:
God sends the Manna. The purpose of the Manna. The types of Manna: the regular Manna that decays (daily and seventh day
Manna), and the hidden Manna placed inside the Arc of the Covenant. The hidden (true) Manna resembles Christ the bread
of life. The seal of the Holy Spirit.
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Chapter 17
Highlights:
Moses brings water out of the rock. Christ is the rock. Prophecy in Ezekiel 47 about water flowing from the temple. Out
of Christ's heart flows rivers of living water. Water and blood coming out from Christ on the cross. The disciples
catching the 153 fishes. Victory over the Amalekites.
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Chapters 18-19
Highlights:
Quenching our thirst through the Holy Spirit. Jethro advices Moses. Accepting advice and delegation. Israel meets the
Lord on Mt. Sinai. Detachment. Prophecy in Isaiah 2 about the mountain of the Lord. Jesus is the mountain of the Lord.
The significance of the feast of the Pentecost.
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Chapter 20
Highlights:
The Ten Commandments.
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Chapters 24-25
Highlights:
The covenant is ratified through blood. The revelation is given on Mount Sinai.
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Chapter 25
Highlights:
The tabernacle.
