2014 Fall Duke & NCSU Genesis Review

1. The God of Bethel
The Reality of the Bethel and the Bringing
Forth of Christ

2. I. The vision of the Bethel:
As a reality
A. Come into the church life twice —Gen.
28:12
!
B. Jacob → Israel — Gen. 32:28

3. C.The experience of God and the God of
Bethel — Eph. 3:17-18
1. El-Bethel, “God of the house of
God”
2. Individual → Corporate Experience
of God — Gen. 33:20; 35:7

4. D. All-sufficient God: Building of Bethel
— Phil. 1:19
1. God’s building
2. Church life
3. Four-in-one
— Eph. 3:17-29
4
Father
Son Spirit
Church

5. E. A drink offering
And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He had
spoken with him, a pillar of stone; and he poured out
a drink offering on it … (Gen. 35:14a)

6. What is a drink offering?
Christ is the real wine for God’s satisfaction
And for the drink offering you shall present a third of a
hin of wine, a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah (Num. 15:7).
Christ is the heavenly wine to saturate us for God’s enjoyment,
satisfaction, and building
But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering
upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice,
and I rejoice together with you all (Phil. 2:17).

7. F. The function of Bethel
Express Christ corporately
And He subjected all things under His feet and gave Him
to be Head over all things to the church, which is His
Body, the fullness of the One who fills all in all (Eph. 1:22-23).
Take a cost
our natural choice, desire, and life
After experiencing the reality of Bethel
Toward the end of his life

8. II. The birth of Benjamin
Rachel began to give birth; and she had hard labor….And
as her soul was departing (for she died), she called his name
Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin (Gen. 35:16,18).

9. Ben-oni
The Son of affliction
To accomplish God’s redemption
Benjamin
The son of the right hand
To carry out the application of
God’s redemption

10. Let’s experience the God of Bethel
for Christ and for God’s building!