Beginning of Victory: A Study of Genesis

Victorious!
We, the victorious army of God's people, look forward to an eternal home with our victorious King. But every story has a beginning. God reveals our beginning in Genesis. Our victorious story begins magnificently as the universe bursts forth by the mighty power of the self-existent God (the one exception to the rule about beginnings). Light, life, order, beauty. God declared that beginning very good. Sadly, the rest of our beginning went downhill after that.
In the midst of all this defeat and failure of man, God plants a seed of victory. He germinates a hope for something greater. A promised blessing begins. For all the wicked and vile beginnings we see in the story, we also see redemption, deliverance, and salvation. Recognizing that, we will be amazed this redemption, deliverance, and salvation happens with the very people who had allowed themselves to be so badly defeated. In that, we will see comfort for us. We will see the seeds and beginning of our victory.

• Introduction
•  Author and Audience
• Beginnings and Themes: An Overview
• In the Beginning, God
• The Beginning of the Earth
• The Beginning of Mankind
• The Beginning of Sin
• The Beginning of a Special People
• The Beginning of Judgment
• The Rebirth of Creation
• The Beginning of the Nations
• The Beginning of the Covenant
• The End of Egypt
• Tests of Faith
• The Repetition of the Covenant
• The Beginning of Israel's Story
• Israel Returns to the Land
• The Land's Inhabitants
• The Beginning of Victory
• Joseph's Victory
• Israel's Victory
• Joseph is a Blessing to Pharaoh
• Blessings on the Tribes
• Jacob and Joseph Die
• Review