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...here's a stickler.....Moses "feared the Lord" and yet Moses complained honestly to God. He was perfectly transparent with God, saying exactly what was on his heart.
How do ya' reconcile that Moses "feared the Lord" and complained to God, and in rather emphatic words?
"And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure." ~Isaiah 33:6
and right around 23:39 he mentions the book of Job:
"And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding." ~Job 28:28
After God restores Job, what happens to his wife and his three friends?
After God restores Job, what happens to his wife and his three friends?
Originally Posted by brinny View Post
After God restores Job, what happens to his wife and his three friends?
I don't know what happened to his wife, but God told Eliphaz that he was angry with him and his two friends for "not speaking what is right" (Job 42:7). They were ordered to make a sacrifice and Job would pray for them.
Originally Posted by brinny View Post
After God restores Job, what happens to his wife and his three friends?
Bigger question- what is going on in the first two chapters.
Would you care to elaborate?
Thank you kindly.
Originally Posted by brinny View Post
Would you care to elaborate?
Thank you kindly.
How is it that Job gets into this mess to start with?
What is going on there?
He was doing pretty good in the first 3 or 4 verses.
in Christ,
Bob
1. God starts the ball rolling by convening some sort of conference in both Job 1 and 2.
2. There are beings present -and one of them is Satan...?? (What??!!)
3. God then asks Satan if he has taken notice of Job and that Job is righteous to the point of being outstanding as compared to the rest of the entire planet.
4. Satan admits he has noticed this fact - but argues that Job is being bribed.
5. Satan's argument before the entire assembly is that God has put a wall a fence, a hedge of protection around Job and Satan cannot get beyond it to do Job damage so all can see what Job would be like in abject misery.
This raise all sorts of questions.
1. Who are the "others"?
2. Why is anyone giving the devil the time of day?
3. Why does not God just say "I am God - I get to do whatever I want or say whatever I want so be quite devil".
The story is meant to tells us a little something about why things happen the way they do -- why we are here after 6000 years, what this is all about.
It is all about free will. And it involves not only the people of this earth - but beings some place else - that we never see or come in contact with - settling issues at a universal level among themselves - with God as King over the entire Universe. No one there is God. Yet God is not ruling as a tyrant or as if He cared little for the consensus of the group.
in Christ,
Bob
Interesting thoughts.....i could not help but think that it was the accuser himself, Satan that was "accusing" Job of not reeeeally loving God nor giving a hoot about Him, and if God's protection was removed and Job was not as blessed as he was, that by golly, Job would......do what?
Then as i read it, it seemed that this whole scenario was a testimony to all of heaven (unbeknownst to Job) that God's servant, Job, DID really love God, regardless of what was taken or what was done to him.
And so it begins.....
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