Good morning; welcome yourself to day 38 of bible food in 90 days. We will begin todays' reading in Job chapter 25
This again is where Bildad the Shuhite continues his point that man is nothing to God; so how can Job even ask the question why. The bright stars are not even bright to the Lord. In chapter 26 Job responds back agreeing with Bildad saying who can understand the ways of the Lord? I have the answer. No one.
I've been breathing air for all my years and have never seen it. I can't even store it away in event I stop breathing. The most brilliant doctors have not found a way or ways for man to live forever, that right there tells me that no one can understand the ways of the Lord God.
Job 27
1Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,2As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
3All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
4My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
5God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
As these men have been dialogging back and forth, Job says as long as God lives and while the breath (of life) is in him and the spirit of God is in his nostrils, he will not speak wickedness or deceit, and never lose his integrity. What I'm interested in is the spirit of God that is in his nostrils.
God the holy ghost sits in his nostrils? No. What did God blow into Adam? The breath of life, so the air you breath is a form of the spirit of God. It comes in many forms as we'll read later throughout the bible. That is why when Jesus raised the young girl from the dead; it said her spirit returned to her.
And many church people have taken that to mean a little person inside of the body. That is incorrect. When Jesus died on the cross, it said He gave up the ghost, that is the spirit of God that was in His nostrils as it was for Job, and even you and I.
We're getting some understanding out this aren't we? The chapter ends with Job saying there is no hope for the wicked.
In Job chapter 28, Job mentions some wonderful things that the Lord does then ask of all this where can wisdom be found. I know a lot of folks who can use the answer to this question. 12But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
We get the answer and this is why so many can and will never find wisdom nor understanding: 28And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Fearing God is wise; and to stop and depart from all evil (breaking the commandments of God) is to have total understanding.
Job reminisces of how great things were, in Job chapter 29, before the Lord put His hand upon him. He had money, respect, honor, love, and he feared God. In chapter 30, Job tell how the tables are turned now that he has gone under the affliction by the hand of the Lord. Everyone despises him and he is nothing towards man.
In Job chapter 31, he list out a bunch of things done that are wicked; that if he has done these let him be destroyed. Things like turning his eye from helping the fatherless, when it was in his power to do so. The wicked actions he listed are profound to let us know what we must do to be guiltless. However, no one is ever guiltless before God.
And in reading chapter 31, you would perceive that Job was righteous in his own eyes.
Job 32
1So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
And his friends stop talking to him because they perceived there was nothing to say to a man who does not think he has done wrong. Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, a young man, got really upset at Job because he justified himself rather than God. And he was upset at the elder men, the friends of Job because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
So he lays in the conversation. Young men rarely speak when older guys are talking, at least that is how I've done so all my life, these days the young men are quite boisterous. 6And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.
He begins to speak and he says something that we should all consider: 9Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment. So he commanded them to listen to him.
Job 33
Elihu continues and I think he is talking in stead of God meaning he's talking but God is having this response to Job: 3My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
4The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life. 5If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.
6Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
He will give knowledge clearly, and he ask Job to answer him because he is talking for God; but he is a man (made of clay). He let's Job know that God speaks to us plenty of times, in dreams, thought, etc and he puts instructions in our minds but at times we do not see it or know it.
The Almighty does this so we can remove ourselves from our intentions, which is most times to kill ourselves as Adam and Eve did.
18He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
19He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
Sometime we want to go out to a night club; but God puts something on our mind that has us stay home, then you hear the club was shot with violence and you think you were just lucky. But that was God that kept you home. He put it in the mind of everyone at the club but we ignore thoughts and feelings put in us.
In other cases you want to do some big extravagant thing that will lead you to sin against God and He gives you an illness that keeps you bed confined; thus stopping you from trespassing Him. The Lord does this to keep us from destroying ourselves.
29Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man,
30To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
In chapter 34, Elihu continues:
13Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?
14If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
15All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
Who has given God charge over the earth? No one. If God took back his breath from man or the spirit (in his nostrils), man would simply return to the dust. It happens every day readers. People die every day. As sad as it is, it is true.
Elihu tells Job that he went to far in justifying himself before God.
Job chapter 35
Elihu continues by saying people do not take time to consider God's wisdom and great wonders. Man doesn't even think to ask why God teaches them more than the animals, and why we are wiser than birds who soar through the air. 16Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
God does not listen to vanity; and Elihu charged Job that he spoke without knowledge and that is vanity.
In Job chapter 36, Elihu tells the men to listen a bit longer to him and he will show he is speaking in stead of the Lord; and he gives credit to God for his speech. He tells them that the Lord sets up everyone; even kings and he afflicts everyone, even kings.
He will chastise you if you transgress and if you correct yourself, you will live well; but if you don't take heed, you will be killed by the sword and die without knowledge.
Job 37
5God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend. We cannot even begin to think about all the great things the Lord does, we certainly cannot understand them. Things man has seen over 2000 years and yet he cannot live to 500 years and we've been here all this time and can't figure it out medically.
How then can man figure out space and other planets? Sure we can send satellites out and take pictures but they haven't started to build condos on Mars yet have they?
23Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.
24Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any that are wise of heart.
The bottom line is we cannot find out the Lord unless He tells or shows us. And God does not respect anyone who is wise of heart. In some cultures they call it a "smart mouth" or "wise guy" those people who tend to know it all without knowing anything. God has no respect for those people nor those ways. Being humble before God is it.
All this Elihu spoke, we see sometimes God will speak to us through people and it is wise to recognize that this comes from God not the man or woman He is speaking through.
2Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Who is asking God questions and they themselves have no knowledge?
3Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
4Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
Where were all of us when God laid the foundations of the earth, if we have understanding speak on it. A man once told me that we were there because we are dust of the earth we just were not animated objects yet. However, if you were there you can tell people how the events went, right? The point is Job wasn't there and neither were you and I.
5Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? We might think we are wise and say; God you laid the measures, but I'm sure he had an angel do it; so which angel did it?
6Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
7When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
These last two, we certainly don't have a chance at answering, not even scientist know where the earth is fastened to. To us, it looks like it is just floating in the air; but God tells us the foundations of the earth is fastened to something. That is a wow right there.
And when the morning stars sang, and all the sons of God shouted for joy as the Lord was making the earth, where were we? Where was Job? The morning stars are angels, same thing with the sons of God. All of God's creation are called the sons of God. First it was the angels, then Adam, then the full son of God is Jesus (the first fruit), last will come all who are saved at Jesus second coming.
22Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,
God has a big treasure of snow and a trunk full of hail specifically saved for a day of battle and war. He is too powerful. 26To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;
Do you notice it rains in parts of the world where there is no man nor civilization. Still a rain storm will go on through. This is amazing powerful stuff here we are reading. 33Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
We cannot even rule the earth, if a bear catches you off guard you'll run and perhaps be destroyed and that is a beast that man has preeminence over. 35Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go and say unto thee, Here we are? God can even make the lightning talk and answer Him. This is why you must fear God; this is how you get wisdom.
Job chapter 39
The Lord continues with His questions for Job; and Job has not replied once. 9Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? The Indian Rhinoceros or the Great One-horned Rhinoceros or the Asian One-horned Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) is a large mammal is the unicorn. It is draped like a war animal looks like it is wearing war armor of the ancient Roman soldiers. Can one of these stay in your house?
26Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?
27Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
They do not. I saw an expert hawk trainer lose control of his hawk. God does not have that problem. He can tell the hawk to bring fish and bread to Elijah and they will obey His command; but I don't know if Job, you or I can do that.
2Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
3Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
4Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
5Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.
Job was floored; I'm floored reading the accounts of this event; so I cannot image what it was like for him. When we feel righteous and want to ask God; why and all that stuff that emotions make us do; we need to read chapter 38-39 and put our hands over our mouths.
Still the Lord responds to Job again: 14Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee. Who is at the right hand of God that can save? JESUS! Do you see how He is in every book and did not just start with Mary?
2Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
Here we read of some thing God can do that man cannot. You know how hurricane Katrina destroyed the city; and God sends men to rebuild it. We learn that God is powerful and man is not. We must not become over righteous and we must remain humble to the Lord and let Him lift us up.
This concludes today's reading. It is exciting and refreshing to read about the power of GOD, although we see it everyday we look out of our windows, even the windows of the soul. See you tomorrow.
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Peace & Grace
4The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life. 5If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.
6Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
He will give knowledge clearly, and he ask Job to answer him because he is talking for God; but he is a man (made of clay). He let's Job know that God speaks to us plenty of times, in dreams, thought, etc and he puts instructions in our minds but at times we do not see it or know it.
The Almighty does this so we can remove ourselves from our intentions, which is most times to kill ourselves as Adam and Eve did.
18He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
19He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
Sometime we want to go out to a night club; but God puts something on our mind that has us stay home, then you hear the club was shot with violence and you think you were just lucky. But that was God that kept you home. He put it in the mind of everyone at the club but we ignore thoughts and feelings put in us.
In other cases you want to do some big extravagant thing that will lead you to sin against God and He gives you an illness that keeps you bed confined; thus stopping you from trespassing Him. The Lord does this to keep us from destroying ourselves.
29Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man,
30To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
In chapter 34, Elihu continues:
13Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?
14If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
15All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
Who has given God charge over the earth? No one. If God took back his breath from man or the spirit (in his nostrils), man would simply return to the dust. It happens every day readers. People die every day. As sad as it is, it is true.
Elihu tells Job that he went to far in justifying himself before God.
Job chapter 35
Elihu continues by saying people do not take time to consider God's wisdom and great wonders. Man doesn't even think to ask why God teaches them more than the animals, and why we are wiser than birds who soar through the air. 16Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
God does not listen to vanity; and Elihu charged Job that he spoke without knowledge and that is vanity.
In Job chapter 36, Elihu tells the men to listen a bit longer to him and he will show he is speaking in stead of the Lord; and he gives credit to God for his speech. He tells them that the Lord sets up everyone; even kings and he afflicts everyone, even kings.
He will chastise you if you transgress and if you correct yourself, you will live well; but if you don't take heed, you will be killed by the sword and die without knowledge.
Job 37
5God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend. We cannot even begin to think about all the great things the Lord does, we certainly cannot understand them. Things man has seen over 2000 years and yet he cannot live to 500 years and we've been here all this time and can't figure it out medically.
How then can man figure out space and other planets? Sure we can send satellites out and take pictures but they haven't started to build condos on Mars yet have they?
23Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.
24Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any that are wise of heart.
The bottom line is we cannot find out the Lord unless He tells or shows us. And God does not respect anyone who is wise of heart. In some cultures they call it a "smart mouth" or "wise guy" those people who tend to know it all without knowing anything. God has no respect for those people nor those ways. Being humble before God is it.
All this Elihu spoke, we see sometimes God will speak to us through people and it is wise to recognize that this comes from God not the man or woman He is speaking through.
Job 38
1Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Finally the Lord laid in and spoke to Job and asked him some pretty difficult questions and demanded an answer.2Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Who is asking God questions and they themselves have no knowledge?
3Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
4Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
Where were all of us when God laid the foundations of the earth, if we have understanding speak on it. A man once told me that we were there because we are dust of the earth we just were not animated objects yet. However, if you were there you can tell people how the events went, right? The point is Job wasn't there and neither were you and I.
5Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? We might think we are wise and say; God you laid the measures, but I'm sure he had an angel do it; so which angel did it?
6Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
7When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
These last two, we certainly don't have a chance at answering, not even scientist know where the earth is fastened to. To us, it looks like it is just floating in the air; but God tells us the foundations of the earth is fastened to something. That is a wow right there.
And when the morning stars sang, and all the sons of God shouted for joy as the Lord was making the earth, where were we? Where was Job? The morning stars are angels, same thing with the sons of God. All of God's creation are called the sons of God. First it was the angels, then Adam, then the full son of God is Jesus (the first fruit), last will come all who are saved at Jesus second coming.
22Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,
God has a big treasure of snow and a trunk full of hail specifically saved for a day of battle and war. He is too powerful. 26To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;
Do you notice it rains in parts of the world where there is no man nor civilization. Still a rain storm will go on through. This is amazing powerful stuff here we are reading. 33Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
We cannot even rule the earth, if a bear catches you off guard you'll run and perhaps be destroyed and that is a beast that man has preeminence over. 35Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go and say unto thee, Here we are? God can even make the lightning talk and answer Him. This is why you must fear God; this is how you get wisdom.
Job chapter 39
The Lord continues with His questions for Job; and Job has not replied once. 9Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? The Indian Rhinoceros or the Great One-horned Rhinoceros or the Asian One-horned Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) is a large mammal is the unicorn. It is draped like a war animal looks like it is wearing war armor of the ancient Roman soldiers. Can one of these stay in your house?
26Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?
27Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
They do not. I saw an expert hawk trainer lose control of his hawk. God does not have that problem. He can tell the hawk to bring fish and bread to Elijah and they will obey His command; but I don't know if Job, you or I can do that.
Job 40
1Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said,2Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
3Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
4Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
5Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.
Job was floored; I'm floored reading the accounts of this event; so I cannot image what it was like for him. When we feel righteous and want to ask God; why and all that stuff that emotions make us do; we need to read chapter 38-39 and put our hands over our mouths.
Still the Lord responds to Job again: 14Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee. Who is at the right hand of God that can save? JESUS! Do you see how He is in every book and did not just start with Mary?
Job 41
1Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?2Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
Here we read of some thing God can do that man cannot. You know how hurricane Katrina destroyed the city; and God sends men to rebuild it. We learn that God is powerful and man is not. We must not become over righteous and we must remain humble to the Lord and let Him lift us up.
This concludes today's reading. It is exciting and refreshing to read about the power of GOD, although we see it everyday we look out of our windows, even the windows of the soul. See you tomorrow.
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Peace & Grace
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