 This introduction in YouTube history just occurred. For those of you that just missed it, this was it. That was that. You really can't get enough of that intro. Anyway, hope you all are doing well. This is going to be one of, I don't wanna say, not the easier ones. No, you guys will take it back. No, it's not. I was gonna say it's gonna be one of the easier Bible studies because we're only looking really at one book. It's kind of going in order. But no, it's not. Cause as I'm looking at the screen, there's one, two, three, there's five references already up. So, I just debunked what I was getting ready to say anyway. Anyway, hope you all are doing well. Remember guys, what we are covering is only what we have covered. So thus far, we have covered Genesis, all of Genesis, and now we're going into Joe. On the next session, we start in Exodus and we'll pick up the pace even more so. Matter of fact, we're covering an entire book in this one and there's a lot that can be learned from. Matter of fact, this is the book that if you are a Christian, you need to know this book. You need to know this book forwards and backwards, inside and out. We'll cover that again in a little bit, but I've gotta put this comment up. She said, my five-year-old grandson knows a tune to your intro music. So, Lidaria, this is for your grandson. Uh-oh, I just love that song. Just love that song. Anyway, I'm kidding, let's get serious. This is a serious time. This is important. Anyway, so where do we start? We obviously start in Job. I don't even have it in the right spot. How do you not have it in the right spot? Job one. And there's some interesting things that come up immediately when we get into it. And truth be told, you can really find these little nuggets all throughout the Bible and there's gonna be something immediately that's gonna cause, actually a couple of two things in the very beginning that's gonna cause us to wonder, huh? What's happening here? What's the deal here, Moses, not Moses, Job or God? And we're gonna have to go back a little bit to Genesis and just ask, we won't actually go to the book but we're gonna think about or harken back to something that is in Genesis. So that being stated, I wanna ask you guys a question. Do any of you all know who wrote the book of Job? That's an interesting question. Who wrote Job? Well, the answer is we're not totally sure it could be Job himself. It could be Moses. It could be Ezra. Some people always wanna throw Ezra and then of course if it's Ezra, if Ezra is the one that wrote the book then it is a later, obviously it would be a later writing. If Moses is the one that wrote the book, well then, the problem with Moses though being the one that wrote the book is that Moses is always credited with writing the first five books but in the Bible, internally, no one in the Bible credits Moses as writing Job. And so it's probably likely that maybe Job is the one that wrote it but we don't know. But someone will say, wait a minute, Corey. At the very end, the Bible tells about how many years Job lived and then he died and he was buried, so how could that be? Well, it's not unaccustomed for someone to finish the writing. As a matter of fact, it's understood that if you're writing about yourself or writing what God is taking you through that after you die, someone is gonna write the very end of it. As a matter of fact, when we get to the last book that Moses wrote, Moses wrote the book but he didn't finish the book. Someone else wrote it. No, because Moses wasn't alive to tell about his death. So there's gonna be someone ascribe someone or a family member who knows that will come and finish it. We don't know, but it's not important. Are you with me? Because it could also be that the person that's actually physically penning it isn't the person that's speaking it. Okay, so it could be that Job is speaking it and then there's a person that's writing that maybe one of his servants is actually writing it and then he'll come back once Job is dead and then we don't know, but we do believe that more than likely it's probably Job who wrote it. But that's not important. But the other issue is when was this book written? That's a good question. Was this book written prior to the flood? Was this book written after the flood? Or now if it was written prior to the flood then obviously this would be the oldest book. Could be written after the flood but the events took place prior to the flood. We'll see if we can gain some sort of understanding, some insights, if maybe there are some clues in this writing that kind of help us because one of the questions that comes up or one of the issues that comes up is we'll see that the Bible, the dinosaurs or it looks like dinosaurs are being discussed in Job. And some people want to, sometimes we want to kind of help guide out. We want to think that this is probably how it happened. And in saying so that maybe the dinosaurs lived before the flood and the flood killed them. That could be true. But it also could be true that the dinosaurs lived afterwards which means that the dinosaurs were also in the ark. Well, the ark was pretty big, so who knows? But anyway, let's go ahead and start starting in Job one. Let's put it on the screen. There was a man in the land of us whose name was Job and the man was blameless, upright, fearing God and turning away from evil. Question. This person, Job, who is blameless and upright and this word upright is from the word Eschar which is to be righteous or upright. And so, how is Job righteous? How is Job upright? Now upright and blameless does not mean that he was perfect, okay? Doesn't mean that he didn't have sin or anything like that. He did, obviously. And we're gonna find out in a second that he did have sin and how we know so. So, our dinosaurs, behemoths, we're not sure. We just know these large animals. We'll get to there in just a second though, BJ. But don't mistake this term for being righteous or upright for being sinful. But the question is, how did Job become righteous? How was Job righteous in God's sight? Interesting question. Does anyone have an answer? Does anyone know why God would say that Job was righteous and upright, blameless in his sight? How could that be? Well, something that you have to understand, obviously, this particular dispensation that we're talking about, this era, this period, is doesn't seem to be coinciding with the law. We don't see in this book, him speaking about anything having to do with Jewish customs or Israelites or anything like that. So, this seems to be certainly before the law was given. And whether this, obviously, if this was before the flood, then certainly another dispensation or after the flood, before the law, another dispensation. But regardless of what dispensation that we're speaking of in the garden, after the fall, before the flood, after the flood, before the law, during the law, after the cross, whatever the dispensation is, God has always been reckoning or trying to reconcile man to him. And how does God do so? How does God make a person to be in right standing? Well, by an offering. God has provided an offering for people. Now, obviously, you do so in faith. You don't just do it kind of in a routine, religious fashion. Now, you do, but you do it based on the fact that you believe and trust what God is doing. And so there are these offerings that would make a person to be, have a person to be in right standing. Think back to Abel. The Bible even speaks of if we go to, which we won't, but if we were to go to Hebrews, the Bible speaks of Abel being faithful and righteous because of his, the only thing that we know of is because of his offering. And he did so in faith. So that being the case, let's go back to it. So he was upright and blameless. Verse two, seven sons and three daughters were born to him. So he's got 10 kids. He's got a Job and Mrs. Job have a litter. Seven sons and three daughters. His possessions were also 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camel, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkey and very many servants. And that man was the greatest of all the men of the East. So there were a lot of people and they were in the East. This wherever the East is, this is where Job was. Job's on the East side of town with the Jefferson's. His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day. And they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. When the days of the feasting had completed their cycle, Job would literally says, send and consecrate them rising up early in the morning and burn offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, perhaps, look what he says, perhaps my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts. Thus, Job did continually. So what is Job doing? Job one is playing, ever playing the part of a father, a loving father and he is going out. He's making even an offering on behalf of them because perhaps they have sinned in their heart, cursed God, what have, now does it mean that they literally said, I can't stand God, I hate God? No, not necessarily that, but kind of in the ways that they moved their behavior, their thought towards them. And so here is God making, I'm not God, Job making an offering on their behalf. Again, we don't know all that's involved in this offering. We just know that there's an offering being made. Who tells Moses and Noah, everybody, every name but the right name. Who tells Job, I forgot his name again, who tells Job to do so? Well, obviously God does. Obviously God does and there's a right and a wrong way to do so. So that being said, let's go back to it. Verse six, now there was a day and we're gonna get into something kind of tricky here. It's not meant to be tricky, but it does require us to do some thinking, let our thinking caps on because we're smart Christians. We should be always thinking, right? Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan also came among them. The Lord said to Satan, from where do you come? All right, now let's stop. Two things we need to address. One, we need to address the sons of God and this meeting. And then two, we need to also address Satan. What was this question? What is the messianic correlation hidden in the book of Job? There might not be one. We don't see a, or there might, they're actually actually, well, yes and no. Everything points towards Jesus, although we hadn't gotten there. We don't know anything about Jesus. We don't even know anything about a Messiah. You got me good, Grady, you got me. We haven't earned it yet. We don't know anything about Jesus or Messiah. But to answer your question, is there anything in here that is pointing towards Jesus? Well, just the fact that the Lord is there himself. Now we've already established who the Lord is. We've already established who the Lord is and so the fact that that matter is there, but let's look and see. Maybe, maybe not, maybe. Now, there's two things that we have to deal with. One, the Bible says here in verse six, verse six, the sons of God. Beny Elohim. Beny is sons. Now, sons can mean a lot of different things. I'm sorry I didn't put it on the screen. Sons can mean a lot of different things. Sons can mean an actual physical son. Bob and Mary get married and they have Bob Jr. That's a son, a physical son. It could be kind of in a genitive speaking that that's of, derived from or relating to or describing. There's different ways to stretch or the different nuances that can be applied to this term, sons. The question is, what is meant by sons? Are we talking about angels? Are we talking about fallen angels? Or are we talking about actual human beings? There's a question. There's only three options. There's only three options. Now, one of the options, actually take the truth be told, two of the options we've never seen before. If we just look at this, this term, sons of God. Let's start from the first time that we see the term sons of God. The first time we see sons of God is in Genesis six, two. Then we see it also in Genesis six, four. And then we see it for the third time Genesis, I mean, Job one. So then after that, we go into the new test and we'll see the term sons of God. And so why is, and what does this mean? Well, we know the sons of God in the new testament is referring to those who are of a, in a righteous standing out of a godly order are of God. And so when we think of the term sons, some sort of way it should, it should entail in our thinking of God, not of his actual essence and not the son of God, which we'll get to eventually, but of God, from God, proceeding forth, maybe in right standing with God, are you with me? Trying to figure this out can be a bit touchy. Why? Because we have these preconceived notions that come in when we see the term sons of God in the first place. Let's go back to matter of fact, let's take the Hebrew, I mean the Greek off let's put the Hebrew in. Let's go back to this. So when we think of sons of God, the first time we see it in Genesis 6-2, matter of fact, let's go to Genesis 6-2. Let's put that on the screen, let's do it this way. So Genesis 6-2, let's start in 6-1. Now it came about when men began to multiply on the face of the earth or the land and daughters were born to them, born to who? Daughters were born to men that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful. Now there are gonna be those that are gonna wanna say, well, these sons of God were angels or in this case, falling angels. Problem with that assessment though, there's a huge problem. One, he's speaking about little men and then he talks about them being a flesh. God makes a point to state that this is flesh that he's upset with. He's upset with this flesh. Is he only upset with the women who are being taken in and married by or being married to these falling angels who are not flesh? Is that what we're taking? And if so, then where do we get that from? How do we know that's the case? Again, I get people wanting to rush and say that these are angels, might be, might be. But sons of God also refers to men as well. So which one is it? Well, again, he's, I think these are men because he's referring to flesh. Here's the problem if it were angels. Here is the problem again if it were angels and we're addressed. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to put that up. We'll get to that question in a second, Joseph. I mean, Jonah, we'll get to that question in just a second. So here's the problem if these sons of God are actual angels. That would mean that these angels would be fallen angels. If Genesis six is referring to fallen angels, demons are never, ever, ever under any circumstances referred to as sons of God. Never, not once, not once. And so the question is, how does anyone ever earn the statement to say that they were sons of God if these are fallen angels? Yes, if they're angels. Okay, fine. I can go with you if they're angels. But if they're fallen angels, now we've got a problem. Then the other question is, well, then if they're not fallen angels, there's only two examples, there's only two possibilities left. Either they are actual angels and jelly beings or they are men, godly men. Both suffice in Genesis six. When we get to Joe, is it possible that these could be human beings? Is it possible? Well, let's look and see. Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord. Take that statement there guys, one six. Now I'm not saying one way or the other, but I'm just presenting this before you. Is it possible that the sons of God and Joe one six are godly men? Sure as possible. You know why? Because what is Joe being spoken of doing right here? Possibly, bring in offering. So if this is in a sense, bring in an offering, well then it very well could be that the sons of God happen to be godly men who are doing what they're supposed to. Now I'm not saying that's the case, but it's possible. You've gotta earn, if you're gonna say it's angels, you have to earn that. Now is there a passage that says that sons of gods are definitely angels? There's another passage in Joe that speaks of sons of God, but it's not necessarily sure if he's still speaking of angels. He's talking to Joe and he's talking about, and we'll get to that point where he's talking about the founding of the earth and so forth, and then he speaks about all these different things happening and then how the sons of God are rejoicing. But he could also be, it's possible, and I've heard the arguments made here, I made before, that he could also be speaking of how human beings also rejoice at the foundation or at the completion or at the structure of the world, which by the way, we do today. Don't we rejoice and marvel at the foundation of the world even today? We do so. So it may not necessarily be a chronological thing. My point is this though, you really can't completely earn the statement one way or the other. We really don't know. Genesis 6, one and two through four, the sons of God, it'd be difficult to say that there are fallen angels, fallen angels and still be called sons of God, because demons are never called sons of God. They're not righteous, they're not of God. They're not made of God's essence, so that couldn't be that that's why they're the sons of God. And then here, and my day is going fine, thank you for asking. But then here, Joe 1.6, very well could be. Very well could be. My point is, well, Cephas says these humans produced huge giants. Come on down, Corey. Okay, you might have a point. You might have a point, Cephas Roth, if it weren't for the fact that other humans produced giants, actual giants. Now, the giants that we're speaking of here in Genesis one, we don't know that these are big people. However, I'm sorry, yes we do. Well, I'll take it back. I'll take it back, I'll take it back. Let's go to Genesis one. Let's go to Genesis one. Let's go to Genesis one. Let's see if Cephas Roth earned that point. The sons of God saw that the men, the daughters of men were beautiful and that they took wives of themselves, whomever they chose. Then the Lord said, my spirit shall not strive with man forever. But why is it with man? If the angels, if the demons are the one at fault, if they're the ones, then why is the spirit not striving with these demons? But it's not, but it is issues with man. And remember, we cover this guy to see how men, this line of Cain, we're doing our own thing. We are out doing our own thing and we don't care about God. And so he specifically mentions man. And he says, because he also is flesh. He brings the fact that they are flesh, demons or not. Nevertheless, his day shall be 120. Let's drop down. The Nephilim were on the earth in those days and also afterwards when the sons of God came into the daughters of men, that they bore children to them. Those were mighty men of God, mighty men of old, men of renown. So these Nephilim, we're not sure when it talks about them if their stature is kind of who they were or in terms of size. But let's just say, let's take Cephas that were talking about their size. They're talking about that they were big people. Don't we have accounts in the Bible where human beings got together and created big people, big giants, a knack, the Philistines, giants and they are not the products, the byproducts of angels, are they? They are clearly the byproducts of other human beings. So it doesn't take an angel to make a giant. Human beings can make giants too. What's his name? Goliath had brothers. Goliath had mothers and fathers, mother and father. So again, what we're doing is we're so, we are so used to hearing this. We take it that this is clearly, these are clearly fallen angels that slept with men. Again, where do they get the DNA from? And that's my point. If you never get a chance to fully validate this point, then don't be dogmatic about it. Because again, after this stopped happening, we still see these giants on the earth, don't we? So the question would be then, how did these giants come about? Where did Goliath come from? Well, why would, that's another good question. Why would humans be around Lucifer and God wagering for Job? Well, we don't know what proximity that they were. Let's go back to Job. What happens sometimes we see something and we try to, we imagine it how we see it and how we imagine it is how we believe for a fact it actually is. That happened sometimes. So let's go back to Job one. Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord. Now this could be, let's just say, I'm not saying it is, this very well could be angels. Very well could be angels. And Satan also came among them. Is it possible that as God is there receiving their offering, Satan shows up? Is that possible? Is it possible that these are actual human beings and Satan shows up? What's to prevent that from being the case? How come the devil can't show up? Does the devil show up at your church? Say yes. When you're praying and as you speaking, does the devil show up? When you're offering your praise to the Lord, does the devil show up? Where's my, I almost, I almost want to get Pentecost. I need to get me an organ. When you're praying, does the devil show up? When you're offering up a sacrifice of praise, does he show up? When you're at your, how come every time that you're, you seem to be at your best when you want to give God, but when you're thanking Him all the time, who shows up? Every time is going good, don't go in. Here comes this joker. Why can't the devil show up? If the Lord is going to receive your praise, if the Lord is going to receive your offering, he's got to come down out of the Holy of Holies to get it. Cause where was Satan kicked out of the Holy of Holies? I'm not saying this case. I'm simply making a counter point that also might be true so that you don't get so dogmatic about this case because either someone said so, or cause in your mind, you imagine it be this way. Well, I imagine a lot of things in my mind that just end up not being the case. So the point is, or the possibility exists that these could be men offering. Cause most often when we see the term sons of God, what does it relate to? Again, men, godly men, that's most often how we see it. Okay, so it could be possible these are angels. It could be possible that these are human beings in the garden who shows up, the enemy. So it could be, I might, now listen, I'm not saying one way or the other. And that's another point. Do angels present offerings? Well, it didn't work that they were presenting offerings. It just says present themselves. They just, they're showing up. So now if it's angels, it's them showing up. If it's men, it's them actually bringing, why would they be presenting themselves? What would be presenting an offering? Because here's the other question that could be, do angels actually have a certain day where they come before the Lord? They see him all the time. We don't know. And guys, guess what the main point that I'm trying to get you all to see? Before we go, and we haven't gotten past, this is something we hadn't gotten past six, which is fine. We hadn't gotten past verse six, but this is fine. What's the main point that I'm trying to drive home even early on? I've been trying to drive this point home for the longest. I've been trying to get this point through your thick skull, like I'm trying to get it through my thick skull, and it's difficult. It's difficult. It is extremely difficult to get this point through, even after you accepted it, it's still difficult to hold on to this point. Here's the point. We don't know. We don't know. So if you say, this is definitely what it is, then if you're wrong, you miss a whole lot. If you say, I don't know, I'm not sure. I think it could be this, but I can see that. Now you're open to see a whole lot more than this is only what it is. So the issue is, I don't know. And I can promise you though, guys, I can promise you. Think about the things that we're talking about right now that aren't as big a deal that we really think they are, this issue of whether Nephilim actually buy products of human beings and angels. If I say I don't know, well then guess what? I'm okay. But if I say I'm definitely, this is definitely the case, well then in 2023, when someone comes and says that you are having sex with a demon, right now you're having, you got a spirit spouse. Oh, I can believe that because, okay. Because what ends up happening is you end up pigeonholing yourself into one corner and you don't have to. I don't know. I don't know if these were actual angels or these were human beings presenting offerings before the Lord like they were supposed to because when men bring their offerings, aren't there in certain pointing times, certain times, appointed times where they do so? Sure. That's the only point that I'm trying to get across guys. We just don't know. Amen. Now, something else. You say the application suggested, well no, I just gave you another application. You're saying though the application suggested to you, but there are plenty of people who don't see it that way. And again, that's my point. And so we have to allow for the fact that I could be seeing this wrong. How many times have you thought the application looked one way and come to find out that's not it at all? That's not it at all. That's how we learned in the Bible. I thought this way, but I found out I was wrong. So anyway, now there's another thing that comes up as well. Back to it, this word right here. This word Satan, we've never seen this word before. In Genesis, in all of Genesis and now in Job, we've never seen this term Satan before. Never seen them. Well, why? Well, the term generically means adversary or accuser. But if you look on your screen, do you see what's highlighted? The word that's highlighted is Satan. Now, there's a letter right in front of it. Remember, Hebrew reads from right to left. Yeah, right to left. So look the other way. Right in front of it, there's a Hath. This is with the vowel marking. This is the definite article. So this is the, that's exactly right, CG. This is the Satan, Hasatan, which makes a point. Now, time out. We're leaving the Old Testament. We're going to the New Testament for a second. In the New Testament, Jesus, who we have not heard of yet, but Jesus makes a statement to Peter. He says, get behind me, Satan. He's not calling him the Satan. Because in that case, the definite article is not there. There is no indefinite article in Greek, but the definite article is not there. So he calls him accuser or adversary because you can, it's an actual word. But he didn't call him the Satan because other times when we see the term Satan used in the Bible, it's used as the noun, as a describing him as his name. It's used as a proper noun, either in that context or with the definite article. Are you guys with me? So come back to Job. He's calling him the Satan, the accuser, the adversary. Are you with me? Let's go back to it. And no, we won't be here for, we won't be here that long. Grady says, use the Bible to interpret the Bible. Here's the problem with that. That sounds good, doesn't it? That sounds good. But what happens if I am Presbyterian? What happens if I'm Southern Baptist? What happens if I'm Primitive Baptist? What happens if I'm Methodist? What happens if I'm Church Guy in Christ? I'm gonna use the Bible to interpret the Bible, but I can't, I suggest the passages. We just did a video on a person who was trying to show that demons can oppress or demonize Christians. You all remember the video? And he used, he went all over the Bible, taking passages that have nothing to do with the context and stringing them together and formulating his thesis. And he was so incorrect, it was beautifully amazing. Well, when we say use the Bible to interpret the Bible, it's how we use the Bible to interpret the Bible. So remember, we wanna make sure that we read the Bible properly. The way that we wanna do so is to not bring in any preconceived notions. So for some of you guys that are just now joining, one of the things we said that we're doing, we're only gonna cover what we've been through thus far. So for us right now, we don't know about the Book of Exodus. We don't know about First and Second Samuel. My water, I'm getting choked up. We don't know about First and Second Samuel. We don't know about Jeremiah or Lamentations. We don't know about the Gospels. We don't know about Jesus. We don't know about Acts or Romans. We don't know about any of those things. So what we can't do is go from there and bring those in to give an example of what this passage means. But it's okay because if all we have is what we, if all we have is Genesis so far, a couple of things are gonna happen. One, everybody is gonna be closer to the same page than those who are joined from all the other books. Not that that's a bad thing to do, but what we're doing is we're developing some good study habits and learning the truth. Because guess what? If all I ever had was the Book of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, if all I had was the Torah, at that time, do they have the truth? Now think about First and Second. Moses is writing this. He's writing it to some Jews and what he's telling them. Do they have? Demon slayers don't count. Well, no, no, no, no, Grady, it's not just demon slayers do this. It's not. No, I have seen Calvinist do it. I've seen Presbyterians, I mean, Armenians do it. I've seen Provisionists. I've seen all these different people do so. I've seen all of these different people do so and folks with good sound doctor do the exact same thing. And what happens is we got folks on this side and folks on this side. Well, how would we get closer? Well, there's some things that we're gonna employ that's gonna get us closer. So those are this far on this side of the room and those over here. We're gonna start bringing folks together because if you haven't noticed this yet, if you go through the first seven sections, just go through the chats while you're looking and go through the live stream chats and look at how people are, how they're, you can see their minds kind of moving, thinking just in the chats with the typing. Oh, okay, good point because all we're gonna do is look at what we've covered thus far and what ends up happening is you know what? First of all, is what we've read in Genesis, is that the truth? What we understand in Genesis is to say it's the truth. It's the truth whether we do have the Gospels or not, whether we have Acts or Revelation or not, whether we have Malachi or Jeremiah or not, it's the truth. Now we're gonna have some more truth at it but still it's the truth. If I lived in 1776, there's some truths that I know from 1776. Now, will I find out some more truthful things? Let's say in 1976 that I didn't know, sure. But it does nullify the truth of 1776. Similarly, what we know in the Gospels does not nullify the truth that we know of in Genesis or in Exodus or in this case, Joe. But what happens is because I've been taught all these different things but my grandmother, my grandfather, my church, that I'm gonna start reading that into what I'm reading here. And so that's why I ask these questions. The questions are to make you to think, have I earned that statement? What we're gonna find out, grading everyone else, is if I haven't earned that statement here, will I earn it later? Some of these questions, we never earn the right to make that statement. Again, for example, the Nephilim, if they're giants. If I have not earned the right to make that statement in Genesis, will I ever earn it later? Now, if it's the truth, and it's something that God wants us to know, he'll cover it, we'll get to it. So if it's the truth that God wants us to know and I don't have enough information, then guess what? If God wants me to know, he'll give me more through what we call progressive revelation. But unfortunately with this issue of Nephilim, if I have not earned the right to call these fallen demons, fallen angels in Genesis one, I mean, Genesis six, guess what? You never get that opportunity again in the rest of the Bible, which tells us maybe I shouldn't be so dogmatic about it. Are you with me? So this issue right here about Satan, let's go back to it. The Lord said to the Satan, hi Satan, from where do you come? And where does Satan say? Well, from roaming about on the earth, walking around on it. So he's moving about on the earth, which is important. The Lord said to him, have you considered my servant Job? Now we're gonna start moving quickly. Have you considered my servant Job? I bet if Job heard this, he'd like, no, don't consider me for anything. But God is doing something. God is making a point. Have you ever felt like God is trying to make a point using you? And he realized, Lord, would you please move on to somebody else? But again, he says, have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on earth, a blameless and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil. Well, couple of things. Does this help us to nullify the belief that this was before the flood? Think about this now, guys. It'd be hard for this to have occurred before the flood, huh? Why? Because he just made a statement that he could not make before the flood. He says, does Job, I'm sorry, for there is no one like him on earth, a blameless and upright man. Well, even throughout the periods on the earth, before the flood, we had at least one person that you can make this statement about. And so if Job is a second person, what period of time during that is it possible? Maybe it's possible. I don't know. I have to go check the math, but you pick a time. There was at least one person when he decided to destroy the earth with the flood. There was at least Noah, right? At one point in time, at least able. So the point is, there's always been at least one righteous. In this case, it seems like Job is that one righteous person. There's no one like him on the earth. What about when Enoch walked? There was no one like him. There's always been at least somebody that guy can point to. And then towards the end, though, then there was just Noah. So this is probably happening after the flood. But again, I have not nor have you conclusively earned that point, but I'm just positing out loud. Then Satan answered the Lord and said, does Job fear God for nothing? Have you not made a hedge about him and his house and all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands and his possessions have increased in the land. But put forth your hand now and touch all that he has. He will surely curse you to your face. Now, pay attention guys. This is very important going forward. This is extremely important going forward. So much so, I'm gonna ask you guys, did you hear this big theological, this not even theological is theological, but also this practical implication of what we just covered in verses nine and 10 and 11. I wanna know, did you guys catch what was just stated? Very important, very important. Matter of fact, let me just look at the chats while I take a drink of water and see if anyone caught this. And this is something, let me give you a hint. Let me give you a hint. Job is going to have to learn this lesson. Let me read it again. Then, say to answer the Lord, does Job fear God for nothing? Have you not made a hedge about him? So we'll get this whole term hedge of protection. About him and his house and all that he has on every side. You have, notice what I'm emphasizing guys. You have blessed the work of his hands and his possessions have increased in the land. But put forth your hand now and touch all that he has. He will surely curse you to your face. Here's what you need to understand. What is happening? Satan does not have that kind of power. Hear me out. Satan does not have that kind of power. Whatever power he has has been given to him or granted to him by God. You need to catch this. So, cause what a Satan says, you have to do this. Let's look, let's continue. But put forth, this is Satan saying to him, but put forth your hand now and touch all that he has. He will surely curse you to your face. Then the Lord said to Satan, behold, all that he has is in your power. So now God has given Satan the ability to do certain things. All that you have is in your power. Only do not put forth your hand on him. So Satan departed from the presence of the Lord. Are you with me? So whatever he does, it's only by permission of God. Which is before he's a devil, but he's God's devil. He can only do what God gives him power to do or allows him to do. That's it. Cause could you imagine if Satan could kill? Could you imagine if life and death was in the power of Satan's hand? Every Christian would be dead and every sinner would live to be 3,000 years old. So let's continue. Verse 13. Now on the day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house, a messenger came to Job. A messenger came to Job. He says, the oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them and the Sabians attacked and took them. They also slew the servants with the edge of the sword and I alone have escaped to tell you. While he was still speaking, another also came and knocked himself up. Somebody else shows up and said the fire of God. Look what he says. The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them. I alone have escaped to tell you. Question. Did Satan bring down the fire of God to consume them? No. No. He is not able to do so. Satan didn't have that kind of power to do so. Are you with me? Couldn't be. So that's got to me answer this question. He says, how is Satan able to stand in God's presence if he is basically a sinner? Well, therein lies another issue. We don't really know kind of how that works, how he can be before him. Maybe it's in the same way that we can be before the presence of God but not in his full presence because maybe he's speaking before the pre-incarnate Christ. We don't know. But can God still speak with Satan? Sure. Now, where they are located physically, don't know. We don't know how that works. And so what we don't wanna do is hypothesize and then turn our hypothesis into facts. Could be right. Our hypothesis could be right, but we don't know. Okay, but that's a good question though. But the fire of God, the fire of God, the fire of God fell down on them and burned the sheep up, the servants and assumed them. Verse 17, while he was still speaking, have you ever felt like that? It's like one thing after another thing. I know at this point in time, Job is like, please don't answer that door. Please don't answer that door. That could be a way of looking at it. So by God bringing down fire, was he helping Satan? I mean, I guess there's always a way to look at things. There's always a way to look at it. But God is making a point. You know, we're gonna get to his point in just a little bit. We're gonna get to this point in a little bit. Like Grady says, with your style of studying, will a believer ever be assured with the revelation he or she, sure, sure. Let me tell you this, Grady. By the way, Grady, I'm gonna assume you're the guy in the red sweater and not the lady. I'm gonna assume that. But this particular type of study was used with people who differ. Now, when I say differ, I mean, vehemently differ. And these were guys who don't play well with each other. And so when they argue and disagree, they argue in a forceful way. And so the point is to get you to stop thinking that your way is the right way or his way is the right way or their way is the right way. Let's just look at what it says. We'll take the Bible in a literal, grammatical, historical fashion. What it's saying. And those folks that are on this side of the room and those folks on that side of the room, they end up coming together, I promise you. Because the truth is gonna come out in how we're doing this. I can promise you that. I can promise you that. So yeah, the Satan have no power without God allowing him to do something then. Yes, correct. He has no power unless God grants it. God gave Satan some abilities. When did God take those abilities away? That's a question. Now let's time out. We can use the entire Bible. When does God take his powers away? There's two times in the Bible that we'll get to where he takes his powers away. And only two times. One, during this, uh-oh. Let me drink some of my water. There are two times in history or in the Bible where God takes away his power. Hold on one second. There are two times. The first time is in this 1,000 year millennial reign. I know people are gonna say, well, that's not literal. Okay, he says you. Every other time that the word 1,000 is used, it's literal. Every time that God gives numbers, they're literal numbers, except this time. Instead of 1,000, he means a long period. I won't get in that point though, although I do want some wonder. I want some people, I want my post-millennial brothers and my arm-millennial brothers to jump into this, but they don't want to. I'm gonna make them jump into that. We're gonna have a discussion. But the first time is his 1,000 year period of time and he says that he will not deceive the nations during this time. Now, we can deceive ourselves because that's just what we do. We don't need Satan to mess up. We just don't. But there's 1,000 year period of time where the Bible says that Satan will be locked away and will not be able to deceive. Then the second time, which will be the last time is when he and Hale and all its inhabitants are thrown to the lake of fire. That's it. That's it. Hold on, let me see what you said. I mean, let me see. Metamorphosis asks a question. I'm not seeing what your question was sweetheart. So if you, okay, okay, okay. I'm not sure what you're asking. So if there's a question, now guys make sure that your questions, what you guys are talking about are within what we're talking about or try to hold them to the Q and A's or email me. So anyway, I will let the moderators kind of deal with you guys on that. And so those are the only times. Those are the only times that we see that. And so he didn't have power outside of what God has him to do. Hold on one more time, guys. All right, so let's go back to it. What did we leave off at? So here comes someone actually bringing something else wrong. Then the verse 17, while he was still speaking, another also came and said, the Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels before we go further. The Chaldeans seems to be, this is pretty much after the flood then, huh? This seems to be pretty much after the flood because they were talking about Chaldeans. We didn't see Chaldeans prior to the flood, but we see the Chaldeans after the flood. So it's very likely that this is post-flood. Just sometimes we can kind of look and see the examples in there. So anyway, what did he say though? They made a raid on the camels and took with them and slew the servants and they ended the sword and I alone have escaped. There's always one person left. While he was still speaking, another also came and said, your sons and your daughters were eating. Somebody else shows up. Your sons and daughters were eating wine and they're oldest in their oldest brother's house. And behold, a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house and it fell on young people. And they died and I alone have to tell you. So now who sends the winds? Certainly Satan doesn't do so. God does. Verse 20, then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head. Here's the good part. This is the good part. It's the best thing Job could have did. Well, the second best thing that Job could have did. Then Job arose, tore his robe and shaved his head. Guys, whenever you have problems, just know you can always shave your head. If you don't get it, if you don't get anything else out of this, get that. Just help me out. Not you ladies, not you ladies. Ladies don't shave your head, just you fellas. Tell you, listen, there's a lot of wonderful nuggets in this. No, Ron, listen, no, Ron, no, no, no, it's not. You think it's beautiful. You think it's beautiful. It can be beautiful or once you shave it. Trust me. Trust me. I know that which I speak of. Look at Job. It's in the Bible. Anyway, he tore his robe and shaved his head and he failed to the ground in worship. He said, look what he says. Make it I came from my mother's room and make it I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. So you know what he's saying? He signified that whatever's happened to him, good or bad came from God's hand, not the enemy. Through all of this, Job did not sin, nor did he blame God. Are you with me? So at this point, Job had not sinned, nor did he blame God. Now let's continue. Chapter two, verse one. And I promise you, we're gonna pick up the space. Again, there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord. And Satan also came among them to present himself before the Lord. Now someone can say, well, see, huh? This is clearly angels could be. Point is, we don't have a definitive case one way or the other. I can see why one person would lean on this side and I can see why somebody would lean on that side. But anyway, let's continue. The Lord said, where have you come from? Satan answered the Lord and said it from roaming about on the earth and walking around it. The Lord said to Satan, have you considered my servant, Job? Why? Because even after all of this, what has Job not done? He had no sin and he hasn't blamed God. Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man fearing God and turning away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity. Although you, look what he says, incited me against him. So who did this? He says, God says, you incited me to do this to him. So clearly this is God. And so at the unction of Satan, so they're kind of working in tandem. If you want to say it that way, however you want to take it. So he's saying Satan, you do this, but ultimately it's God doing that. How that works, we don't know how the mechanisms work. We really don't know. Lovely, thank you for the super chat. We don't really know. But God has said that you have incited me to do this. So he says, verse four, Satan answered the Lord and said, skin for skin, yes, all that this man has, he will give for his life. However, put forth your hand now and touch his bone and his flesh, he will curse you to your face. So the Lord said to Satan, behold, he is in your power, only spare his life. Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and smoked Job with sores, boils, from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. And he took a pot shared and scraped himself while he was sitting among that. He was so boyly and so messed up that he just scraped the sores and boils off his skin. And then Job is blessed with a wonderful wife. What she says, verse nine. Then his wife said to him, do you still hold fast your integrity? Yes, I do, woman. She says curse God and die. Such a lovely woman, curse God and die. But he said to her, you speak as one of the foolish women speak. Shall we indeed accept, look what he says. Good here, should we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity? Or some of your verses may say bad. The Hebrew word here is raw, which is bad, evil, wicked. So shall we accept good and not accept bad from God, which means guess what you can also get from God? You can also get the good as well as you can also get the bad. You will get bad from God from time to time. You may not think it's bad. You may not think it's bad. Or I'm sorry, God may not, but to you it is bad. In all this, Job did not sin with his lips. Now when Job's three, uh-oh, here come the problem. When Job's three friends heard of all his adversity, better come upon him. They came each one of him from his own place, Eliphaz the Timonite, build there the Shuite, and Zophar the Namathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and come for him. When they lifted up their eyes at a distance, they did not recognize him. They didn't even know who he was. He don't even look like Job. And each of them tore his robe and they threw dust over their heads toward the sky. They sat down on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights with no one speaking a word to him. For they saw that his pain was very great. Let me stop there for a second and make a point, a practical point that you can use going forward. Sometimes when someone that you know or care for or love or you are considering highly what have you, you want to comfort them, sometimes when they're going through, the best thing that you can learn for yourself is to learn the gift, the art, the science of shutting up, being quiet. Sometimes it's good to learn just to be quiet. Sometimes they don't need your advice because your advice is crummy and no good. Sometimes they just simply need you just to be quiet. Just your presence, just being there, knowing that you're there with me. Sometimes it's all, because the moment you begin to open your mouth is the moment you begin to say something stupid, unintentionally. You mean well, but you don't do well. Sometimes all we need, and you'll learn this in counseling, you'll learn this in just being a friend, just be quiet, just be present. Cause oftentimes your advice is the wrong advice anyway. And these are called friends of Job and what do they end up doing? They end up speaking silly. I said, I made a word, silly. Have you heard of that? It's a new word, silly. They end up speaking in a silly fashion. They do not speak as God wants them to speak. Now, Job is going through it. And so what does Job do in chapter three verse one? Afterward, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. And Job said, let the day perish on which I was born and the night which said a boy is conceived. May that day be darkness. Let God not, let not God above care for it, nor the light shall. So I hate the day that I was born. Job is woe is me. The day that I was born cursed also. Job is really going through it. Job is having a bad day, a bad week. Struggling, going through it. But true to form, what does a friend do? Open his mouth. First up is Eliphaz. Eliphaz Timnite said, answer, if one ventures a word with you. Young believer, that's just simply where they come from. They're the land and so forth. I would have to go back. I'll be honest with you. I have not studied on this computer. They're origin. So, but it's not as important here, elephants can. If one ventures a word with you, will you become impatient? But who can refrain from speaking? Behold, you have admonished many and you have become strengthened and you have strengthened weak hands. Your words have helped tottering the sand and you have strengthened people's knees. But now it has come to you and you are impatient. It touches you and you are dismayed. Is not your fear of God, your confidence and your integrity of your ways, your hope? Remember now, whoever perished being innocent. Whoever perished being innocent or were you the upright destroyed? So, his point is this, because you have probably sin, his point is if you're innocent, you wouldn't be suffering. Innocent people don't suffer. Well, a couple of things. One, there's nobody that's innocent. That's number one. But two, you did something wrong. That's all that I'm going through. That's what you decided to comfort me with. You must have did something wrong. So, stop, whatever it is you did, stop doing it. Well, Eliphaz, let me just say this in all sincerity. Wherever you happen to be, heaven or hell, don't know. You're a jerk. At this moment, Eliphaz, you, sir, are, now, he does make some good points. As you're reading through Job, you're going to see, you're going to see that he is, he makes some actually some good points that we can use later. As a matter of fact, some of the points he make, other people make these points later on. What verse am I reading? This is the NASB, but I don't have a recommendation of which one you should read. NASB, ESB, King James Version, New King James. Doesn't really matter. But he's giving some good points, but good points out of context are bad points. He, Eliphaz, is not aware of the situation. And so when we go and look at what is Job's response, go to Job, was it verse six, type of six, you're Job six. Job six, then Job answered, only my grief were actually weighed and laid in the balances together with my calamity. For then it would be heavier than the census. See, therefore my words have been rash for the arrows of the Almighty are within me. They're poison, my spirit drinks. The terrors of God are right against me. So he's like, he's woe is me. And maybe you got a point, maybe. But then before his point can really seek in, he's got another friend. This is when you really need friend, huh? Then build that the shoe height answered. How long will you say these things? And the words of your mouth be a mighty wind. Does God pervert justice or does the Almighty pervert what is right? If your son's sin against him, then he delivered them into the power of their transgression. If you would seek God and implore the compassion of the Almighty, if you are pure and upright, surely now he would rules himself for you and restore your righteous estate. Though your beginning was insignificant, yet your end will increase greatly. Please inquire of the past generations consider the things searched out by their fathers. So what is his point? Well, his point is, if you just do good, God will take care. Do the right thing and God will fix it. That's his point. Again, he's making good points, making good points. However, they don't coincide with what's happening. Sometimes, what do we do? We're wise, we're smart. And so we think we know something because maybe the points that I'm making were good points in this situation, but not over here. It'd be kind of like a surgeon who had a successful open heart surgery on one patient doing the exact same thing, using the exact same instruments, the exact same team, the exact same anesthesiologist on brain surgery. Doesn't work the same way. Doesn't work the same way. It'd be like an attorney who is, I don't know, who is a good defense attorney in, I don't know, dealing with malpractice suits. Then deciding to become a federal defense attorney in some drug case. Two different situations, two different sets of rules and so forth. So sometimes what you know doesn't apply to the situation. All right, so now, Job answers in verse nine, chapter nine, verse one. Then Job answered, in truth, I know that this is so. But how can a man be in the right before God? If one wishes to dispute with him, he cannot answer him once in a thousand times, wise and hard and mighty in strength, who has defied him without harm? Now, now, Job is trying to figure this out. Job is trying to figure this out. Yeah, I know if I do good, but what else is there left for me to do? And before he can kind of finish all of this, Job's next friend shows up. Job has probably too many friends. Zophar jumps up and now he wants to rebuke him. So far, the nemathite answered, shall a multitude of words go unanswered and a talkative man be acquitted. His way is saying, Job, shut up, quit talking. Shall you boost? Shall your boast silence men? And shall you scoff and none rebuke? For you have said, my teaching is pure and I am innocent in your eyes, but would that God might speak and open his lips against you and show you the secrets of wisdom? For sound wisdom has two sides, know them that God forgets a part of your iniquity. Can you discover the depths of God? Can you discover the limits of the Almighty? They are high as the heavens. What can you do deeper than she owe? What can you know? His measure is, so he's speaking and he's okay, he's pontificating really. He's speaking, so far as a bird, he's speaking about God being sovereign, which is good and God being good, but you're not. And so he's blaming Job, he's rebuking Job. And this goes on and on and on and they're going back and forth and Job would interject and they'll speak and so forth. But then here comes this young fellow. And I say young fellow, he happens to be younger than the other guys. We don't know how old he is, he's just younger than them. And so we'll jump to Job 32. Here comes Elihu, Elihu's a good guy. Then these three men ceased answering Job because he was righteous in his own eyes. Huh, they ceased answering Job because he was righteous in his own eyes. Who was righteous in his own eyes? Job was righteous in his own eyes. Why? What was Job's, what was the kind of Job's conversation? I didn't do anything, I'm innocent. Wait a minute, God, you're doing this to me? So what does he say? Verse two, but the anger of Elihu, the son of Barakel, the Bussait, this one weird names by the way, of the family of Ram burned against Job, his anger burned because he justified himself before God. Ah, good thing to know, justifying yourself before God. That's a non-starter. That puts you on the losing side. That puts you on the losing side. Yeah, young believer, there's a lot of paths that we skipped over, there's a lot of good stuff in there, but we need to go ahead and get towards the end to the main point. God and his anger burned against his three friends because they had found no answer, yet they had condemned Job. Let's stop right there. God himself burned against his friends. His anger was against his friends. Why? Because they did all of this talking and they had no idea they found no answer, yet they condemned Job. They don't even know what they're talking about, but they're condemning Job. It'd be one thing to condemn Job if you knew what he was talking about. Like, Elihu, but you three jokers, you're just talking, you don't know what's going on. Again, you answering a matter without knowing, if you don't know the fullness of what you're talking about, how about you do what you did the first seven days? Be quiet. If you're going to answer a matter, do so without saying anything. I mean, I'm sorry, if you're going to answer a matter, do so with knowing what you're talking about, but if you don't, don't just make it up as you go. No bueno. Then verse four, now Elihu waited to speak to Job because they were years older than him. So he's being thoughtful and deferential because of their age, they were older, but that didn't mean that he was a young person himself. And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men, his anger burned. So Elihu, the son of Raqqa of the Bullseye, spoke out and said, I am young in years and you are old. Therefore, I was shy and afraid to tell you what I think. I thought age should speak and increased years should teach wisdom, but it is a spirit in man and the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding. Look what he says, the abundant in years may not be wise, nor may elders understand justice. So I say, listen to me, I too will tell what I think. Behold, I waited for your words. I listened to, he's basically spanking them with their mouth, with his mouth. I listened to your reasoning while you pondered what to say. So while you're trying to figure out what to say, I'm listening to you talk. I even paid close attention to you. Indeed, there was no one who refuted Joe, not one of you who answered his words. Do not say we have found wisdom. God will route him, not man, for he has not arranged his words against me, nor will I reply to him with your arguments. So he's going at him now. Where do I wanna read to? I want to read all the way up to, oh, we've got a lot of reading to do. We've got a lot of reading to do. Let's keep going. They are dismayed, no longer answered. Words have failed them. Shall I wait because they do not speak because they stop and no longer answer? I too will answer my share. I also will tell my opinion, for I am full of words, the spirit within me constrains me. Behold, my belly is like unbented wine, like new wine skins, it is about to burst. Let me speak that I may get relieved. This is a pretty good introduction. So look what he says in 33. However now, Joe, please hear my speech and listen to all my words. Behold, now I open my mouth, my tongue, in my mouth to speak. My words are from the uprightness of my heart and my lips speak knowledge sincerely. The spirit of God has made me and the breath of Almighty gives me life. Refute me if you can. Array yourself before me. Take your stand. Behold, I belong to God like you. I too have been formed out of the clay. Behold, no fear of me should terrify you, nor should my pressure weigh heavily on you. So he's being kind and never reaching what he's saying, but he's saying, listen, I'm a man just like you so you don't have to fear what I'm saying, but basically listen to the words that I'm saying. So let's go ahead and jump to chapter 34. Then any who continued and said, hear my words, you wise men, and listen to me, you who know, for the ear test words as a palate taste food. Let us choose for ourselves what is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good. I'm coming to something really important here. Verse five, for Job said, I am righteous, but God has taken away my right. Should I lie concerning my right? My wound is incurable, though I'm without transgression. What man is like Job who drinks up derision like water, who goes in company with the walkers of iniquity and walks with the wicked? He's really saying, Job, you hanging around with these losers here. Verse nine, for he has said, it profits a man nothing when he is pleased with God. Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding. Here it is, guys. Pay, you wanna tattoo something else, tattoo this as well. Far be it from God to do wickedness and from the Almighty to do wrong. For he pays a man according to his work and makes him find it according to his ways. Back up to verse 10. Far be it from God to do wickedness and from the Almighty to do wrong. Let me say this, and this is theologically important. Anyone that would ever make a statement, for example, you've heard this time out for where we're at. Let me make this apply to everything that we do, especially theologically with our doctrine so forth. You'll find people that will say, for example, how many of you all in the chat are Calvinist or Calvinistic Lening? Or maybe you're not a Calvinist like myself, but you believe in election. And there are some who will waste their time and their time and their time to believe in election. And there are some who will waste their time. If God chooses and not chooses this group but not chooses the other, that would make God unjust. No, it wouldn't. God has the right to do what he wants to with whomever he wants to why because he's God and you ain't. Rule number one, God is sovereign. Rule number two is like rule number one, you're not sovereign. Simply put, he's God, you ain't. He can, you can't. He will, you won't. That's how that works. Get that in your head, you'll do well. Job didn't get that. Job didn't understand that. His friends don't get that. They can with all these types of excuses, but Job, mainly who's supposed to be upright, doesn't get it. Job, he's God. Job, you're Job. Two, three letter words, God as far as English is concerned, God and Job. But they have vastly different meanings. He's God almighty, you ain't. You just some piece of dirt with some air in them. Five dollars worth of dirt with God's air in you. That's it. Stop acting like you have a right to get something and have a right not to get whatever you get. You are going to have bad things happen in your life. Period. Why, even if you don't understand, there's a reason. In this case, God is making a full display for all of mankind. Have you considered my servant, Job? Job, you don't understand. Guess what, Job? You don't have to understand. God does not have to make an appointment with you to explain to you what he's doing. Let me make that clear for everybody to get. God does not have to make an appointment with you to explain to you what he's doing. He's God. And how we know this is true? Don't you guys who have children do the same thing with your children? That's, you're my child. I tell you what to do. You don't tell me. Now, if I happen to listen to you, that's fine, but I don't have to. I don't have to. How many of you all, I know some of you old school folks. I know, Carol, I know you have. Brian, I know you have. When you ask your mother or father why, and they don't tell you, but they'll say something like this. Because I said so. Because I, you beat me to it. Because I said so. That's it. That is it. Because I said so. And then what's your response? Yes, ma'am. Yes, sir. And go on about your business before I give you something else. That's how that works. So, let's jump back into it. Senior Conrad said, what's popping saints? Well, here's what we found out. Senior Conrad, when you're going through, shave your head. That's biblical. So, what I want to do now is, I want to go to the man of the hour, so to speak. Now, I'm getting ready to get interrupted here. We're about to have a problem here. You all will see shortly. I'm pretty soon, pretty sure before this video is over with, we're going to be interrupted, we'll push forward before the interruption happens. But you'll probably see what I mean in a little bit. But now, dun dun dun, let's get to the man of the hour. All this talking, all this yapping, all this this and all this that. Let's hear from the one we came to hear from. I'm kind of getting a little goosebumps here because I'm setting the stage for him to show up. I'm setting the stage to hear him speak because isn't that what we want to do? You ever go to a concert or you go to some place and you hear all the folks that are making these little introductory speeches or it's a concert they're singing, but you're waiting for the featured act. Told you, the best concert I ever, well, the two best concerts I ever went to. The last great, great, great concert that I went to, it was back in the, it was early 80s. Tell me you folks who know about the early 80s. Run DMC, yep, it was Run DMC. It was the Beastie Boys, it was LL Cool J's first, first concert. Oh man, I was, oh man. He came out with this big old radio. Wonderful, all wonderful, the Beastie Boys was out there. The Fat Boys, y'all don't know anything about the Fat Boys. The Fat Boys were out there. UTFO was out there. And then here comes Run DMC. Ah, it was actually called the Raisin' Hell Tour. Not the godly name, but still. And then before that though, I saw the Jackson Five. There he is. There he is, he did, yeah. I saw the Jackson Five. I saw Earth winning fire. Oh man, it was awesome. It was awesome, the power, are you literally drinking? He is, that's my cup, man. Dude, that is my cup. This cat, Jesus. This cat has got his nose in my, and he's walking in my Bible, but it's okay. It's his world, it's his world. So, well, what can I, cause you can talk to him, he's not gonna do anything. He doesn't care. So, this stupid cat. Anyway, good concert, but we're waiting on the Jackson Five. We're waiting on them. Earth winning fire, wonderful. Who else was there? New addition, was that first, no, no, nothing more. I forgot who else was there, but everybody else was just leading up to the point. Everybody else, what if it was the prison cup, well then the cat would be gone. If the cat was sniffing out the prison cup, he'd be gone. He'd got to go. Where is he? Oh, he's right there. So, you're waiting on the main attraction. Ladies and gentlemen, this cat can jump. He just jumped way up there. You're waiting on the main attraction. Here it is. Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, wow, then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, I'm afraid. I'm afraid for Job. Look what he says, who is this? Just that, right? Who in the world is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? In other words, who is this running their mouth and don't know what they're talking about? You got a lot to talk about, Job. So, come on, let's talk. Look what he says. Now, gird your loins like a man. Come on, man. Gird your loins like a man. Somebody say who's that? That is my daughter's cat. He runs the house. That's Zeon. What cats supposed to have hair? So, you're kind of right. Cats are supposed to have hair. Grown men are not supposed to do something about that. Anyway, back you guys. Look what he says. Now, gird your loins like a man. And I don't think that God was, come on, be a man. No, no, no. I think he was kind of like that, but at the same time, you're just a man. But come on, tough guy. Gird yourself like a man and I will ask you, and you instruct me. Hold up, God. That's not what, no, shut up. Instruct me, man. You a man instruct. This cat's gonna, I know he's gonna knock this down. I just know he's gonna knock this down. Anyway. He says, where were you, man, when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me if you have understanding. Who sets the measurements? Since you know, since you know, Mr. Joe, Mr. Smarty Pants, or who stretched the line on it? Or what were its bases sunk? Or who laid the cornerstones? When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy. Now there is a passage that we can go to that says maybe the sons of God, you just jumped down. Maybe the sons of God are angels. Maybe, maybe not. Anyway, and I won't get into it, there are people that will say, well no, the sons of God still can be referring to people, but no problem. So now let's continue. Verse eight, or who enclose the sea with doors? When bursting forth, it went out from the womb. When I made a cloud, it's garment and thick darkness, it's swaddling band. And I placed boundaries on it and set a bolt and doors. And I said, thus far you shall come but no farther. And here shall your proud wave stop. I've got a question for all of the scientists of the world. They cannot answer this question. The wind, the wave, the seas, who determines with the force that the waves come up to the shoreline? Who tells it to stop? Scientists cannot figure this out why the waves stop where they stop. Are they making some encroachment? Some say yes. But who determines how far they go and why they stop? There's no good reason with the force they're coming in with, even with gravity, that these waves should stop at the... You don't know, Mr. Scientist, you with your big, thick glasses and your telescopes and microscopes and so forth. You don't know why it goes, you just don't know. Who are you? So, some of you all get in line with Joe. Get behind Joe. Get behind Joe and answer this question. Why in the world do the seas go where they go to? Have you ever in your life, Job or anyone else? Thank you, Annette. I appreciate that. Have you ever in your life? This is a question. Answer if you can. Command in the morning and cause the dawn to know it's, you know, when the dawn knows it, can you do that? Got it like I can, with two hands tied behind my back. That it might take hold of the ends of the earth and the wicked be shaken out of it. It is changed like clay under the seal and they stand forth like a garment. From the wicked, their light is withheld and the uplifted arm is broken. Have you entered into the spring of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep? Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the deep darkness? Have you understood the expanses of the earth? Tell me if you know all of this, Job. I feel bad for Job right now. Where is the way of the dwelling of light and darkness? Where is its place? That you may take it to its territory and that you may discern the past. God is speaking here. God is speaking. Verse 21, you know, for you were born then. You were alive then, Job. You were born then. Tell us, mister. And the number of your days is great. Have you entered the storehouse of the snow or have you seen the storehouses of the hail? Which I have reserved the time of distress for the day of war and battle. Where is the way of the light? It's divided or the East wind scattered on the earth. Who has a cleft, a channel for flood or a way of the thunderbolt to bring rain on a land without people or desert without a man in it to satisfy the waste of the desert land and to make the seas of the grass. In other words, Job, can you do any of this? Job, stop me when I get to a point that you can do something. Stop me. Stop me when you can at least say yes. I know, yes, yes, yes. Help me out, God. I mean, help me out, Job. Help me out, Job. Can you please tell them, can you please? Let's go to verse 30. Water becomes hard like a stone in the surface of the deepest in prison. Can you, Job, or anyone else, can you bind the chains of Pleiades or loose the cores of Orion? Do any of you all know where the chains of Pleiades or the cores of Orion is? Does anybody know what God is talking about here? Does anyone know? This is going even deeper. The Pleiades or Pleiades or Orion. Get this cat, please. He eats over here. Go ahead and grab him, sweetheart. My daughter's coming to get this cat. Do you know what that is? Has anyone ever been there? Yeah, the sky, but even further than that time is the stars, yes. He's speaking of a constellation. God is saying, I did that. Orion, Pleiades, that's me. Can you lead forth a constellation in its season and guide the bear with its satellites? Speaking of the big bear, these are constellations, these are stars. Or do you know the ordinances of the heavens or fix their rule over the earth? Can you lift up your voice to the clouds so that the abundance of water will cover you? Can you send forth lightning that they may go? Again, I feel bad for Job. I feel bad for Job because, Job, you should have shut up. You should have stayed shutting up. Those seven days where you were just moaning and your friends were quiet, that's where you should have stayed. That, verse 39, can you hunt the prey for the lion? In other words, who makes sure that the lion is fed? I'm God, I do that. When they crouch in their dens and lie in their layer, because they're just waiting, the lions are simply waiting for their prey to come around. Who does that? Who brings their food? Who rings the dinner bells for them? Verse 41, who prepares the raven in its nourishment when it's young and cry to God and wonder about without food? 39 and one, do you know the time the mountain goat gives birth? Do you observe the calving of the deer? Can you count the months they fulfill or do you know the time they give birth? They kneel down, they bring forth their young, they get rid of their labor and pains. Job, do you know any about how these animals come to live, how they have their fed? All these things. Do you know this stuff? Verse 10, can you bind the wild ox in a furrow with ropes or he harrow the valley after you? Or will he harrow the valley after you? Will you trust him because of his great strength or strength is great and leave your labor with him? Now, we're getting somewhere because I wanna go ahead and go to, oh, here's one. Did you give the horse his might? I'm assuming God is speaking about the colts. Did you give the colts his might? Did you clothe his neck with a mane? Or do you make him leap like locusts? His majestic snorting is terrible. He pause in the valley and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the weapons. He laughs at the, I'm sorry. Let me back up, let me back up, let me back up. Let me back up. Okay, I just wanna make sure I hadn't gotten to the part that you guys are, some of you guys are waiting on. Verse 25, as often as the trumpet sound, he says, aha, and he's sensed the battle from afar and the thunder from the captains of the war cry. Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars, stretching his wings toward the south for you cowboy fans, the hawks, or eagles? I tried to throw that out there. Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high? On the cliff, he dwells in lodges upon the rocky crag and inaccessible places. Can you, can you, Joe? Here's Joe's response. The Lord said to Joe, will the fault finder contend with the Almighty? Let him who reproves God answers. What does Job say? Then Job answered the Lord and said, behold, I am insignificant. What can I reply to you? I may lay hand of my mouth. That's what you should've did all along. You should've did that, Job. But no, you spoke up. So what does God say? No, Job, no, no, no, no, no. We're not through, you're not getting off that. No. Then the Lord answered Job out of the storm and said, now gird up your loins like a man. Well, we just got through having this conversation, God. God ain't finished. Sometimes when God is wanting to speak or do something, you're not gonna stop him. And here it is. Now gird up your loins like a man. Verse eight, will you really know my judgment? Are you gonna stop what I'm doing? Yeah, Nora Bradley, poor Job, but that's also been us too. Let's we forget and play, let's not play, let's not act like it didn't happen to us. Poor us also, we just, we have an awesome lesson from Job to learn and sometimes we don't learn it, but he says, will you condemn me that you may be? Think of what we just said, will you condemn me? In other words, God has said, who are you talking to? He says, or do you have arms like God that you can thunder with a voice like his? Adorn yourself with eminence and dignity and clothe yourself with honor and majesty. Pour out over the overflowing of your anger and look on everyone who was proud and make him low. Can you make the proud low? I can, all you can do is talk about him. That guy that's talking crazy about you, that guy that's posting stuff on social media, what can you do? I can do something to him. I can do something, you can't. Look on everyone who was proud and humble him and tread down the wicked where they stand, hide them in the dust together, bind them in the hidden places, in other words, put them someplace where they can't be found or kill them. Then I will also confess to you that your own right hand can save you. Can you save yourself, Job? No, you can't save yourself, which by the way tells us guys, if you're ever going to be saved, it's never you're doing. I think I ought to make that onto a billboard. If you're ever going to be saved, it's never you're doing. Verse 15, behold now the behemoth. Folks, I wanted to get to this passage, which I made as well as you. I made him and I made you. He eats grass like an ox. Behold now, look at this. His strength is in his loins and his power in his muscle of his belly. He bends his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together. His bones are tubes of bronze. This is a big powerful animal. His limbs are like bars of iron. He is the first of the ways of God. Let his maker bring near his sword. Surely the mountains bring him food and all the beasts of the field play there under the lotus plants he lies down in the cover of the reeds and the marsh. The lotus plants cover him with shade. The willows of the brooks around him. If a river rages, he is not alarmed. If a river rages, doesn't bother him. It's just like a little brook trinkling. He is confident though the Jordan rushes to his mouth. Can anyone capture him when he is on watch? With barbs, can anyone pierce his nose? This is a big animal. Look what he says. Can you draw out the Leviathan with a fish hook or press down his tongue with the cord? Can you put a rope on his nose or in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? Will he make many supplications to you or will he speak to you soft words? Will he make a covenant with you? No, he will not. Will you take him for a servant forever? Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your maidens? Will the traitors bargain over him? So clearly we're speaking of these two animals, these large land animals and this sea animals. Look what he says, verse eight. Behold, your expectation is false. Will you will be laid low even at the sight of him? Even at the sight of this animal, you will be laid low. You're afraid of him. No one is so fierce. Look what he says. Now here's an important part. Pay attention. No, it's not a crocodile. Ain't no crocodile, listen, I've seen people hit a crocodile with a skillet pan. I've seen a cat hit a crocodile and a crocodile go running. This ain't a crocodile. This ain't a crocodile. Look what he says though. Look at verse 10. No one is so fierce that he dares to arouse him. Everybody's afraid of him. Then look, who then is he that can stand before me? Who has given to me that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine. Did you hear what he just said? You are afraid of that animal, that I made that animal. You were afraid of that animal. Why don't you fear me the same way? Job and everybody else, what is your problem? Do you know who I am? Who then, as he said, can stand before me? Job, you should have shut up before you started opening your mouth. Before it came up in your mouth to say something, you should have shut up. Job says, I will keep silent. I'm sorry, God says I will not keep silent concerning his limbs or his mighty strength or his orderly frame. Who can strip off his outer armor or who can come within his double male? Job, I feel bad about you. I really do. I feel bad for you. What is the point thus far? The point thus far is God will do what he wants to do when he wants to just cause he's God. Whether he lets you in on his plan or not. If he gives you some detail, praise God. If he doesn't, praise God. He is still God all by himself. Amen. Let's continue. And my grandson is out there crying. Verse, chapter 42, verse one. Then Job answered the Lord and said, I know that you can do all things and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. Who is this that hires counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand. So now Job was being humble. I will declare that which I did not understand. Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know here now and I will speak, I will ask you and you will instruct me. I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye see you. Therefore I retract and I repent in dust and ashes. Now, being kind of rebuked by God is different than being rebuked by others and God gets it. Job gets it. Job understands. I thought it was Job. Yeah, that was Job crying. That was Job crying from heaven. Now here's the important part. Let's go here. 42, verse seven. It came about that after the Lord had spoken these words to Job that the Lord said to Eliphaz, that tonight my wrath, look what he says, is kindled against you and against your two friends because you have not spoken of me what is right as my servant Job has. Now therefore take yourselves seven bulls and seven rams and go up, go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves and my servant Job will pray for you for I will accept him so that I may not do with you according to your folly, because you have spoken of me what is not right as my servant Job has. Makes you wonder, wait a second. God? Job was wrong too. You say Job was still right. No, Job was not right. No, the point to see, you can make an accurate assessment, but it's how you do so. What Job was acting, so yeah, God is sovereign. God is righteous, but me too, I'm righteous. You shouldn't do this to me, God. And that was the point. There you go, John 8. Only God is right. That's the point that Job was missing. Job was like, well, this shouldn't be happening to me. I'm not insane, I don't think so. And so that was the issue. Only God is right. If God wants to take this arm and put it on this shoulder and take this arm and put it on that shoulder, is he just in doing so? Yes, he is. Yes, he is. Why? Because he's got whatever he wants to do. But God, I don't deserve it. Says who? Says who? And so his friends are in trouble. Now, if his friends were like the rest of us, we would say, wait a second God, what about Job? Job did the same thing too. He was wrong, we were wrong too. We didn't know. There's a difference though. One big difference is one, what was your standing before? Remember, Job was the one that was upright and unlike him. And what's interesting here is that Job is actually, I'm not saying that he is, but he's actually kind of functioning like a priest before them. Because they're going to him, he's got to go to him and he is going to offer and pray for them. So, Eliphaz, the Timonite, and Beldeath, the Shiwite, and Zophar went and did as the Lord told them and the Lord accepted Job. Now, verse 42, 10. The Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends. Bam. You know what I should have did? Once I read that, I should have hit the button and bring in the outro. This is how it should have went. If I was a theatrical major, I should have read this. Then the Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends and the Lord increased all that Job had. That's what I should have did. Why? Well, let's go back to it again. The Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends. Let me read it again. The Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends. Let me read it one more time. The Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends. When he prayed for his friends, the Lord restored the fortunes of Job. When did the Lord restore the fortunes of Job? when, not before, but when he prayed for his friends. Here's my question to you guys. Those that got it wrong and those that gave you bad counsel, even those that came against you, do you pray for them? When he prayed for his friends, then all his brothers and all his sisters and all who had known him before came to him. Uh-oh, the folks that weren't around you when you were going through, they showed back up. And all his brothers and all his sisters, all who had known him before came to him. Where were you at the time that I was going through? Come on, let's just be honest. Have you all had that happen before? When you're going through, when you're in the midst of it, nobody wants to talk to you, nobody wants, none of those things. I can testify. Before I went through what I went through, and when I went through it, no one was around. No one wanted to have anything to do with Corey. Never prior to that, hey, Corey, Corey, can we, Corey, I need, during it? Nope, afterwards, hey, Corey, we missed you. Man, I'm so glad to God, man, God bless you. Now I could have said, hey, where were you guys? I really could have needed, I could have used a friend or two. But it's cool though. I mean, I'm not, I'm not bothered. I'm not anger, not upset, I really am not. But that's what we see here. That's what we see here. All his brothers, how many of you all knew that Job had brothers and sisters? We don't know anything about Joe's brothers and sisters until we get to this, to the very end, when it's all said and done. His brothers and sisters and all who had known him before came and they ate bread with him in his house, to his house, and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversities that the Lord had brought him through after the fact, after it's all said and done, they show up. Tell you what, tell you what, brothers and sisters and friends of mine, next time I go through, stay where you were. I wanna remember you just as you are. I wanna see you who you are. Next time I go through it, I'll know who not to call on anyway. And each one of them gave one piece of money in each a ring of gold. The Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camel, 1,000 yoke of oxen and 1,000 female dogs. Remember the numbers that he had before? And so he says he had seven sons and three daughters. He named the first. Now, I know what some are gonna say. They're gonna say, wait a second though, what? Yeah, you can replace the kids but I actually did like the kids that I had before. Yeah, that part, I get that part. Yeah, I can't, I don't have an answer for that. I don't have an answer for that. You took my first 10 kids and brought me 10 more kids. Now, interestingly enough, what it didn't say and we don't know, what it didn't say is does Job still have that same wife? Does Job still have that same wife? Don't know, I imagine he does. We don't, we never know her name. We never hear about her name. Now, let me tell you some other lessons you can learn about Job that's not in the book of Job. Time out, we are now leaving this Bible study. Next week we'll be in Exodus and we are gonna zoom. But as we read this, there are two more mentions of Job in the Bible. Actually, there's more and two more mentions. There's three more mentions in two more books. One is in the book of Ezekiel. In Ezekiel, where are we going? Verse 16, is it? Yeah, verse 16. Look what it says. This is picking up in the midst. It says, though these three men were in its midst as I live, declares the Lord God, they could not deliver either their sons or their daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the country would be desolate. So Ezekiel was speaking about how bad the land has gotten, how Israel has gotten. And recalling Job, as well as these three men, I'm sorry, who are the three men? I didn't tell you the three men. Verse 14, even though these three men know Daniel and Job, so he speaks with these three men that even if they had lived in this kind of land that you Jews, that these Israel living in, they wouldn't even help you. They would be delivered, but the rest of the land would not be. Speaking about how bad it is, but it's speaking about their integrity and their faith through all of this, even though, even through this yet, Job wasn't perfect, but what Job did have was Job had some patience, Job had some endurance. How do we know that Job had some endurance? In James 5, 11 says, we count those blessed who endure, the enduring ones. You have heard of the endurance of Job and have seen the outcome of the Lord's dealings that the Lord is full of compassion and His mercy. So we also should marvel at the fact that Job was as, yes, Spider-Monk, he was long suffering, he was patient. He did, yeah, he's trying to figure this out and let's be honest, let's just be honest, we do the same thing too. But what we need to remember as we're going through, what we're going through is that God is still sovereign. God is in control. God is the one that makes a decision and guess what? It's always for His glory. However, God will bless you as long as you stay patient with Him, stay in Him. That's the whole point. Amen. So guys, thank you for this particular time, this study. We will pick back up and delve into a bunch of more nuggets, obviously, in excess. We are going to start dealing with the fulfillment of this promise that God brought about when remember Abraham asked, what house shall I know that these things shall be true? When I'm blessed, I mean that this covenant's gonna be true. And God says that when they come out of this land, they're gonna be slaves in after 40 years. They'll come out with great possessions and so forth. So remember that, that's what we're going to in excess. Amen. Annette, also thank you for the Super Chat and all of you others who have done the exact same thing. I appreciate that. And so make sure that you have read Exodus, probably the first 10 chapters, make sure you do so, and then we will see you all on next week. Amen. Amen.