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A Very Bad Day
When you come to church you come to be lifted up.
Job is not the book you think about when you want to be made happy!
But, it is in here, and it is in here for a reason.
There are some great lessons in Job and we are going to spend some time in this book to glean from it what we can.
Now, to setup...
We are not going to examine each verse of each chapter.
We would be in here for a year or so.
Instead, we are going to read it, and I encourage you to read it too.
There are some nerd things to know about Job.
It is not the oldest writing
It is set in an older time
It has many rare words
It is contentious
Job is LINKED to the ENTIRE Hebrew Bible.
The author knew the Hebrew Bible.
That is another reason it is probably written later.
Let’s jump in and see what we find today.
Uz - Unsure, but it links up to Edom (Adam) so it could be a man in the land of man.
But this is also the territory of Abraham, another person that was called to walk blameless and upright before God.
Iyyov - Job, name mean hostile, enemy.
Seven sons - Seven feasts
SPRING
Passover
Unleavened Bread
First Fruits
Shavuot (Feast of weeks)
FALL
Rosh HaShanah (Trumpets)
Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)
Sukkot (Tabernacles)
BLESSED…CURSED...
The adversary - The satan
Immediately we are in something akin to poetry.
Job (the enemy) is the ONLY blameless and upright person on the WHOLE EARTH!
Can you think of another time when the WHOLE EARTH was ignoring God and there was only ONE MAN on the WHOLE EARTH?
Noah.
What has happened is the satan has CHALLENGED God’s judgement of Job.
Let’s see what happens...
Sheva (Sheba): queen of, also modern day Yemin.
Slave trading.
Oxen: Cannot plow, no crops
Sheep: No milk or meat or offerings
Camels: Cannot travel
Children: No offspring
WHO brings the CHAOS?
The Satan
NOTE: He made an offering for his children.
He may think he did something wrong.
So over the top, it is likely a parable.
That does not make the teaching any less important.
But remember, the satan has CHALLENGED God’s judgement of Job.
Notice: The author is NOT FOCUSED on what was LOST.
The focus is on Job.
What is he going to do…?
***** NEXT *****
There is a difference between how Job is feeling and what Job is believing.
He is starting out well, given what has happened.
And don’t measure yourself against this, as if this is what God expects.
Job is a perfect human.
You and I are not.
And that is the point of this opening section.
Imagine the worst
Multiply it by a million
What would you do?
Here is what I think is going on:
Job is like a WISDOM EXPERIMENT
IMAGINE the
MOST RIGHTEOUS
GOD FEARING
WISE PERSON
There is another person in SCRIPTURE that had this for a TIME...
ADAM.
UNTIL…he was tempted by a tempter.
When chaos (the adversary) is set free, the faithful hunker down.
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