Aug 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- JOB 34:1- 36:33 Elihu, is the last person to speak in the earthly debate among Job and his friends. In Job Chapters 32-37 Elihu gives four separate speeches before God interrupts and silences all with the final word. In his...
Aug 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
STARVE YOUR APPETITE FOR PRETTY POISON; BEHOLD THE GLORY OF GOD IN CHRIST JOB 31:1-33 In Job’s self-defense against his accusers, he claims to have made a covenant with his eyes. The eye allows images to soak into our souls. What we focus on is absorbed and...
Aug 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
Job is now in his third round of facing the critiques of his friends. He has already heard two rounds of the pious but false interpretations from his friends, Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar. Eliphaz made the charge in Chapter 22 that Job’s suffering was the result of his...
Aug 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- JOB 20:1-22:30. This is Zophar’s second response to Job. Still Zophar imagines that there must be some unconfessed sin in Job’s life that has provoked God to allow his misfortune. Zophar has no idea what God is doing in Job’s...
Aug 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- JOB 16:1-19:29 ‘Round Two’ of the debate between Job and his friends, Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar has begun. Job’s friends were more helpful when they were silent in shock and sympathy, and sat by him for seven days and nights....
