June 1 Readings

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Today's reading Esther 6-10

King James Version with Web Encyclopedia Links:
Job 1; Job 2; Job 3; Job 4

Job 1-4

Job 1-Job’s First Test
This is from God’s perspective. God met with the angels in heaven. Satan had joined them God asked Satan where did he come from. Satan said roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it. (James 4.7, 1peter 5.8-10. God said to Satan in verse 8,“Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil”Notice that God has a hedge of protection around Job, and Satan, the accuser, cannot do anything to Job (or to us) without God’s permission. God permitted Job to take away all his possessions and his children from him. This came through a series of events. Even though Job lost everything and his children, Job BLESSED God he did not curse God. “Naked I came from my mother’s womb and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.” In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing.” We need to realize that all things happen in our lives are UNDER GOD’S CONTROL. From learn we should learn that anything we have, we cannot take with us.(Col 3.2-4). Where is your treasure is, there is your heart also (Matt 6.19-24). What Job was saying is YOU CANNOT TAKE ANYTHING YOU HAVE IN LIFE WITH YOU EXCEPT YOUR FAITH!! “If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.”-C.S. Lewis

Job 2-Job’s Second Test
God met with the angels in heaven, another time. Satan had joined them God asked again Satan where did he come from. Satan said roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it. (James 4.7, 1Peter 5.8-10. God said to Satan in verse 8,“Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil” Notice that God has a hedge of protection around Job, even though Job had lost his children and everything. and Satan, the accuser, cannot do anything to Job (or to us) without God’s permission. God permitted Satan to cover Job with sores all over his body, but he could not kill him. Job was in so much misery that he had to use a piece of pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes. Job’s wife told him to curse God and die. Job told her that she was a foolish woman. “Shall we accept good from God and not trouble. Job DID NOT curse God despite the fact that he lost his children, everything, and was now in pain covered with sores. Job did not sin.

Job 3
Job mourns about the day of his birth. He wanted to die in his misery. He asked the question WHY? See the questions in Job 3:11-12 "Why did I not die at birth, Come forth from the womb and expire? 12 "Why did the knees receive me, And why the breasts, that I should suck? (NASB) 16, Job 3:16 Or why was I not hidden in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day?(NIV) Job 3:20 "Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter of soul, Job 3:23 Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?(NIV). Job was not the only one in the Bible who questioned God about the predicament he was in . Another example is Jeremiah Jer 20:14 Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me not be blessed! 15 Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, who made him very glad, saying, "A child is born to you-- a son!" 16 May that man be like the towns the LORD overthrew without pity. May he hear wailing in the morning, a battle cry at noon. 17 For he did not kill me in the womb, with my mother as my grave, her womb enlarged forever. 18 Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow and to end my days in shame?

But he DID NOT curse God. Job, after all is a human being in his suffering and complains to God but he was true to God.

Job 4
Sometimes when your friends come to give you advice, it is not an advice but accusations. They do not see the situation you are in as fully as how God sees you. God knows what is going on. Man does not. This was the situation with Job. Eliphaz the Temanite came to Job to comfort him. Eliphaz asked him why wasn't he living the way how he tells his friends how to live. He probably hinted that he was a hypocrite. (v.1-6). He then told Job that he reap what he sowed (Job 3.8, Gal 6.7-8). Lastly he shared the mystical dream that he claimed he had. He was basing his advice on this dream to give Job. He did not based his advice on the Word of God.


Job 1 with Commentaries, verse by verse
Job 2 with Commentaries, verse by verse
Job 3 with Commentaries, verse by verse
Job 4 with Commentaries, verse by verse

Other Links
Dr. Thomas Constable Study Notes is a PDF file, open with Adobe Acrobatic Reader
Deffinbaugh on Job 1
Deffinbaugh on the man, Job
Malik-Intoduction to Job
Malik-Argument for Job
Piper on Job
Spurgeon on Job
Spurgeon, Edwards on Job
Stedman on Job
With the Word Commentary-Warren Wiersbe
Wycliffe Bible Commentary
Keil & Delitzsch Commentaries on the Old Teatament
J. Vernon McGee Commentaries
Evangelical Commentary on the Old Testament


Links to Commentaries and other References - Old Testament

Bible Study Tools
Jesus Saves
How to Become a Christian

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