1-2 God! Look! Enemies past counting! Enemies sprouting like mushrooms, Mobs of them all around me, roaring their mockery: “Hah! No help for him from…
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How to understand Psalms 2 and Psalms 91:1
Why the big noise, nations? Why the mean plots, peoples? Earth-leaders push for position, Demagogues and delegates meet for summit talks, The God-deniers, the Messiah-defiers:…
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How well God must like you— you don’t walk in the ruts of those blind-as-bats, you don’t stand with the good-for-nothings, you don’t take your…
Continue Reading....How to understand Job Chapter 42 and Proverbs 18:24
All’s Well That Ends Well Get ready for a happy ending. Job is humbled and pledges his loyalty to God. And don’t worry, Job’s friends…
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God: Take Three And now for something completely different! God describes the Leviathan and the process of defeating it. Huh? Don’t worry—just check out our…
Continue Reading....How to understand Job Chapter 40 and Hebrews 12:2
God: Take Two Job splutters a mere two verses in response to God’s line of questioning. Wouldn’t you be a little freaked out, too? And…
Continue Reading....How to understand Job Chapter 38-39 and Philippians 4:7
Enter God. He comes down in a whirlwind and poses a number of rhetorical questions to Job, all of which are designed to show Job…
Continue Reading....How to understand Job Chapter 32-37 and John 8:32
Elihu. Eliwho? Elihu comes out of nowhere. He’s only mentioned in these passages, but his speech adds a new layer to Job’s friends’ words, so…
Continue Reading....How to understand Job Chapter 29-31 and Joel 2:12
Job Completes His Words One more time! Yep, more lamenting. Job isn’t happy with the pain and embarrassing nature of his position. He reminisces about…
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Wisdom Interlude Getting tired? Good. It’s time to shake things up. In this unsigned interlude, the speaker riffs for a while about where the seeker…
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