Job 12: 6-13 Parable of uncertain riches

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Parable #3

vv.6-10

The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

 Tabernacles of robbers prosper. But do not they also lose much more than they shall ever know. This is to their grievous hurt. They cannot think in their adult lives any other than riches and glory of it and how it has served Madoff and Jeffery Epstein is well known to repeat here. Similar we are nor seeing how the reputation of an incorruptible AG who took on the NY crime syndicate is coming unravelled. In whichever case reputation built up in seven decades cannot remain unscathed when the life of the man hits the dust. He robbed his own life and his tabernacle is not worth a pin. This is how carnal wisdom of man has come unstuck, every time. “But the wisdom that is from above…

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Job 12 : 7-25 “Breath of All Mankind”

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So far we have been focussing on Parables of Job of which we shall set down two. The second parable depends on the first. Once we understand the first it becomes evident that the second is not all great as it sounds. It is so because prosperity or wealth is not what defines a child of God.

Parable #1 “Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me./ Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again? (10:8-9)

We are all familiar with the lesson God wanted to teach Jeremiah at the potter’s house(Je.18:1-11). A pitcher fresh from the potters yard is not how it shall look given it is used every day in the eastern countries to fetch water from the well morning and evening, given the scarcity of water…

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