Job 37:14-24 “Through A Glass darkly”

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Here we can see the purpose of the allegory. Having set principal players speak their pieces leading to its climax the Holy Spirit gives Elihu the role of laying down the immediate context and his speech serves as foil to how God shall pattern his speech.

Towards this the Holy Spirit brings in emblems associated the creation account balancing with glory of God that dispense with sun the moon and clouds and darkness under the new earth and new heaven. Here is the crux of the Scripture:

“(Christ) Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power,(He.1:2)” He is also the Word made flesh. He occupies the right hand of the throne of God. The Throne of the Lamb and of God is the new norm. Earlier we read ‘Heaven is my throne and the…

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Job 37 “Works of God”

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Elihu continues his dissertation and he is still in the role as ‘a spokesman for God.’. For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee’.

The four spokesmen for God are symptomatic of ministers of God each had in varying degrees showed his zeal but as St Paul say,’they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge (Ro.10:2.)’

They worked hard at convincing Job but it was not from real knowledge about the nature of God. When Jesus was asked about the works of God Jesus replied,”Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent(John 6:29).” This vital connection is requisite so the natural phenomena of God revealed by natural world is not a thing apart from the heart where God has set truth. We shall…

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Job 36 “Vapor”

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vv.26-33

What is vapor? distillations of God’s goodness. The waters, the air and the sun are tags for the tripartite aspect of man. The waters saw thee and they were troubled. We have already come across this verse,”The waters saw you, God, the waters saw you and writhed; the very depths were convulsed(Ps.77:16-NIV)”. It is what the Spirit of God worked with in the creation account narrated by the Holy Spirit. In essence we call it life (science may call this manifestation as primal broth) and what does St James inspired by God call “What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes(Jas.4:14-NIV). Spirit upon the face of the waters, generations after generations are naked and manifest before God. God saw generations of men past present eternity open before Him. One could think it as a looking glass. How shall we escape…

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