Doug Batchelor:
I love the quote,
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"The greatest want of
the world is the want of men,
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men who will
stand for the right,
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though the heavens fall."
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Yet studies are
showing for several years now
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that secular media and culture
have sought to portray men
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as the family idiots.
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Sadly, respect for the
role of fathers and husbands
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has reached an all-time low.
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So, now, as the dispirited
men abandon their roles of godly
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leadership, it's not surprising
that we're experiencing
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a moral
free-fall in our country.
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That's why
starting September 30,
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I'll be presenting a new program
called "Mighty Men of God."
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Using biblical principles, this
encouraging four-part series
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will address how to be a loving
father, faithful husband, and
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all-around man of God in
the family, church, and nation.
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Please plan now to join me
for this live event, and learn
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from the Word how to live
courageously for the king.
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Doug: I'm glad
you're here today.
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I'm going to be starting
a series on the book of Job.
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And I really--you know, whenever
we open the Word of God,
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we're treading on holy ground.
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But in a special sense,
this is a remarkable book.
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And I've never wanted to
rush through it because there's
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so much power in the book.
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It's such a profound book that
I thought I'm going to take my
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time, and we're going
to spend some time talking
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about the book of Job.
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The book of Job was not written
for people living long ago.
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The book of Job
was written for today.
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And it is very much a book
for every people in every age.
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It talks about heaven and hell.
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It talks about God and Satan,
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talks about
blessing and cursing.
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It talks about
family and friends.
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It talks about
betrayal of friends.
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Talks about patience, and
victory, and defeat, and just
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all of the great themes of life
can be found somehow, somewhere.
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Talks about the Second Coming
of Jesus and the resurrection.
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It's in the book of Job.
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And so, we're going to give
some time and attention to that.
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And I, of course, appreciate
your prayers as we do.
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Now, in our discussion about
Job, sometimes as a pastor,
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you know, I look out
there and I see some of you
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have been
Christians all of your life.
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Some of you have
grey hair or no hair,
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and you have been studying it.
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And you know, I can speak to
you about the meat of the Word.
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Then we have children
and teenagers out there,
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and you have never
read the book of Job,
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and you have no
background in it.
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Matter of fact, you
thought it was the book of Job,
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and until I said that.
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And so, you know, I try to
find a balance where I can say
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something that everybody can
relate to, but this is a book
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where I'm hoping I can get into
the meat of the Word and do some
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serious study with you because
there's just so much here
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that we can learn from.
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An overview of the book of
Job quickly we'll just give you.
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There's 42 chapters,
1,070 verses, 10,102 words.
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In the Septuagint, the
book of Job is calculated to be
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among the books of poetry.
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And you might
even find it placed
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between Psalms and Proverbs.
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Some of the different
Hebrew texts put the book
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of Job in different places.
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It's none of the most mysterious
books in the Bible because
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there's quite a bit of debate
about, you know, who he was,
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and where he
lived, and when he lived,
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and why all this
happened, and was it real.
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And we'll be getting into
these things along the way.
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I heard somebody
quote Ernest Hemingway,
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the famous author.
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They said that Ernest Hemingway
said that the book of Job is,
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"The most magnificent
and sublime of any book
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in the Bible."
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And when I heard them quoting
Ernest Hemingway, I kind of
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smiled because actually, they
didn't know Ernest Hemingway
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was quoting Martin Luther.
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Martin Luther said in his
commentary--that's good that
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Hemingway was reading that.
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Martin Luther said, "The
book of Job is more magnificent
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and sublime than any
other book of Scripture."
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Now, you realize Martin Luther
translated the whole Bible, and
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he spoke several languages, and
understood the Hebrew languages.
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And for a guy who's one of
the founders of the Protestant
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movement to say that, not only
did he say that, but you can
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find where Matthew
Henry, John Wesley, and many of
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the great reformers
say--Spurgeon, they believe
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one of the most
majestic books in the Bible
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is the book of Job.
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So, I hope you come to
appreciate it that way.
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I remember when I was just
a baby Christian, and I knew
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nothing about the
Bible, and knew very little.
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And I just decided one
day to open the book of Job
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and start reading it.
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And I'll admit I didn't
understand everything I read,
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but something
attracted me to it.
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It was--it was, to me,
so deep that it was awesome.
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And I remember reading through
the whole book and just going,
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"Wow, this is inspired.
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I've never heard
words like this before."
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Now, you hear four or
five characters speaking
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in the book of Job.
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You've got the words of Job, and
you've got Job's three friends.
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And this mysterious fourth
friend, Elihu, appears at the
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32nd chapter in the book.
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You got God speaking.
You've got the devil speaking.
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And it's considered to be,
from chapter 2 on, there's quite
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a bit of poetry or just
some incredible* Hebrew rhythmic
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parallelisms that
are being shared there.
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First thing I might want to make
clear is that the book of Job
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is a real book.
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Some people hear about,
you know, talking about what's
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happening on earth,
and this man is blessed,
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and the numbers that it gives.
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Got 7 sons, 3 daughters,
and 7,000 of this, and 12,000--
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and it all seems so exact.
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And for 7 days, they sat down.
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And they said it's a
parable. Job never lived.
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It's somebody
wrote it to tell a story.
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You can't take it serious.
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I mean, it talks about that
God is in heaven, and there's
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a meeting in heaven, and
God's talking to the devil,
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and the devil's talking to God.
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And it's obviously a parable.
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But I'd respectfully disagree.
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For one thing, because the other
New and Old Testament writers
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speak of Job as an actual event.
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And Jesus addresses it that way.
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We just read a quote from the
book of James referring to Job.
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If you look in Ezekiel--now,
we're going to look at this
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verse more than once.
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And I'm going to give
you a lot of Scripture,
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so you might take notes.
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And they won't
all be on the screen.
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Ezekiel 14:14.
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In one of his prophesies,
Ezekiel says, "Though these
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three men, Noah, Daniel,
and Job, were in it," meaning
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in the land, "they will
deliver neither--they'll deliver
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but their own souls
by their righteousness,
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says the Lord God."
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Now, did Noah really live?
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Did Daniel really live?
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So, when Ezekiel adds in Job,
why would we suddenly think that
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he's talking about the
righteousness of Daniel and
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Noah, and then he mentions
Job, and Job's just a parable,
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he's a fairy tale?
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The prophet Ezekiel speaks
of him as a real character
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who was a righteous man,
who had a soul to deliver.
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And only his own soul would be
delivered by his righteousness.
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By the way, Ezekiel
says something very similar
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to that twice.
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Who wrote the book of Job?
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Somewhat a mystery.
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Most of the scholars that
I've read believe that Moses
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is responsible for the book.
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It dates as far back as we
can find Hebrew literature,
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the book of Job is there.
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It predates the
writings of David.
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When you look at the time,
and I'll get to that in just
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a minute, it seems
like it was written already
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by the time of Moses.
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It is possible that this fourth
person--you've got the three
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friends of Job, and then
chapter 32 this fourth person,
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Elihu, appears.
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And he begins to speak.
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He starts to speak for the
first time in first person,
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saying, "I, I, I, I."
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And we've wondered if he was the
one who kind of was a bystander,
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listening to
everything, writing it all down,
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and finally he
thought, "I'm going to speak."
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And Moses took his
writings and codified it,
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or it may have
been passed on orally.
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But we believe Moses
was--the language also.
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You read the language in
Genesis and the language in Job,
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and there's a lot
of similarities there.
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God is referred to more
times as Shaddai, you've heard
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of El Shaddai, the
Almighty, in the book of Job
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more than any
other book in the Bible.
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He's the all supplying one.
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And it's a real story.
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Talks about the Chaldeans coming
in, and the Sabeans fighting.
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I mean, if it was an allegory,
why wouldn't you just say
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some robbers came
and stole his stuff?
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Why would you specifically
mention a real nation back then
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that were known for robbing?
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So, they mentioned
real places and real things.
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Tell you what, what I'd
like to do with you is go
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to the book of Job.
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And just so you all know,
you know, people don't pretend
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you don't ever watch the clock.
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You're going to want to
know, "Is he going to go
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to chapter 30 today?
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How far is he going to go?"
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So, I thought I'll just tell
you I'm just doing 12 verses.
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Now, you might think,
does that mean 42 chapters,
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we're going to be
studying Job until 2019?
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No, because once
you get into the poetry,
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we'll be talking about themes.
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It's going to go much quicker.
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But the
introduction is very important.
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And so, we're just going
to read the first 12 verses,
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and that's what we'll
cover today, God willing.
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"There was a man in the land of
Uz whose name was Job, and that
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man was blameless and
upright, one who feared God
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and shunned evil."
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Your King James would
say eschewed, same word.
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It means to avoid.
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"And seven sons and three
daughters were born to him.
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Also, his possessions
were 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels,
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500 yoke of oxen."
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A yoke, of course, is 2,
so 500 yoke is 1,000 oxen.
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"Five hundred female donkeys,
and a very large household,
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so that this man
was the greatest of all
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the people of the east."
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Again, it's giving a real place.
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"And his sons would go
and feast in their houses,
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each one on his appointed day."
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I believe that means birthday.
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"And would send and invite
their three sisters to eat
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and to drink with them.
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And so it was, when the days of
feasting had run their course,
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that Job would send and sanctify
them, and he would rise early in
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the morning and offer
burnt offerings according
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to the number of them all.
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For Job said, 'It may
be that my sons have sinned
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and cursed God in their hearts.'
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Thus Job did regularly."
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Now, the scene changes.
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It starts out with a scene on
earth in this place called Uz,
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and it tells us about the
faith of Job, tells us about the
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fortune of Job, and it tells
us about the family of Job.
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It just sets the stage for this
battle so you'll understand what
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kind of man is about to go
through a trial that is hard
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for us to imagine.
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"Now there was a day."
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It's interesting it starts
out, "Now there was a man."
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And verse 6, "Now there was a
day when the sons of God came to
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present themselves before the
Lord, and Satan came among them.
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And the Lord said to
Satan, 'From where do you come?'
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So Satan answered the Lord
and said, 'From going to and fro
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on the earth, and
from walking-- from walking
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back and forth on it.'
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And the Lord said to Satan,
'Have you considered my servant
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Job, that there is none like
him on the earth, a blameless
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and an upright man, one
who fears God and shuns evil?'
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So Satan answered
the Lord and said,
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'Does Job fear God for nothing?
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Have you not made a hedge about
him and about his household,
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and around all that
he has on every side?
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You've blessed the work of
his hands and his possessions,
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and have increased in the land.
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But now stretch out your
hand, and touch all that he has,
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and he will surely
curse you to your face.'
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And the Lord said to Satan,
'Behold, all that he has is in
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your power, only do not
lay a hand on his person.'
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So Satan went out from
the presence of the Lord."
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All right, that's what
we're going to look at.
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Well, we gave you a
little overview of Job.
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And I'll be
sharing more as we proceed.
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One of the first
things we might talk about is
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when did this happen.
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What is the time for Job?
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Well, there's
some mystery to it.
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I'm not going to pretend I can
fix an exact date, but as near
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as we can tell, it was somewhere
between--Job lived sometime
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between the age of
1700 BC and 1900 BC.
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He lived during the time
of some of the patriarchs.
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Now, one of the reasons for
that, and I'll give you some of
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the evidence, at the end of the
book of Job, after this terrible
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trial that he goes through,
it says, Job lived 100--
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it says, "After this," after
the trial, "Job lived 140 years,
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and he saw his children's
children and grandchildren
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to 4 generations."
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So, he lived long enough
after his trials to have another
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7 some and 3 daughters,
and to see their offspring
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to the fourth generation.
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He must have been at
least--well, the Septuagint
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says that he was 70 years old.
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It must have been 50
if you've got 10 kids.
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And back then, they didn't
start as early as we do today.
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You know, Isaac didn't
even start looking for a wife
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till he was 40.
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And Jacob got married at 70.
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And so, because of the way they
did things back then, you know,
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Septuagint is probably
pretty close, which means
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he lived about 210 years.
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And Bible is remarking that
that was old even for that era.
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Now, based on the land and the
names that are used, these names
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of some of these characters
do appear other places
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in the Bible.
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And because of when they
lived, we think we know he lived
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during the time of
Esau's descendants.
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You can look, for instance,
in Genesis 22:20, "Now it came
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to pass after these things
it was told Abraham, saying,
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'Indeed Milcah has
also borne children
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to your brother Nahor.'"
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Milcah was the wife of
Nahor. "Uz his firstborn."
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What was his name? Uz.
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Job lived in the land of
Uz. We'll get to it in a minute.
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"Buz his brother."
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Can you imagine
having two kids, Uz and Buz?
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Wouldn't you get that mixed up?
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I mean, if you got
a David and a Daniel,
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you'll always mix them up.
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Could you imagine Uz
and Buz, and getting mad
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trying to call them?
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What were they thinking?
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And then how would they get--
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wouldn't they
get teased at school?
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Uz and Buz, it's like,
you know--yeah, anyway.
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Okay, "Buz his brother,
Kemuel the father of Amram."
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So, the land of Uz may have been
partially named out of this.
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You know, they often
named territories and regions
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out of some of them.
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And so, you've got Uz
as a nephew of Abraham
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by his brother--not like Lot,
this is by his brother Nahor.
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And then if you look
in Genesis 36:10 and 11,
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"These are the names of Esau's
sons, Eliphaz the son of Adah."
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And you go down to verse 11,
"The sons of Eliphaz were Teman,
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Omar, Zepho, and Gatam."
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Well, one of the friends of
Esau was Eliphaz the Temanite.
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And then it tells us that
Job was one of the greatest
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of the men of
the what territory?
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The east.
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Now, when I say the east, you'd
be thinking maybe about China.
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But here, we're talking
about east of the Jordan River.
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They had--the descendants
of Abraham, some settled
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on the west, and that
would be Abraham and Jacob.
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Some settled on the east.
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And the children of the
east were often the Arabs.
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And the children that Abraham
had by Ishmael, and you know
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he had another
litter of kids with Keturah.
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And so, some of the friends
of Job were from Keturah.
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And so, you're talking about
the time Jacob lived, 147 years.
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Who knows how long
his father lived, Isaac?
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A hundred and eighty
years. It's quite a difference.
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Matter of fact, Jacob,
when he meets with the pharaoh,
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is complaining.
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He says, "The ages of
my days is not equaling
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the age of my fathers."
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He said, "I've worn myself out."
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You know, and all the
time he spent out in the fields
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and having four wives,
it just cut his life short.
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But he was bemoaning that he
wasn't living as long as some
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of the others
evidently around then.
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And so, it's not unusual
that Job would live that long.
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Who knows who the last
longest living person was?
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Moses lived 120
years, Aaron about 123.
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Do you know who just broke--he
just broke the mold is way after
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King David said, "Our days
of our years will be three score
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and ten," which is how much?
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"And if by reason of
strength we make it to 80,
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there's aches and pains."
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That's a rough paraphrase.
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But there was a high priest
who watched over King Joash
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named Jehoiada, lived 130 years.
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How many of you heard in
the news this week that the last
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American, as far as
they know, the last American
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who was born in the
1890s died, 116 years old?
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There's only one person
they know of in the world today
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that can say that they
lived over 3 centuries.
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In other words, their
lives touched the 1800s,
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the 1900s, and the 2000s.
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There's very few people--I used
to know people, a lot of people
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that were born in the
1800s, and they're all gone.
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So, then you're finding
fewer and fewer people that can
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tell you about World
War II that are left.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Well, now they got one
lady in Italy, she's 117,
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I think, that's still alive.
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And they showed a picture of
her, and she doesn't look like
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she'll be around much longer.
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Sorry, I hope that wasn't
unkind, just from the picture.
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But every now and
then, someone comes along.
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And so, the Bible comments
about how long Job lived.
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Based on the relatives,
it seems like that he lived
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during the time of
Esau's descendants.
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Like I said,
because he lived 200 years,
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you got to give him 200 years.
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So, from 1900 BC to 1700 BC.
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Moses didn't come
around for another 100 years,
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so he lived back
during that age range.
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That means if Moses wrote
the first book in the Bible,
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technically what is the
first book in the Bible?
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It's the book of Job.
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I was reading one commentary
where they were saying that
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anybody that thinks that the
book of Job is just the work of
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someone who wrote a parable
doesn't know what they're
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talking about because he said
the genius of insight in the
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statements of Job could
not come from one author.
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You've got some very bright men.
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Job is a very
successful, wealthy man.
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His friends that
come are leaders.
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And these are just the
chieftains of the region that
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have come, and there's
just incredible wisdom there.
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So, this is when
we think Job lived.
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Now, where was Uz? Not Oz, Uz.
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Genesis 10, verse 22.
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It's interesting, again, you
read the commentary, some says,
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"Well, nobody
knows where it was."
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Well, you can actually know
relatively close where it was.
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It says, "The sons of
Shem were Elam, Asshur,
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Arphaxad, Lud, Aram.
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The sons of Aram were Uz."
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This is now the
second person named Uz.
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You notice I'm
doing Genesis 10 now.
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"Hul, Gether, and Mash."
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It tells us Uz was also a
nephew of Abraham that lived
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in Arabia about 1900 BC.
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Josephus says Uz was--he,
Uz, the person Uz founded
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Trachanitus and Damascus.
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Damascus is one of the
oldest cities of antiquity,
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but that's further north.
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The land of Uz was--it
tells us really in the Bible.
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Jeremiah 25, verse 20, "All the
mixed people of all the kings of
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the land of Uz, all the kings
of the land of the Philistines,
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namely Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron,
and the remnant of Ashdod."
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Jeremiah is talking about the
kingdoms that are neighboring
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the south and the east
of Israel in that statement.
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So, we're narrowing it down.
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And then if you
look in Lamentations,
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this sort of seals it.
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Lamentations 4:21, "Rejoice
and be glad, O daughter of Edom,
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you who dwell
in the land of Uz."
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So, I've got a
little map on the screen.
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You'll see that in the
land that's to the east
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of the Jordan, that
territory, it was a big region.
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By the way, if you've got, you
know, 7,000 sheep and all these
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animals, you got
a big pasture land.
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But when you're reading the book
of Job, you'll also see book
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of Job talks about when
I sat in the city gates.
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So, it's not just a man
who lived out in the country.
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And it says his sons each went
in their house, not their tent.
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And so, there was
a big civilization.
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There to the east of the
Jordan valley, the climate
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was very different
then than it is now.
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The land of Israel was
called the land flowing
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with milk and honey.
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Do you know if you go to
the Sahara Desert, they've got
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valleys you drive for
just hours, maybe even days off
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into the Sahara, and
you'll find just a lake,
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dry lakebeds
full of whale bones.
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You'll find rocks that have
ancient petroglyph carvings that
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the tribes carved in the rock.
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And they've got
hippopotamus and giraffes.
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Well, you got hippos,
you have to have water.
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It was a land that used
to have a lot more water.
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And so, not only has there been
desertification of North Africa,
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but this region changed.
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Used to have a
lot more vegetation.
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It was a lot more lush.
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And so, there's a
lot more going on now.
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Now, you go to that desert
around they call it Mount Seir,
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the Edomites, they were
the descendants of Esau.
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Now, it's just desert
in that country out there.
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So, that's where Uz was.
That's probably where Job lived.
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Now, who was Job?
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The name "Job" signifies
sorrowful, or he that weeps.
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You know, one of the
things that strikes me, friends,
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is just the very first words
of the book, "There was a man."
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The very fact you got a 42
chapter book that begins with,
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"There was a man."
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You know why it says that?
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Because it doesn't say there
were men, it says there was
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a man, meaning
this is an unusual man.
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This is a man that stands out.
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This is a man who is
just one among thousands.
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And made me think of some
other places in the Bible.
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You know, in the book of Daniel,
when nobody could interpret the
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king's dream, Daniel 2:25,
"Then Arioch quickly brought
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Daniel before the king.
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He said, 'I found a
man. I found a man.'"
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There is a man.
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You go to Daniel 5, nobody
could interpret the handwriting
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on the wall.
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The queen talks to the king.
She says, "There is a man."
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But not that many.
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And you find as you
read the story of Job
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that Job stands out.
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"There is a man in your
kingdom in whom is the spirit
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of the Holy God.
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He can tell you
what that writing says."
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Solomon says in
Ecclesiastes 7:28,
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"Which my soul still
seeks, but I cannot find one man
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among a thousand I have found."
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The Gospel of John, it says,
"There was a man sent from God
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whose name was John."
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Something else we find out about
Job, it says, "In the land of Uz
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was this man who was
perfect and blameless."
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Well, right there you can
say that's an unusual man,
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perfect and upright.
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Now, what does that mean?
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First of all, let me
just make sure, take a breath,
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look at me, okay?
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We're going to talk about how
perfect a Christian is supposed
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to be for just a moment.
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That makes everyone
nervous, including me.
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But I just want to read you what
the Bible says, then we'll talk
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about what that means, okay?
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But God wants us to
be holy, you know that.
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Yes, he wants to bless
you, and we all think about God
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wanting us to be happy.
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But even more than your
happiness, God's interested
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in your holiness.
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And is it possible--let
me read some verses to you.
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Genesis 6:9, "Noah
was a just man, perfect
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in his generations."
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Godly man.
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And did God do
something unusual through him?
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Ezekiel 14:14, "Though these
three men," I told you I'd read
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it again, "Noah, Daniel,
and Job were in the land.
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They'll deliver their own
souls by their righteousness,
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says the Lord."
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That tells us Noah
was a righteous man,
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Daniel was a righteous
man, Job was a righteous man.
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But don't forget they're human.
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And so, when you hear about
Elijah being a righteous man,
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there you got a man too.
00:26:11.07\00:26:13.10
Boy, 1 on the
mountain against 800.
00:26:13.10\00:26:15.04
God had a man.
00:26:15.04\00:26:17.07
When you read in the New
Testament and James says, "These
00:26:17.07\00:26:20.71
were men," speaking of Elijah,
"subject to the same passions as
00:26:20.71\00:26:23.65
you and me, and yet God declares
about them what he wants to
00:26:23.65\00:26:27.85
declare about you," that
we fear God and hate evil,
00:26:27.85\00:26:34.76
and that we are walking
and living upright lives.
00:26:34.76\00:26:38.66
If Noah did it, if Job
did it, if Daniel did it,
00:26:38.66\00:26:43.67
if Elijah did it, then God says,
00:26:43.67\00:26:46.80
"The same way they
did it, you can do it."
00:26:46.80\00:26:50.21
God is calling us to be that.
00:26:50.21\00:26:52.37
And you almost never hear that
in the church anymore, that it's
00:26:52.37\00:26:54.81
not just about our getting
together with our friends.
00:26:54.81\00:26:57.61
The whole purpose of the church
is training for holiness to have
00:26:57.61\00:27:00.88
an impact of light and
life in a perishing world.
00:27:00.88\00:27:05.62
Job was that kind of person.
00:27:05.62\00:27:07.72
But it's all through the Bible
that God is calling believers,
00:27:07.72\00:27:10.43
Old and New Testament, to
be like Job, to love the Lord
00:27:10.43\00:27:15.50
and to hate evil, and
to walk and be upright.
00:27:15.50\00:27:18.93
Now, what does that mean,
to fear God and to hate evil?
00:27:18.93\00:27:23.07
Matthew 6:13, to hate evil means
to eschew evil, to avoid it,
00:27:23.07\00:27:28.91
to run the other direction.
00:27:28.91\00:27:31.18
Is there evil in the world?
00:27:31.18\00:27:34.68
Jesus in our Lord's prayer,
he said we should pray, "Lead us
00:27:34.68\00:27:37.85
not into temptation, but
deliver us from the evil one."
00:27:37.85\00:27:42.72
The yearning desire we ought to
be praying about every day is,
00:27:42.72\00:27:45.96
"Lord, deliver me from evil."
00:27:45.96\00:27:48.16
We don't want to be around evil.
00:27:48.16\00:27:50.33
And I'm not talking about
the evil that chases you down.
00:27:50.33\00:27:54.57
You can't always control that.
00:27:54.57\00:27:56.84
You know, you see things or
you happen to be the witness
00:27:56.84\00:27:59.24
of something that
you weren't planning.
00:27:59.24\00:28:01.38
But when we pursue
it, that's not good.
00:28:01.38\00:28:04.65
Isaiah 33:15, "He who
walks righteously and speaks
00:28:04.65\00:28:08.85
uprightly, who despises the gain
of oppressors, who gestures with
00:28:08.85\00:28:12.99
his hand refusing bribes,"
going no, "who stops his ears
00:28:12.99\00:28:17.49
from hearing bloodshed."
00:28:17.49\00:28:19.46
This is where it
gets interesting.
00:28:19.46\00:28:21.43
"Stops his ears from
hearing of violence."
00:28:21.43\00:28:23.30
You know, one of the
characteristics in the days
00:28:23.30\00:28:25.23
of Noah before the
world was destroyed,
00:28:25.23\00:28:27.04
the thoughts of men's hearts
were only evil continually,
00:28:27.04\00:28:29.50
and there was
violence filled the land.
00:28:29.50\00:28:31.37
Do we have that today?
00:28:31.37\00:28:33.04
We may not have the
kind of gore and bloodshed
00:28:33.04\00:28:34.91
that you see on battlefronts.
00:28:34.91\00:28:38.88
Instead, where we have it in our
country is in our entertainment,
00:28:38.88\00:28:43.25
kind of like the Roman
coliseums, except it's called
00:28:43.25\00:28:45.32
a television or a
computer monitor today.
00:28:45.32\00:28:48.62
And when it talks about
stopping our ears from hearing
00:28:48.62\00:28:52.66
of bloodshed, and
shutting our eyes.
00:28:52.66\00:28:55.83
I'm in Isaiah 33:15, "Shutting
our eyes from seeing evil,
00:28:55.83\00:29:01.07
he will dwell on high."
00:29:01.07\00:29:03.47
But if we're going out of
our way to behold these things
00:29:03.47\00:29:07.81
and to hear these things, a lot
of the music today is violent.
00:29:07.81\00:29:12.91
A lot of the
programming is violent.
00:29:12.91\00:29:15.78
And I'm probably like a lot
of other men out there, boy,
00:29:15.78\00:29:20.62
a good cowboy Indian
fight--can you say that anymore?
00:29:20.62\00:29:23.49
Is that politically incorrect?
00:29:23.49\00:29:26.03
No, I can't say that anymore.
Cowboy and Native American.
00:29:26.03\00:29:28.00
I'm sorry, I
don't mean to be unkind.
00:29:28.00\00:29:30.07
I'm just telling
you how crazy it is.
00:29:30.07\00:29:32.00
But who as a kid didn't--
anyone here have a cap gun
00:29:32.00\00:29:34.40
when they were a kid?
00:29:34.40\00:29:36.24
Come on, fess up, you guys.
00:29:36.24\00:29:38.24
I know you're worried that
the pacifists around you are
00:29:38.24\00:29:40.41
going to--yeah,
just there was just--
00:29:40.41\00:29:43.01
something about that appeals.
00:29:43.01\00:29:44.85
You know, God makes men where
you want to go out and conquer.
00:29:44.85\00:29:46.88
And so, to be entertained by it,
whether it's boxing, or football
00:29:46.88\00:29:53.79
is almost equally as violent.
00:29:53.79\00:29:56.02
Guys have to dress up like,
you know, they're going to space
00:29:56.02\00:30:00.50
because they get hit so hard.
00:30:00.50\00:30:04.30
Not to mention all the guns,
and the shooting, and--but if we
00:30:04.30\00:30:09.07
want to have the experience
of Job and the relationship with
00:30:09.07\00:30:11.94
Job, who stops his ears
from hearing bloodshed and shuts
00:30:11.94\00:30:14.71
his eyes from seeing
evil, he will dwell on high.
00:30:14.71\00:30:18.18
His place will be the
defense, the fortress of rocks.
00:30:18.18\00:30:21.08
Bread will be given
him, and water will be sure.
00:30:21.08\00:30:23.55
I've heard a lot of Christians
quote that verse, speaking
00:30:23.55\00:30:25.99
of the last days if we've
got to flee for our faith.
00:30:25.99\00:30:28.29
God says our bread
will be given to us,
00:30:28.29\00:30:30.26
and our water will be sure.
00:30:30.26\00:30:32.03
It says, yeah, if you plug your
ears from hearing of bloodshed
00:30:32.03\00:30:35.83
and shut your
eyes from seeing evil.
00:30:35.83\00:30:38.53
Do we hate evil like Job did?
00:30:38.53\00:30:42.07
Psalm 119, verse
37, "Turn away my eyes."
00:30:42.07\00:30:46.04
This is something that would
make a good prayer for us all.
00:30:46.04\00:30:48.54
"Turn away my eyes from
looking at worthless things,
00:30:48.54\00:30:52.15
and revive me in your way."
00:30:52.15\00:30:54.95
How much time is spent looking
at goofy, worthless things?
00:30:54.95\00:31:00.96
Ezekiel 12:13, "Let's hear the
conclusion of the whole matter.
00:31:00.96\00:31:04.86
Fear God and
keep his commandments,
00:31:04.86\00:31:07.30
for this is man's entire duty.
00:31:07.30\00:31:09.53
For God will bring
every work into judgment."
00:31:09.53\00:31:11.57
Job was a man that feared God.
00:31:11.57\00:31:13.74
Now, when we say fearing God,
I've often heard people say,
00:31:13.74\00:31:17.27
"Well, that doesn't mean--
00:31:17.27\00:31:19.14
we're not supposed
to be afraid of God."
00:31:19.14\00:31:20.88
And I actually have
caught myself saying that
00:31:20.88\00:31:22.71
because some people
just live in constant fear.
00:31:22.71\00:31:24.51
But you know, as I study that
and as I compare it with other
00:31:24.51\00:31:27.55
verses in the Bible,
I've had to correct myself.
00:31:27.55\00:31:30.95
It is talking about
an awesome reverence,
00:31:30.95\00:31:35.32
but there's a
terror connected with it.
00:31:35.32\00:31:39.09
When it says to fear
God, if we know how powerful,
00:31:39.09\00:31:43.03
how--yes, he's your father.
00:31:43.03\00:31:45.53
Yes, he's your
friend. Yes, he loves you.
00:31:45.53\00:31:48.30
He loves you more than anybody.
But he's also a powerful God.
00:31:48.30\00:31:53.21
And he has eternity, he
has your eternity in his hands.
00:31:53.21\00:31:56.61
And he can be
offended through sin.
00:31:56.61\00:31:59.91
And in that sense, we
should hate evil and fear God.
00:31:59.91\00:32:04.72
I think it was Wesley that said,
"If I could have 100 men who
00:32:04.72\00:32:09.19
feared nothing but God,
I could change the world."
00:32:09.19\00:32:11.89
Someone once said
if you don't fear God,
00:32:11.89\00:32:13.93
you'll fear everything else.
00:32:13.93\00:32:15.63
If you do fear God,
you fear nothing else.
00:32:15.63\00:32:18.83
And the Lord wants us to have
that kind of fear, where really
00:32:18.83\00:32:22.27
we live in his sight, and we do
everything in that perspective.
00:32:22.27\00:32:28.01
What's the message for today?
00:32:28.01\00:32:31.25
Revelation 14:6, "I saw another
angel flying in the midst of
00:32:31.25\00:32:34.95
heaven with the everlasting
gospel to preach to those
00:32:34.95\00:32:37.65
who dwell on the earth, every
tribe, tongue, and people."
00:32:37.65\00:32:40.66
This is the last book of the
Bible, last message that goes.
00:32:40.66\00:32:43.43
Revelation 14 pictures
Jesus coming in the clouds.
00:32:43.43\00:32:46.09
What's the message that
is to go to the world before
00:32:46.09\00:32:48.20
the return of Christ?
00:32:48.20\00:32:50.17
And it says,
"With a loud voice,"
00:32:50.17\00:32:52.37
megaphone is what that means,
00:32:52.37\00:32:54.74
"fear God and give glory to him,
00:32:54.74\00:32:57.81
for the hour of
his judgment has come."
00:32:57.81\00:33:00.11
So, obviously you're
fearing because this is
00:33:00.11\00:33:02.34
a judgment day coming.
00:33:02.34\00:33:04.51
"Fear God and give glory to him,
00:33:04.51\00:33:06.41
the hour of his
judgment has come in.
00:33:06.41\00:33:08.32
Worship him who made the heaven
and the earth, and the sea,
00:33:08.32\00:33:10.42
and the springs of waters."
00:33:10.42\00:33:12.52
This is not only talking about a
revival of reverence and a holy
00:33:12.52\00:33:15.82
fear of God because
there's an impending judgment.
00:33:15.82\00:33:19.76
It says and a revival
of genuine worship too.
00:33:19.76\00:33:23.50
Real worship is going to
be a God fearing worship.
00:33:23.50\00:33:27.17
God fearing worship will
involve reverence in worship.
00:33:27.17\00:33:31.84
You go into a church where
it just looks like a hootenanny,
00:33:31.84\00:33:34.78
and everyone's running
around, there's no respect,
00:33:34.78\00:33:36.81
there's no
reverence, there's no decorum,
00:33:36.81\00:33:39.11
that's a place
that doesn't fear God.
00:33:39.11\00:33:41.25
If God could
suddenly appear, you would see
00:33:41.25\00:33:43.69
a big change of attitude.
00:33:43.69\00:33:46.35
"The Lord is in
his holy temple."
00:33:46.35\00:33:48.02
This is a message
that goes to the world.
00:33:48.02\00:33:49.92
It's a message of the experience
of Job having this holiness.
00:33:49.92\00:33:54.00
Did Job go
through a great trial?
00:33:54.00\00:33:56.90
Is there going to be a time
of trouble such as there never
00:33:56.90\00:33:59.10
has been before Jesus comes?
00:33:59.10\00:34:02.07
It's relevant for us
then to be studying Job, amen?
00:34:02.07\00:34:06.54
And you can read
in Job 1:3, it says,
00:34:06.54\00:34:09.44
"This man was the greatest
of all the people of the east."
00:34:09.44\00:34:14.92
Well, you know, that probably
segues well into the next verse,
00:34:14.92\00:34:19.79
"Job is a rich man."
00:34:19.79\00:34:23.09
And he founded the computer
company, and the Facebook,
00:34:23.09\00:34:29.53
and he was the
Rockefeller of his age.
00:34:29.53\00:34:32.70
He was not just a little
rich, he was the richest man.
00:34:32.70\00:34:37.44
Some of you would like to
get a blank check that said
00:34:37.44\00:34:39.71
Bill Gates on it,
or Warren Buffett,
00:34:39.71\00:34:43.91
or one of these guys.
00:34:43.91\00:34:45.81
Back then, if you had a
check that said Job on it--
00:34:45.81\00:34:48.42
I don't know his last name.
00:34:48.42\00:34:50.29
It's just Job Job was his
name. You'd be very happy.
00:34:50.29\00:34:53.66
You'd love to get a
job from Job, wouldn't you?
00:34:53.66\00:34:57.76
He was a very wealthy man.
But what a strange combination.
00:34:57.76\00:35:01.76
You know, Jesus said after the
rich young ruler walked away,
00:35:01.76\00:35:05.53
"It's easier for a camel to
go through the eye of a needle
00:35:05.53\00:35:09.37
than for a rich man
to get into the kingdom."
00:35:09.37\00:35:11.51
Do you expect Job
to be in the kingdom?
00:35:11.51\00:35:14.11
And yet, he wasn't just a little
rich, he was fabulously wealthy.
00:35:14.11\00:35:20.38
Someone once said, "In
adversity, Job could possess
00:35:20.38\00:35:25.22
his soul in patience
because, in prosperity,
00:35:25.22\00:35:29.56
he had not lost his riches."
00:35:29.56\00:35:32.53
He was not
possessed by his riches.
00:35:32.53\00:35:35.73
He possessed them.
00:35:35.73\00:35:38.60
Bunyan, John Bunyan, who
wrote "Pilgrim's Progress,"
00:35:38.60\00:35:40.87
he said, "Gold in
the gospel seldom agree.
00:35:40.87\00:35:44.64
Religion always
sides with poverty."
00:35:44.64\00:35:48.61
It's not that it never happens,
but it's not frequently.
00:35:48.61\00:35:52.15
But it is worthy of mention
that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
00:35:52.15\00:35:57.42
the great
patriarchs, were greatly blessed
00:35:57.42\00:36:01.06
and were very prosperous.
00:36:01.06\00:36:03.46
Now, I want to read
something to you in Deuteronomy.
00:36:03.46\00:36:09.43
Job is greatly blessed,
and he's blessed because,
00:36:09.43\00:36:12.07
well, the devil's partly right.
00:36:12.07\00:36:14.67
Don't quote me on that.
00:36:14.67\00:36:17.84
He said, "You've
put a hedge about Job.
00:36:17.84\00:36:20.51
You've protected all
that he has," meaning,
00:36:20.51\00:36:22.84
"He's blessed
because you've kept me
00:36:22.84\00:36:25.35
from cursing his stuff."
00:36:25.35\00:36:27.92
And the Lord does say--I
want to read Deuteronomy 28.
00:36:27.92\00:36:31.05
I'll read a few verses here.
00:36:31.05\00:36:32.99
I won't read the whole chapter,
this is the chapter where God
00:36:32.99\00:36:34.92
talks about the
blessing and the cursing.
00:36:34.92\00:36:36.39
How many of you
want to be blessed?
00:36:36.39\00:36:38.93
You want to be
blessed like Job was blessed,
00:36:38.93\00:36:41.33
including the sufferings of Job?
00:36:41.33\00:36:44.57
If that's what it takes.
00:36:44.57\00:36:46.67
Keep in mind--no,
I'll save that for later.
00:36:46.67\00:36:49.84
I don't want to say
everything first day.
00:36:49.84\00:36:52.97
Deuteronomy 28, "Now it will
come to pass that if you will
00:36:52.97\00:36:56.41
diligently obey the voice
of the Lord your God to observe
00:36:56.41\00:37:00.85
carefully all of his
commandments that I command you
00:37:00.85\00:37:04.39
today that the Lord your
God will set you high above
00:37:04.39\00:37:07.92
the nations of the earth.
00:37:07.92\00:37:09.99
And all these blessings will
come upon you and overtake you
00:37:09.99\00:37:13.06
because you obey the
voice of the Lord your God."
00:37:13.06\00:37:16.16
There are certain natural
blessings that seem to come
00:37:16.16\00:37:18.80
in the wake of obedience.
00:37:18.80\00:37:21.04
You know, if you
disobey and you do dumb things,
00:37:21.04\00:37:23.07
bad things happen.
00:37:23.07\00:37:27.44
And here's what he said.
00:37:27.44\00:37:29.74
"These blessings
will overtake you."
00:37:29.74\00:37:31.65
You know what that
makes it sound like?
00:37:31.65\00:37:33.45
They'll catch up to
you. You can't escape them.
00:37:33.45\00:37:36.35
If you obey the Lord.
00:37:36.35\00:37:38.19
How many of you want to
be overtaken by blessings?
00:37:38.19\00:37:40.59
"Blessed you will be in the
city, and blessed you will be
00:37:40.59\00:37:43.49
in the country."
00:37:43.49\00:37:45.36
The book of Job
talks about both.
00:37:45.36\00:37:47.13
"Blessed will be
the fruit of your body."
00:37:47.13\00:37:49.03
He was blessed in his family.
00:37:49.03\00:37:50.80
"The produce of your ground
and the increase of your herds."
00:37:50.80\00:37:54.17
All these blessings came to Job.
00:37:54.17\00:37:56.17
"The increase of your cattle,
the offspring of your flocks.
00:37:56.17\00:37:59.54
Blessed will be your
basket and your kneading bowl.
00:37:59.54\00:38:02.18
Blessed you will
be when you come in.
00:38:02.18\00:38:04.15
Blessed will you
be when you go out.
00:38:04.15\00:38:06.21
The Lord will cause your enemies
who rise against you to be
00:38:06.21\00:38:08.82
defeated before your face.
00:38:08.82\00:38:10.69
They will come out
against you one way,
00:38:10.69\00:38:12.52
and flee before you seven ways.
00:38:12.52\00:38:14.29
The Lord will command the
blessing on your storehouse,
00:38:14.29\00:38:16.83
to which you set your hand.
00:38:16.83\00:38:18.69
He'll bless you in
the land which the Lord
00:38:18.69\00:38:20.56
your God has given you.
00:38:20.56\00:38:22.16
The Lord will establish you
as a holy people to himself."
00:38:22.16\00:38:24.87
Now, notice it starts
out obedience, established
00:38:24.87\00:38:28.40
as a holy people,
blessing sandwiched in between.
00:38:28.40\00:38:32.84
That doesn't mean--this
is a promise that does speak
00:38:32.84\00:38:35.91
in general terms here.
00:38:35.91\00:38:37.78
That doesn't mean that people
who are obedient are always
00:38:37.78\00:38:40.55
blessed in material abundance
because sometimes I think
00:38:40.55\00:38:45.25
the devil blesses
people with abundance.
00:38:45.25\00:38:49.72
Does that make sense?
00:38:49.72\00:38:51.73
I remember reading the devil
will sometimes cast prosperity
00:38:51.73\00:38:55.06
in a person's path to ruin them.
00:38:55.06\00:38:59.20
Just Karen was telling
me yesterday on the news,
00:38:59.20\00:39:02.47
somebody won a
$400 million jackpot.
00:39:02.47\00:39:07.01
And they said they got a
dream that they were supposed
00:39:07.01\00:39:09.74
to pick the numbers.
00:39:09.74\00:39:11.58
I guess in this lottery--I
don't play, so I'm not sure,
00:39:11.58\00:39:13.42
but I guess you pick
the numbers, I don't know.
00:39:13.42\00:39:16.02
But she was shown
the numbers in a dream.
00:39:16.02\00:39:17.72
And I said, "I wonder if the
Lord showed her those numbers."
00:39:17.72\00:39:19.65
Karen said, "No, the
Lord would never do that."
00:39:19.65\00:39:21.49
And she's probably right.
00:39:21.49\00:39:24.69
Kind of in quiet moments,
you wish the Lord would show you
00:39:24.69\00:39:27.20
those numbers, I might to buy
a ticket, $400 million, right?
00:39:27.20\00:39:30.80
No, no, no, don't
quote me on that either.
00:39:30.80\00:39:34.50
Probably the devil.
00:39:34.50\00:39:36.87
And you know what often happens
in those families that suddenly
00:39:36.87\00:39:39.21
come into a great,
sudden inheritance?
00:39:39.21\00:39:42.01
Not everybody, but many
of them, their lives unravel.
00:39:42.01\00:39:46.08
Sometimes they end up in
jail. Some have been murdered.
00:39:46.08\00:39:49.42
I mean, it doesn't end well.
00:39:49.42\00:39:51.12
An inheritance hastily
gotten doesn't always bring
00:39:51.12\00:39:53.32
a blessing in its train.
00:39:53.32\00:39:55.89
But Job was able to manage
it because his possessions
00:39:55.89\00:39:58.86
did not possess him.
00:39:58.86\00:40:01.66
That's why Jesus said, "A
man's life does not consist
00:40:01.66\00:40:03.97
in the abundance of
the things he possesses."
00:40:03.97\00:40:07.77
You can become a
slave to your possessions.
00:40:07.77\00:40:09.60
The more stuff you have,
the more you have to insure,
00:40:09.60\00:40:11.34
the more you have to guard.
00:40:11.34\00:40:13.17
And pretty soon, you
can't go anywhere because you
00:40:13.17\00:40:15.28
got to watch your stuff.
00:40:15.28\00:40:17.31
That's why Jesus, when he called
people to follow him, he says,
00:40:17.31\00:40:19.81
"You're going to have a life
of being an itinerant teacher."
00:40:19.81\00:40:23.32
They walked away from their
nets, they walked away from
00:40:23.32\00:40:25.42
their cash registers because
your stuff will tie you down.
00:40:25.42\00:40:32.26
All right, back to Job.
00:40:32.26\00:40:35.33
I don't want to
overwhelm you today.
00:40:35.33\00:40:37.37
So, he's a wealthy man.
00:40:37.37\00:40:40.50
1 Timothy 6:17, the Bible
tells us in the early church,
00:40:40.50\00:40:44.54
they had some
people that were rich.
00:40:44.54\00:40:47.11
"Command those who are rich
in this present age not to be
00:40:47.11\00:40:49.54
haughty, not to
trust in uncertain riches,
00:40:49.54\00:40:52.55
but in the living God."
00:40:52.55\00:40:54.48
The Bible doesn't say
money is the root of all evil,
00:40:54.48\00:40:56.42
the love of money.
00:40:56.42\00:40:58.19
Don't trust in it because you
can lose everything all at once,
00:40:58.19\00:41:00.49
did you know that?
00:41:00.49\00:41:02.32
Did Job?
Overnight, he lost it all.
00:41:02.32\00:41:06.16
Don't trust in uncertain riches,
but in the living God who richly
00:41:06.16\00:41:09.53
gives us all things to enjoy.
00:41:09.53\00:41:11.77
Let them do good.
00:41:11.77\00:41:13.60
"They that be rich,
be rich in good works,
00:41:13.60\00:41:15.50
willing to give,
willing to share."
00:41:15.50\00:41:18.01
He's not
condemning them for richness.
00:41:18.01\00:41:19.74
He's condemning them
for hoarding the riches.
00:41:19.74\00:41:22.91
Now, we're going to go
off--the scene changes now.
00:41:22.91\00:41:24.88
We talked about Job, we
talked about where he was,
00:41:24.88\00:41:27.48
and when he was, and who he was.
00:41:27.48\00:41:30.99
We learned something
about the faith of job,
00:41:30.99\00:41:33.59
and the fortune of
job, and the family of Job.
00:41:33.59\00:41:35.62
And then suddenly,
it says there was a day.
00:41:35.62\00:41:37.96
The scene changes.
00:41:37.96\00:41:39.83
Now, we're going
from the earth to heaven.
00:41:39.83\00:41:43.63
And it says there was a day when
the sons of God came to present
00:41:43.63\00:41:46.74
themselves before the
Lord, and Satan came among them.
00:41:46.74\00:41:49.77
First of all, who are these
sons of God that come to present
00:41:49.77\00:41:53.88
themselves before the Lord?
00:41:53.88\00:41:56.18
You can read in Job 38:7, when
the--speaking of the creation,
00:41:56.18\00:42:00.92
"When the morning
stars sang together,
00:42:00.92\00:42:03.05
and all the sons of
God shouted for joy."
00:42:03.05\00:42:07.46
Well, God's creating the
world, so they're not humans.
00:42:07.46\00:42:11.03
God uses the word
"angels" for angels.
00:42:11.03\00:42:14.46
But it talks
about the sons of God.
00:42:14.46\00:42:17.07
If you read in the
Luke-- in the Gospel of Luke,
00:42:17.07\00:42:19.27
the genealogy of
Jesus, it goes back to Adam.
00:42:19.27\00:42:24.14
And you'll notice it
says in Luke chapter 3:37,
00:42:24.14\00:42:27.11
"Which was the
son of Methuselah,
00:42:27.11\00:42:30.68
which was the son of Enoch,
which was the son of Jared,
00:42:30.68\00:42:33.92
which was the son of Mahalalel,
00:42:33.92\00:42:36.48
which was the son of Cainan,
which was the son of Enosh,
00:42:36.48\00:42:39.75
which was the son of
Seth, which was the son of Adam,
00:42:39.75\00:42:43.56
which was the son of God."
00:42:43.56\00:42:47.13
All of us are born.
00:42:47.13\00:42:49.23
Adam was not
born; he was created.
00:42:49.23\00:42:51.37
Adam was given
dominion of the world.
00:42:51.37\00:42:53.97
That's what it says in Genesis.
00:42:53.97\00:42:56.00
Adam was the son of
God who was the leader
00:42:56.00\00:42:58.51
and
representative of our planet.
00:42:58.51\00:43:01.01
But Adam lost it
because whoever you obey,
00:43:01.01\00:43:04.35
you become the
servant, Romans 6.
00:43:04.35\00:43:06.45
You're the servant
to the one you obey.
00:43:06.45\00:43:08.98
And Adam lost his dominion,
and Eve, of the planet.
00:43:08.98\00:43:12.32
And the devil
claimed the planet.
00:43:12.32\00:43:14.56
So, the sons of God are the
representatives of the unfallen
00:43:14.56\00:43:18.06
worlds that God
has out there in space.
00:43:18.06\00:43:21.03
By the way, there's a
great quote in the book
00:43:21.03\00:43:23.37
"Desire of Ages," 834, "The sons
of God are the representatives
00:43:23.37\00:43:27.74
of the unfallen worlds."
00:43:27.74\00:43:30.14
And I tend to agree
with the author there.
00:43:30.14\00:43:33.41
If you look, you'll see that our
planet is not the only planet
00:43:33.41\00:43:36.24
that God has made.
00:43:36.24\00:43:38.41
It says in Colossians 1:16, "For
by him were all things created
00:43:38.41\00:43:43.15
in heaven and in earth."
00:43:43.15\00:43:44.92
He's created things in heaven.
00:43:44.92\00:43:46.82
Hebrews 1:2, "In these last
days, God has spoken to us by
00:43:46.82\00:43:49.69
his Son, who he has
appointed heir of all things,
00:43:49.69\00:43:52.29
through whom he made
the," plural, "worlds."
00:43:52.29\00:43:55.63
Not just one. He's
got other unfallen worlds.
00:43:55.63\00:43:58.73
You know the parable of the
man who's got how many sheep
00:43:58.73\00:44:01.70
and he loses one?
00:44:01.70\00:44:03.64
Ninety-nine sheep.
00:44:03.64\00:44:05.44
Loses one, he leaves the 99
to go find the 1 lost sheep.
00:44:05.44\00:44:09.31
Well, the other
ones aren't lost.
00:44:09.31\00:44:11.61
Everybody in this world, how
many have sinned in this world?
00:44:11.61\00:44:14.32
Everybody.
00:44:14.32\00:44:16.65
And so, he goes then
to look for that one.
00:44:16.65\00:44:20.62
All the unfallen worlds,
Jesus left them safely and came
00:44:20.62\00:44:23.12
to this world to
get this lost sheep.
00:44:23.12\00:44:26.53
Revelation 5:13, "And
every creature in heaven
00:44:26.53\00:44:29.13
and on earth."
00:44:29.13\00:44:31.63
These days, he's
spoken to us by his Son.
00:44:31.63\00:44:33.97
And so, and you read in
Revelation 4, "Around the throne
00:44:33.97\00:44:36.47
of God were 24 seats,
and upon these seats I saw
00:44:36.47\00:44:41.48
24 elders sitting
clothed in white raiment,
00:44:41.48\00:44:45.38
and on their
head crowns of God."
00:44:45.38\00:44:47.58
Why have they got crowns?
00:44:47.58\00:44:49.42
They're the
leaders of unfallen worlds.
00:44:49.42\00:44:51.39
Now, there's probably
a lot more than just 24.
00:44:51.39\00:44:53.52
Twenty-four are
mentioned in Revelation,
00:44:53.52\00:44:55.76
but God has
many unfallen worlds.
00:44:55.76\00:44:58.36
And then Satan comes to
this meeting because he says,
00:44:58.36\00:45:01.40
"I represent the world."
00:45:01.40\00:45:03.30
One of the things
before Satan speaks, God says,
00:45:03.30\00:45:05.40
"Where did you come from?"
00:45:05.40\00:45:07.34
He says, "I
came from the earth."
00:45:07.34\00:45:09.10
You notice the devil
doesn't say, "I came from hell."
00:45:09.10\00:45:11.61
He doesn't say,
"I came from Hades."
00:45:11.61\00:45:14.28
He says, "I came from earth."
00:45:14.28\00:45:16.78
He could have said,
"I came from Sacramento."
00:45:16.78\00:45:20.48
He could have--I mean,
he's somewhere on the planet.
00:45:20.48\00:45:23.82
Because he says, "Look,
you've got the representatives
00:45:23.82\00:45:25.85
of the other worlds.
00:45:25.85\00:45:28.06
Earth needs a representative.
00:45:28.06\00:45:29.69
I have dominion, so I'm
coming to represent them."
00:45:29.69\00:45:33.73
But God speaks first, and
he says to the devil, "Have you
00:45:33.73\00:45:36.26
considered my servant Job?"
00:45:36.26\00:45:39.97
Now, that's wonderful to me
that God is bragging in heaven
00:45:39.97\00:45:45.24
about someone on earth.
00:45:45.24\00:45:47.88
For me, this is the best part
of today's message, that God--
00:45:47.88\00:45:51.91
not only God because
God knows everything.
00:45:51.91\00:45:54.32
God knows the good and bad.
00:45:54.32\00:45:56.22
But the angels are hearing
the name of the victorious
00:45:56.22\00:45:59.29
on earth in heaven.
00:45:59.29\00:46:01.56
Did Jesus tell
us that's the case?
00:46:01.56\00:46:04.43
Look in Matthew 10:32.
00:46:04.43\00:46:06.76
"Therefore whoever
confesses me before men,
00:46:06.76\00:46:09.80
I will confess before my
Father who is in heaven."
00:46:09.80\00:46:13.60
He says it a little bit
differently in Luke 12:8,
00:46:13.60\00:46:17.24
"Also I say whoever
confesses me before men,
00:46:17.24\00:46:19.81
the son of man will
confess before the angels.
00:46:19.81\00:46:22.34
Before my Father," he
says, "and before the angels."
00:46:22.34\00:46:25.71
Wouldn't you like to
have your name brought up
00:46:25.71\00:46:28.12
in a positive way in heaven?
00:46:28.12\00:46:31.32
Wouldn't you like to
be able to have God say,
00:46:31.32\00:46:33.59
"Have you considered my servant?
00:46:33.59\00:46:36.06
He's down there, but
he's not your servant, Satan.
00:46:36.06\00:46:38.09
He's my servant.
00:46:38.09\00:46:39.96
You say that all
the men belong to you.
00:46:39.96\00:46:41.60
Not all of them.
00:46:41.60\00:46:43.23
Job serves me."
00:46:43.23\00:46:44.80
And wouldn't you like the
Lord to be able to point down
00:46:44.80\00:46:46.70
and say, "Doug serves me"?
00:46:46.70\00:46:49.24
Insert your name there.
00:46:49.24\00:46:52.01
The whole universe is watching
what's happening in this world.
00:46:52.01\00:46:55.48
The Bible says what's
going on on our planet,
00:46:55.48\00:46:57.35
it's a theater of the universe.
00:46:57.35\00:47:00.65
1 Corinthians 4:9, "For I
think that God has displayed us,
00:47:00.65\00:47:04.75
the apostles, last as
men condemned to death.
00:47:04.75\00:47:08.22
For we have been made
a spectacle to the world,
00:47:08.22\00:47:11.53
both to angels and to men."
00:47:11.53\00:47:14.73
Do we have guardian
angels that we can't see?
00:47:14.73\00:47:17.50
So, are angels watching
what's happening here on earth?
00:47:17.50\00:47:21.07
They are. They see what goes on.
00:47:21.07\00:47:24.21
That's why, you know, I
love that verse in the Bible.
00:47:24.21\00:47:27.58
Sorry, 2 Chronicles 16:9, "For
the eyes of the Lord run to and
00:47:27.58\00:47:32.71
fro throughout the whole earth
to show himself strong on behalf
00:47:32.71\00:47:36.38
of those whose
heart is loyal to him."
00:47:36.38\00:47:39.32
God is just scanning
through the world, saying,
00:47:39.32\00:47:42.02
"Someone down there,
believe in me and I will
00:47:42.02\00:47:45.09
show mighty things through you."
00:47:45.09\00:47:47.30
That's why it says there
was a man in the land of Uz.
00:47:47.30\00:47:49.96
God said, "Ah."
00:47:49.96\00:47:51.97
Yet God doesn't say, "Have
you considered my servants."
00:47:51.97\00:47:54.74
Isn't that sad?
00:47:54.74\00:47:56.44
God said, "Have you
considered my servant?"
00:47:56.44\00:47:59.67
Unfortunately, those
who serve God down here
00:47:59.67\00:48:02.61
are not the majority.
00:48:02.61\00:48:04.68
Don't you and I want to give God
more names to cite in heaven?
00:48:04.68\00:48:10.82
That's my goal for my life,
and as a pastor for your life.
00:48:10.82\00:48:15.82
Jesus said, "Many will
come to me in that day saying,
00:48:15.82\00:48:17.83
'Lord, Lord,'"
00:48:17.83\00:48:19.33
and he'll say,
"I don't know you."
00:48:19.33\00:48:21.06
But did God know Job?
00:48:21.06\00:48:24.20
Hebrews 4:13, "There is no
creature hidden from his sight,
00:48:24.20\00:48:28.54
but all things are naked
and open to the eyes of him with
00:48:28.54\00:48:32.01
whom we must give an account."
00:48:32.01\00:48:34.21
Heaven's watching it all.
00:48:34.21\00:48:35.98
Now, final point
and I'm almost done.
00:48:35.98\00:48:37.85
After God says, "Have
you seen my servant Job,"
00:48:37.85\00:48:40.28
well, the devil, he
says, "I've come from earth.
00:48:40.28\00:48:43.85
It's my dominion."
00:48:43.85\00:48:45.92
Satan is called the
prince of this world.
00:48:45.92\00:48:47.96
And you look
around, you can just see,
00:48:47.96\00:48:49.62
even though there's a lot of
beauty in the world that God,
00:48:49.62\00:48:51.76
the residue of his
creation can be seen.
00:48:51.76\00:48:54.76
Satan has kind of
claimed the world.
00:48:54.76\00:48:56.67
Even Jesus said, John 12:31,
"Now is the judgment of this
00:48:56.67\00:49:00.50
world, and the ruler of
this world will be cast out."
00:49:00.50\00:49:03.57
Who's he talking about?
00:49:03.57\00:49:05.87
"Satan is coming,
the ruler of this world,
00:49:05.87\00:49:07.74
and he has nothing in me."
00:49:07.74\00:49:09.58
The prince of this
world will be cast out.
00:49:09.58\00:49:13.05
Does the devil still
have access to heaven?
00:49:13.05\00:49:17.69
Before Jesus came, the
devil evidently could--you know,
00:49:17.69\00:49:21.96
he was kicked out of
heaven, but he wasn't kicked
00:49:21.96\00:49:24.09
out of wherever
this meeting was.
00:49:24.09\00:49:25.96
We don't know
where this meeting was.
00:49:25.96\00:49:27.76
It says, "There was a meeting."
00:49:27.76\00:49:29.40
You can carefully deduce
the meeting is not on earth
00:49:29.40\00:49:31.00
because Satan says,
"I've come from the earth."
00:49:31.00\00:49:32.90
So, in order for Satan to
say, "I came from the earth,"
00:49:32.90\00:49:34.70
the meeting isn't on the earth.
00:49:34.70\00:49:36.94
But I don't think the
meeting's in heaven either
00:49:36.94\00:49:39.84
because Satan was
cast out of heaven.
00:49:39.84\00:49:44.01
He can't go back in.
00:49:44.01\00:49:46.15
Does the Lord go visit
his different creatures?
00:49:46.15\00:49:49.55
Did God come down to
earth to walk and talk
00:49:49.55\00:49:51.79
with Adam and Eve
when he made them?
00:49:51.79\00:49:54.02
Sure, the Lord goes
throughout his domain.
00:49:54.02\00:49:57.23
And so, wherever
this meeting was,
00:49:57.23\00:49:59.29
he called the representatives.
00:49:59.29\00:50:01.06
They're giving reports on
wonderful things happening
00:50:01.06\00:50:02.80
in their various realms.
00:50:02.80\00:50:04.83
And Satan comes, and
you could just hear--
00:50:04.83\00:50:07.07
you could hear the murmuring
among all the other sons of God,
00:50:07.07\00:50:09.40
"Oh, now look who's here."
00:50:09.40\00:50:11.27
Did they all know who Satan is?
00:50:11.27\00:50:13.14
Yeah.
00:50:13.14\00:50:15.01
And he's coming, and he's
not doing or saying good things.
00:50:15.01\00:50:17.61
Satan claims to be the leader.
00:50:17.61\00:50:20.42
And then Satan says,
"Do you know my servant--"
00:50:20.42\00:50:24.29
Or God says, "Have you
considered my servant Job?"
00:50:24.29\00:50:26.49
Here's a question.
00:50:26.49\00:50:28.59
Did the devil know who Job was?
00:50:28.59\00:50:31.96
Now, is the devil omniscient?
00:50:31.96\00:50:34.36
God knows all
things, he's omniscient.
00:50:34.36\00:50:36.36
No.
00:50:36.36\00:50:38.00
Is the devil omnipresent?
00:50:38.00\00:50:39.77
No. He's not omnipotent.
00:50:39.77\00:50:43.04
No, only God is omnipotent,
omniscient, and omnipresent.
00:50:43.04\00:50:47.01
He knows everything, he can be
everywhere, he sees everything,
00:50:47.01\00:50:50.91
he has all power.
00:50:50.91\00:50:53.21
Why--and does the devil operate
through his fallen angels?
00:50:53.21\00:50:58.25
So, sometimes when you and
I say the devil's tempting me,
00:50:58.25\00:51:00.49
the devil doesn't even
know who you are probably.
00:51:00.49\00:51:03.93
He doesn't know every
name of all 7 billion people
00:51:03.93\00:51:06.39
on the planet.
00:51:06.39\00:51:08.03
Most of them he's
not worried about.
00:51:08.03\00:51:09.66
I mean, if Jesus could say,
"I know you not," to the lost,
00:51:09.66\00:51:12.50
then certainly there's
some the devil's going to say,
00:51:12.50\00:51:14.34
"I know you not."
00:51:14.34\00:51:16.27
Matter of fact, I got
a quote that proves that.
00:51:16.27\00:51:18.91
These seven sons were trying to
cast out a devil in Acts 19:15.
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And the devil
speaks through the man.
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They didn't know the Lord.
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They're just
claiming the name of Jesus.
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And they said, "In the
name of Jesus who Paul preaches,
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come out."
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And the devil answered,
listened to what he said,
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"Jesus I know."
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I remember him before
I was cast out of heaven.
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"And Paul I know."
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I know Paul.
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I put a thorn in his side,
and he is a thorn in my side.
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I know Paul. "But who are you?"
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Now, here's the question.
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Do you want the
devil to know who you are?
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Don't you want to live the kind
of life where you're a thorn
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in the devil's side?
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Now, you don't want to raise
your hand, and shout, and jump
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up and down, "Yes, yes, I want
the devil to know who I am,"
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because when you do
that, you know, the Bible says
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all that live godly
will suffer persecution.
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And everyone in here
want to suffer persecution?
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I don't want persecution,
but I want to please the Lord,
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and I want to be godly,
and that may bring persecution.
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So, the question is, do you want
the devil to know who you are?
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Do you want to live a
life so that God says,
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"Have you considered my
servant," and name your name?
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This is one of the wonderful
things about the book of Job,
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"There was a man."
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And there was a man back then
that went through a great trial,
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and God ends up blessing him.
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He brings him through his trial.
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But God had somebody
he could point to on earth
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that was
proving the devil wrong.
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You know why this is
such an important message?
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It's about the
great controversy.
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The devil says, "God cannot
be obeyed, God is not fair.
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It's impossible for
people to serve God.
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He expects too much."
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And God says, "Job is a
happy man, he's a blessed man.
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And it's possible for any
man to have that relationship."
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And Job disproves
the devil's claims.
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And God wants you and
I-- before Jesus comes back,
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he wants a church, a
glorified church without spot
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or wrinkle to be living the
kind of lives that Job lived.
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Don't you want that experience?
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Well, God can help
you have that experience
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because he is faithful.
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And what he did for
Job, he can do for us.
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We just need that kind of love.
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Doug: I love the quote,
"The greatest want of the world
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is the want of men, men
who will stand for the right,
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though the heavens fall."
00:53:58.60\00:54:00.74
Yet studies are showing for
several years now that secular
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media and culture
have sought to portray men
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as the family idiots.
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Sadly, respect for the
role of fathers and husbands
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has reached an all-time low.
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So now, as the dispirited
men abandon their roles of godly
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leadership, it's not surprising
that we're experiencing
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a moral
free-fall in our country.
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That's why,
starting September 30,
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I'll be presenting a new program
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Please plan now to join me
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Doug: Hello, friends.
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We're here in the Philippines
overlooking the Taal volcano
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and lake, which is one of
the most interesting pieces
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of geography in the whole world.
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For one thing, this
great caldera was once
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the biggest
volcano in the world.
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And now, it holds a lake
that holds another volcano,
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that has another
little lake in it,
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that has another
little island in it.
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This volcano has
erupted six times in a major way
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since the 1500s.
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and even in 1911, there
was an eruption where over
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1,300 people died,
killed by the smoke and the ash
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that covered the community.
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There were tsunamis that
came from the lake and destroyed
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the villages that surrounded
the borders of the lake.
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In fact, this is one of
the most carefully monitored
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seismic places
in the Philippines.
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This volcano is
being watched all the time.
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And they've noticed as
of 2006 that it appears
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that the water
temperatures are going up.
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There's
increased seismic activity.
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In other words, they
know that this volcano
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is a ticking time
bomb prepared to blow.
00:57:04.19\00:57:07.36
And it's very
interesting because this place
00:57:07.36\00:57:09.42
is a place of
great seismic activity.
00:57:09.42\00:57:12.03
But in spite of the
fact that volcanologists know
00:57:12.03\00:57:14.56
this is going to
blow again someday,
00:57:14.56\00:57:16.63
it is a popular
tourist destination.
00:57:16.63\00:57:18.97
They're fighting
for the real estate.
00:57:18.97\00:57:20.80
They're building like mad,
and sit on the edge of disaster.
00:57:20.80\00:57:23.77
It makes us think about how God
has given us so many warnings in
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his Word that the world is going
to end, that Jesus is going to
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come, that the heavens will
dissolve with a great noise,
00:57:30.95\00:57:33.68
and the elements will
melt with fervent heat.
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Seeing then that all
these things will be dissolved,
00:57:36.35\00:57:39.05
what kind of people should
we be in all holy conversation
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and godliness?
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Friends, are you becoming
distracted with the tranquil
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views of the world, or are you
preparing for the next world?
00:57:46.39\00:57:50.03
Are you getting
ready for the big bang?
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