God Delivers Those Who Obey Him (Walk Thru the Bible Week 36)

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Now, let's join our host, Susan Michael.

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Hey there and welcome back.

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This is Walk Through the Bible Week 36 and we are reading this week what are dated in

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the daily Bible, September 3-9, or pages 1130-1164.

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So you're making great progress.

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Congratulations.

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Before we review last week, we saw the very sad story of the fall of Jerusalem and the

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very sad story of our prophet Jeremiah who ended up ending his life out in Egypt in exile

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surrounded by paganism and very, very sad ending actually to his life.

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And then we began reading about Ezekiel's amazing visions, vision of the return of the

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Jewish people to their land and this spiritual restoration, a vision of this mighty war between

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Gogh from Magog and his visions are so detailed and really quite amazing.

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So this week, we're going to begin talking about his final vision which was of the temple

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and what I call the heavenly temple.

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But it seems he was once again in a way taken to Jerusalem and shown this temple that didn't

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exist physically.

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So what was he seeing?

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And it's a long portion of your reading this week is going to be, it's very detailed vision

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about all the elements of the temple.

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And I'm not going to take time to go through that.

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You can read through it and I will say that when our year is over, hopefully you're going

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to have a list of additional studies that you'd like to do and one of them might be

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about the design of the temple.

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And in order to really study that, you have to go back and study the Garden of Eden and

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then the Tabernacle in the wilderness and then the temple as it was given to David to

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be built.

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And now this heavenly vision or this temple vision given to Ezekiel and see how they are

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the same and where they might differ, most agree that the temple that Ezekiel saw is

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of a future era.

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You could call it a messianic era.

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You could call it the heavenly temple.

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But I think that what we'll find is in all these situations, there is a basic design

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in heaven that all of these are based on, including the Garden of Eden.

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So it's a fascinating study, which we just don't have the time to go into it, but it's

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something I would suggest that you put on a list.

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I want to go back and study this.

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There's just so much detail, so much meaning, so many layers of meaning in all of it.

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So with the end of this magnificent and very detailed and very long vision that Ezekiel

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has of the temple is kind of the last we hear of Ezekiel.

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So this means two of our great prophets for this period are coming to the end of their

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ministries and maybe even the ends of their lives.

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And so this leaves us with Daniel.

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Now Daniel stays active in Babylon up through the beginning of Persia.

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So he's active for like 80 years.

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He was a young man when he was taken off to Babylon, but he must have been a very old

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man when his life and his ministry finally came to an end.

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So this week we read the story in Daniel 3, famous story.

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There's no need for me to read it or even to tell it the story of Shadrach, Meshach,

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and Abednego.

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So many times his name is pronounced Abednego, but I think it's more properly, probably Abednego.

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The three Hebrew sons who refused to bow down to the golden image that the king Nebuchadnezzar

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had built.

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And the decree had gone out that everyone was to bow to this image, but they refused

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to.

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They were thrown into the fiery furnace.

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And what happens is that the king looks up and he says, I thought there were only three

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people we threw in the furnace.

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Why do I see four?

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Who is this fourth person?

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And we all know that it is the Lord in the form of a man.

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They're saving the children.

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Now what is the significance of this story?

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I'll point out that it could be this golden image that Nebuchadnezzar built was actually

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built out of gold from the temple in Jerusalem.

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And it may have been from gold from other places, but more than likely he had carried

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off a lot of gold in all of his conquests.

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So he puts this golden image up that everyone is supposed to worship.

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And they refused to.

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And the significance of this is that here for all these years, the children of Israel

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had bowed down and worshiped these pagan gods and these idols.

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And the prophets kept telling them, they're nothing.

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They're nothing.

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They've just been made by hands.

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Don't worship them.

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Turn to the Lord your God.

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And they refused to.

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And so here they are in exile and the three Hebrew sons say, no, we will not bow down

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and God rescues them.

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God didn't rescue the idolatrous nation.

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He let them go into exile.

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He let the city and the temple be destroyed.

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But he sure saved these three who refused to bow down.

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Now speaking of the king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, he's a bit of a funny character.

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You know, we have two really interesting stories here to prepare us for a third story.

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It seems like God was working on the heart of Nebuchadnezzar all these years for like

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over 40 years, starting with the story, the first story that we read in Daniel, how that

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Nebuchadnezzar had this very disturbing dream.

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And he wanted someone who would not just interpret the dream, but they had to actually tell him

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what it was he had dreamt first.

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And he couldn't find anyone that could do such a thing except for Daniel.

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And it says that this really got Nebuchadnezzar's attention.

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And he gave honor to the God of Daniel because of it.

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And our second story is one I just told about the three Hebrew boys, men, Shadrach, Meshach,

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and Abednego, who refused to bow down to the golden idol.

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And as a result, they were thrown into the fire.

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And at the end of this, Nebuchadnezzar really sees that it is the God of the Hebrews that

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had saved them.

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And he gives honor to this God.

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Unfortunately, Nebuchadnezzar, he's still polytheistic.

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So while he may honor the God of the Israelites, he's also still worshiping the other gods.

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And one of the biggest problems, probably, is just his own sense of pride.

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And he thinks that he's done all of this.

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He's the one that conquered all these lands.

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His pride is very, very high.

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And so God doesn't still let up on Nebuchadnezzar, though, and he uses this and he humbles Nebuchadnezzar.

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We read about this in Daniel chapter four, where God warns him and then he brings on

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him insanity.

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And it says for a period of time that Nebuchadnezzar was like out acting like an animal, eating

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grass like the animals.

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God really humbled him.

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But in the end, the Lord raises him up.

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He restores everything to him.

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And this is the amazing final words of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 4, verse 37.

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Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of Heaven, because everything

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he does is right, and all his ways are just.

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And those who walk in pride, he is able to humble.

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Wow, that's really an amazing story that the God of the Israelites had brought the King

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of Babylon, their captive, their captor, to his knees and had humbled him.

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And he proclaims here the greatness of that God.

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Now this could be a far-fetched story, right?

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I mean, do we have any proof of any of this?

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Well, not much, but there is one find that might be a hint towards this story.

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And so there was a fragment of Ceneiform texts that was found in the area of Babylon.

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And it suggests the possibility that Nebuchadnezzar had some problem that caused him to become

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disengaged from his responsibilities for a time.

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And that during that time, his son, Amalmarduk, was probably in control.

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But archaeologists or the scholars will tell you that the text is too uncertain.

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They're not really sure that they can draw that firm of a conclusion.

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But just the fact that there's a hint that this might actually have happened in history,

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it's an amazing testimony to the God of the Israelites and to his willingness to reveal

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himself to anyone that has a heart to turn to him.

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Nebuchadnezzar may have only turned in part, but God sure got his attention.

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Then that brings us to really our final reading for this week.

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We began now to read the book of Job.

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And I want to explain why we're reading the book of Job now.

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Most believe that Job was a real character, a real man that did exist, and that more than

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likely he lived back in the time of the patriarchs.

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And so why do we think he was a real man?

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Because this story seems a little like poetry, right?

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It's a great story.

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But it seems kind of set up.

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But the reason we think he was a real man is because he is mentioned in James in the

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New Testament as though he was a real man, but also in Ezekiel 14, you know, the Lord

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through Jeremiah when he's talking about the judgment that's coming on Jerusalem,

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he said, even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they couldn't only save

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themselves.

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In other words, they couldn't have saved the city.

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That's how far gone it was.

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Well the fact that the Lord is referring to Job here as a real person really does indicate,

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yes, he was a real person.

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Now why do we think that he lived in the time of the patriarchs is because there's just

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certain hints to the patriarch lifestyle in the book.

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And we read it in the very, very beginning when it begins to describe Job.

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It introduces to you who Job is and how very wealthy he was.

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And it describes his wealth in terms of livestock and animals and servants and the size of his

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family.

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And this is the way wealth was assessed in the time of the patriarchs.

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So that's why we think the setting for this story is a man from the patriarchal period.

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But the story was written down many years later.

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So when was it written?

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We don't know.

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There are some that think it may have been written down in the period of the exile where

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we are now in our reading because it helps to explain to the people the problem of suffering.

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And where is God in the midst of our suffering?

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And that would really be a hot topic during the exile, don't you think?

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And so a lot think that maybe it was written during that time.

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And that's why our daily Bible places the book of Job here that we're going to read

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it at this point in our chronology.

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And it does fit very well.

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It's a very apropos subject for the exile period, I will admit.

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But there are also those that believe the book was written much earlier by Moses.

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Why Moses?

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Well, there's a couple of things in the book that hint to that time period of Moses and

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Joshua.

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But in the opening, we see that Job lived in a place called Uz, or Uz.

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And there may be different theories on this, but it's generally accepted that Uz was in

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the area near Edom, which today is in the south of Jordan at the northern edge of Saudi

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Arabia.

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So this is the area, which was called Midian, back in the Old Testament.

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If you remember, we talked about Moses married a Midianite woman, and her father was Jethro,

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and he was a Midianite.

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And how that the Midianites were there in northern Saudi Arabia, but they also would

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travel into the Sinai area.

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So Uz seems to be right there at the northern edge of the Midian area.

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So therefore, when Moses was in Midian, he may have heard this story.

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It would have been a tradition amongst the people of that region about Job who had lived

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there many centuries earlier, but they had passed down the story verbally from generation

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to generation.

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Moses may have heard it.

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Moses may have eventually written it down.

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And one argument for why it might have been Moses would be because the fact that it made

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it into the canon, into the Bible to start with, that if it had been written by Moses,

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then it was of the highest respect, and therefore it continued to be carried along, and it made

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itself into the Bible.

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So these are just theories.

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I just give this as sort of a setting of who we're talking about and where this story

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may have taken place and who might have written it down.

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The book of Job, this week we're just going to start it.

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Next week is all Job.

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So I'm going to save a lot of this to talk about next week, but Job has three parts.

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One part is just the opening two chapters that we would call the prologue.

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It's the setting up of the story.

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And then the largest section is from chapter three to chapter 42, verse six.

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That's where all of this conversation and dialogue takes place.

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And then at the very end, the last few verses of the entire book are considered the epilogue.

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That's the conclusion.

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That's the end of the story.

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But most of the book is this dialogue between Job and his three friends, and then a fourth

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one shows up, and then God himself speaks.

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So here what you're going to be reading this week, just in chapters one and two, we set

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up the story here where it's these angels of God go before the Lord, and then it says

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Satan goes before the Lord.

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Well, Satan here is actually, in Hebrew, would be called the Satan.

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So it was the, not accuser, but the adversary.

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That's what the word Satan means.

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So it doesn't look like Satan is used here in this book as the title of a evil being.

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Satan means adversary.

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And so they're just saying that Job's adversary, the adversary, appeared before the Lord.

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Saying yes, it may be Satan.

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I'm just telling you linguistically, it's the adversary.

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And he goes before the Lord, and God himself says, have you considered my servant Job?

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And we have then that this adversary is allowed to attack Job.

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And after Job loses so much, then he says this in chapter two, verse 20, at this Job

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got up and tore his robe and shaved his head, and then he fell to the ground in worship.

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And he said, naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart.

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The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away.

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May the name of the Lord be praised.

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And in all of this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing.

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Now that was the right response.

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And I'm sorry, that was not in chapter two, that was still in chapter one.

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That was the right response from Job's heart.

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He passed that test.

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But then the accuser says, no, no, no, sure, he's trusting you, we got to go deeper.

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And so Job goes through another round of loss.

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Once again, he has a right response.

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But then towards the end of chapter two is when his three friends enter the story.

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Eliaphaz, Bildad, and Zophar.

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And the good news is that for the first seven days that they're with Job, they don't say

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a word.

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They sit in silence.

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They're mourning with Job, and they just sit in silence.

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And I want to end this week just with this point because, you know, it's really the best

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thing that they did in the whole book.

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And it's the best thing we can do.

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And we have a friend, we have someone suffering.

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Just sit with them in silence.

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Don't try to sermonize.

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Don't try to explain God.

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Don't try, just say, I'm sorry.

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And then just be a friend.

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Cry with them, wrap your arms around them.

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It's the best comfort that you can be.

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And that's when his friends were really at their best.

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But after that, they start talking.

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And that's when the story goes downhill.

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The conversation is just not hitting the nail on the head.

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They're actually just wrong.

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And so we'll talk about it more next week, but that's the setup and the introduction

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to the beginning of the story of Job that you'll be reading this week.

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So that wraps it up a few minutes early this week, but I want you to enjoy your reading

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and be ready.

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Come back next week when we're going to talk about how God speaks, because at the end of

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Job, God speaks and it's amazing.

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So enjoy your reading this week.

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And until next week, God bless.

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