Post by Lee on Dec 29, 2014 2:37:53 GMT
GOD ANSWERS JOB (chaps. 38.–41.). After Elihu, God himself abruptly “answered Job out of the whirlwind,” pleading His own cause (Psa. 74:22), sustaining Elihu’s vindication of the divine character, and convincing Job of “darkening counsel by words without knowledge,” or, as Job himself contritely put it, becoming “vile,” uttering things he understood not, that were too wonderful (Psa. 77:10) for him.
By a series of the most sublime challenges, this conviction was soon wrought in the mind of the humbled servant of God. Where was Job at the creation of the world? Who laid the measures of it by the hands of the rejoicing “sons of God”? Who appointed the sea his bounds? Who commanded the morning that the Dayspring should arise upon the earth and shake the wicked out of it? Could Job open the gates of death? Could he see the resurrection and judgment? Could he control the hail, the rain, and the stars in their orbits? Could he account for wisdom? Let him look at his fellow groundlings, goats and hinds, wild asses and oxen, peacock, stork and ostrich, horse, hawk, and eagle—who made them all?
1902 Christadelphian, 39(electronic ed.), 168.
By a series of the most sublime challenges, this conviction was soon wrought in the mind of the humbled servant of God. Where was Job at the creation of the world? Who laid the measures of it by the hands of the rejoicing “sons of God”? Who appointed the sea his bounds? Who commanded the morning that the Dayspring should arise upon the earth and shake the wicked out of it? Could Job open the gates of death? Could he see the resurrection and judgment? Could he control the hail, the rain, and the stars in their orbits? Could he account for wisdom? Let him look at his fellow groundlings, goats and hinds, wild asses and oxen, peacock, stork and ostrich, horse, hawk, and eagle—who made them all?
1902 Christadelphian, 39(electronic ed.), 168.