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The Passion Of Job
Contributed by Christian Wallace on Dec 17, 2012 (message contributor)
Summary: In light of the massacre of infants at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT some maybe questioning: "Where is God in all of this?"; "Why is there evil in the world?"; "Why do the good suffer with the bad?" I believe that God has a Word that is ta
- Job lost his children to violence
- lost his character, health, wealth, and property to boot
- Job, once considered "the greatest of all the people of the East." (1:3)
- Etymologically the word "East" could be linked to the word "Oz", so I guess I could say
- Job, "Land of Oz", an enchanted land of satanic politics, lies, and deception (2:1-6)
- Job could not understand it, couldn’t make sense of it
- Eliphaz accussed him of ’secret sins’ (4:7-9)
- Bildad blamed Job’s children for their own fate (8:4)
- Elihu argues, "perhaps this evil will lead to better and greater good" (32-37)
- All trying to answer: "What, Why, How?" did it all go so wrong?
- so fast? so unthinkable? so crazy?
- Its the age old question: "Why is there evil in the world?" "Why do the good suffer with the bad?"
- Beloved don’t miss this, even in the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy had to wake up, and so did Job
- Problem: Satan
- Solution: God
- Title: "Jehovah-Rophe", the healer
- "Only God" can heal this hurt
- "Only God" can right this wrong
- "ONLY GOD" CAN HEAL THIS PAIN
