- JOB.
- Job was a prosperous man of outstanding piety. Satan acts as an agent provocateur to test whether Job’s piety is rooted merely in his prosperity. But faced with the appalling loss of his possessions, his children, and finally his own health, Job still refuses to curse God.
- These are: (1) God vindicates Himself in the end, (2) God is sovereign over suffering, (3) Expressing our faith through lament, (4) Don’t be like Job’s friends, (5) Learn from what they did right, (6) Be patient with the sufferer, and (7) Accurately apply Scripture to your counselee’s life
- Two major themes of the book are suffering and faith. Suffering: Job was cursed with both physical and mental suffering as Satan tried to take away his family, wealth, and even his health.
- The eternal problem of unmerited suffering, and it is named after its central character, Job, who attempts to understand the sufferings that engulf him.
- Job challenged God’s justice, and God responded that Job doesn’t have sufficient knowledge about our complex universe to make such a claim. Job demanded a full explanation from God, and what God asks Job for is trust in his wisdom and character.
- es the infinitely vexing, unanswerable question of theodicy: “If God is good, then why is there so much evil and suffering in the world?” The book’s creative, metaphorical response to questions about the nature of God, humanity, and life is literature at its best.
- The book of Job points to a God who is always acting with goodness and justice, including the times when people are experiencing or causing pain. A person’s suffering does not automatically mean he or she is receiving divine punishment. The book of Job implies that suffering is God’s punishment for human sin.
- God restores Job’s fortunes.
The story of Moses appears in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy in the Bible. Exodus contains most of Moses’ early story, including his childhood and leading the Israelites out of slavery, while Deuteronomy functions as his farewell address to the Israelites.
