June 9, 2024, Job 1:1-22, "Why do God's people experience bad things?" (Full)

Job 1:1, Job was a man who loved the Lord (but he was not without sin, for all things in the flesh on Earth are in the presence of sin)
Job 1:6, on a certain day in the 3rd heaven, angels (lowercase "sons of God") assembled before God, and the arch-nemesis also mingled amongst them
Isaiah 14:12-15, before Michael became the archangel, the original archangel was somebody else, mentioned by original name here (before he was given a new name that means "adversary"), and that person was cast out
Job 1:6, even though he lost his original home, he is still allowed to come and stand before God, for a time (like visitation rights). In Revelation, he will be permanently shut away from God.
Isaiah 14:13, the anti-Christ will attempt to sit on the throne of David, but the throne of David is only reserved for Christ
Luke 4, the other time God was directly confronted by the evil one
Job 1:6, angels had to come and report to God what they had done
Job 1:7, and the arch-nemesis tries to get God's attention. "From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."- again, explains how the serpent was able to confront Eve in the garden
Job 1:8-12, the serpent made another attempt to corrupt God's creation (a follow up from Eve and Adam), and challenged the reason why Job loved God
Job 1:14-22, etc, and it came to pass that Job lost everything, his friends contended against him (in a way), and his wife was tempted to convince Job to curse God
Job 1:20-22, Job's initial mourning (he did not curse God). Contrary to Adam, Job did not give up on God. Adam immediately blamed God for giving him Eve (who tempted him indirectly by the serpent), whereas Job did not blame God.
Matthew 5:45, the current status of God's goodness: 'he makes the sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.'
Habakkuk 2:4, definition of a just person: 'the just shall live by faith', or the humble man lives by faith whereas the proud man does not
Genesis 3:16-24, because of the fall of Adam and Eve, God declared onto them, how humans would live and die, how a wife and husband would live and die, why a wife and a husband will argue with each other, why the world (the environment, the weather, etc.) would work against them as they farmed the land, and why they would struggle to survive and raise children
Romans 8:20-22, saint Paul explained why humans are caught in the natural chaos and order of things, to remind the readers and listeners of the fallen creation, all the woes that came with it, but also of the glorious future what was to come
Revelation 21:4-5, the glorious future of God. All of fallen creation will be destroyed and replaced by a perfect creation, and therefore all the woes will be destroyed.
2 Peter 3:10, when fallen creation is destroyed, there will certainly be no sign or trace of all the evil inventions and schemes (man-made designs) that used to exist in the fallen world
John 16:33, Jesus Christ reminded his followers that they were presently free from the slavery of sin, though they were still trapped in the suffering world
Romans 8:18, saint Paul reminds us that being situated in a suffering world is only a temporary state
John 14:27, a person needs to have peace with God, before they can receive the peace of God: that is a person needs to be born again (renewed by Christ) to have the wrath of God taken away, and then they will receive His peace (and now only the wrath of the world remains, until a person is taken home by Christ)
Romans 8:35-36, there is no man made problem or worldly problem in nature great enough to overcome God's solution- what person or thing will separate people from God?
John 11:39-40, 'that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?'
John 11:41, '[God], I thank you that you have heard me.'
John 11:43-44, as Lazarus rose from the dead, as Christ died and then was resurrected, those redeemed by God (born again believers) also have risen with the Lord
Romans 8:28, people's problems work for good: 'we know that all things work together for good to them that love God'
Philippians 3:7, things lost for Christ are not more valuable than all things gained for Christ

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