A World before the Bible was Recorded

 March 28, 2020

 

Job 24

 

Job is not alone in his question; “Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty,    and why do those who know him never see his days?”  Many a person who goes by the name Christian when bad things happen they ask the same question.  Does that give them or Job the right to question God’s timing on the judgment of the wicked deeds of people?

 

Job was not privilege to have a Bible, but most of us have several, yet we are in the same fix as Job if it is never opened and read.  Sixty-three times God’s judgments on sin are talked about in the Scriptures,   Verses such as; Isaiah 13:11, “Thus I will punish the world for its evil And the wicked for their iniquity; I will also put an end to the arrogance of the proud And abase the haughtiness of the ruthless.”  1 Thessalonians 4:6, “and that no man transgress and defraud his brother in the matter because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you before and solemnly warned you.”

 

What about Matthew 7:15, "Do not judge so that you will not be judged. "For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you. "Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?”  And Romans 2:5-6, “But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who will render to each person according to his deeds.”  We end this short sample of Scripture with 2 Peter 3:7, “But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.”

 

But Job did not have the Bible you now have laying in your home, so should we give Job a pass?  Job begins to remind his friends of the seriousness of the wicked man sins.  They move boundary markers, and they take the poor animals they used to provide for their families, and it seems as if one of their targets was the fatherless and the widow.  They have no regard for those who are under-resourced and take advantage of them.  The poor do not have a food bank to turn to, no they look for the leftover in the fields.  Job continues listing all the sins of the wicked, and even their death.

 

But, Job has watched and is sure that God does Judge the evil man, look at verse 22-25, “Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power; they rise up when they despair of life.  He gives them security, and they are supported, and his eyes are upon their ways. They are exalted a little while, and then are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like the heads of grain.   If it is not so, who will prove me a liar and show that there is nothing in what I say?”

 

From the Back Porch,

 

Bob Rice