Posted on 01/12/2021 6:07:22 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6
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| Part 6 | GOD INTERVENES, QUIZZES JOB |
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INTERVENES, QUIZZES J O B |
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To read JOB 38-42 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it HIGHLY recommended by Maudeen! To see an ANIMATION of Job |
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CHAPTER 38
1 Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm.
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by WILLIAM BLAKE, 1825
"God’s Speech from the Whirlwind".
1 Then the LORD spoke to Job out of the storm. He said:
2 “Who is this that obscures my plans
with words without knowledge?
3 Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.4 “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
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6 On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone—. .
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7 while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?
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by WILLIAM BLAKE, 1807
"When the Morning Stars Sang Together". .
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by GERALD PEMBERTON HUTCHINSON, 1909
Holy Trinity Church, Lower Beeding, West Sussex.
8 “Who shut up the sea behind doors
when it burst forth from the womb,
9 when I made the clouds its garment
and wrapped it in thick darkness,
10 when I fixed limits for it
and set its doors and bars in place,
11 when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther;
here is where your proud waves halt’?. .
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12 “Have you ever given orders to the morning,
or shown the dawn its place,
13 that it might take the earth by the edges
and shake the wicked out of it?
14 The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;
its features stand out like those of a garment.
15 The wicked are denied their light,
and their upraised arm is broken.. .
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16 “Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea
or walked in the recesses of the deep?
17 Have the gates of death been shown to you?
Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?
18 Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth?
Tell me, if you know all this.. .
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19 “What is the way to the abode of light? And where does darkness reside?
20 Can you take them to their places?
Do you know the paths to their dwellings?A SCIENTIFICALLY-TESTABLE BIBLE PREDICTION God tells Job that darkness has a home, that it is actually a physical entity rather than being merely the absence of light. That claim remained laughably bizzare for 4,200 years, until 20th Century astrophysicists discovered DARK MATTER and DARK ENERGY, which completely dominate our physical universe.Surprise, surprise: God was right! . .
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21 Surely you know, for you were already born!
You have lived so many years!22 “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow
or seen the storehouses of the hail,
23 which I reserve for times of trouble,
for days of war and battle?
24 What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed,
or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?
25 Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain,
and a path for the thunderstorm,
26 to water a land where no one lives,
an uninhabited desert,
27 to satisfy a desolate wasteland
and make it sprout with grass?
28 Does the rain have a father?
Who fathers the drops of dew?
29 From whose womb comes the ice?
Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens
30 when the waters become hard as stone,
when the surface of the deep is frozen?31 “Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Can you loosen Orion’s belt?
ANOTHER SCIENTIFICALLY-TESTABLE BIBLE PREDICTION God tells Job that both the Pleiades' stars and also those in Orion's belt are bound gravitationally to each other. With the naked eye they appear to be, but these fact-claims could not actually be tested for four millennia—until we had the magnificent telescopes of the 20th century.Surprise, surprise: God was right, again! .
CHAPTER 40
1 The LORD said to Job:
2 “Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him?
Let him who accuses God answer him!”3 Then Job answered the LORD:
4 “I am unworthy—how can I reply to you?
I put my hand over my mouth.
5 I spoke once, but I have no answer—
twice, but I will say no more.”6 Then the LORD spoke to Job out of the storm:
7 “Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.8 “Would you discredit my justice?
Would you condemn me to justify yourself?
9 Do you have an arm like God’s,
and can your voice thunder like his?
10 Then adorn yourself with glory and splendor,
and clothe yourself in honor and majesty.
11 Unleash the fury of your wrath,
look at all who are proud and bring them low,
12 look at all who are proud and humble them,
crush the wicked where they stand.
13 Bury them all in the dust together;
shroud their faces in the grave.
14 Then I myself will admit to you
that your own right hand can save you..
15 “Look at Behemoth,
which I made along with you
and which feeds on grass like an ox.
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16 What strength it has in its loins,
what power in the muscles of its belly!
17 Its tail sways like a cedar;
the sinews of its thighs are close-knit.
18 Its bones are tubes of bronze,
its limbs like rods of iron.
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19 It ranks first among the works of God,
yet its Maker can approach it with his sword.
20 The hills bring it their produce,
and all the wild animals play nearby.
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21 Under the lotus plants it lies,
hidden among the reeds in the marsh.
22 The lotuses conceal it in their shadow;
the poplars by the stream surround it.
23 A raging river does not alarm it;
it is secure, though the Jordan should surge against its mouth.
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24 Can anyone capture it by the eyes,
or trap it and pierce its nose?.
CHAPTER 41
“Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook
or tie down its tongue with a rope?
2 Can you put a cord through its nose
or pierce its jaw with a hook?
3 Will it keep begging you for mercy?
Will it speak to you with gentle words?
4 Will it make an agreement with you
for you to take it as your slave for life?
5 Can you make a pet of it like a bird
or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?
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6 Will traders barter for it?
Will they divide it up among the merchants?
7 Can you fill its hide with harpoons
or its head with fishing spears? 8 If you lay a hand on it, you will remember the struggle and never do it again!
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9 Any hope of subduing it is false;
the mere sight of it is overpowering.
10 No one is fierce enough to rouse it.
Who then is able to stand against me?
11 Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.12 “I will not fail to speak of Leviathan’s limbs,
its strength and its graceful form.
13 Who can strip off its outer coat?
Who can penetrate its double coat of armor?
14 Who dares open the doors of its mouth,
ringed about with fearsome teeth?
15 Its back has rows of shields
tightly sealed together;
16 each is so close to the next
that no air can pass between.
17 They are joined fast to one another;
they cling together and cannot be parted.
18 Its snorting throws out flashes of light;
its eyes are like the rays of dawn.
19 Flames stream from its mouth;
sparks of fire shoot out.
20 Smoke pours from its nostrils
as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
21 Its breath sets coals ablaze,
and flames dart from its mouth.
22 Strength resides in its neck;
dismay goes before it.
23 The folds of its flesh are tightly joined;
they are firm and immovable.
24 Its chest is hard as rock,
hard as a lower millstone.
25 When it rises up, the mighty are terrified;
they retreat before its thrashing.
26 The sword that reaches it has no effect,
nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.
27 Iron it treats like straw
and bronze like rotten wood.
28 Arrows do not make it flee;
slingstones are like chaff to it.
29 A club seems to it but a piece of straw;
it laughs at the rattling of the lance.
30 Its undersides are jagged potsherds,
leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
31 It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron
and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.
32 It leaves a glistening wake behind it;
one would think the deep had white hair.
33 Nothing on earth is its equal—
a creature without fear.
34 It looks down on all that are haughty;
it is king over all that are proud.”. .
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by WILLIAM BLAKE
"Behemoth and Leviathan". .
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by WILLIAM BLAKE
"Behemoth and Leviathan". .
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by SPENCER ALEXANDER McDANIEL
"God Showing the Leviathan to Job".
CHAPTER 42
Then Job replied to the LORD:
2 “I know that you can do all things;
no purpose of yours can be thwarted. 3 You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’
Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me to know.4 “You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.’
5 My ears had heard of you
but now my eyes have seen you.
6 Therefore I despise myself
and repent in dust and ashes.”7 After the LORD had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has. 8 So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.” 9 So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the LORD told them; and the LORD accepted Job’s prayer.
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by WILLIAM BLAKE
"Job's Sacrifice".
10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before. 11 All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the LORD had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver[a] and a gold ring.
12 The LORD blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys. 13 And he also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch. 15 Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.
16 After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. 17 And so Job died, an old man and full of years.
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by WILLIAM BLAKE
"The Restoration of Job". .
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"Job’s Restoration". .
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by WILLIAM BLAKE, 1808
"The Restoration of Job". .
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by JAMES TISSOT
"Job Joins His Family in Happiness". .
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by WILLIAM BLAKE
"Job and His Daughters". .
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by GUIDO RENI, 1636
"The Triumph of Job"
Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, France. .
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by GUIDO RENI, 1636
"The Triumph of Job"
Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, France. .
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by RUTH COLLET
"The Lord Restored Job's Fortunes
and Redoubled All His Possessions". .
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"Job Restored to Prosperity". .
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Links to three masters who painted Biblical scenes prolifically: REMBRANDT HARMENSZOON van RIJN GUSTAV DORÉ
241 wood engravings for
La Grande Bible de ToursJAMES TISSOT
180 watercolors depicting Bible scenes. .
Links to two Bibles with comprehensive illustrations: The Art Bible (1896) The Maciejowski-Morgan Bible (c.1245) . .
This series keeps moving from one Bible passage to another,
so here is a fascinating and enjoyable link to assist in following along:
BIBLE TIMELINE. .
Here are links to the
PREVIOUS 178 POSTS IN THIS SERIES
with descriptive titles to assist you in finding those which interest you. .
Finally, what God did to initiate The Bible In Paintings:
HOW GOD STARTED THIS SERIES
BY SHOWING ME JUST ONE PICTURE. .
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SPECIAL THANKS
to FReeper left that other site,
who allowed God to make her His conduit
for incomparable enthusiasm, encouragement,
education, advice and technical assistance!. .
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NOTES ON MY SELECTION CRITERIA The Bible and its Author are my focus, not the art: this is The Bible in Paintings, not "Great Paintings" nor even "Good Paintings." So, works need not be masterpieces to qualify for inclusion here—they don't need to be housed at the Louvre nor auctioned by Sotheby's. They only need to illustrate successfully some aspect of the Biblical text or, frankly, just tickle my fancy, which I'm always asking the Holy Spirit to guide.
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Q u a l i t yOften, artists misrepresent the Scripture, but unless the error is material, licentious or heretical I usually include the artwork, trusting that the Spirit is perfectly capable of defending Himself. So, with such forgiving filters, it means that you're seeing practically everything I'm finding.
The Protestant Canon does not (for several reasons) follow a strictly chronological sequence. There are many examples where, for God's good purposes, stories are told out-of-order. Nevertheless, for the sake of simplicity, clarity, and my sanity, I have chosen to proceed linearly and methodically from Genesis onward, illustrating each Bible passage as we come to it. Where two passages cover the same incident I omit the second telling, excepting the four Gospels which I will treat synoptically. Now, onward!
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S e q u e n c i n gThe pace here may seem appallingly snail-like to those eager to see their favorite events illustrated. My commission is to search for art on each Bible passage in sequence: if I find enough, then it becomes the next installment, even if undramatic (but where there is little or no art, that Bible passage goes untold here).
P a c i n g Then, there is the human element: this is not actually a daily series, because I can only research, compose, edit and post five or six of these installments weekly. And because I only get to do this series once, I'm taking my time, chiefly by posting everything; if I find lots of art, I don't cherry-pick some and discard the rest. Rather, I line up all of them and then sort them into manageable bunches, often resulting in multiple days' episodes of the same story. Obviously, I like being thorough. Were you in a big hurry?
The Bible is a thick book, as you know; but we'll get there eventually, Lord willing—this is His project, after all. And always remember:
love, joy, peace, patience kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness & self-control is a fruit of the Spirit!. .
Art is merely the Toy Department of Bible study,
so I'm just having fun here—I hope you are, too!
Thank you for your understanding.Hebrews 11:6
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The Bible encourages us to meditate on it (Ps. 1:1-3, 119:11-16, etc.); these artists have done so, and their works can assist us and enrich our own thoughts about biblical characters, incidents and concepts, and increase our faith in He who is behind it all. As you encounter and consider these images and the related Scriptures and the Spirit enlightens your understanding, please share it with us!
But it is not only oil-on-canvas that can so help us; I refer to the astonishing video series The Chosen, which strolls through the four Gospels at the most leisurely pace. The eight episodes of Season 1 are finished, and the second of a planned seven seasons is being filmed right now. I say "leisurely" because after an entire year's viewing Jesus still has only seven of the apostles (although He's preparing to call up Thomas from the minor leagues--but Thomas is skeptical, of course). Anticipating a canvas of fifty-plus hours instead of a movie's paltry two hours, The Chosen turns the characters (especially including Jesus!) into three-dimensional humans and brings the Gospels alive--you have never seen anything even remotely like it! Here is the Official Trailer.
Here is a link for free viewing of The Chosen: "Works with your phone, tablet, and you can cast to your Roku or Chromecast." Last fall I paid $34.98 for DVDs and ongoing internet access—best 35 bucks I've ever spent (I don't recall how much our marriage license cost, but then it was 43 years ago).
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Good Morning, Dan!
(((I love the Poetry in this part of the Book of Job!)))
This is an animation off the Pleiades over the next 400,000 years. Notice that they ALL MOVE AS ONE in the same direction, while everything else is moving in different directions!....................
I always enjoy ogling these Seven Sisters.
I do, too. God certainly knows how to make His case.
They were used by ancients as a ‘eye test’ to see how well a soldier could see..............................
That is SPECTACULAR! Thanks so much for adding it to this thread.
Indeed! :-)
Didn’t know that. Had to resolve them individually then.
Yes, they didn’t become Messier until 1774.......................
Is astronomy your hobby or your profession?
Neither, I just enjoy it.
I have a small amateur telescope I use sometimes on clear nights which we have very few of in Florida..........................
And Florida doesn’t offer mountains for clearer viewing.
The 'highest point' in Florida is about 50 miles from here.
Nice
You might enjoy this. I count two world-famous astronomers as personal friends: Hugh Ross, evangelist/apologist and author of the book above; and Allan Sandage, now deceased, Hubble’s protege and developer of the Mt. Palomar telescope (yes, we have actual mountains in California).
Rev 16:21
And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven,every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
a talent = @ 70 lbs.
Nothing could stand 70 lb. hailstones!
I like Tissot, but #17...I don't see any happy expressions there!
...for some reason, I don't know why, but Blake's work makes me squirm inside, it's...uncomfortable somehow.
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