A righteous man named Job loses everything and suffers greatly, but remains faithful to God and is blessed abundantly.
INTRODUCTION TO
Job
Outline:
- Job’s background and assaults from Satan. (1:1–2:13)
- Job’s debates with his three friends. (3:1–31:40)
- Elihu’s speaking out for God’s fairness. (32:1–37:24)
- God’s intervention. (38:1–41:34)
- Job’s restoration. (42:1-17)
Author: Unknown. (However, suggestions include Job, Elihu, Moses, and Solomon.)
Date Written: Scholars place the date of the authorship of Job anywhere from the time of Abraham to the time the Jews return from their Babylonian exile.
Time Span: Not specified.
Title: From the book’s chief personality, Job.
Background: As the book of Job begins, Job is one of the wealthiest and most prosperous men on the face of the earth. He fears God and lives an upright life during the ancient patriarchal period in the land of Uz (region of northern Arabia).
Where Written: Unknown (possibly the Palestinian area).
To Whom: To no specific people.
Content: Why do the righteous suffer? This is the question raised after Job loses his family, his wealth, and his health. Job’s three friends—Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar—come to comfort him and to discuss his crushing series of tragedies. They insist his suffering is punishment for sin in his life. Job, though, remains devoted to God through all this and contends that his life has not been one of sin. A fourth man, Elihu, tells Job he needs to humble himself and submit to God’s use of trials to purify his life. Finally, Job questions God Himself and learns valuable lessons about the sovereignty of God and his need to totally trust in the Lord. Job is then restored to health, happiness, and prosperity, even beyond his earlier state.
Key Words: “Evil”; “Suffering”; “Comfort.”
To live a life of faith requires perseverance. Despite torment and “evil,” Job was steadfast in his belief in God, for as he told his wife, “Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” (2:10). Christians today are not exempt from broken hearts or “suffering,” but through it all we, like Job, can rest in the fact that God is fair, omnipotent, omniscient, and sovereign. He will “comfort” us if we will turn to Him.
Themes: • Satan cannot bring financial and physical destruction on us unless it is God’s permissive will, and God will set the limits. • It is beyond our human ability to understand the “whys” behind all the suffering in the world. • Rest assured, the wicked will receive their just dues. • We cannot blame all suffering on the sin in a sufferer’s life. • Suffering may sometimes be allowed in our lives to purify, to test, to teach, or to strengthen the soul by showing us that when we have lost all, and only God remains . . . God remains enough. • God deserves and requests our love and praise regardless of our lot in life. • God will deliver all suffering believers either in this life or in that which is to come.
Course Description
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Who this course is for
- Anyone interested in learning about business (only practical concepts that you can use and no boring theory + we won’t cover business topics that are common sense).