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Sungai Nibong Gospel Hall

• consider the wondrous works of God
  Job 3714
• Part 1 Prologue, Dialogue and Gods
  Wondrous Creation and Creatures.
• Job 1, 2, 381-3930
• By KC Ung

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Introduction

• (I) The Prologue Job chs. 1, 2
• (2) The Dialogue Job chs. 3-31
• With Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar.
• (3) The Monologue of Elihu. Job chs. 32-37
• O Job stand still, and consider
• the wondrous works of God. 3714
• (4) The Dialogue with God Job 381-426
• Gird up now thy loins like a man
• for I will demand of thee, and answer thou Me.
• (3) The Epilogue Job 42 7-17

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consider the wondrous works of GodPart 1 Gods
Creation and CreaturesJob 381-3937

• God spoke out of the Whirlwind cf. II Kings 211
• Gods Word came to Job Job 381-402
  406-4134
• God spoke Audibly and Appeared visibly. Cf. 425
• Job had been Pestering God for answers
• Now God Presented him with more. 381-3
• He had been Challenging God,
• but he himself was Confused over the issues
  382, NIV

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I. Gods Questions with regard to His
Creation. Job 384-38A. Where was Job 384-15

• 1. When God Constructed the Cosmos
• and laid the Cornerstone of the earth,
• in the presence of the Heavenly Hosts? 384-7

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A. Where was Job 384-15

• 2. When God swaddled the Birth of the Bursting
  sea
• with Clouds and shut up its Bounds? 388-11

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A. Where was Job 384-15 

• 3. When God Commenced the Day and brought in the
  Dawn to reveal the Clear nature of things
  3812-15
• like a piece of Clay stamped by a seal and
  Coloured everything in its path, v. 14, NIV
• and bringing to light mens evil Dark Deeds and
  Consigned them to Darkness? v. 15
• App. I Thes. 54-8

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B. Did Job know 3816-30

• 1. The Springs of the Sea
• or had he Searched its Depths? 38 16-18
• Or See the Doors of Deep Darkness of Death? v. 17
• Or Could Job Comprehend even the vast expanse of
  the earth?
• DECLARE IT IF HE COULD! v. 18

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B. Did Job know 3819-21

• 2. The Dwelling places of Light and Darkness and
  Discern the Direction to their homes? 3819-21

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B. Did Job know 3822-24

• 3. The Treasuries of the snow and the hail which
  God had stored up against the Time of Trouble or
  against the day of battle and war? v. 22, 23
• The Track of Lightning and the direction where
  the east wind would blow? v. 24

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B. Did Job know 3825-27

• 4. Who Channelled the waters through a Cleft in
  the sky in the Company of lightning to Cause
  rain to fall on the Deserted Deserts where no man
  is? v. 25, 26
• Or on Dry Desolate ground for tender buds to
  Develop and spring forth? v. 27

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B. Did Job know 3828-30

• 5. Who Fathered the rain and the Drops of Dew?
• Who Mothered ice and the Hoarfrost of
  Heaven? v. 29, NRSV
• The waters later hardened as stone and the
  surface of the deep frozen as ice? v. 30
• App. If God could be parents to nature, could
  not He be Parent to Job too? Mt. 630

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C. Could Job Job 3831-3930

• 1. Control the Constellations?
• 3831-33, NRSV Can you bind the chains of the
  Pleiades? v.31a
• Or loose the cords of Orion?
• Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season?
  
• Can you guide the Bear with its children?
• App. Only God can! Cf. Psa. 1473-5

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The Mazzaroth

• The Mazzaroth, also known as the zodiac, is the
  name given to the pattern of stars found on the
  celestial equator, or ecliptic. The ecliptic is
  an imaginary zone of the heavens containing the
  twelve signs within which lie the paths of the
  principal planets, and through which the sun
  passes in its annual course.

Mazzaroth is the Hebrew word for constellation.
There is a related Hebrew word mazzaloth
http//www.betemunah.org/mazaroth.html
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C. Could Job 3834-38

• 2. Control the Clouds? Could he .
• Call out to the Clouds to Cover him with
  torrential rain? v. 34
• Call the Lightning to go where he Commanded them?
  v. 35
• give wisdom to the heart and understanding to the
  mind? v. 36

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C. Could Job 3834-38

• Count the Clouds and Convert them into rain from
  heaven v. 37
• when the dry ground Cracked and became hard and
  the Clods Cleaved fast together? v. 38
• App. Job could not, but God could!

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II. Gods Questions with regard to His
Creatures. Job 3839-3930A. Could Job

• Conserve food for 3839-41
• 1. The Lions? Could he hunt Prey for them and
  Provide for their young in the wild while they
  Crouched waiting in the Covert of their dens?
• 2. The Ravens? Could he Fly to hunt for Prey? v.
  41
• App. God has been doing this all the time! Psa.
  1479 Matt. 625-32

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B. Would Job know

• 1. When the Mountain Goat Conceives and the Hind
  (ibex?) Calves? 391-4 cf. Psa. 299
• 2. How the Wild Ass is Cared for by its Creator?
  395-8 App. Jn. 836
• 3. If the Wild Ox (unicorn) will Consent to serve
  him or abide by his Crib? 399-12, NRSV
• App. Psa. 375

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B. Would Job know

• 4. The Ostrich is forgetful and not endowed with
  wisdom and understanding? 3913-18
  App. Isa. 4915
• 5. The Warhorse was Created with great
  Calibre? 3919-25 App. Psa. 3317, 16 1477-11

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B. Would Job know

• 6. If the Birds of prey will ever Carry out his
  Commands? 3926-30
• App. Isa. 4031 Mt. 2427, 28

• Hearken unto this, O Job
• stand still, and consider the wondrous works of
  God.
• Be still, and know that I am God
• I will be exalted among the heathen,
• I will be exalted in the earth.

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Gods Questions with regard to I. His
Creation. Job 381-3838II. His Creatures. Job
3839-3930

• III. Gods Questions with regard to His two
  Special Creatures The Behemoth and the Leviathan
  
• Job 4015-4134

• Dialogue (Contd)
• between God and Job.
• Job 401-14.
• Job 421-6
• Epilogue
• 427-17
• TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK

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I. The Prologue

• A. The Trial of Job Job chs. 1, 2
• 1. The Person of Job. Job 11-5
• His Perfection, Prosperity and Progeny.
• 2. The Predicament of Job. Job 113-19 27, 8
• A. The Course Jobs Possessions and Person
  affected.
• B. The Cause Confrontation between God and
  Satan.
• C. The Character of Job that stood out. Job
  120-22
• B. The Theme of Job Job 3714
• 1. Addressed to Job personally.
• 2. Advised for Job to Stand Still and Consider