Giver of Truth Biblical Commentary-Vol. 2

God’s Servant

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God’s servant offers you convenient commentary books, which are practical, concise, and relevant. The Giver of Truth Biblical Commentary books are intellectually stimulating and include all that expensive multivolume commentaries have to offer. The Giver of Truth Biblical Commentary books present each book of the Bible, chapter by chapter, with consideration of the King James Bible as the standard and credit given to references within the text, which allows you to examine your Bible within its historical background and customs. The Giver of Truth Biblical Commentary illuminates the Bible within its time and place, which affords doctrinal penetrating insight into the practical application of truth for everyday living.
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• Religion
• Louisa Burton
• Patricia Burford Ryan
• Philosophie et théologie
• Biblical Commentary

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• Publié par: Xlibris US
• Date de parution: 30 octobre 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781514420942
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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GIVER OF TRUTH BIBLICAL COMMENTARY
 
 
VOL. 2 – OLD TESTAMENT
Job to Malachi
 
 
 
 
 
 
GOD’S SERVANT
 
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CONTENTS
JOB
THE PSALMS
THE PROVERBS
ECCLESIASTES
THE SONG OF SOLOMON
ISAIAH
JEREMIAH
LAMENTATIONS
EZEKIEL
DANIEL
HOSEA
JOEL
AMOS
OBADIAH
JONAH
MICAH
NAHUM
HABAKKUK
ZEPHANIAH
HAGGAI
ZECHARIAH
MALACHI
 
Dedicated to those who would come to believe in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ and accept Him as LORD of their lives so they have eternal life with Jesus
JOB
INTRODUCTION
Why does God allow His faithful people to suffer? Is God not just and good? Is God at least partly evil? Is God not totally sovereign? Why did Job, a faithful believer of God suffer without a hint as to why, when the godless around him enjoyed health and material blessings? The Book of Job revealed God to Job and Job to himself.
The Book of Job, perhaps the earliest book of the Bible, is set in the period of the patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. Several personal and place names in the book are associated with the patriarchal period: Sheba and Tema, grandsons of Abraham, and Uz, a nephew of Abraham, are mentioned, as is Eliphaz, son of Esau, the grandson of Isaac. Tradition purports Job’s second wife, Jacob’s daughter, Dinah, followed Job’s first wife, Sitis or Sitidos. Job lived 140 years after his calamities, so he may have lived to about 210 years, which corresponds to the length of the patriarchs’ lives. Job’s wealth was reckoned in livestock, which was also true of Abraham and Jacob. Job had problems with the nomadic Sabeans and marauding Chaldeans, as did Abraham. There are no references to Israel or its exodus, the law by Moses, or the tabernacle. As were Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the priests of the family, so Job was the priest of his family who offered sacrifices. Job used the patriarchal name for God “Shaddai” meaning the Almighty. As was fitting Abraham’s time, the social unit in Job’s time was the patriarchal family clan.
The Book of Job is similar to other wisdom literature of the time. The vocabulary of the Book of Job reveals influences from several languages besides Hebrew: an ancient Semitic language of Mesopotamia, before 2000 BC called Akkadian; Arabic; Aramaic; Sumerian; and Ugaritic, the Semitic language closely related to Phoenician and Hebrew. Fragments of the Book of Job were included amongst the Dead Sea finds.
The Book of Job touches on many subjects including astronomy, geography, hunting, mining, travel, weather, zoology, and the terminology of law courts. The Book of Job has been considered as the greatest poem of ancient times and modern times. The prologue, written in rapid narrative style, brings the reader quickly into Job’s agonizing confrontations with his friends and God.
The details of the conversations in the book give the impression it was written by an eyewitness, possibly even Job himself, who wrote in the third person and made record of himself as a historical person who suffered financial, emotional, physical, and spiritual hardship without support. Job, a prominently wealthy and godly man, lost all his material possessions, all his children, and his health; his wife suggested he end his misery by cursing God, and his friends condemned him when God seemingly ignored him. The grandeur and spontaneity of the book and its deeply empathic recreation of the sentiments of men standing early in the progress of revelation does point to the period before the contribution of prophets.
The Hebrew title for this book is Iyyob, which means “Persecuted One.” In Arabic the meaning of the title may be defined as “Repentant One” Since Job voiced many laments against himself, God, and his enemies, both meanings apply to the Book of Job. In Greek and in Latin, the title of the book is Iob. Job’s name is derived from an Arabic word, which signifies “repentance.” It was common in old times to give a name from circumstances, which occurred at an advanced period of life; according to calculation, Job’s age was seventy at the time of his plight.
The focus of the Book of Job is not why righteous persons suffer or if God is loving and all-powerful but what Job learns from his suffering. God allows Job to see who he really is. Job really is a self-righteous person. Through a long process, Job enlarges his concept of God and finds the wisdom, the mercy, and the greatness of God. Not until Job comes to the end of his own resources and deals with God’s testing does he find his very questions are wrong. Job does find answers, which transform his life.
CHAPTER ONE
The customs, vocabulary, and references to geography and natural history support the fact Job lived in Uz, north of the Arabian Desert between Palestine and the Euphrates River. The land of Uz was near a desert, yet it was fertile for agriculture and raising livestock. Job lived in an area of farms, migrating herds, and towns. Job was not a nomad but was an elder in a major town (Job 29:7) and was considered morally upright and spiritually mature.
Job had seven sons, three daughters, seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred donkeys, and a large number of servants. Since patriarchal wealth was measured in livestock, Job was considered a very rich man. With his undertakings in godliness in family, in flocks, and in herds, Job was described as the greatest man among all the people in the East.
Job was always mindful of God and functioned faithfully as the priest within his family. Every year when Job’s sons had birthdays, the brothers and sisters joined in celebration to eat and drink together. Sometimes, these celebrations lasted for days. When the celebrations ended, Job, who perceived the root of sin in the human heart, purified his children by burning a sacrificial offering for each of them, which was Job’s regular practice.
One day, when the angels came to report or present themselves before the LORD, Satan, as an interloper, came with them, and when the LORD asked from where he came, he answered he came from roaming the earth, which showed he had dominion over the earth and was looking for someone to accuse. The LORD spoke of Job as His servant and told Satan there was no other like him because he was a perfect and upright man who feared God and shunned evil. The LORD’S point was Satan was god of the world and had dominion over it but could not dominate Job.
Satan attacked Job’s motive, saying he did not fear God for nothing and questioned why Job was pious. Satan suggested Job served God because of the prosperity he received from God but should these rewards be removed, Job would not be reverent to God. Satan said the LORD protected Job, his household, and everything he had, whereupon the LORD gave Satan free control over Job with the exception of Job himself. Satan’s accusation suggested the only way the LORD could get people to worship Him was to promise wealth. Such an accusation was an indictment against the LORD’S character; therefore, the LORD allowed Satan to test Job.
When Job’s sons and daughters were feasting at the eldest brother’s house, a messenger came to Job to report robber Sabeans, descendents from Sheba, the grandson of Abraham and Keturah, had attacked from the south and carried off the oxen and the donkeys. The servant reported he alone had escaped because the rest of the servants had been put to the sword. While the servant was yet speaking, another servant came to report to Job lightning had struck all of his sheep and servants, and he alone escaped.With the servant not yet finished his tale, another servant arrived to report to Job the warrior Chaldeans had formed three raiding parties and swept down from the north to carry off his camels, killing all the servants except him. The Chaldeans were fierce, marauding inhabitants from Mesopotamia. While this servant was still speaking, another messenger came to tell Job a sudden mighty wind, which suggested a tornado, had swept in from the desert to collapse the house in which his children were feasting and he was the only one who escaped.
Overwhelmed with all this news, Job tore his robe and shaved his head in mourning and grief and then fell to the ground to worship the LORD. Job acknowledged he had come into the world naked and he would leave the world naked. Then Job recognized God’s sovereign right to give and to take away, and he praised the LORD. In a few minutes, Job had plummeted from wealth and prosperity to grief and pauperism. Job followed his adversity with adoration, his woe with worship, and he refused to blame God for any wrongdoing, which showed Satan utterly wrong in predicting he would curse God. Job showed godliness apart from famil