Transcript God’s Questions to Job - Power Points to Jesus

Lecture # 4
God’s Questions to Job
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Without the Bible
You can
believe in a
Creator
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ROMANS 1:20
For the invisible things of him from the
creation of the world are clearly seen, being
understood by the things that are made, even
his eternal power and Godhead; so that they
are without excuse:
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God’s
Questions to
Job
Thanks to Wayne Jackson – The Book of Job
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God’s Questions to Job
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Who laid the foundations of the earth?
How were the dimensions determined?
Who did the surveying?
What supports its foundation?
Who laid the cornerstone?
Who decreed the boundaries of the sea?
Who clothed them with clouds and thick
darkness?
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God’s Questions to Job
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Who barred them limiting their shores?
Have you commanded the morning to
appear?
Did you cause daylight to spread?
Did you end the night for the wicked?
Have you ever robed the dawn in red?
Have you disturbed the haunts of wicked
men?
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God’s Questions to Job
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Have you stopped the arm raised to strike?
Have you explored the springs that come
from the sea?
Have you walked in the recesses of the
deep?
Do you know the location of the gates of
death?
Do you know the extent of the earth?
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God’s Questions to Job
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Do you know where light comes from?
Do you know how it got there?
Do you know about darkness?
Do you know where darkness comes from?
Can you find its source?
Can you go to its source?
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Have you visited the treasuries of snow?
Do you know where hail is made and
stored?
Where is the path to the distribution point
of light
Where is the home of the East wind?
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Who dug gullies for the rains?
Who laid out the path for lightning?
Do you know if rain has a father?
Where does dew come from?
Who is the mother of ice and frost?
Can you hold back the stars?
Can you restrain Orion and Pleiades?
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God’s Questions to Job
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Can you ensure the proper sequences of
seasons?
Can you guide the constellation of the
bear?
Do you know the laws of the universe?
How do the heavens influence the earth?
Can you shout to the clouds and make it
rain?
Can you make lightning appear?
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God’s Questions to Job
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Who gives intuition and instinct?
Who is wise enough to number the
clouds?
Who can tilt the water jars of heaven?
Can you stalk prey like a lion?
Who provides for the ravens?
Do you know how mountain goats give
birth?
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God’s Questions to Job
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Do you know how many months of
pregnancy?
Who makes the wild donkey wild?
Will the wild ox be your servant?
Will he stay by your feeding crib?
Can you use a wild ox to plow with?
Will he pull the harrow for you?
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God’s Questions to Job
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Will you let him decide where to work?
Can you send him out to bring in the
grain?
Have you deprived the ostrich of wisdom?
Did you make the ostrich swifter than a
horse?
Have you given the horse strength?
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God’s Questions to Job
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Have you clothed his neck with a mane?
Have you made him able to leap like a
locust?
Do you know how a hawk soars?
Is it in your command to raise eagles
high?
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“Who knew
to ask these
question?”
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God’s Questions to Job
 Job
26:7
He stretches out the north over
the empty place, and hangs the
earth upon nothing.
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God’s Questions to Job
 Job 38:1-3
1 Then the Lord
answered Job out
of the whirlwind, and said,
2 Who is this that darkens counsel
by words without knowledge?
3 Gird up now thy loins like a
man; for I will demand of thee,
and answer thou me.
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God’s Questions to Job
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Job 38:4 & 6
4 Where were you when I laid the
foundations of the earth? Declare, if
you have understanding.
6 Whereupon are the foundations
thereof fastened? Or who laid the
corner stone thereof;
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Foundation of the earth
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God’s Questions to Job
 Job
38:5
Who has laid the measures
thereof, if you know? Or who
has stretched the line upon it?
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God’s Questions to Job
 Job
38:7
When the morning stars sang
together, and all the sons of
God shouted for joy?
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Stars Sang Together
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God’s Questions to Job
 Job
38:11
11 And said, hitherto shall you
come, but no further: and
here shall the proud waves
be stayed?
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God’s Questions to Job
 Job
38:12
12 Have you commanded the
morning since the days; and
caused the dayspring (day) to
know his place;
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God’s Questions to Job
 Job
38:16
Hast thou entered into the
springs of the sea
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God’s Questions to Job
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Genesis 7:11 (ASV)
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's
life, in the second month, on the
seventeenth day of the month, on the
same day were all the fountains of
the great deep broken up, and the
windows of heaven were opened.
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God’s Questions to Job
 Job
38:16
Or hast thou walked in the
recesses of the deep?
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God’s Questions to Job
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Samuel 22:16
Then the channels of the sea
appeared, the foundations of
the world were laid bare, by the
rebuke of Jehovah, at the blast
of the breath of his nostrils.
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God’s Questions to Job
 Job
38:17-18
Have the gates of death been
revealed unto you? Or have you
seen the gates of the shadow of
death? Have you comprehended
the earth in its breadth? Declare,
if thou knowest it all.
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God’s Questions to Job
 Job
38:19
Where is the way where light
dwells? And as for darkness,
where is the place thereof,
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God’s Questions to Job
 Genesis
16:7
And the angel of the Lord found
her by a fountain of water in the
wilderness, by the fountain in the
way to Shur.
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God’s Questions to Job
 Job
38:19
Where is the way where light
dwells? And as for darkness,
where is the place thereof,
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God’s Questions to Job
 Job
38:20
That you should take it (light) to
the bound thereof,
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God’s Questions to Job
 Job
38:22-23
Have you entered into the
treasures of the snow? Or have
you seen the treasures of the
hail, Which I have reserved
against the time of trouble,
against the day of battle and
war?
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Treasures of Snow
Joshua 10:11
And it came to pass, as they fled from
before Israel, and were in the going down
to Bethhoron, that the Lord cast down
great stones from heaven upon them
unto Azekah, and they died: they were
more which died with hailstones than
they whom the children of Israel slew
with the sword.
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Treasures of Snow
Isaiah 30:30
And the Lord shall cause his glorious
voice to be heard, and shall show the
lighting down of his arm, with the
indignation of his anger, and with the
flame of a devouring fire, with
scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
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God’s Questions to Job
 Job
38:24
By what way is the light parted,
which scatters the east wind upon
the earth?
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God’s Questions to Job
 Numbers
26:53
Unto these the land shall be
divided for an inheritance
according to the number of
names.
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God’s Questions to Job
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Genesis 9:12-13
And God said, This is the token of the
covenant which I make between me
and you and every living creature
that is with you, for perpetual
generations:
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it
shall be for a token of a covenant
between me and the earth.
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God’s Questions to Job
Job 38:25-30
25 Who has divided a watercourse for the
overflowing of waters, or a way for the
lightning of thunder;
26 To cause it to rain on the earth,
where no man is; on the wilderness,
wherein there is no man;
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Who caused Lightning and Thunder
Doug Collins meteorologist on TV 47
“Fast rising air rubs water in the
clouds. Top of cloud is a negative
charge. Fast rising air splits the cloud
into two different electrical charges
and creates electrical lightening. This
then combined with water vapor
produces rain.”
All of you know that – right?
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God’s Questions to Job
 Job
38:31
31 Can you bind the sweet
influences of Pleiades
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The Pleiades Star Cluster
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God’s Questions to Job
 Job
38:31
31 or loose the bands of Orion?
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Pleiades and Orion
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God’s Questions to Job
 Job
38:32
32 Canst thou bring forth
Mazzaroth in his season? Or
canst thou guide Arcturus with
his sons?
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God’s Questions to Job
 Job
38:33
Knowest thou the ordinances
of heaven? Can you set the
dominion thereof in the earth?
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The Big Bang
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“Who knew
to ask these
question?”
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Without the Bible
You can
believe in a
Creator
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ROMANS 1:20
For the invisible things of him from the
creation of the world are clearly seen, being
understood by the things that are made, even
his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are
without excuse:
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