WBS - TTB - Feb.7th 2019
Job
What do you already know about Job?
What do we know about the genealogy of Job or his descendants?
Why is the story of Job widely known?
Read Job chapters 1 & 2
From David Guzik’s Commentary on the Book of Job:
When the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD: The phrase sons of God is used in the Old Testament to describe angelic beings (Genesis 6:1-4 and Job 38:7). Among this group of angelic beings, Satan also came among them.
The fact that Satan came among them shows that Satan is himself an angelic being, and in no way equal to God. We often - to his great delight - inflate Satan's status and importance, thinking of him as the opposite of God, as if God were light and Satan were darkness; as if God were hot and Satan were cold. Satan wishes he was the opposite of God, but God wants us to know that Satan is a mere creature, and is in no way the opposite of God. If Satan has an opposite, it is not God the Father or God the Son; it would be a high-ranking angelic being such as Michael... The fact that they came to present themselves before the LORD shows that angelic beings - indeed, fallen angelic beings - have access to the presence of God (1 Kings 22:21, Zechariah 3:1) but one day they will be restricted to the earth (Revelation 12:9).
Write your reaction here:
Read Abraham’s Bosom described in Luke 16:19-31.
Since conversations between the “chasm” are possible, where would you place the time of Job’s life?
What title is Satan given in Revelation 12:10? _______________________________
What does Satan accuse Job of in Job 1:11?
What do you know about Job’s family? (See Job 1:13-19)
What do you know about Job’s wife? (See Job 2:8-10)
What do you know about Job’s friends? (See Job 2:11-13)
What do you think is the purpose of this book?
Could this be a book about repentance? Why or why not?
Read Job 4:18-21. This is a short sample of some ideas of Job’s friends.
How does Genesis 1:27 disagree with these statements?
The speaker in chapter 4 “is so carried along on the waves of his own eloquence, and so absorbed in the stringing together the elements of an artistic whole, that he forgets the very sorrows which he came to comfort." (Maclaren)
Has this ever happened to you?
What comforts you in your suffering?
What do you know about how to comfort others? What does 2 Corinthians 1:3-7 say about comforting others?
Fast Forward to chapter 40. What is funny about verse 2?
In chapters 40 & 41 God gives insight to things no human could possibly know. What conclusions do you draw from that?
Read chapter 42. What conclusion does Job draw?
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Job
What do you already know about Job?
What do we know about the genealogy of Job or his descendants?
Why is the story of Job widely known?
Read Job chapters 1 & 2
From David Guzik’s Commentary on the Book of Job:
When the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD: The phrase sons of God is used in the Old Testament to describe angelic beings (Genesis 6:1-4 and Job 38:7). Among this group of angelic beings, Satan also came among them.
The fact that Satan came among them shows that Satan is himself an angelic being, and in no way equal to God. We often - to his great delight - inflate Satan's status and importance, thinking of him as the opposite of God, as if God were light and Satan were darkness; as if God were hot and Satan were cold. Satan wishes he was the opposite of God, but God wants us to know that Satan is a mere creature, and is in no way the opposite of God. If Satan has an opposite, it is not God the Father or God the Son; it would be a high-ranking angelic being such as Michael... The fact that they came to present themselves before the LORD shows that angelic beings - indeed, fallen angelic beings - have access to the presence of God (1 Kings 22:21, Zechariah 3:1) but one day they will be restricted to the earth (Revelation 12:9).
Write your reaction here:
Read Abraham’s Bosom described in Luke 16:19-31.
Since conversations between the “chasm” are possible, where would you place the time of Job’s life?
What title is Satan given in Revelation 12:10? _______________________________
What does Satan accuse Job of in Job 1:11?
What do you know about Job’s family? (See Job 1:13-19)
What do you know about Job’s wife? (See Job 2:8-10)
What do you know about Job’s friends? (See Job 2:11-13)
What do you think is the purpose of this book?
Could this be a book about repentance? Why or why not?
Read Job 4:18-21. This is a short sample of some ideas of Job’s friends.
How does Genesis 1:27 disagree with these statements?
The speaker in chapter 4 “is so carried along on the waves of his own eloquence, and so absorbed in the stringing together the elements of an artistic whole, that he forgets the very sorrows which he came to comfort." (Maclaren)
Has this ever happened to you?
What comforts you in your suffering?
What do you know about how to comfort others? What does 2 Corinthians 1:3-7 say about comforting others?
Fast Forward to chapter 40. What is funny about verse 2?
In chapters 40 & 41 God gives insight to things no human could possibly know. What conclusions do you draw from that?
Read chapter 42. What conclusion does Job draw?
Explore:
Express:
1.
2.
3.
Engage: