I have a lot of notes and replies to things I've kept over the years. Something that I have shared quite a bit outside of the comics is a series of questions and verses to answer those questions. Each question and answer builds on each other. I am going to do a comic for each of these questions. This is question #2.
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*New Song* (WARNING: It's a bit heavy)
A Greater Than Shalomoh is here!
By Dr Garth Grenache
and his Uncanny Valley Orchestra
2024:11:14
Before the world, Yah set me here
As master workman, ever near
Delighting in His grand design
And in mankind, His work divine
Chorus:
With wisdom vast and love sincere.
I reign in power, hearts I'll steer,
My light shines bright, my paths made clear,
A greater than Shalomoh is here!
So heed my call, O sons of man
And walk the path of wisdom's plan
For he who finds me, finds true life
But scorners court eternal strife
Chorus:
With wisdom vast and love sincere.
I reign in power, hearts I'll steer,
My light shines bright, my paths made clear,
A greater than Shalomoh is here!
Chorus:
With wisdom vast and love sincere.
I reign in power, hearts I'll steer,
My light shines bright, my paths made clear,
A greater than Shalomoh is here!
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WORD FOR TODAY “do you call on the name of YEHOVAH”: Exo 3:15 God, furthermore, said to Moses, "Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, YEHOVAH, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is My name forever, and this is My memorial-name to all generations.
SPOKEN VERSE FOR TODAY: Ecc 7:12 For wisdom is protection just as money is protection, But the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the lives of its possessors.
“Faith comes by hearing” positive frequencies spoken out loud hourly.
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Question 80: Is the Book of Job a real history or a dramatic allegory?
Answer:
Job is believed to have been a real personage -- a type of the earliest patriarchs, a man of high intelligence and great faith. The story is cast in dramatic form. Professor S. S. Curry, of Yale and Harvard Divinity Schools, thus outlines it: the place, a hill outside the city; a rising storm, flashing lightning, rolling thunder and a rainbow; the speakers, YHVH, the patriarch Job, his friends and Satan; the theme, the mystery of human suffering and human existence." To which may be added, a sublime faith in the divine wisdom, righteousness and justice. The book of Job is regarded by many Biblical scholars to be a spiritual allegory, but there is no reason to believe that it is not a real history. The name Job is derived from an Arabic word signifying "repentance" and Job himself is held to be a real personage. (See Ezekiel 14:14 and James 5:11.)
Question 79: Are the speeches of Job’s friends to be regarded as inspired?
Answer:
This question is answered authoritatively in the book itself (see Job 42:7), where YHVH is represented as saying, "My wrath is kindled against thee and thy two friends; for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right." One gets a clearer idea of the book by regarding it as a symposium on the problem of suffering, each speaker being a representative of a school of thought. Each speaker keeps to the same aspect of the subject but all agree in regarding unusual suffering as evidence of unusual sin. They imply that in Job's case, he being outwardly so good a man, his sin was aggravated by hypocrisy. This was unjust because, as we learn by the first chapter, it was precisely because he was so good a man that his affliction came upon him. The author of the book evidently wished to administer a warning to the people of his time against being uncharitable in their inferences.
Question 78: Did YHVH “blot out” the day on which Job was born?
Answer:
This question is doubtless prompted by the ancient tradition or superstition that we have fewer days in February than any other month, as Job was born in February. This of course is a fallacy. There was no February in the time of Job, 1520 B. C. The months or divisions of time, were not as we have them now. The year of the Jews consisted of twelve lunar months of twenty-nine and thirty days alternately, a thirteenth being from time to time introduced to accommodate it to the sun and seasons. Let it be noted that while Job cursed his birthday, he did not curse his Maker, so why should Elohiym drop a day on account of a little weakness in his servant who, despite his great sufferings, never uttered any reproach against the Author of his being? Our months as at present, we have from the Romans. With those people February had originally twenty-nine days in an ordinary year, but when the Roman Senate decreed that the eighth month should bear the name of Augustus, a day was taken from February and given to August, which had then only thirty, that it might not be inferior to July, named in honour of Julius Caesar.
Question 77: Did YHVH give Job into the hands of Satan to be tempted?
Answer:
"Tempted" is scarcely the word to use in that case. Job was tried or tested. The question was what his motive was in serving YHVH. Satan with his natural doubt about anyone having pure motives, asserted that Job served YHVH only for what he gained by it and that if his property was taken away from him, he would curse YHVH. So, Job was put to the proof, to see what he would do under trial and whether he was really as disinterested as YHVH believed him to be. The object of the author appears to have been to correct, a false view of adversity, which view was prevalent in his time. People had the idea that severe calamities were punishments dealt out by YHVH because of sin. When a man of good moral character therefore, was in trouble, people suspected that he had sinned secretly and that YHVH was punishing him for it. It was often a cruel and unjust suspicion. In writing this description, the author evidently was trying to eradicate it. After reading such a book, a man who saw another in trouble, instead of despising him as a sinner might say, "Perhaps he is being tried as Job was," and so might sympathize instead of blaming him
Frequently asked questions and answers:
Question 76: Who was Job?
Answer:
According to leading commentators, Job was a personage of distinction, wealth and influence who lived in the north of Arabia Desert, near the Euphrates, some 1800 B. C. His life was patriarchal, his language Aramaic of that early day, when it was interspersed with Syriac and Arabic. He lived before Moses. His book is probably the oldest book in the world. It is now interpreted as a public debate in poetic form, dealing with the Divine government. It abounds in figurative language. The "day" mentioned in Job 2:1 was one appointed for the angels to give an account of their ministry to YHVH. Evil is personified in Satan, who also comes to make report. The question to Satan and his response are simply a dramatic or poetic form of opening the great controversy which follows.
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