Out of the Storm

 A  not so still small silent voice!

 

Gentle reader,

Without a doubt this book of Job deserves much more study than I have given it. And well more than you have read. It is said that "The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times." Psalm 12:6 And the Prophet Jeremiah has said " Thy WORDS were FOUND, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the JOY and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts." Jeremiah  15:16.

And now what shall we look at just a word or step back and get the big picture? As a dear Saint and friend of mine Harry Myers once said "Help yourself" (meaning there is food [God’s Word] enough for all if you are able to eat )

What then of Elihu’s speech in total and in fine. What we have presented will have substantiated that it moves on a higher level that the preceding speeches. There is ample spiritual grasp and truer spiritual insight. Admittedly, here and there Elihu is somewhat incorrect, as when he says that God is unaffected either by man’s sin or uprightness [ Chapter 35 verses 6,7) " If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?"

The complete Scripture revelation shows that God’s heart of love is indeed affected. Here and there, also Elihu is inadequate, as when he says that a true response to affection always brings restoration to prosperity. Chapter 33:22-30 " If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness:

Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth:

He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.

He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man,

To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living."

But Gentle Reader, there are also strikingly true things, as when he charges Job, not with suffering because of sinning (as the other 3 stooges had said), but with sinning because of his suffering. [See Chapters 33;8-11, 34:36,37 and Chapter 35:15,16]

Elihu’s philosophy of suffering certainly does not cove all the ground ; and of course so far as Job was concerned in particular Ehihu was just as ignorant of their real cause [i.e. the slander of Satan and the challenge of Jehovah] as the other speakers in the dialogue.

Yet his view of suffering is undoubtedly are nearer the truth than anything submitted by Eliphaz, Bildad or Zophar; especially is he bordering on a tremendous truth when, at the end of his speech he advocates faith in God Himself is better even than an explanation. It as this point as we shall soon see that Jehovah himself breaks in by a whirlwind voice from a storm which has been gathering over the land toward the end of Ehihu speech.

Yes, Gentle reader, Elihu’s was a great theme. In fact too great for the likes of him. He was not equal to it. A more- than- human voice needed to speak now; and it did speak! In our next and final study in the book of job we shall see, read and hear the last great speaker of all.

Till next time.....

Love,

 Denis,

Remember you are accepted, you are valued, you are loved by God and by me