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Job 1:1-5 - The Blameless Man Named Job · The Bible Explained with Jenn Kokal

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  Speaker 1: Life Audio. Howdy, faithful listeners.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the book of Job. I am so excited
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  Speaker 2: to dive into this book with you guys. I hope
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  Speaker 2: you all enjoyed Esther. I loved that book. That was
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  Speaker 2: just so fun to talk about. And honestly, for me,
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  Speaker 2: it felt kind of like a break a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Because we went from Ezra and Nehemiah and some of
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  Speaker 2: the complicated passages in those chapters to Esther, which is
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  Speaker 2: almost like a feel-good story. There's obviously some deep things
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  Speaker 2: you can get into in the book of Esther. But
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  Speaker 2: it was a really nice break for me after Ezra
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  Speaker 2: and Nehemiah, especially now that we're in the book of Job.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to guess that this book is going to
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  Speaker 2: be the most difficult one that I've talked about to date.
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  Speaker 2: Let's dive into... Job chapter one today, and I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to really get into the meat of Job today,
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  Speaker 2: more so talk about who Job was, kind of lay
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  Speaker 2: a foundation for you guys about Job's character, where he
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  Speaker 2: might have lived, as well as some few points as
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  Speaker 2: to why the book of Job should absolutely be included
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  Speaker 2: in scripture and why I think it would be catastrophic
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  Speaker 2: if this book was not included in scripture. So we've
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  Speaker 2: got a lot of different things to talk about today.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going to dive into this episode, but first,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to play a message from one of my sponsors.
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  Speaker 2: All right, hopefully you guys are ready to delve into
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  Speaker 2: Job with me. We're only going to read the first
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  Speaker 2: five verses. So let's turn to Job 1 if you
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  Speaker 2: guys are able to read the Bible with me. If not,
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  Speaker 2: if you're commuting to work or something like that, obviously
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  Speaker 2: don't read the Bible with me, but I always recommend
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  Speaker 2: going back and reading it when you can. So let's
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  Speaker 2: read Job 1, 1 through 5. As usual, I'll be
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  Speaker 2: reading from the World English Bible. There was a man
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  Speaker 2: in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That
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  Speaker 2: man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God,
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  Speaker 2: and turned away from evil. There were born to him
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  Speaker 2: seven sons and three daughters. His possessions also were 7,000 sheep,
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  Speaker 2: 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and
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  Speaker 2: a very great household, so that this man was the
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  Speaker 2: greatest of all the children of the east. His sons
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  Speaker 2: went and held a feast in the house of each
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  Speaker 2: one on his birthday. So you may have noticed that
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  Speaker 2: I stopped reading right before the meat of the story
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  Speaker 2: because The book of Job really jumps right in, like
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  Speaker 2: right after where we just read verse six, gets to
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  Speaker 2: the point of the story that there is a man
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  Speaker 2: named Job. He's a servant of God. He's very good.
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  Speaker 2: And yet he suffers catastrophically, essentially. So whoever authored the
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  Speaker 2: book of Job does a great job at just getting
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  Speaker 2: to the point of this book. But looking at the
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  Speaker 2: book as a whole, it can be broken up drastically.
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  Speaker 2: into four different sections. The first section, which is chapters
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  Speaker 2: one and two, consists of the beginning, you know, kind
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  Speaker 2: of explaining what happened to Job. Then there's the dialogue
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  Speaker 2: between Job and his friends. Then there's the dialogue towards
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  Speaker 2: the end of the book between Job and God. And
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  Speaker 2: then there is the conclusion to the story, which is
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  Speaker 2: the last chapter of Job. And each portion feels very
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  Speaker 2: different from the previous. So that brings up the question,
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  Speaker 2: who authored the book of Job? Honestly, it could have
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  Speaker 2: been Job himself that authored the book. A lot of
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  Speaker 2: people say that Moses authored it. A lot of people
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  Speaker 2: say that Solomon may have authored it because it's considered
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  Speaker 2: a poetic book. It's very close to the Psalms and
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  Speaker 2: the Proverbs and Ecclesiastes of which Solomon had a hand
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  Speaker 2: in writing. There's even some Psalms that Solomon wrote, as
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  Speaker 2: a matter of fact. So could it be that Solomon
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  Speaker 2: wrote the story of Job?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, possibly.
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  Speaker 2: But again, it could have been Job himself. Could have
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  Speaker 2: been a friend of Job. Could have been Moses. Could
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  Speaker 2: have been anybody. We do not know who authored the
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  Speaker 2: book of Job. But the one question that many people
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  Speaker 2: like to bring up, was Job a real person? Did
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  Speaker 2: he truly exist? Because a lot of people say that
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  Speaker 2: this book is basically... historical fiction. It's something that's there
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  Speaker 2: not to be taken literally, but more as like a
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  Speaker 2: moral story. In fact, I used to be a Jordan
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  Speaker 2: Peterson fan back in the day. And I remember one
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  Speaker 2: time listening to him discussing the book of Job years ago.
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  Speaker 2: And he said something like, you know, the book of
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  Speaker 2: Job is so complicated. You wonder why the people who
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  Speaker 2: put the Bible together left it in. Like, why didn't
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  Speaker 2: they just take it out altogether? It seems like it
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  Speaker 2: would be better in a lot of ways not to
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  Speaker 2: have the book of Job in the Bible at all.
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  Speaker 2: Because now critics will look at the book of Job
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  Speaker 2: and say, God is not good because he allowed this
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  Speaker 2: man to suffer terribly. Why would an all loving God
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  Speaker 2: do this? Why would a just God do something like
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  Speaker 2: this to Job? But as we go through the book
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  Speaker 2: of Job, I'm going to argue why this book should
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  Speaker 2: be in here and why I think it would actually
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  Speaker 2: be I think it would be catastrophic if the book
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  Speaker 2: of Job was not part of the Bible because it
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  Speaker 2: talks about the fundamental question that every single person on
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  Speaker 2: earth has, which is why does a loving God allow
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  Speaker 2: suffering to happen? So we will dive into that topic
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  Speaker 2: as we get more into the book of Job. But firstly,
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk about who Job is and is
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  Speaker 2: he a real person? Yeah, he's a real person. Scripture
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  Speaker 2: makes it very clear that Job did in fact exist.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, God himself from his own mouth in Ezekiel
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  Speaker 2: 14 said specifically that Job existed and was a real man.
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  Speaker 2: So let's turn to Ezekiel 14, 12 through 14, which says,
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  Speaker 2: Yahweh's word came to me saying, son of man, when
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  Speaker 2: a land sins against me by committing a trespass, And
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  Speaker 2: I stretch out my hand on it and I break
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  Speaker 2: the staff of its bread and sand famine on it
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  Speaker 2: and cut off from it man and animal. Though these
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  Speaker 2: three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they
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  Speaker 2: would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness, says
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  Speaker 2: the Lord Yahweh. And then continuing on, God actually mentions
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  Speaker 2: Job again in verse 19. Or if I send a
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  Speaker 2: pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath on
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  Speaker 2: it to cut off from it man and animal, Though Noah, Daniel,
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  Speaker 2: and Job were in it, as I live, says Lord Yahweh,
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  Speaker 2: they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver
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  Speaker 2: only their own souls by their righteousness. So yes, God
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  Speaker 2: makes it pretty clear that Job was a real person
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  Speaker 2: because he mentions him along with Noah and Daniel, who
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  Speaker 2: for some reason, nobody ever questions the validity of Noah
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  Speaker 2: or Daniel. It's only Job that they question because again,
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  Speaker 2: People have such a hard time with the book of
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  Speaker 2: Job understanding why God allows suffering in that way. So
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  Speaker 2: it's easier to make Job out to be as if
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  Speaker 2: he is not a real person and that a blameless
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  Speaker 2: man like Job didn't actually suffer in this way and
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  Speaker 2: God didn't actually force Job to suffer. But no, Job
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  Speaker 2: in fact existed. God with his own mouth said that
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  Speaker 2: Job existed. And also in James chapter five, the New
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  Speaker 2: Testament says, James mentions Job in verse 11. Behold, we
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  Speaker 2: call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the
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  Speaker 2: perseverance of Job and have seen the Lord in the
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  Speaker 2: outcome and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
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  Speaker 2: So both the authors in the Old and New Testament
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  Speaker 2: and Yahweh himself, in fact, say that Job was a
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  Speaker 2: real person. So yes, he was a real person. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this is where things get interesting, though. As we learn
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  Speaker 2: more about Job, we can try to figure out exactly
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  Speaker 2: when he lived. So there's a few clues that can
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  Speaker 2: point us in the right direction. The first is in
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  Speaker 2: Job chapter one itself, verse one, which says, there is
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  Speaker 2: a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job.
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  Speaker 2: So now we get a location for Job, which was Uz.
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  Speaker 2: In Lamentation chapter four, verse 21, the author Jeremiah says,
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  Speaker 2: mentions that Uz and Edom are the same place. He says,
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  Speaker 2: So now we have a location for Job. He was
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  Speaker 2: very likely an Edomite. Now, that being said, Could Job
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  Speaker 2: have existed in another location that was also called Uz
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  Speaker 2: maybe before the Edomites even existed, even before Abraham existed? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's possible too. Because if you turn to 1 Chronicles 1,
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  Speaker 2: there's an interesting little person mentioned here in verse 23.
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  Speaker 2: You guys might remember me going through the Chronicles and
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned that Job could be part of this lineage actually.
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  Speaker 2: It says in verse 23 that Jobab was the son
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  Speaker 2: of Joktan, who was the son of Eber, who was
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  Speaker 2: the grandchild of Shem, the son of Noah.
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  Speaker 1: So this Jobab.
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  Speaker 2: Person right here mentioned in the lineage of Noah could
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  Speaker 2: possibly be the same Job that we read about in
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  Speaker 2: the book of Job. because Jobab is just the longer
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  Speaker 2: name for Job, just like how my real name is Jennifer,
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  Speaker 2: but everybody calls me Jen. Same thing with Job and Jobab,
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  Speaker 2: potentially at least. But you might be like, well, Jen,
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  Speaker 2: if Job and Jobab are the same person, and Jobab,
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  Speaker 2: as it mentions in 1 Chronicles, is like the great
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  Speaker 2: grandson of Shem, who existed before Abraham, then it's not
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  Speaker 2: possible for for Job or Jobab to be an Edomite
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  Speaker 2: because the Edomites didn't exist yet. Because the Edomites came
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  Speaker 2: from Esau, who was the grandchild of Abraham, who would
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  Speaker 2: have existed after this Jobab character in 1 Chronicles.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yes, that's true.
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  Speaker 2: Unless Job was not an Edomite and just came from
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  Speaker 2: a land called Uz that we don't really know about
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  Speaker 2: because it's been lost to history.
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  Speaker 1: Is that possible? Yes, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: But there's something even more interesting that we read about
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  Speaker 2: in 1 Chronicles 1. Jumping all the way down to
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  Speaker 2: verse 44. This is well after Abraham and Isaac died
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  Speaker 2: and well after Esau, who founded the Edomites and the
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  Speaker 2: nation of Edom, well after he died as well. In
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  Speaker 2: verse 43 of 1 Chronicles 1, it starts mentioning all
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  Speaker 2: the kings who reigned in the land of Edom. It says,
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  Speaker 2: now these are the kings who reigned in the land
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  Speaker 2: of Edom before any king reigned over the children of Israel. Bela,
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  Speaker 2: the son of Beor, and the name of his city
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  Speaker 2: was Dinobah. Bela died and Jobab, the son of Zerah
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  Speaker 2: of Bozrah, reigned in his place. So this is a
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  Speaker 2: different Jobab well down the line, well after that first
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  Speaker 2: Jobab we just talked about, who was like the great
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  Speaker 2: grandchild of Shem. This Jobab was a descendant of Esau.
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  Speaker 2: who lived in the land of Edom or Uz as
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  Speaker 2: Lamentations calls it. So it's very possible that this Jobab,
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  Speaker 2: not the previous one, but this one is more in
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  Speaker 2: line with the Job that we read about in the
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  Speaker 2: book of Job. But did you notice what it said
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  Speaker 2: about this particular Jobab? That he was the son of
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  Speaker 2: Zerah of Bozrah and reigned in the place of Bala.
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  Speaker 2: So in other words, this Jobab was a king. an
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  Speaker 2: Edomite king. So is it possible that this King Jobab
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  Speaker 2: is the same Job? I think there's a very strong
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  Speaker 2: argument for it actually, because let's turn to Job 29
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  Speaker 2: and read verses seven through 10.
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  Speaker 1: This is Job speaking.
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  Speaker 2: It says, when I went out to the city gate,
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  Speaker 2: when I prepared my seat in the street, the young
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  Speaker 2: men saw me and hid themselves.
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  Speaker 1: The aged rose up and stood.
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  Speaker 2: The princes refrained from talking and And laid their hand
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  Speaker 2: on their mouth. The voice of the nobles was hushed
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  Speaker 2: and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouth.
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  Speaker 2: And then if you jump down to verses 21 through 25,
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  Speaker 2: Job continues with this prestige that he had. Men listened
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  Speaker 2: to me and waited and kept silence for my counsel.
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  Speaker 2: After my words, they didn't speak again. My speech fell
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  Speaker 2: on them. They waited for me as for the rain.
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  Speaker 2: Their mouths drank as with the spring rain. I smiled
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  Speaker 2: on them when they had no confidence. They didn't reject
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  Speaker 2: the light of my face. I chose out their way
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  Speaker 2: and sat as chief. I lived as a king in
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  Speaker 2: the army, as one who comforts the mourners. Job basically
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  Speaker 2: describes himself as a king in the book of Job itself.
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  Speaker 2: So there is a very high likelihood in my estimation
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  Speaker 2: that that Job was in fact the king of Edom,
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  Speaker 2: as is described in the book of 1 Chronicles. So
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  Speaker 2: that is who I personally think Job was. But because
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  Speaker 2: scripture does not specifically say that Job is actually a
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  Speaker 2: sitting king, other than what Job describes himself as, then
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  Speaker 2: we can't exactly say that he was a king, We
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  Speaker 2: can say that he was a powerful man, that maybe
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  Speaker 2: kings listened to him, that maybe he was one of
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  Speaker 2: the king's advisors. You know, there's a lot of speculation
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  Speaker 2: that we can give, but it is very possible that
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  Speaker 2: Job was in fact a prince or a king. We
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  Speaker 2: do know he was a powerful man. So with all
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  Speaker 2: that being said, let's go back to Job chapter one
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  Speaker 2: and read a little bit more about Job's prosperity and
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  Speaker 2: his righteousness. It says, there was a man in the
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  Speaker 2: land of Uz whose name was Job. That man was
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  Speaker 2: blameless and upright and one who feared God and turned
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  Speaker 2: away from evil. There were born to him seven sons
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  Speaker 2: and three daughters. His possessions were also 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels,
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  Speaker 2: 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very
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  Speaker 2: great household. So this man was the greatest of all
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  Speaker 2: the children of the East. So yeah, if this guy
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  Speaker 2: wasn't a king, he was probably pretty close to one.
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  Speaker 1: Let's be honest. He was at least a chief. That
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  Speaker 1: is for sure.
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  Speaker 2: He was definitely... chief of his household, and he had
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  Speaker 2: a lot of renown in the area. So yeah, this
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  Speaker 2: guy was very wealthy. He was blessed immensely by God.
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  Speaker 2: He had a lot of family. He had a lot
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  Speaker 2: of servants. He had a lot of animals, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of land, a lot of children. There was nobody greater
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  Speaker 2: than him, is what it says, in the entirety of
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  Speaker 2: the East. But he also had something else going for him,
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  Speaker 2: not just his wealth and prosperity. But he also was
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  Speaker 2: a blameless and upright man, in verse 1, and one
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  Speaker 2: who feared God and turned away from evil.
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  Speaker 1: Now, in Hebrew, the.
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  Speaker 2: Word blameless here is the word tam, which is actually
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  Speaker 2: a root of tamim, which was used for the unblemished
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  Speaker 2: sacrificial animals. So remember how God would tell people that
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  Speaker 2: they needed to bring a perfect animal, like one without spot?
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  Speaker 2: You know, one that wasn't crippled or blind or had
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  Speaker 2: skin problems or anything like that. An animal that was
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  Speaker 2: in perfect condition, essentially, was to be the sacrifice for God.
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  Speaker 2: The Hebrew word used for spotless is essentially the same
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  Speaker 2: word used for Job right here. Now, some people have
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  Speaker 2: misunderstood that to say that Job was completely sinless. But
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  Speaker 2: that's not possible for a few reasons. The word tam
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  Speaker 2: or tamim does not mean sinless because something that is
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  Speaker 2: sinless is absolutely perfect, right? And there's only one being
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  Speaker 2: that has ever been completely perfect in the eyes of God.
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  Speaker 2: Job was not that man. Jesus was obviously that man. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Job obviously points to Jesus, and we'll talk about that
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  Speaker 2: at a later time. But again, the word used to
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  Speaker 2: describe Job's character as blameless is does not mean sinless
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  Speaker 2: or perfect. Because think about the spotless or blameless animals,
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  Speaker 2: the sacrifices. Those sacrifices were not perfect. Actually, Hebrews says
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  Speaker 2: that those sacrifices were not perfect. They couldn't possibly be perfect.
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  Speaker 2: There was only one perfect sacrifice, and that was Jesus himself.
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  Speaker 1: So if the.
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  Speaker 2: Blameless, spotless, little innocent animals brought as a sacrifice were
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  Speaker 2: not perfect, then obviously Job would not have been perfect
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  Speaker 2: as well. but he was blameless in the things that
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  Speaker 2: he did. He trusted in God completely. He tried to
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  Speaker 2: avoid sin as much as humanly possible, essentially. He turned
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  Speaker 2: away from evil and he feared God is what it
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  Speaker 2: says in verses four and five. It says, Job's sons
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  Speaker 2: went and held a feast in the house of each
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  Speaker 2: one on his birthday. And they sent and called for
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  Speaker 2: their three daughters to eat and to drink with them.
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  Speaker 2: So every single time that one of his sons had
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  Speaker 2: a birthday party.
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  Speaker 1: Job would call.
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  Speaker 2: For them and sanctify them through a sacrifice. And he
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  Speaker 2: would do that for all of his sons. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if he did it for his daughters, but specifically
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  Speaker 2: his sons, he would do that for. And he did
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  Speaker 2: it so that they would not renounce God in their hearts.
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  Speaker 2: And this really shows Job's attitude before God, because he
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  Speaker 2: wasn't just concerned about his own spiritual well-being. He was
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  Speaker 2: concerned also for his children's spiritual well-being. So he would
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  Speaker 2: intercede for them on their behalf. And it says that
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  Speaker 2: he did this continually. Now, the fact that Job is
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  Speaker 2: not a Jewish man, I think is very important to
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  Speaker 2: the story because a good portion of the Old Testament
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  Speaker 2: really follows the Israelites and their journey with God, right?
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  Speaker 2: But now we completely turn the tides and we see
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  Speaker 2: a man who is a servant of God, a man
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  Speaker 2: who is completely blameless in all the things that he does.
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  Speaker 2: serving God to this capacity. And in a lot of ways,
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  Speaker 2: serving God better probably than most of the Israelites did, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: at this time. So I would say that's one of
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  Speaker 2: the first reasons why the book of Job is so important.
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  Speaker 2: Because a lot of people have this idea that the
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  Speaker 2: Old Testament is only for the Israelites, that God only
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  Speaker 2: cared about the Israelites, that other people were not allowed, essentially,
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  Speaker 2: to become his children. But that's clearly not true because
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  Speaker 2: God accepts anybody who comes to him. So Yahweh is
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  Speaker 2: not just the God of the Jewish people. He's the
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  Speaker 2: God of all of us. So I think that's the
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  Speaker 2: first reason that the book of Job is really important
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  Speaker 2: for us to read about. And the second reason right
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  Speaker 2: off the bat is that the book of Job really
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  Speaker 2: points to Jesus. You know, Jesus was a blameless and
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  Speaker 2: upright man, but he was truly sinless. Not just blameless,
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  Speaker 2: completely sinless. And it says in Hebrews that he is
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  Speaker 2: a mediator, just as Job was being a mediator for
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  Speaker 2: his children. Jesus is our mediator. He's our high priest.
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  Speaker 2: So the book of Job really points to Jesus. And
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  Speaker 2: those are the only two things I'm going to say,
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  Speaker 2: the only two points, rather, I'm going to talk about
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  Speaker 2: right now. As we get more into the book of Job,
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  Speaker 2: I will obviously talk about some more points as to
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  Speaker 2: why this book is so important and why we need
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  Speaker 2: it in Scripture. But for right now, I am going
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  Speaker 2: to move to an ad break. And then after that,
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  Speaker 2: I will close out this episode with the usual happy
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  Speaker 2: listening and God bless. Well, thanks for listening all the
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  Speaker 2: way to the end, faithful listener. And I'm excited to
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  Speaker 2: dive more into the book of Job with you, where
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  Speaker 2: we'll get more into the meat of the story on
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday and uncover more points about Job, why this book
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  Speaker 2: should exist, the nature of God, and how This story
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  Speaker 2: ultimately is about Yahweh rather than Job himself. So it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be an interesting ride for sure. So I
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  Speaker 2: hope to see you guys on Wednesday as we talk
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  Speaker 2: about the next portion of Job. Faithful listeners, have a
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  Speaker 2: fantastic and wonderful, wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: Rest of your day.
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  Speaker 2: I will see all of you hopefully tomorrow as we
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  Speaker 2: delve more into the.
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  Speaker 1: Book of 1 Peter. Faithful listeners, happy listening and God bless.
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  Speaker 2: the Bible Explained podcast. In fact, if you go to lifeaudio.com,
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