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Day 324: Job 38-39 | Read The Bible In A Year | Bible Study with Commentary by Dr. Manny Arango — Transcript

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  1. 0:00Hey Bible nerds, this is Dr. Manny
  2. 0:02Orango. Welcome to the Bible department
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  4. 0:08through the entire Bible in a year. You
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  8. 0:24FAMILY, WELCOME TO DAY 324. I'm super
  9. 0:27super excited. I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR
  10. 0:29THIS DAY for a long time. Yahweh is
  11. 0:32finally responding to Job. Okay? Like I
  12. 0:36know that in an eastern worldview, the
  13. 0:39kayazm is the centermost point, which in
  14. 0:42the book of Job is chapter 28. And I
  15. 0:44know that that's like the key, right?
  16. 0:47Like the climax. But I don't care what
  17. 0:49NOBODY SAY. WHEN GOD STARTS talking and
  18. 0:52he sets the record straight. Uh these
  19. 0:54are some of my favorite chapters in the
  20. 0:56ENTIRE BIBLE. A GOD IS JUST gangster in
  21. 1:01how he responds to Job. But moreover,
  22. 1:04like what Yahweh has to say is just way
  23. 1:07more important than anything that Job
  24. 1:09has to say. Definitely what his foolish
  25. 1:12friends have to say. Definitely what
  26. 1:14Elohoo has to say. And definitely what
  27. 1:17the Satan character, the accuser, the
  28. 1:19opposer has to say, Yahweh is going to I
  29. 1:23mean like set the record straight. And I
  30. 1:26just think these couple of chapters of
  31. 1:29Job are epic. So Yahweh's response is
  32. 1:33going to get split into two speeches.
  33. 1:35All right, we're going to look at one of
  34. 1:37those speeches today and we're going to
  35. 1:39look at the second speech tomorrow. So I
  36. 1:41just want you to get pumped up. Okay,
  37. 1:44today and tomorrow we are looking at
  38. 1:46Yahweh's response to Job. Uh, obviously
  39. 1:51the friends are in earshot and the
  40. 1:53friends are going to be a part of just
  41. 1:55what God has to say in response to all
  42. 1:58of these dialogues that we have been
  43. 2:00reading throughout the book of Job. So,
  44. 2:03chapters 38 and 39 would be considered
  45. 2:07God's first speech. And at the end of
  46. 2:10God's first speech, Job is like, "I'm
  47. 2:12sorry, bro. My bad. Let me stop talking.
  48. 2:17Clearly, I don't know nothing." Okay?
  49. 2:20Clearly, I'm ignorant. But for God,
  50. 2:23ignorance and humility is not enough.
  51. 2:26Remember, that's just the beginning of
  52. 2:28wisdom. By the time we get to the end of
  53. 2:30chapter 39, Job is at the fear of the
  54. 2:34Lord. But that's just the beginning of
  55. 2:36wisdom. Then chapters 40, this would be
  56. 2:40Job's second speech that Job hears from
  57. 2:43Yahweh. Yahweh is going to start talking
  58. 2:45again. Speech number two in chapter 40.
  59. 2:49And we're going to get that second
  60. 2:50speech all through chapter 40 and 41.
  61. 2:53And the conclusion of the second speech
  62. 2:57is not ignorance. It's not the fear of
  63. 3:00the Lord, the awe of Yahweh, the
  64. 3:03acknowledgment that, hey man, you're
  65. 3:05big, I'm small, my bad. It's actually
  66. 3:08Job is going to learn something powerful
  67. 3:12about God. He's going to actually get
  68. 3:15some information. So, if there was a
  69. 3:18kind of trajectory here, all right, I
  70. 3:21want you to think about the trajectory
  71. 3:23from innocence to ignorance to
  72. 3:26information. Okay? Innocence, ignorance,
  73. 3:30information. Okay, for most of the book
  74. 3:32of Job, Job has been arguing his
  75. 3:35innocence. I'm innocent. I'm innocent.
  76. 3:37I'm innocent. And then God is going to
  77. 3:39speak chapters 38 and 39. And Job's
  78. 3:43finally going to get to a place of I'm
  79. 3:45ignorant. I should not have challenged
  80. 3:48you. Like, I mean, I am humbled. Okay,
  81. 3:52which the fear of the Lord is the
  82. 3:54beginning of wisdom. And it's gonna take
  83. 3:56Yahweh two chapters to get Job to a
  84. 4:00place of instead of fighting for my
  85. 4:02innocence, I really should just be
  86. 4:04claiming I'm ignorant, man. I don't know
  87. 4:06enough. I don't know anything. And then
  88. 4:09in chapters 40 and 41, Yahweh is
  89. 4:12actually going to reveal some
  90. 4:13information to Job so that he won't just
  91. 4:16be at the beginning of wisdom, but that
  92. 4:18he can actually be on the path of wisdom
  93. 4:20beginning to know the Lord. Okay? So, I
  94. 4:23just want to give that to you as a mind
  95. 4:24map. All right, I typically say this way
  96. 4:26sooner in the episode, but I'm pumped
  97. 4:29today. And uh if you didn't read
  98. 4:30chapters 38 and 39, I mean, you are
  99. 4:33literally missing out. This is like some
  100. 4:35of the best content, like some of the
  101. 4:37best stuff God says in the entire Bible.
  102. 4:40PRETTY BALLER. ALL RIGHT, if you have
  103. 4:43not done the reading for the day, stop
  104. 4:45the video, pause the audio, GET OUT OF
  105. 4:47HERE, GO GET THE reading done. It's
  106. 4:50beautiful. Not only is it poetic, it is
  107. 4:53challenging. It's all kinds of stuff. I
  108. 4:56mean, golly peak like Bible. Okay, this
  109. 5:00is chef's kiss. Job 38 and39. All right.
  110. 5:04Finally, God is going to talk. And I
  111. 5:07mean, he's quite literally just going to
  112. 5:09put Job in his place. Okay. Starts out
  113. 5:11with this. Who is this that obscures my
  114. 5:13plans with words without knowledge? Like
  115. 5:15immediately. You got a lot of words, but
  116. 5:17you have no knowledge. Brace yourself
  117. 5:19like a man. WOO. WHEN GOD STARTS SAYING,
  118. 5:23"BRACE YOURSELF like a man," it's like,
  119. 5:24"I'm scared." Okay, I'm nervous. And
  120. 5:26then verse four, where were you when I
  121. 5:29laid the earth's foundations? Tell me if
  122. 5:31you understand. Who marked off
  123. 5:34dimension? Surely you know, you could
  124. 5:36hear the sarcasm, man. You know, since
  125. 5:39you know everything, since you're so
  126. 5:41innocent, since you are are are claiming
  127. 5:44that I'm not just, and since you and
  128. 5:48your friends have made claims about how
  129. 5:50the world works, since you know how the
  130. 5:53world works, let's talk about the world.
  131. 5:56Let's see how much you know about the
  132. 6:00cosmos, about the universe. And I mean,
  133. 6:02we get a couple questions in and you
  134. 6:04start to get what Yahweh is saying. I
  135. 6:07mean these questions are not questions.
  136. 6:08They are statements. And Yahweh says,
  137. 6:10"Who marked off its dimensions? Surely
  138. 6:13you know who stretched a measuring line
  139. 6:15across it? On what were its footing set?
  140. 6:18Or who laid its cornerstone? While the
  141. 6:21morning stars sang together, and all the
  142. 6:23angels shot it for joy? Who shut up the
  143. 6:26sea behind doors? Then it burst forth
  144. 6:29from the womb when I made the clouds its
  145. 6:32garment and wrapped it in thick
  146. 6:33darkness. When I fixed limits for it and
  147. 6:35set its doors and bars in place. When I
  148. 6:37said this far you may come and no
  149. 6:40further. Here is where your proud ways
  150. 6:42halt. Have you ever given orders to the
  151. 6:44morning? Have you EVER GIVEN ORDERS TO
  152. 6:47THE MORNING? WHAT A BALLER QUESTION TO
  153. 6:50ASK SOMEBODY. Have you ever given orders
  154. 6:53to the morning or shown the dawn its
  155. 6:55place?
  156. 6:57Like have you and then verse 16. Have
  157. 6:59you journeyed to the springs of the sea
  158. 7:01or walked in the recess of the deep?
  159. 7:03Have the gates of death been shown to
  160. 7:05you? Verse 18. Have you comprehended the
  161. 7:08vast expanse of the earth? Tell me if
  162. 7:10you know all this. 19. What is the WAY
  163. 7:13TO THE ABODE OF LIGHT? YAHWEH knows what
  164. 7:15he's doing. He's essentially getting Job
  165. 7:18to realize, oh gosh, I I just don't have
  166. 7:22enough information. I am ignorant. I am
  167. 7:27ignorant. Clearly, God is informed.
  168. 7:30Clearly, I am not. And this is the
  169. 7:32beginning of wisdom. You you know when
  170. 7:34you're talking to a wise person because
  171. 7:35wise people are genuinely humble.
  172. 7:37They're genuinely like, "Yeah, man. I
  173. 7:40don't know. There's a lot I don't know."
  174. 7:42And so, all right, let me kind of dive
  175. 7:44into context clues, nerdy nuggets,
  176. 7:46Thomas truth. Okay, I'm super super
  177. 7:48excited, but I don't want the format of
  178. 7:50the episode to get lost. All right, so
  179. 7:52here's just an introductory thought.
  180. 7:54Okay, Yahweh is not concerned with Job's
  181. 7:56innocence or his own sense of justice.
  182. 7:59That's the first thing I think we just
  183. 8:00got to observe. At no point in chapters
  184. 8:0338 or 39 does God actually respond to
  185. 8:07like what Job has asked like so so the
  186. 8:11things on the docket to respond to have
  187. 8:13been Job's innocence to which Yahweh
  188. 8:16says nothing about that not important to
  189. 8:18to the Lord. Second is his own justice.
  190. 8:21Also not important. But there's
  191. 8:23something that God wants to desperately
  192. 8:26communicate to Job and his friends. And
  193. 8:28I think I've got an interpretive key to
  194. 8:30help us understand what is that idea.
  195. 8:32But in order to understand it, we need
  196. 8:34context. All right. So, by the way, the
  197. 8:36cover of this book is literally based on
  198. 8:39these chapters that we're about to dive
  199. 8:41into, specifically chapter 41, okay?
  200. 8:44Where God begins to describe a creature
  201. 8:47named Leviathan. Leviathan. pictured
  202. 8:49here on the cover of my latest book,
  203. 8:51Crushing Chaos. So, uh, the subtitle of
  204. 8:54this book is calm your storms, order
  205. 8:56your life, find your peace. Now, when I
  206. 8:58wrote this book, the dominant framework
  207. 9:01for this book is kind of there's chaos
  208. 9:03and there's order, and chaos and order
  209. 9:06are at odds with each other. Now, I
  210. 9:08didn't want this book to be too complex
  211. 9:10or too convoluted. It's already nerdy
  212. 9:12enough. If you haven't got a copy of
  213. 9:14this book, you you should. Okay? We'll
  214. 9:16make sure there's a link in the
  215. 9:17description of this of today's episode
  216. 9:20so that you can grab a copy of this
  217. 9:21book. It's an incredible book. I know it
  218. 9:23may seem like I'm biased, but I promise
  219. 9:25you objectively solid book. All right.
  220. 9:28Now, when I wrote this book, I knew that
  221. 9:31there are actually three categories and
  222. 9:33not just two. But I just didn't want the
  223. 9:35book to be too complex or too
  224. 9:37convoluted. So, I stuck to a a twofold
  225. 9:40system, chaos and order. However, in the
  226. 9:43ancient world, there are actually three
  227. 9:46kinds of existence. Okay? There's order,
  228. 9:50there's non-order, and there's disorder.
  229. 9:53I want you to wrap your mind around
  230. 9:54that. Okay? Order, non-order, and
  231. 9:58disorder. So, let's kind of map out what
  232. 10:00those three would be. Order. We get
  233. 10:02order in, you know, Genesis chapter 2,
  234. 10:05right? Like by the end of day seven,
  235. 10:08creation has been ordered. The Garden of
  236. 10:10Eden is ordered. Okay. What is
  237. 10:13non-order? Non-order is a space that is
  238. 10:19ready to be ordered. So, let's think
  239. 10:21about it this way. There have been
  240. 10:22multiple times in my life where I've
  241. 10:24moved right from one house to another
  242. 10:25house. And when you are packing things
  243. 10:29up to move to a different house and all
  244. 10:33of your things at your new house are in
  245. 10:36boxes, okay, that's not disorder, but
  246. 10:40that is non-order. Okay, it's going to
  247. 10:42require that you take the time to unpack
  248. 10:45everything and put it in its place.
  249. 10:47That's non order. Okay, so order and
  250. 10:51non-order. Then there's disorder, which
  251. 10:54is like the unevil force that has ill
  252. 10:59intent that wants to drag order and
  253. 11:04non-order back into dysfunction. Okay,
  254. 11:08this is really disorder and and what I
  255. 11:11did in the book is essentially what I
  256. 11:13what I did is instead of creating order,
  257. 11:16non-order and disorder as three separate
  258. 11:19categories, I just created order and
  259. 11:22chaos. And I essentially made non-order
  260. 11:25and disorder all fall under the umbrella
  261. 11:29of chaos. Now, here's what's just not
  262. 11:32fair is that in the ancient world,
  263. 11:34order, non-order, and disorder are three
  264. 11:36distinct things. And here's the
  265. 11:40assumption that Job and his friends are
  266. 11:42living from. They believe that when
  267. 11:44there is non-order, okay, non-order,
  268. 11:48that non-order like suffering or uh
  269. 11:53non-order like what Job has experienced
  270. 11:56that that stuff is the result of
  271. 11:58disorder meaning I sinned. I did
  272. 12:03something sinful and therefore because
  273. 12:06of disorder now non-order is present.
  274. 12:11Okay, that is the assumption that Job
  275. 12:13and his friends have been operating
  276. 12:14with. And what Yahweh is saying is that
  277. 12:18no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Even in the
  278. 12:21realms of non-order, there's order.
  279. 12:25Which means when we go back to the
  280. 12:27triangle and we look at God's justice,
  281. 12:30Job's innocence, and the policies and
  282. 12:34procedures whereby God rules the planet.
  283. 12:37and does he rule the earth with strict
  284. 12:40justice, retribution and reward policy?
  285. 12:44God is actually going no. The non-order
  286. 12:47that you are experiencing is not the
  287. 12:49result of disorder. Life is not that
  288. 12:53simple. So what God is actually doing in
  289. 12:55these speeches is giving Job a tour of
  290. 12:59the universe and essentially showing him
  291. 13:02that there are realms that him and his
  292. 13:04friends would describe as nonordered
  293. 13:08realms as the kind of places that kind
  294. 13:11of feel like the beginning of Genesis
  295. 13:131:1. The earth is formless and void.
  296. 13:15It's the toou vavohu. It's the deep. And
  297. 13:18what does God do to that non-order?
  298. 13:20That's not disorder. That's non order in
  299. 13:22Genesis 1. But God then brings order.
  300. 13:26Okay? And for a lot of us, me creating
  301. 13:29three categories instead of two is gonna
  302. 13:32bring confusion. But honestly, it should
  303. 13:34bring clarity. Uh because if we're
  304. 13:36honest about our own life, there are
  305. 13:39non-threatening forms of chaos and then
  306. 13:41there are threatening forms of chaos.
  307. 13:42All chaos isn't the same, right? And so
  308. 13:45I want to create a space where we a
  309. 13:48enter into the ancient worldview of
  310. 13:50order, non-order, disorder and kind of
  311. 13:52help us to see that these friends think
  312. 13:56that all non-order is a result of
  313. 13:58disorder. But God through showing what
  314. 14:02happens in nature is actually going to
  315. 14:04reveal to Job and his friends that nope,
  316. 14:06my order can actually be found in the
  317. 14:09realms of non-order. And that would have
  318. 14:12been the curveball for Job and all of
  319. 14:14his friends. Let's actually look at one
  320. 14:18of the verses that is literally doing
  321. 14:20this. Okay. Now, we're going to that's
  322. 14:21our context. That's a theological
  323. 14:23context that we need in order to
  324. 14:24understand what's happening in Job
  325. 14:25chapter 38 and 39. Now that we have that
  326. 14:28context, we can then come to the
  327. 14:30conclusion that what Yahweh is going to
  328. 14:33reveal in Job chapter 38 and 39 is that
  329. 14:36it is not a retribution reward policy.
  330. 14:41That is the third leg of this triangle.
  331. 14:44What's actually here is that the earth
  332. 14:47is not founded on justice but on wisdom.
  333. 14:51Hokma wisdom. that in order to govern
  334. 14:55the universe, it is not just a hey all
  335. 14:59non-order is a result of disorder. No,
  336. 15:01no, no, no, no, no. But there's a
  337. 15:03complex relationship between order, not
  338. 15:05order and disorder. And because of that
  339. 15:07complex relationship, the thing that
  340. 15:09fuels the relationship between
  341. 15:12non-order, disorder, and order is not
  342. 15:15justice or retribution and reward, but
  343. 15:18rather wisdom. that this system is
  344. 15:22fueled by wisdom, not justice.
  345. 15:25Therefore, the triangle that the friends
  346. 15:28have been trying to figure out is
  347. 15:31inherently flawed. Now, let's move into
  348. 15:34our nerdy nuggets. All right, family.
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  371. 16:30a copy today. All right, back to the
  372. 16:33episode. God is going to reveal that his
  373. 16:38order can be found in non-ordered space.
  374. 16:40And he's actually going to do it in a
  375. 16:42quite fascinating way. Let's look at the
  376. 16:44relationship between God's order,
  377. 16:46non-order, and disorder. The
  378. 16:47interpretive key here is found in Job
  379. 16:50chapter 38 verse 25 to 26. Okay, here we
  380. 16:55go. This is what Yahweh says. He's
  381. 16:56saying, if you think that things just
  382. 16:59operate in the universe based on
  383. 17:02justice, riddle me this, Job, okay, who
  384. 17:06cuts a channel for the torrent of rain?
  385. 17:08Now, rain is going to be seen in the
  386. 17:12ancient world as a part of God's
  387. 17:14retribution or reward. Okay?
  388. 17:16Retribution. If people are evil and
  389. 17:19wicked, they get a flood, right? If
  390. 17:22people are blessed or if people are wise
  391. 17:26and they follow Torah, what happens? God
  392. 17:30sends rain so they can have crops so
  393. 17:31there's no famine or drought. Okay? So
  394. 17:33rain literally is an example of
  395. 17:37retribution and reward. And God is
  396. 17:40saying, "If I only operated the rain
  397. 17:44according to retribution and reward,
  398. 17:46riddle me this. Who cuts a channel for
  399. 17:49the torrent of rain and a path for the
  400. 17:51thunderstorm?" Verse 26, to water a land
  401. 17:55where no one lives, an un inhabited
  402. 17:58desert. Hey Joe and your friends who are
  403. 18:00in earshot, if I manage the universe
  404. 18:03based on reward and retribution, why do
  405. 18:06I send rain to the desert where it's not
  406. 18:08even useful? Why do I do that? I do that
  407. 18:12because the world that we live in is
  408. 18:15more complicated than you know. And the
  409. 18:19relationship between order, non-order,
  410. 18:21and disorder is not as neat and tidy as
  411. 18:24you think. You think that all non-order
  412. 18:27is a result of disorder. And I'm here to
  413. 18:30tell you right now, there is an order
  414. 18:33even to the realms of non-order in the
  415. 18:36cosmos. So what we are going to see in
  416. 18:39chapters 38 and 39 is that Yahweh is
  417. 18:43going to give Job seven realms of the of
  418. 18:48the geographical universe and then seven
  419. 18:50realms of the animal kingdom. Okay? So,
  420. 18:53we're going to get two sets of seven.
  421. 18:55I'll give you the first set. Okay. The
  422. 18:57first set of seven is chapter 38:es 2-7
  423. 19:01is the foundation of the earth. Does Job
  424. 19:03know how God began creation? Then Job 38
  425. 19:078-11, the sea. Does God know how God
  426. 19:10contains the sea? Then 38:12, shiel. Has
  427. 19:13Job ever seen or know the place of the
  428. 19:15dead? Then number fourth, Job 38 22 to
  429. 19:1924, snow and hail. Has Job seen where
  430. 19:23God stores the snow and the hail? And
  431. 19:25then Job 38:25-30,
  432. 19:28rain. Does Job know how and why it
  433. 19:30rains? We just looked at that just now.
  434. 19:32And then number six, the heavens. Could
  435. 19:35Job plant the constellations in the sky
  436. 19:37or know their course? And then number
  437. 19:39seven, Job 38 34-38, the storm. Can Job
  438. 19:43control the storm and lightning? So,
  439. 19:46seven realms of just the geographical
  440. 19:49universe that Job has no idea how it
  441. 19:53works. And the big thing that Yahweh is
  442. 19:56communicating is that these are realms
  443. 20:00that the ancient person would have seen
  444. 20:02as non-order. And Yahweh is trying to
  445. 20:05show that these realms of non-order are
  446. 20:07not fueled by disorder, but they're
  447. 20:10fueled by God's order. and that the
  448. 20:13relationship between order, non-order,
  449. 20:15and disorder are actually something that
  450. 20:17Job does not comprehend. This is above
  451. 20:21Job's pay grade. Okay. Second is there's
  452. 20:24seven aspects of Yahweh's policies, his
  453. 20:28purpose, his plan in the animal world.
  454. 20:30Okay. So, Job chapter 38 uh 39-41. The
  455. 20:34lion. Can J can Job provide prey for the
  456. 20:37lions? And then Job 39:es 1-4, the
  457. 20:40mountain goat. Does Job know when the
  458. 20:42mountain goat gives birth? And then Job
  459. 20:4539 5 to 8, the wild donkey. Did Job let
  460. 20:49the donkey run wild? Then Job 39-12,
  461. 20:54the wild ox. Is the wild ox willing to
  462. 20:56serve Job? And then number five, Job 39
  463. 21:0013- 18, the ostrich. Okay. Could Job
  464. 21:03possibly understand why an ostrich is is
  465. 21:05like it is? And then six, Job 39 to 25,
  466. 21:09the warhorse. Did Job make the warhorse
  467. 21:12so mighty? And then lastly, seven. Okay.
  468. 21:16Birds of prey. Job 39 26-30. Does Job
  469. 21:20understand? Does Job's understanding
  470. 21:23make the hawk sore? So, seven, two sets
  471. 21:26of seven. Two sets of ordered lists that
  472. 21:30describe realms of non-order that are
  473. 21:34not being fueled by disorder. This would
  474. 21:37have broken Job and his friends brains.
  475. 21:40But without context, you don't really
  476. 21:43understand what's happening. All many of
  477. 21:46us realize is, dang, Job got sunned.
  478. 21:49Like, Job got humbled. But there's so
  479. 21:52much more happening than just Job
  480. 21:55getting humbled. He's actually moving
  481. 21:57from a place of needing to defend his
  482. 22:00innocence to realizing maybe the
  483. 22:03suffering, aka the non-order that I've
  484. 22:05experienced, is not the result of
  485. 22:08disorder. Maybe there's something about
  486. 22:10the universe and how it runs that I have
  487. 22:14made assumptions about and my
  488. 22:16assumptions are incorrect. Job is coming
  489. 22:19to the place of man not I shouldn't just
  490. 22:23be arguing for my innocence but I should
  491. 22:26acknowledge my incorrectness and I
  492. 22:29should really realize that I'm ignorant.
  493. 22:33Now, Job's response to all of this is,
  494. 22:36okay, let's flip to Job, the end of Job
  495. 22:3939. Sorry, not Job 39, Job 40. It says
  496. 22:42this in verse three. Then Job answered
  497. 22:44the Lord, I am unworthy. How can I reply
  498. 22:46to you? I put my hand over my mouth. I
  499. 22:49spoke once, but I have no answer. Twice,
  500. 22:52but I will say no more. Then the Lord
  501. 22:54spoke to Job out of the storm. Brace
  502. 22:56yourself like a man. I will question
  503. 22:57you, and you will answer me. God's not
  504. 23:00done. And so God's purpose is not just
  505. 23:03to get you to the place of I'll shut up.
  506. 23:06Nope. Cuz what good does it do God if
  507. 23:08you just shut up for the rest of your
  508. 23:10life? God's goal is not just to sun you
  509. 23:13and humble you. It's actually to inform
  510. 23:16you and to fill you with wisdom so that
  511. 23:19you can be his witness in all the earth.
  512. 23:22Like that's the goal. All right. So
  513. 23:24what's our Thomas truth for the day?
  514. 23:26Obviously tomorrow we are going to get
  515. 23:28into what is Yahweh's next move because
  516. 23:32man Yahweh wants to fill Job with the
  517. 23:35kind of wisdom that Job could actually
  518. 23:37be a billboard for God's wisdom his
  519. 23:40hokema the thing that actually runs the
  520. 23:42universe not his justice all right let
  521. 23:45me leave you with the timeless truth
  522. 23:46there's this cool little verse okay uh
  523. 23:49where God is being described as so
  524. 23:52transcendent but then it's like he knows
  525. 23:54where the mountain goats give birth at?
  526. 23:56This is a profound question. Okay, it
  527. 23:59says this. This is Job 39 uh verse one.
  528. 24:02Do you know when the mountain goat gives
  529. 24:04birth? Do you observe the calving of the
  530. 24:07dose? Okay, this is a profound question
  531. 24:09because it is such a small thing. Okay,
  532. 24:11this our timeless truth. Okay, this is
  533. 24:13not the creation of Orion, but the birth
  534. 24:15of a mountain goat. But where do
  535. 24:18mountain goats give birth? In the
  536. 24:20mountains, of course. I mean, duh. Okay,
  537. 24:22there are the these are the goats that
  538. 24:24walk on the seemingly vertical cliffs. I
  539. 24:26don't know if you've ever seen these
  540. 24:27mountain goats. It's like how in the
  541. 24:29world can they can they even live up
  542. 24:32here? They walk easily in places that
  543. 24:34humans cannot go. Mountain goats give
  544. 24:36birth in places inaccessible to humans.
  545. 24:39So no human could ever know when it
  546. 24:43happened as they could not be there to
  547. 24:45witness it. And remember the mountains
  548. 24:48are inhabitable for humans which means
  549. 24:51it's not ordered space. Gardens are
  550. 24:53ordered space because that's where
  551. 24:54humans can live. But the mountains would
  552. 24:56be non-order. It's not disorder but it's
  553. 24:59non order. Okay? They walk easily in
  554. 25:02places humans cannot go. Mountain goats
  555. 25:04give birth in places inaccessible to
  556. 25:05humans. So no human could ever know when
  557. 25:07it happened as they could not be there
  558. 25:10to witness it. So Job could not know
  559. 25:13this information. Yet Yahweh does. He
  560. 25:16does know when mountain goats give
  561. 25:18birth. He does witness it. This is
  562. 25:20telling us something unbelievable about
  563. 25:22God. The same God who created the
  564. 25:24constellations in the sky. The same God
  565. 25:27who created things like Orion and the
  566. 25:29Pleaides in the sky is present to
  567. 25:32witness the birth of a mountain goat.
  568. 25:34The transcendent glorious creator God
  569. 25:36who is far off, who is big, who is
  570. 25:39magnificent, to whom Job is nothing in
  571. 25:42comparison, believes that the birth of a
  572. 25:44goat in the mountains is a significant
  573. 25:46event that he should be there for. He's
  574. 25:49not just transcendent, he's intimate and
  575. 25:51he's close. He flings stars into space
  576. 25:54cuz he's big. But he also watches over
  577. 25:57goats being born and learn how to walk.
  578. 26:00Why? because he's also intimately
  579. 26:03involved in the small details of life.
  580. 26:05He's glorious and transcendent. Job's
  581. 26:07friends were right about that. But they
  582. 26:10miss something that is just as vital in
  583. 26:12understanding God and his creation. He
  584. 26:14is also intimate. He's absent, but he is
  585. 26:18fully present. God cannot answer Job's
  586. 26:20complaints. Why? Because these
  587. 26:23complaints have nothing to do with God's
  588. 26:26great transcendence and his intimacy.
  589. 26:28God is essentially communicating to Job,
  590. 26:31my justice is not the only thing that
  591. 26:33there is to know about me. And my
  592. 26:35justice is not really the thing that
  593. 26:37fuels the universe. It's my wisdom. It's
  594. 26:40my hookah. And if you want to learn more
  595. 26:43about my wisdom, then keep listening to
  596. 26:45Job because I have another speech for
  597. 26:48you. And that's not just true for Job,
  598. 26:50it's true for us. We have to be
  599. 26:52intimately aware of the transcendent God
  600. 26:55that would cause us to be in awe that we
  601. 26:57would worship. That would get us to the
  602. 26:59point of I'm I'm scared of that God.
  603. 27:01He's big. I'm small. But also, that's
  604. 27:04the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
  605. 27:06The end of wisdom is to actually know
  606. 27:08this God, not in a transcendent way, but
  607. 27:10in an intimate way. And that's true
  608. 27:13forever, universally, and timelessly.
  609. 27:15And with that, I commission you to live
  610. 27:17a blessed life today. But I'm also
  611. 27:19inviting you back for part two of this
  612. 27:22episode, which we'll pick up on
  613. 27:24tomorrow. If you're on a streak, I'm
  614. 27:25proud of you. If you're not, I love you.
  615. 27:28Tomorrow's our last day in the book of
  616. 27:29Job, and I think it's going to be our
  617. 27:30best day in the book of Job. We're
  618. 27:31actually going to talk about Leviathan
  619. 27:33tomorrow. I can't wait. Tomorrow, Job
  620. 27:36chapter 40 to 42 for day 3:25 here at
  621. 27:40the Bible Department. I'll see you right
  622. 27:42here, same time, same place as we finish
  623. 27:44the book of Job. Peace. Thanks so much
  624. 27:47for joining us on the Bible Department
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