Friday, December 16, 2016

Theodicy in the Book of Job


  1. In Ezekiel 28 what is Lucifer’s sin?
  2. Why is sin explained in Genesis as the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and in Ezekiel 28 as pride?
  3. How does the creation remain in the midst of sin?
  4. Why would God sustain a self-annihilating world?
  5. What does God provide to a world on a path to annihilation?
  6. How is this intercession a testimony of the Grace of God?
  7. How does the message of the Book of Job align with the creation, the fall, Abel’s offering, Exodus 13, the Sanctuary Service, the birth of Christ, the death of Christ, the resurrection, the out-pouring of the Holy Spirit, and the consuming fire Paul writes of in 1 Corinthians 3:5-15?
  8. God recognizes the righteousness of Job after he repents wanting to assert his own righteousness.  Job acknowledges God has shown him things to beautiful to understand.  In Hebrews 9:13-14 and Isaiah 53:7 what does it mean that Christ offered Himself without blemish?  
  9. If Christ, in coming to this world surrendered His divinity (Philippians 2:5-8), and at the cross surrendered His humanity [fallen or un-fallen] (Psalm 31:5, Luke 23:46); of what relevance is the contention of the nature of Christ?
  10. In Revelation 20, what was Lucifer left with?  On the cross, what was Christ left with?  What makes the difference between the two?  How does Revelation 20:7-10 contrasted with Philippians 2:5-8 reveal what God reveals to Job in chapter 42?
  11. What message does the author of the Book of Job convey by the conspicuous absence of Satan in the last chapters?
  12. If Christ could come into this world as a weak, defenseless, and powerless infant; what threat does Satan truly pose to the kingdom of God?  Why?

What greater testimony of the eternal Grace of God can there be than God reaching into the midst of a self-annihilating world and bringing out of it life?

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