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Post by Admin on Mar 3, 2016 8:05:45 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Mar 3, 2016 8:09:14 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Mar 3, 2016 8:11:48 GMT -5
Mch 14-20 MW 1. Who were allowed to enter before Jehovah? (Job 1:6; 2:1) [/u]. (John 1:1, 18) Satan and his demons were not ousted from heaven until shortly after the establishment of God’s Kingdom in 1914. (Revelation 12:1-12) By permitting them to enter before him, Jehovah brought before all spirit creatures Satan’s challenge and the issues it raised." - [w06 3/15 13 par. 6][/ul] Mch 14-20 MW 2. What false reasoning did Eliphaz present to Job? (Job 4:7, 18, 19) [/u][/u] “Look! In his servants he has no faith,” Eliphaz told Job, “and his angels he charges with faultiness.” (Job 4:18, footnote) Eliphaz later said of God: “In his holy ones he has no faith, and the heavens themselves are actually not clean in his eyes.” (Job 15:15) And he asked: “Does the Almighty have any delight in that you are righteous?” (Job 22:3) Bildad was in agreement with this viewpoint, for he stated: “There is even the moon, and it is not bright; and the stars themselves have not proved clean in [God’s] eyes.”—Job 25:5. We must be on guard against being influenced by such thinking. It can lead us to feel that God requires too much of us. This view attacks our very relationship with Jehovah. Moreover, if we succumb to this type of reasoning, how would we respond when we are given needed discipline? Rather than humbly accepting the correction, our heart may become “enraged against Jehovah himself,” and we may harbor resentment toward him. (Proverbs 19:3) How spiritually disastrous that would be " - [w05 9/15 26 par.4-5] ; "Well, they based practically all their counsel on an incorrect supposition: that suffering comes only to those who sin. In his first speech, Eliphaz said: “Who that is innocent has ever perished? And where have the upright ever been effaced? According to what I have seen, those devising what is hurtful and those sowing trouble will themselves reap it.” (Job 4:7, 8) Eliphaz mistakenly believed that the innocent are immune to calamity. He reasoned that since Job was in severe straits, he must have sinned against God. Both Bildad and Zophar likewise insisted that Job repent of his sins.—Job 8:5, 6; 11:13-15. His three companions further disheartened Job by voicing personal ideas rather than godly wisdom. Eliphaz went so far as to say that ‘God has no faith in his servants’ and that it did not really matter to Jehovah whether Job was righteous or not. (Job 4:18; 22:2, 3) It is hard to imagine a more discouraging—or more untruthful—remark than that! Not surprisingly, Jehovah later rebuked Eliphaz and his companions for this blasphemy. “You men have not spoken concerning me what is truthful,” he said. (Job 42:7) But the most damaging assertion was yet to come." - [w95 2/15 27 par. 5-6][/ul] Mch 21-27 MW 3. How did Job highlight the importance of loyal love?? (Job 6:14) [/u] Moreover, Job showed love for others, realizing that anyone withholding loyal love from fellow humans will abandon the reverential fear of the Almighty. (Job 6:14) Integrity keepers love God and neighbor.—Matt. 22:37-40" - [w10 11/15 32 ¶20][/ul] Mch 21-27 MW 4. If Job hoped in a future resurrection, then why did he make the statements found in these verses? (Job 7:9, 10; 10:21) [/u]. What, then, did he mean? One possibility is that if he should die, none of his contemporaries would see him. From their standpoint, he would neither return to his house nor get further acknowledgment until God’s appointed time. Job might also have meant that no one can come back from Sheol on his own. That Job hoped in a future resurrection is clear from Job 14:13-15." - [w06 3/15 14 ¶11][/ul]
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Post by Admin on Mar 19, 2016 20:04:54 GMT -5
Mch 28-April 3 MW 5. Why do older Christians have the potential to help younger Christians? (Job 12:12) [/u].” Thus, as the Bible book of Job suggests, age is, indeed, sage" - [g99 7/22 11, box][/ul] Mch 28-April 3 MW 6. What did Eliphaz mean when he intimated that Job’s face was “covered with fat”? (Job 15:27) [/u], so that, in effect, he was ‘covering his face with his fattiness.’ (Job 15:27) As in Haman’s case, for another to cover one’s face could represent shamefulness and possibly doom.—Es 7:8; compare Ps 44:15; Jer 51:51. " - [it-1 802 ¶4][/ul]
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Post by Admin on Mar 19, 2016 20:13:42 GMT -5
April 04-10 MW 7. What did Job mean by the expression “I escape with the skin of my teeth”? (Job 19:20) [/a][/ul] [/u]. He had escaped with the skin of his teeth, that is, with the “skin” of what apparently has no skin." - [it-2 977 par. 1][/ul] April 04-10 MW 8. How could Job “see God,” since no human can see Jehovah? (Job 19:26) [/u]. Job therefore ‘made a retraction and repented in dust and ashes.’ (Job 42:1-6) The many questions that he had been unable to answer had proved God’s supremacy and had shown the smallness of man, even one as devoted to Jehovah as Job was. This helps us to see that our interests are not to be put above the sanctification of Jehovah’s name and the vindication of his sovereignty. (Matthew 6:9, 10) Our prime concern should be maintaining integrity to Jehovah and honoring his name." - [w94 11/15 19 par. 17][/ul] April 11-17 MW 9. Why was moving a boundary marker a serious offense? (Job 24:2) [/u]. Doing this was equivalent to theft and was so viewed in ancient times. (Job 24:2) But there were unscrupulous persons who were guilty of such abuses, and princes of Judah in Hosea’s time were likened to those moving back a boundary.—Ho 5:10. Jehovah is considerate of the widowed and fatherless. Thus it is said that he will tear down the house of the self-exalted, “but he will fix the boundary of the widow.” (Pr 15:25) Then, too, Proverbs 23:10, 11 declares: “Do not move back the boundary of long ago, and into the field of fatherless boys do not enter. For their Redeemer is strong; he himself will plead their cause with you.”" - [it-1 360][/ul] April 11-17 MW 10. What is notable about Job’s description of the earth? (Job 26:7) [/u]. Rather, the Bible leaves the door open to scientific discovery. In time, Nicolaus Copernicus and Johannes Kepler described how the planets move around the sun driven by an invisible force. Isaac Newton later showed how gravitation governs the movement of all objects in space." - [w15 6/1 5 par 4][/ul] [/u]. What about the Bible? It contains a record of the words of a faithful man named Job, who said about Jehovah: “He is . . . hanging the earth upon nothing.” (Job 26:7) Such a notion would surely have struck Aristotle as preposterous. In the 17th century C.E., some 3,000 years after Job’s day, prevailing scientific theory held that the universe was filled, not with crystalline spheres, but with a kind of fluid. Late in that century, though, physicist Sir Isaac Newton proposed a completely different idea. Gravity, he said, caused an attraction between the heavenly bodies. Newton had come one step closer to understanding that the earth and other heavenly bodies did indeed hang in empty space, what would appear to humans as “nothing.” Newton’s theory about gravity met with a great deal of opposition. It was still hard for many scientifically minded men to envision that stars and other heavenly bodies were not held in place by something substantial. How could our massive earth or the heavenly orbs simply hang there in space? The idea struck some as supernatural. Since Aristotle’s day, most men of science had believed that space must be filled with something." - [ w11 7/1 26 par. 2-5][/ul]
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Post by Admin on Mar 27, 2016 12:32:20 GMT -5
April 18-24 MW 11. In what sense did Job try “to prove himself right rather than God”? (Job 32:2) [/a][/ul] [/u]. Job was reproved because, though not charging God with any wrong, he was “declaring his own soul righteous rather than God.” (Job 32:1, 2) The man versed in the Law who questioned Jesus about the way to everlasting life was indirectly reproved by Jesus for his attempt to prove himself righteous. (Lu 10:25-37) Jesus condemned the Pharisees for seeking to declare themselves righteous before men. (Lu 16:15) The apostle Paul, in particular, showed that, because of the imperfect, sinful state of all mankind, none could be declared righteous through trying to establish their own righteousness by works of the Mosaic Law. (Ro 3:19-24; Ga 3:10-12) Instead, he stressed faith in Christ Jesus as the true basis for such declaration of righteousness. (Ro 10:3, 4) The inspired letter of James complements Paul’s statement by showing that such faith must be made to live, not by works of Law, but by works of faith, as in the cases of Abraham and Rahab.—Jas 2:24, 26." - [it-1 606 par. 5][/ul] April 18-24 MW 12. Why did Elihu feel that he could speak even though he was younger than his listeners? (Job 32:8, 9) [/a][/ul] [/a][/ul]
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Post by Admin on Mar 28, 2016 22:00:58 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Apr 23, 2016 13:55:51 GMT -5
April 25- May 1 MW 13. What might have been the “ransom” that Elihu mentioned? (Job 33:24, 25) [/u]; let him return to the days of his youthful vigor.” (Job 33:24, 25) Those words must have filled Job with hope. He did not have to continue suffering right down to his death. If Job would repent, God would be pleased to accept a ransom in his behalf and set him free from his calamities.* *Footnote: The word “ransom” used here means “covering.” (Job 33:24; footnote) In Job’s case, the ransom might have been an animal sacrifice, which God would accept to cover, or atone for, Job’s error.—Job 1:5Job humbly accepted correction, and he repented. (Job 42:6) Jehovah evidently accepted a ransom in Job’s behalf, allowing it to cover his error and open the way for God to restore and reward him. Jehovah “blessed the end of Job afterward more than his beginning.” (Job 42:12-17) Imagine Job’s relief when, among other blessings, his loathsome disease cleared up and his flesh, in effect, became “fresher than in youth”! The ransom that God accepted in Job’s behalf had limited value, for the man remained imperfect and later died. We have a much better ransom available to us. Jehovah lovingly gave his Son, Jesus, as a ransom for us. (Matthew 20:28; John 3:16) All who put faith in that ransom have the prospect of living forever on a paradise earth. In that coming new world, God will release faithful humans from the aging process. Why not learn more about how you may live to see the time when old ones will see their “flesh become fresher than in youth”?" - [w11 4/1 23 par. 3-5][/ul] April 25- May 1 MW 14. To what extent was Job to be tested, and what does that teach us? (Job 34:36) [/u]. Nevertheless, our loving heavenly Father will not let us be tempted beyond what we can bear.—1 Corinthians 10:13." - [w94 11/15 17 par. 10][/ul] May 2-8 MW 15. Who are “the morning stars,” and what do we know about them? (Job 38:4-7) [/u]thus existed long before humans were created, even before the creation of the earth. This Bible passage also shows that angels have feelings, for it says that they “joyfully cried out together.” Note that “all the sons of God” rejoiced together. At that time, all the angels were part of a united family serving Jehovah God." - [bh 97 par 3][/ul] May 2 - 8 MW 16. What can we do to see God as Job did? (Job 42:3-5) [/u]Or you may have experienced an answer to a prayer. Maybe you decided to expand your ministry and were amazed at how Jehovah helped to work things out for you. Or have you ever experienced leaving a job for spiritual reasons and then seen the truth of God’s promise: “I will never abandon you”? (Heb. 13:5) By being spiritually alert, we can discern how Jehovah has helped us in many ways." - [w15 10/15 8 par. 16-17][/ul]
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Post by Admin on May 4, 2016 22:04:24 GMT -5
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