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do not breathe fire as this thing does. It is not a crocodile; it is a dragon. A
dragon? Dragons don’t exist. So some say, no, it’s a sea serpent. Others
say it’s a dinosaur. What is it? Nobody knows. And here is an amazing
thing. God is going to give us the answer to the problem of suffering, and
He brings it all to a climax. He uses two animals that do not exist, or at
least that we don’t know anything about. What good is it if we do not
even know what these creatures are?

I think I have one little clue. Not as to what they are. I do not think God
wants us to know what they are, but what they stand for. The principle,
behind each of these creatures. I think that is clear, and that is what we
will look at, but not right now. We will save that for just a little while.
Now we come to the most important part of the study of Job. What is
God’s purpose? What is God really saying through all of this?
In order to answer this, let me show you two things that God is not saying.
They happen to be two things, I used to think He was saying. I know that
it is not God’s purpose to show Job how ignorant he is. I know that for
sure. I believe that Job happened to know a great deal, if not most of what
God was saying. Now let me give you some illustrations of that. I am
going to ask you to actually look up these verses as we go through them.
Keep your finger in chapter 38. Verse 4-6 God tells Job that the earth is
hanging on nothing. Turn back to chapter 26. Job is answering Bildad.
Look at verse 7,
“He stretches out the north over empty space and hangs the earth on
nothing.”
Job already knew that. Why did God tell him that? Look at chapter 38,
verse 8 to 11. God was telling Job that He made the seas and put a
boundary on the seas, “this far and no further”. Chapter 26, verses 8-10

“He wraps up the waters in His clouds, and the cloud does not burst
under them. He obscures the face of the full moon and spreads His
cloud over it. He has inscribed a circle on the surface of the waters
at the boundary of light and darkness.”
You see, Job already knew that. Chapter 38:12-15, God is telling him that
only He knows the boundaries between the light and darkness.
Chapter 26:10, Job already knew that. Chapter 38:17
“Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the

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