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“A curse on you experts in the law, because you have taken away
the Key (Jesus) to the door of knowledge! You did not go in
yourselves, and you kept out those who tried to get in.”
So chapters 1 and 2 – God’s partial answers to the mysteries of life–
Satan is the answer. We will get into that in some detail. That is part
of the explanation. And then man’s key that never works. And then
God’s full answer, the skeleton key, the combination that unlocks
God’s vault of truth.

GOD FOSSILIZES HIS TRUTH
Now before we get any further into Job, before I go through what I
believe is the theme and the main burden on my heart. Let me tell you why
I think God used Job’s life to give this message. You see, He could have
put this message in David’s life or Samuel’s life or Solomon or Isaiah or
Paul or Peter. But He did not. He chose Job instead. The Lord needed to
demonstrate this primal truth forever in one man. This reminded me of the
phenomenon we call fossils. We all know that a fossil is an impression of
some kind of life. Either plant or animal life that is usually extinct and
found preserved in a rock. It might be a tree or a leaf or a fern. It might be
the skeleton of an insect, a fish, or a dinosaur. The point I am trying to
make is the fossil gives value to the rock. The rock has no value except for
the impression made on it. But embedded in that old stone is an image
we call a fossil. The image is priceless. We search for these ancient
impressions as valuable evidence of life lived long ago.
Just so the events and people in the Bible were chosen by God. It is not
that they are anything in themselves. Job was nothing. There have been a
thousand Jobs that never made the pages of the Bible. He’s not the only
one who ever suffered, nor was his suffering the greatest of all time. There
are other David’s and other Peter’s, who have trusted in the Lord but
never made the Bible. Job is in the scriptures because God fossilized a
truth in the rock of his life. Now, everybody knows Job. And all of the
events in the Bible are the same way. That is why there is no such thing as
an uninteresting passage in the Bible. It cannot be! Because if your heart
is right and you are seeking the Lord, you will find fossilized principles
and precious truths in every historical event. Proverbs 25:2

“It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to
search things out.”
Let me suggest why I think God gave us this message through this man
Job. Why it couldn’t be David or Peter or somebody else. Almost as soon

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