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“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed
to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many
brethren.”
All things work together bringing us into the likeness of the “Image of His
Son” Not to make you healthy, wealthy and wise in this earth. But to fulfill
God’s desire for you. His purpose is to have many sons and daughters and a
Bride for His son. Material blessings fall on the just and on the unjust, and
the wicked sometime are blessed because God has reserved the day of
judgment for them. And curses fall on the righteous to conform them to the
image of His Son.
Anyway, back to Job. Bildad must speak once more. It is a short chapter, but
he has to get in the last word, and here is what it boils down to. I am talking
about chapter 25. You can see how short it is. Job, I cannot answer your
argument, but I still think you are a dirty sinner. That is his argument. Then
Job gives one of the longest of his discourses – chapter 26 through 31. Now
that everyone has shut up – the debates are over – he gets a little softer, and
he says I have been asking you about big things and I know you cannot
answer. Only God can answer those. But I have presented some problems
and you could not even answer them. So he says let me answer the surface
things first of all. First of all, he says, verses 5-14 of chapter 26, I have a
large view of God. Boy, you begin to read that description of God, and he
really does. It is probably larger than Bildad’s, Zophar’s and Eliphaz’s put
together. Chapter 27:1 - 6

“As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who
has embittered my soul, for as long as life is in me, and the breath of
God is in my nostrils, my lips certainly will not speak unjustly, nor will
my tongue mutter deceit. Far be it from me that I should declare you
right; Till I die I will not put away my integrity from me. I hold fast my
righteousness and will not let it go. My heart does not reproach any of
my days.”
He says, I have a high view of God, and I do not understand it all but I know
this. I have not sinned. Verse 11,
“I will instruct you in the power of God; What is with the Almighty I
will not conceal.”
You say the wicked do not get rich. Here is what I say. Verse 14,
“Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; and his
descendants will not be satisfied with bread.”
Oh, they will get rich, but they will not be satisfied with their riches.

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