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you were in heaven a million years, you could not see God as the One
who gives grace and sustains you in your anguish. You have to learn that
down here! I have to learn that down here! And so affliction is wonderful
because it reveals God as the One who sustains us and rescues us in times
of need. And so, he stops the mouth of Job. Why doesn’t God answer?
Job, it is not the voice of God; it is your ear. He has already taught, and
He speaks through affliction.
Chapter 34. Job has been saying God is unjust. Look at verses 5,
“For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, but God has taken away my
right; Should I lie concerning my right? My wound is incurable,
though I am without transgression.’”
Elihu’s argument is based on a very high view of God. Verse 10,
“Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding. Far be it from
God to do wickedness, and from the almighty to do wrong. For He
pays a man according to his work, and makes him find it according
to his way. Surely, God will not act wickedly, and the Almighty will
not pervert justice.”

He illustrates how great God is and that you cannot say “God” and
“unjust” in the same sentence. It is a contradiction of terms. And then he
illustrates it with this marvelous point. He says, Job, why would God be
unjust? He can do anything He wants to do. He can get his way honestly
without compromising His Holiness and Justice. Verse 13
“Who gave Him authority over the earth? And who has laid on Him
the whole world? If He should determine to do so, if he should
gather to Himself His spirit and His breath, all flesh would perish
together, and man would return to dust.”
He said, if God ever decided to inhale, all flesh would perish. Do you
know how you came to be alive? Genesis 2:7,
“And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living
soul.”
God breathed in the breath of life. What if God ever inhaled? The ancient
Rabbis said that the Lord kissed Moses to death on the mountain. It says
in Deutoronomy 34:5 That Moses died by the word of the Lord. But if
you look up the Hebrew meaning of “word” used there, it literally means
“mouth as the means of blowing” The Lord lovingly kissed Moses and
withdrew His Breath. So He received Moses life back to Himself.
He said God can do anything He wants to do. Injustice is violating the

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