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JOB 37-39: The Paradox Of Elihu/The GLORY of GOD DRBBB 31.5.26

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lets first look at who is speaking in Job 37
his name is Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram he was a descendant of the brother of Abraham .

he crashed the party. he is a younger man who has been listening to the 3 accuser friends of Job accusing him but not making their point because they were wrong.
when there is a lull he explains that he has been sitting like “fermenting wine” ready to burst out of new wineskins. He literally could not contain himself
some scholars say he was an interloper who was out of line and should have not intervened claiming “perfect knowledge of God”. hmmm… intervened? yes some consider him a foreshadowing of Christ or a preparatory prophet like
John the baptizer or Elijah perhaps. But while he is there to set the stage for God’s grandeur and majesty he also makes the mistake of assuming Job is guilty of sin and being punished.
And so Elihu complicates things with being himself a kind of paradox.
some beautiful poetry in his description of God includesHe unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven
and sends it to the ends of the earth.After that comes the sound of his roar; he thunders with his majestic voice.When his voice resounds, he holds nothing back.
He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the rain shower, ‘Be a mighty downpour.’ So that everyone he has made may know his work,
The breath of God produces ice, and the broad waters become frozen.He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through them.
He brings the clouds to punish people, or to water his earth and show his love.
“Listen to this, Job; stop and consider God’s wonders.
can you join him in spreading out the skies, hard as a mirror of cast bronze? God comes in awesome majesty. The Almighty is beyond our reach and exalted in power;
in his justice and great righteousness, he does not oppress.

38 Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the whirlwind. He said:

“Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge? Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me.
well God questions Job about God through the end of chapter 38. Such as

“Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand.
Then he says something which has greater significance today. There are those that believe that we are living not in a false reality but in some kind of simulated one
like a computer program. What is clearly true is that the fabric, the logos, the word that creation is knit together with is mathematical. If there was one instance where 2+2 did not equal 4
the whole universe would fall to pieces. So here, God says”
Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?

then there is an allusion which fits in with the councils and the plural “Elohim” that Michael Haiser covered in great detail in his book The Unseen Realm when God says:
while the morning stars sang together and all the angels[c] shouted for joy?
In fact if science has proven anything about God it has not been supportive of such as Bart Ehrman (atheist author) but to give us more to marvel at.
Let me give you a few of those things and then back to God’s questioning of Job. Here are just a few…
DNA is in the mitochondria of every cell in our bodies. If you uncoiled and connected the DNA from all the cells in a single human body end-to-end, the total physical length is about 74 billion kilometers. This is long enough to travel from Earth to the sun and back roughly 247 times. Also the odds of one single functioning protein coming together by random chance are 1 in 10 to the 272nd power. There are no shortage of this things that leave your lower jaw on the floor.
Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place, that it might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it?

Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this.

then God really gets into some heavy chastisement asking
“What is the way to the abode of light? And where does darkness reside? Can you take them to their places? Do you know the paths to their dwellings?

Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years!

What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed, or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?

Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God’s[g] dominion over the earth?

Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens when the dust becomes hard

God continues into chapter 39 with his glory being represented in the wild animals of the world which is such beautiful poetry.
It is not until later in Job that God redirects the conversation to the matter at hand but you can imagine by now that Job is already in such awe
that he has dropped all charges against God and so should we all be if we be so predisposed in the first place.
Two words to remember from the song “How Great Thou Art” could be sufficient “awesome wonder”.

God bless ye faithful.

1. ELIHU’S PARADOX & THE PREPARATORY VOICE

(Aligns with Elihu as a “John the Baptist” figure: preparing the way, speaking truth but imperfectly, pointing to God’s majesty while misjudging Job’s guilt.)
Malachi 4:5–6 (KJV) “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.” (Elihu is often seen as an Elijah-type forerunner to God’s voice from the whirlwind.)
John 1:23 (KJV) “He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.” (Like Elihu, John prepared the way but was not the Light himself.)
Proverbs 30:2–4 (KJV) “Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man. I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy. Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell?” (Agur’s humility contrasts with Elihu’s claim to “perfect knowledge,” yet both point to the unsearchable nature of God.)

2. GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY OVER NATURE, MATH & LIGHT

(Aligns with Job 38:4–7, 12–13, 19–20, 22–24, 31–33 – The measuring line, the morning stars, the laws of heavens.)
Psalm 104:2–5 (KJV) “Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind: Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire: Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.” (Mirrors God’s questioning of Job about the foundation of the earth and the control of elements.)
Isaiah 40:12, 21–22, 26 (KJV) “Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?… Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth… Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.” (Directly correlates to God’s questions about measuring lines, the circle of the earth, and numbering the stars/host.)
Jeremiah 31:35–36 (KJV) “Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The Lord of hosts is his name: If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.” (Aligns with the “laws of the heavens” and the mathematical/logos fabric of creation that holds reality together.)

3. THE COSMIC COUNCIL & THE MORNING STARS

(Aligns with Job 38:7 – “When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.”)
Genesis 1:1 (KJV) & John 1:1–3 (KJV) “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth… In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.” (The “Logos” or Word is the mathematical/spiritual fabric Knitting creation together, as referenced in your text.)
Psalm 29:1, 3–4, 9 (KJV) “Give unto the Lord, O ye mighty, give unto the Lord glory and strength… The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the Lord is upon many waters. The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty… The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.” (Corroborates Elihu’s description of God’s voice in thunder, lightning, and majestic power over nature.)
Revelation 5:11–12 (KJV) “And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.” (The heavenly host singing/shouting for joy mirrors the “morning stars” singing at creation.)

4. THE SILENCE OF HUMAN WISDOM BEFORE DIVINE MAJESTY

(Aligns with Job’s awe and dropping of charges after God speaks.)
Habakkuk 2:20 (KJV) “But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.” (The proper response to the Whirlwind speech.)
Isaiah 6:1–5 (KJV) “In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings… And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips…” (Isaiah’s reaction to God’s glory mirrors Job’s realization of his own smallness and the inadequacy of human accusation.)
Romans 11:33–34 (KJV) “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?” (Paul’s doxology echoes God’s rhetorical questions to Job: “Who has given Me counsel?”)

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