A Walk Through Job - Miserable Comforters

Then Job answered and said ,   

I have heard many such things:

miserable comforters are ye all.      

Shall vain words have an end?
or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest ?   

I also could speak as ye do:

if your soul were in my soul's stead,

I could heap upwords against you,

and shake mine head at you.      

But I would strengthen you with my mouth,

and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

Though I speak ,
my grief is not asswaged :
and though I forbear , what am I eased ?      
But now he hath made me weary :
thou hast made desolate all my company.   
And thou hast filled me with wrinkles ,
which is a witness against me:
and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.   

He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me:

 he gnasheth upon me with his teeth;

mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.      

They have gaped upon me with their mouth;

they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully;

they have gathered themselves together against me.  

God hath delivered me to the ungodly,

and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.   

I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder :
he hath also taken me by my neck,
and shaken me to pieces ,
and set me up for his mark.   
His archers compass me round about ,
he cleaveth my reins asunder ,

and doth not spare ;
he poureth out my gall upon the ground.   
He breaketh me with breach upon breach,
 he runneth upon me like a giant.   
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.   
My face is foul with weeping,
and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;   
Not for any injustice in mine hands:
also my prayer is pure.   
 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.

Also now, behold,

my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.   

My friends scorn me:
but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.   
O that one might plead for a man with God,
as a man pleadeth for his neighbour !      
When a few years are come ,
then I shall go the way whence I shall not return .      
My breath is corrupt , my days are extinct , the graves are ready for me.  
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation ?   
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee;
who is he that will strikehands with me?      

For thou hast hid their heart from understanding:

therefore shalt thou not exalt them.   

He that speaketh flattery to his friends,
even the eyes of his children shall fail .      

He hath made me also a byword of the people;

and aforetime I was as a tabret.   

 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow,
and all my members are as a shadow.
Upright men shall be astonied at this,
and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.   
The righteous also shall hold on his way,
and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

But as for you all, do ye return , and come now :

for I cannot find one wise man among you.      

My days are past , my purposes are broken off , even the thoughts of my heart.   
They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.   

If I wait , the grave is mine house:

I have made my bed in the darkness.   

I have said to corruption, Thou art my father:

to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.   

And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?      

They shall go down to the bars of the pit,

when our rest together is in the dust.

Job 16&17

William Secker says -(Firm Resolutions)

"Firm resolutions are like rocks, which the waves cannot move."
The Nonsuch Professor p.145

...but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

Joshua 24:15

Creation Moment 12/4/2012 - Breakdown

Since mutations in genetics is a LOSS of information--a prolonged timeframe would cause a breakdown in the human genome--but since we are still here--genetics argues against a long age of time.
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Romans 8:22

Knowledge of truth won't save you

"A theoretical knowledge of the truth is essential. But the knowledge of the greatest truth will not save us; our knowledge must be practical... The truth must be brought into their hearts, sanctifying and cleansing them from all earthliness and sensuality in the most private life. The soul temple must be cleansed." Review & Herald 5/24/1887 E.G.W.

So get rid of all the filth and evil in your lives, and humbly accept the word God has planted in your hearts, for it has the power to save your souls.

James 1:21 NLT

A Walk Through Job - Eliphaz is MEAN to Job

 

Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said ,      

Should a wise man utter vain knowledge,
and fill his belly with the east wind?   
 Should he reason with unprofitable talk?
or with speeches wherewith he can do no good ?      

Yea, thou castest offfear, and restrainest prayer before God.   

For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity,

and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.   

Thine own mouth condemneth thee,
and not I:
yea, thine own lips testify against thee.      

Art thou the first man that was born ?

or wast thou madebefore the hills?  

Hast thou heard the secret of God?
and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?      

What knowest thou, that we know not?

what understandest thou, which is not in us?      

With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men,

much elder than thy father.   

Are the consolations of God small with thee?
is there any secret thing with thee?      
Why doth thine heart carry thee away ?
and what do thy eyes wink at ,      
That thou turnest thy spirit against God,
and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?   
What is man, that he should be clean ?
and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous ?      
Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints;
yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.   
How much more abominable and filthy is man,
which drinketh iniquity like water?   
I will shew thee, hear me;
and that which I have seen I will declare ;  

 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:      
Unto whom alone the earth was given ,
and no stranger passed among them.      
The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days,
and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.   
A dreadful sound is in his ears:
in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.   
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness,
and he is waited for of the sword.
He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it?
he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid ;
they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.   
For he stretcheth out his hand against God,
and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

    He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:   

Because he covereth his face with his fatness,
and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.And he dwelleth in desolatecities,
and in houses which no man inhabiteth ,
which are ready to become heaps.   
He shall not be rich , neither shall his substance continue ,
 neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.   
He shall not depart out of darkness;
the flame shall dry up his branches,
and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away .      
Let not him that is deceivedtrust in vanity:
for vanity shall be his recompence.   
It shall be accomplishedbefore his time,
and his branch shall not be green.
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine,
 and shall cast off his flower as the olive.   
For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate,
and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.   
They conceive mischief,
and bring forth vanity,
and their belly prepareth deceit.
Job 15:1-35

William Secker says - (Bold)

"With what boldness should those appear at court, who are sure of the King's ear."
The Nonsuch Professor p.142

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Hebrews 4:16

Creation Moment 12/3/2012 - Foolish Pat Robertson

Pat Robertson recently slammed "Creationism". The media was quick to highlight it and on the world wide web atheists were also quick to tout his words in the creation-evolution debate. As anyone knows, Mr. Robertson does NOT speak for God---the Word of God does that.


Pat--I think Christ disagrees with you...
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read,
that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
Matthew 19:4

Also, it really is getting old when people within Christianity like him say things like that without obviously researching the science of Creation Vs. evolution. There are plenty of good scientific publications that undermine evolution based upon the science and lift up Creation. Robertson is without excuse.
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?
When the morning stars sang together,
and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Job 38:4,7
Hey Pat, did they shout for joy becasue God created a single cell and they sat back and thought they would wait about 4 billion years and see which way it was to evolve? Did they pass the popcorn during those years, Pat?



In your boat?

Is Christ in your Boat of Life?

 

And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

Mark 4:37-39

A Walk Through Job - Hide Me in the Grave

But man dieth , and wasteth away :

yea, man giveth up the ghost , and where is he?      

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up :      
So man lieth down , and riseth not:
till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake , nor be raised out of their sleep.   

O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave,

that thou wouldest keep me secret ,

until thy wrath be past ,

that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!      

If a man die , shall he live again?
all the days of my appointed time will I wait ,
till my change come .      
Thou shalt call ,
and I will answer thee:

thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.   
For now thou numberest my steps:
dost thou not watch over my sin?   

My transgression is sealed up in a bag,

and thou sewest up mine iniquity.

And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought ,
and the rock is removed out of his place.   
The waters wear the stones:
thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth;
and thou destroyest the hope of man.   
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth :
thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away .     
His sons come to honour , and he knoweth it not;
and they are brought low , but he perceiveth it not of them.  
But his flesh upon him shall have pain , and his soul within him shall mourn .  
Job 14:10-22

William Secker says - (Prayerless)

"The prayerless soul is a fruitless soul."
The Nonsuch Professor p.143

Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day:

1 Kings 8:28

Creation Moment 12/2/2012 - Louis Pasteur & Creator

But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets,

Daniel 2:28

"Who contributed more to the saving of human lives than any other scientist? Who has been called the greatest biologist of all time? Who revolutionized medicine and public health with his discoveries? A creationist and a Christian – Louis Pasteur. Let no one claim that faith in God is detrimental to science; you need look no farther than to this great man who said, “The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator.”
Though best known for discoveries in medicine, Pasteur was a chemist. One of his early discoveries still baffles evolutionists today. While studying crystals under polarized light, he found that certain molecules come in left– and right-handed forms that are mirror-images of each other, a phenomenon now known as chirality. Even more remarkable, he found that living things use entirely one hand. Most natural substances are composed of fifty-fifty “racemic” mixtures of both hands, the “stereoisomers” of a given chiral molecule, but for some reason living things were 100% pure of one hand. Pasteur recognized this as a defining characteristic of life, and it remains a mystery to this day.
We now know that proteins, which are made up of 100% pure left-handed amino acids, could not function if they were racemic (mixtures of both hands), but how did life get started with just one hand, when both are equally probable? This appears to be a clear evidence of intelligent design, because the probability of getting just one hand in a chain of amino acids is vanishingly small, like flipping a coin and getting heads a hundred times in a row. Pasteur certainly considered this an evidence of a Creator, but today evolutionists are continuing to struggle with this observational fact, looking for some natural process that would yield even a hopeful majority to one hand or the other. To this day, none has succeeded. They know that close enough is not good enough; only a 100% pure chain would work. The problem is compounded by the discovery that RNA and DNA contain sugar molecules that are 100% right–handed.
The other obstacle Pasteur raised to evolution was his law of biogenesis, the principle that only life begets life. Since the Greeks, and probably long before, philosophers and commoners believed that life could arise out of nonliving material. Is it not a common childhood observation that maggots and flies and all sorts of vermin seem to magically appear out of nowhere? The myth of spontaneous generation seems silly today, but was a common opinion throughout most of history. Leeuwenhoek opposed it with rigorous observations through his microscope, and the “macro” version of spontaneous generation eventually succumbed to the experiments of Redi and Spallanzani. 
Which brings us to another of Pasteur’s monumental achievements, the germ theory of disease. 
Anthrax was economically crippling to farmers and ranchers who could only look on in despair as their sheep weakened and died. Pasteur isolated the microbe that caused the disease. In a remarkable stroke of luck and insight, Pasteur learned that a weakened form of the bacteria provided the same immunity without killing the animal. 
Rabies is a viral infection. The virus was too small to be seen by microscopes in Pasteur’s time. This lack of evidence threatened his germ theory, but Pasteur was convinced an unseen microbial agent caused the disease, and proceeded to follow his procedure of finding ways to weaken it. It was hard work, with many false starts and dead ends, but he eventually was successful inoculating dogs with a series of increasingly potent rabies shots that appeared to provide immunity. That’s when he had a knock at the door. A desperate mother with her son, Joseph Meister, who had been bitten by a mad dog, pleaded with Pasteur for help. He replied that he was not ready for human testing, but she and other doctors agreed that if nothing was done, Joseph would die. Rabies was always fatal. With nothing to lose, Joseph agreed to be a test patient, and the compassionate Pasteur, realizing there was only one chance, once again put his reputation on the line and began the sequence of inoculations. Pasteur was in anguish over his patient’s predicament and the fear of failure. After a month passed, Joseph Meister was healthy, with no symptoms—the first man in history to be cured of rabies. Patients, bitten by rapid animals, flocked to his lab, for the first time having hope to be spared an agonizing, painful, certain death. Pasteur was again a hero.
Remember this great scientist whenever you open your refrigerator and pour from a container that says, pasteurized." CEH

A Curse to the World

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

Matthew 23:14

"Men may profess faith in the truth;

but if it does not make them

sincere,

kind,

patient,

forbearing,

 heavenly-minded,

it is a curse to its possessors, and through their influence it is a curse to the world."

The Desire of Ages p.309 E.G.W.

 

The Promise performed by Michael Card

The Promise performed by Michael Card
http://www.youtube.com/embed/cyX-uriW3qk

And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
Isaiah 19:20

The Theme

"The theme that attracts the heart of the sinner is Christ  and Him crucified."
Review & Herald 11/22/1892 E.G.W.
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. This he said, signifying what death he should die. John 12:32,33

Knocking (Free Will)

He Knocks--but doesn't violate our Free Will
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock:
if any man hear my voice,
and open the door,
I will come in to him,
and will sup with him,
and he with me.
Revelation 3:20

Those Bloody & Decietful Men

..... the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
Psalm 5:6
Conquest & unification of Egypt by Namar

 

Very Center of Christ's Work

"The Sanctuary in heaven is the very center of Christ's work in behalf of men. It opens to view the plan of redemption."
The Great Controversy p.488 E.G.W.
Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary:
Psalm 77:13

Earthly Affections

"He cannot accept a divided heart. The heart that is absorbed in earthly affections cannot be given up to God." Christ's Object Lessons p.223 E.G.W.
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
Colossians 3:2

Violence in the Land

The earth also was corrupt before God,
and the earth was filled with violence.
Genesis 6:11

And as it was in the days of Noah,

so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

Luke 17:26

 

 

 

A Walk Through Job - Lesson of the Trees

 

For there is hope of a tree,

if it be cut down,

that it will sprout again,

and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.  
Though the root thereof wax old in the earth,
and the stock thereof die in the ground;

Yet through the scent of water it will bud,

and bring forth boughs like a plant.

Job 14:7-9

 

William Secker says - (New-Born)

"There never was one new-born who was still-born."
The Nonsuch Professor p.142

Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee,

Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

John 3:3

Creation Moment 12/1/2012 - Archaeopteryx is Avian

Archaeopteryx cannot be a "missing link" between dinosaurs & birds-it has fully Avian features.
^ A large wishbone for muscles responsible for the downstroke of wings
^ A perching Foot
^ Classical elliptical wings (modern woodland birds have)
^ Brain like a modern bird (3 times the size of a dinosaur of equivalent size)
^ Inner ear with a cochlear length
^ Unique avian lung design with air sacs & one dimentional airflow

 Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Genesis 1:20