Two Questions for Job
Scripture: Job 40: 6-19; Job 41: 12-21 & 33-34; Job 42: 1-6
Pastor David Tori
December 8, 2024
What would you do if you were God?
- God’s Second Speech: Two Questions for Job
- The Leash and Defeat of Evil
- Job’s Response (And Ours)
First Question: Job, are you just?
Job 40:8- “Would you discredit my justice?”
God questions Job on his ability to judge (Job 40: 9-14)
Second Question: Job, are you powerful?
Identity of Leviathan and Behemoth?
Identity of Leviathan and Behemoth?
• Isaiah 27: 1- In that day, the Lord will punish with his sword, his fierce, great and powerful sword, Leviathan the gliding serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent; he will slay the monster of the sea.
• Psalm 74: 12-14- “But God is my King from long ago; he brings salvation on the earth. 13 It was you who split open the sea by your power; you broke the heads of the monster in the waters.14 It was you who crushed the heads of Leviathan and gave it as food to the creatures of the desert.”
• Revelation 12: 9- The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
• Revelation 20: 2- He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
The Leash and Defeat of Evil
Revelation 19: 11-16
“I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. 12 His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. 13 He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. 14 The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. 15 Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.” He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. 16 On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: King of kings and Lord of lords.”
Job’s Response (And Ours) Job 42: 1-6
• Job speaks the truth about God
Job’s Response (And Ours) Job 42: 1-6
• Job speaks the truth about himself
• Psalm 131- “O Lord, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.”
Job’s Response (And Ours) Job 42: 1-6
• Invitation to Depth and Repentance
Heidelberg Catechism Q & A #1
Q. What is your only comfort in life and death?
A. That I am not my own, but belong with body and soul, both in life and in death, to my faithful Saviour Jesus Christ. He has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood, and has set me free from all the power of the devil. He also preserves me in such a way that without the will of my heavenly Father not a hair can fall from my head; indeed, all things must work together for my salvation. Therefore, by his Holy Spirit, he also assures me of eternal life and makes me heartily willing and ready from now on to live for him.