Persecution, Suffering, & Mortality
Article #6 on Mortality in the Book of Job Dying men sometimes pray for death. Maybe you haven't because you have always been healthy! Mortally ill people who teeter on the brink of death for a prolonged period of time sometimes give in to these desires. Even a
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Article #7 on Mortality in the Book of Job Job's Confusion was the Primary Affliction in Job 9:1-10:22 At the testimony of Eliphaz (Job 4:1-5:27), and Bildad as a second witness (Job 8:1-22), Job feels forced to grapple with the doctrinal subject matter
Persecution, Suffering, & Mortality
Article #2 on Mortality in the Book of Job Job is afflicted! However, what Job describes of his suffering throughout the discourse from here on out comes as a result of being backslidden or fallen from grace (Gal. 5:4), which means that he is painfully aware that he is
Persecution, Suffering, & Mortality
Article #3 on Mortality in the Book of Job The Book of Job has been a focal point of much philosophical and theological discussion for thousands of years. The depth of what is communicated about human suffering has clearly struck a chord in the human heart. Why do you think
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Article #4 on Mortality in the Book of Job Eliphaz Encountered an Angel & it Spoke about the Mortality of Mankind in Job 4:13-21 In this encounter, the spirit was quoting the Word of God while making a wrong application in Job’s situation, similar to how the Devil
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Article #5 on Mortality in the Book of Job Job’s Suffering in Job 6:1-7:21 Depressed and faithless souls long to commiserate about their circumstances. If given space to speak they will eloquently glorify their own “grief” and magnify their own “calamity” with profound detail (Job 6:2)
Persecution, Suffering, & Mortality
Article #1 on Mortality in the Book of Job A book written about a controversy is bound to be controversial. A situation that confounded the most godly men of the Early Church will no doubt confuse readers today. Doubtful readers of the Book of Job would do well to put
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Article #3 on Mortality, Immortality, & Eternity An eternity transpired before the beginning. An eternity! The stillness and silence of eternity was filled with God. The divine being of God inhabited eternity. Mortal men cannot fathom such greatness. the High and Lofty One that Inhabiteth EternityHolyHighHoly Place We are compelled
Persecution, Suffering, & Mortality
Article #4 on Mortality, Immortality, & Eternity Somewhere up on high, at the peak of the slopes of glory, as one is going up on the sides of the north, there sits a King who is exalted above the Stars of God (Isa. 14:13-14, Heb. 12:22). Innumerable Angels
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"During the summer of 1862, I became acquainted with a Mr. A____, who professed infidelity, and who was, I think, as near an atheist as any I ever met. I held several conversations with him on the subject of religion, but could not seem to make any impression on
Persecution, Suffering, & Mortality
About twenty years ago, while we were doing some evangelistic work at L____, early one morning a little boy with a very sad heart called at our room, saying that his mother was dying and wished to see us. We hurried to Mrs. B____'s home, and as we
Persecution, Suffering, & Mortality
Mrs. J____ B____, the subject of this sketch, came under the personal observation of the writer in 1886. I had often urged her to give her heart to God while she was in health, but she refused. I called to see her during her last sickness and found her in