Expounding the profound doctrines of the mortality of men revealed in the scriptures
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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
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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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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)! They do this because they don’t believe anyone can understand what they are going through. Job
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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 under the wrath of God because of a crushing
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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
Persecution, Suffering, Mortality, & Immortality
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 this book has garnered so much attention over the
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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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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 of every rank are continuously present
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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. “For thus saith the High and Lofty One that Inhabiteth Eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the
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Some years ago I was laboring as an evangelist in the town of M____, and during the meetings there was much conviction by the power of the Holy Ghost. Among others that were wrought upon was a young girl of about seventeen years. All through the meetings the Holy Ghost
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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
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N. M. Nelms, of Kopperl, Texas, sends us this very sad experience. He says: Miss A____, who lived at C____, in Georgia, was taken very sick, and was informed that she could not live. Realizing the way she had lived, surrounded by her ungodly associates, with whom she had indulged