{"id":1725,"date":"2017-04-24T09:40:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T09:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/2017\/04\/24\/how-would-your-case-be-presented-to-god-2\/"},"modified":"2017-04-24T09:40:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T09:40:31","slug":"how-would-your-case-be-presented-to-god-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/2017\/04\/24\/how-would-your-case-be-presented-to-god-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How would Your Case Be Presented To God?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Job<br \/>\n31 \u2013 32<\/p>\n<p>Job lays out his case before the Lord asking what he has<br \/>\ndone wrong. Verse 31:1 is an example of this:<\/p>\n<p><b>Job:<\/b> I have<br \/>\nmade a sacred pledge with my eyes.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0How then could I stare at a young woman <i>with desire<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>Job<br \/>\nuses 8 areas of potential sin in his life and ask why the punishment does not<br \/>\nfit the crime. Over and over Job makes his case before the Lord, questioning<br \/>\nhis problems with the Lord. It must be awful to have no idea why you\u2019re being<br \/>\npunished or going through major trials. <\/p>\n<p>I<br \/>\nsee this today and have mentioned many before. I keep going to one friend who<br \/>\nhas been successful and the prime example I have used for reading the Bible so<br \/>\nmuch since at the time I started he was on his 8<sup>th<\/sup> read through. During<br \/>\na fun vacation in the snow his son went off the trail and hit a tree. Since<br \/>\nthis accident he has been confined to a wheel chair. We all battle why God<br \/>\ncould allow something like this \u2026 and I do often, but we also must understand<br \/>\nthat we are not immortal and sometimes things just happen.<\/p>\n<p>We<br \/>\nknow this is not the case with Job, but often we use this story wondering if<br \/>\nour hardships are Job events.<\/p>\n<p>Verse 31:27 points to a reference we don\u2019t explore often:<\/p>\n<p>If <i>such sights<\/i><br \/>\nsecretly seduced my heart<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and made my hand throw kisses <i>to the false gods of sun and moon<\/i>,<\/p>\n<p>We<br \/>\nneed to look closely at the sun and moon gods since they really stem from the<br \/>\ntime when mankind rebuilt after the flood. Babylon was one of the cities that<br \/>\ncame from Noah\u2019s children. Babylon has often been Satan\u2019s city while Jerusalem<br \/>\nhas been God\u2019s. Nimrod and his wife Semiramis ruled. Somehow his wife who may<br \/>\nhave been the brains behind his rule, was eventually elevated to god of moon.<br \/>\nNimrod became the personification of the sun god. All this formed what has been<br \/>\ncome to be known as the mystery religion. The sun god may be Baal or Ra, but<br \/>\nalways exist in some form.<\/p>\n<p>Chapter<br \/>\n32 we are introduced to Elihu, a younger silent observer who had to state his<br \/>\nmind. In chapter 32 he is setting the stage for his comment. He is basically<br \/>\nsaying he cannot remain silent any longer since the \u201cwise\u201d have failed to see<br \/>\nthe obvious. It will be interesting what he has to say. Again stay tuned!!<\/p>\n<p>\ufffdP\ufffd\ufffd9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Job 31 \u2013 32 Job lays out his case before the Lord asking what he has done wrong. Verse 31:1 is an example of this: Job: I have made a sacred pledge with my eyes. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0How then could I stare at a young woman with desire? Job uses 8 areas of potential sin in his &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/2017\/04\/24\/how-would-your-case-be-presented-to-god-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How would Your Case Be Presented To God?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}