Job 12:14

14 Behold, he breaketh down [harac], and it cannot be built again [banah]: he shutteth up [cagar] a man ['iysh], and there can be no opening [pathach]. KJV-Interlinear

14 'Behold, He tears down, and it cannot be rebuilt; He imprisons a man, and there can be no release. NASB

God can do things that man cannot. God can create out of nothing. Man has to have something in order to make something else. God can destroy into total non-existence. Man cannot destroy an atom, or the smallest particle of matter.

Man can reshape things of course, but man has to work within the boundaries of physics, which God defined. Man did not design the laws of physics. Man cannot even change those laws, or alter them, or redefine them.

Throughout the course of history God has brought into existence, or allowed to come into existence, empires, and nations, and of all the empires and nations which existed in the distant past, how many are still here? None of them.

The Assyrian Empire is long gone. The Babylonian Empire is long gone. Sodom and Gomorrah disappeared into the depths of the Dead Sea. Pompeii was destroyed. Even the Roman Empire crumbled.

History is full of peoples and cultures that have disappeared permanently from history. And were it not for the discovery of some of their ruins, we would never know that they existed. I would venture to guess that history has actually swallowed up folks that we have never discovered, and don't even know of their existence.

None of these past civilizations can be brought back into existence. Even the current effort of radical Islamists who want to bring back the culture of the seventh century, will fail. They are still trying to resurrect their twelfth Imam. They will probably get their wish in the Tribulation. But they won't like what they get.

And such is mans other endeavors to do his own will rather than Gods Will. Some pursue philosophies, some pursue religions, some pursue technology, some pursue, well, anything and everything imaginable. And none of these will ever attain their objectives.

God can shut up, or imprison a person, and this means death specifically, but in general it means that God can bring such difficulties onto a person, that they can never in an infinite number of life times, extricate themselves out of their predicament.

Death is a good example however. In all of history, with all of the wizards, sorcerers, or even modern medical technology, man has never been able to defeat the death barrier.

Death is a change, a removal, and extraction of the human soul out from the human body. Humanity cannot even define human life. All people can do is raise a ruckus over what they believe is life or when they believe it begins. But most of that is emotion driven not fact driven.

And even with emotions as their basis, people will go to great extremes to defend their beliefs. That is the typical logic and function of the spiritually deficient soul.

In short, God is supreme. Man is not. God can do whatever, whenever. Man has to function within the rules, which God defined. Man cannot define the rules of his own existence.

Man will go to great lengths to oppose all that God has decreed, but to no avail. Man is in effect, helpless and his own stubborn arrogance is all that prevents him from escaping his own cluelessness.

There is no contending with the divine providence, nor breaking the measures of it. Only through application of a daily study of the scriptures, can a person synchronize his life with Gods will. Apart from that, one might as well try flying blind, without even instruments, in a thick fog for all of his life, and see what it gets you.

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