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Job 27:16-17
16 Though he heap up [tsabar] silver [keceph] as the dust
[`aphar], and prepare [kuwn] raiment [malbuwsh] as the
clay [chomer];
17 He may prepare [kuwn] it, but the just [tsaddiyq]
shall put it on [labash], and the innocent [naqiy] shall divide [chalaq] the
silver [keceph]. KJV-Interlinear
16 'Though he piles up silver
like dust, And prepares garments as plentiful as the clay; 17 He may prepare it, but the just will wear
it, And the innocent will divide the silver.
NASB
Silver is spending money and dust is everywhere. Garments are clothing or robes, and clay is
also common and often a term used to refer to things. Today we would use the
word clay to refer to our homes, furniture, knick-knack's, cars, collections, hobby
stuff and so on. Anything that appeals
to your eye and of which you buy for your own possession because it pleases
you, is clay.
And so we have the priorities of the spiritually
negative person - money and things.
These are possessions, or things you can own.
Now put everything in life, in perspective. When you get the chance, review the
'Dispensations - Five Phase' chart. Look
at it closely. What is the beginning and
what is the end? The beginning is
God. He is in charge of everything. The end is where we will all end up one day.
Everything (human activity) in between is temporary.
Knowing that you are going to one day end up in eternity,
and presumably in heaven of course, then isn't it reasonable to presume that
our priorities in life should be oriented toward that goal?
But the spiritually negative person does not see life
in that way. All they see is the
now. Of course, they see the cemeteries
and people dying in the movies and in life.
All of the folks from early last century and centuries before that, are
dead and gone. Everyone in history is
dead and gone. But somehow, that reality
doesn't seem to sink in.
And so the 'now' is driven by the quest for money and
things. Of course people want the sex, power, and the pleasures of life, but
those things are not possessions. They
are just experiences that excite the emotions and such.
The possessions of life are what become
important. Those are the things that
people can show off and boast about in their social circles. And the 'love,' of money and things, is often
the end result of the spiritually negative persons focus in life.
But, and this is the big but of life, all of these
things are temporary. They are never
permanent. The very moment of ones
death, they all disappear from that persons life. Sure these things transfer to others, others
who might build them even greater, or fight over them, or squander them, but
sooner or later history will come to an end and all the possessions of history
will disappear when this universe is destroyed.
What then?
No one person can own anything for longer than their
own life span. And the human race will
lose everything at the end of history.
And remember that all wicked people in history are not
unbelievers. Many are believers who just
don't get with their spiritual life.
Only those who have advanced to spiritual maturity,
will receive the very phenomenal blessings and eternal possessions of eternity,
while all those who have rejected their spiritual life, during their life, will
forfeit their eternal blessings.
Having all of the gold in the world for a few decades
might be nice for the moment, and certainly everyone would like to be rich, but
to ignore ones spiritual life will cause you to lose blessings that far exceed
the value of that gold, for all of eternity.
Would you rather be a millionaire now or a
trillionaire in eternity? Well, of
course you want to be both, but not all of us have that choice in life. It is generally one or the other, so now
choose, but choose wisely.
Now is the time to post a prayer.
End Of Lesson
Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth.
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