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Job 37:15
15 Dost thou know [yada`] when God ['elowahh]
disposed [suwm] them, and caused the light ['owr] of his cloud [`anan] to
shine [yapha`]? KJV-Interlinear
15 'Do you know how God
establishes them, And makes the lightning of His cloud to shine? NASB
In ancient times, the details of science were not a
part of their vocabulary or knowledge base.
So, Elihu's question of how God makes all of these things - the cold,
the heat, the rain, the storm, the freezing of rivers and such, was a question
that no person could know the answer to.
But Elihu's question goes beyond the science. What he is really asking, is, 'Do you know
how God arranges and governs all of these things?'
We may know the science, or certainly more of the
science than Elihu's generation knew, but not one of, nor will any of,
humanities future generations, will know of or understand the workings of Gods
will or of Gods ability to execute His will.
God owns the world.
God owns the universe. God owns
Heaven. And that includes everything
that exists.
Psa. 24:1
24 The earth is the Lord's, and all it contains, The
world, and those who dwell in it. NASB
God foreknew of everything that will ever happen in
history. That includes all of your
individual thoughts. And as history
unfolds, He executes the actions for history, at least from His aspect of the
controls of history.
This includes the actions and thoughts of every human
being, the actions of every component of our planet, the actions of everything
in outer space such as solar activity, this includes everything. There is nothing excluded from Gods knowledge.
Knowing people, their relationships, their
circumstances, their environment, their interactions, motivations and so forth,
and with Gods sovereign will for placing each person into history at a time
that is convenient to Him, with Gods sovereign oversight of all aspects of the
weather, continental movement, the functions of daylight and night, then there
is nothing that God cannot accomplish.
And though every aspect of life, individually, may be
simple, the sheer aspect of combining every thought, interaction, action,
circumstance and so forth, makes the activities of life so complex, that man
will never be able to duplicate or even monitor even a small portion.
Theories may abound regarding the start of the
universe, but they are only theories. There is only one set of eyewitnesses in
eternity past, and that is God and the angels.
Man was not there.
In his arrogance man tried to build a tower to
heaven. That of course failed. But through knowledge and discovery, man is
still trying to build a tower to heaven.
That will fail too. As man tries
to look to the edge of the universe, we will discover that the edge is further
still. As man tries to peer deeper into
science, we will discover that the sciences are deeper still. Can we see or detect angels? Can we see or isolate or transfer human life?
No.
Now is the time to post a prayer.
End Of Lesson
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