The LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind

Job 38:1-7『Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? 』 In 38:1-7, this is what God said to Job about laying the foundation of the earth. By the way, Job says in 26:7, "He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing." For what Job said in chapter 26, God rebuked him for saying Job's mistake in chapter 38. So, Job is confessing "for making a mistake in 42:3." When God speaks to Job, it is about the end of his argument with Job and his friends. The essence of what Job's friends say to Job is that "God is disciplined because Job committed sin, so repent." By the way, Job claims to the end that "He has done nothing wrong with God." This is the scene where the last of three friends, Elihu, talks to Job about God, and God appears in a storm and speaks to Job. 『Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. 』 God's word is, "You said without knowing the contents of creation." Job answered God in 42:3: "Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not." This is the content of Job confessing that he was wrong. Job said 『He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. 』, but God is reproaching. In Job 8:1-7, the Suaite Baldad said 『Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase. 』 People say, "yet thy latter end should greatly increase", quoting what the Sua man said. People today are quoting these words as if they were the Word of God. Most people tend to apply it without making a clear distinction whether it was spoken by God or by Job and a friend. In Genesis (Chapters 1-3), God expresses a tremendous metaphor, but people do not understand, and they are speaking as they thought. God said to Job, "Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.』 The psalmist also confessed in Psalm 104:5, "Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever." And God said, “Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?" The measures means measuring the dimensions of each side. 『 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;』 When measuring, a string is needed, and the plinth acts as a support. Corner stones are also mentioned. If we look at what God said on the basis of what God said, we can see that this earth is in the shape of a cube. So, the earth becomes a flat land. Of course, the sea water is covered, so it will look round when viewed from a distance. In Revelation 7:1『 And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.』 As an expression of the end of the earth, in Job 38:13, 『That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?』In Daniel 4:11, 『The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth:』 In Proverbs 30:4 and Psalm 22:27 there is an expression of the end of the earth. The end of the ground is thought to mean the end of the corner. In the Bible, God says that the earth is flat, has a hexahedron, and has the end of the earth, but when people have stereotypes that "the earth is round", then the human does not believe the word of God. The earth is not round, but a hexahedron. When we look at the Bible with worldly learning, we cannot know God's intention at all. When God laid the foundation of the earth, have humans ever seen it? What is the basis for saying that the earth is round? It is said to be round based on photos taken from the moon. However, if you think of an earth without sea water, the earth is a flat square. It is Satan's deception that prevents people from believing God's Word as a measure of human knowledge and experience. When God lays the foundation of the earth, establishes a corner, and measures the area, God said to Job, "Did you see it then?" To all human beings, when God created the world, he said, "Have you ever seen how he created it?" Although the ark is a ship, it is square. The square ark symbolizes salvation. The square earth contains the meaning that beings who have left the kingdom of God must wait for salvation. In Revelation 21:1-2『 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.』 In 21:16-17, an angel surveyed the new earth, and when measured, it looks like a cube. All people who live on this earth are waiting for salvation. In other words, they are beings trapped in this land. There are many parables in the Bible. A parable means that there is some other hidden or undisclosed meaning behind the word itself. If the Bible says, "Everyone is blind," it is not that people are blind because they cannot see, but that there is a different meaning behind it. Blindness means blindness to the kingdom of God. In John 9, the words that Jesus spoke to the Pharisees after opening the eyes of the blind『 And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind. 』 So, the Pharisees said, "Are we blind also?" The Bible tells people, "You are blind to the kingdom of God." When Jesus came into the world, he said he came to see the blind. Jesus said to the people with their eyes open," "you are blind." There is a hidden meaning in the words of Jesus. It means that these people are blind to the kingdom of God. In the Bible, a metaphor is a metaphor that has hidden, hidden secrets, hidden meanings and intentions behind it that is not revealed by the parable. We can see what Jesus is talking about in Matthew 13:10-17. In Psalm 78:2, it is said that a parable is used to tell the secret of the old days, and as this prophet said, Jesus Christ uses parables to tell the mystery hidden from the world. What is the mystery hidden from the creation, he answered verse 11 and said,『 answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.』 The secret hidden from the creation of the world is the secret of heaven. Jesus is saying that the parable of sowing seeds contains the secret of heaven hidden from the world. Even though Jesus says that there is a secret hidden from the world through the parable of seeding in the Bible, if you do not believe, you are spiritually deaf and blind.

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