{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Christ Covenant Church","title":"Journaling: Job 21-24","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3925,"description":"Righteous arguments allow all parties involved to respond/be heard (21:1-3 = Allow for my response, then you can continue with your mocking of me; Consider this applies even to God – 38:1-2, 40:1-2, 6-8).\n \nIt is “empty nothings” (“delusion” = A belief that contradicts reality; Jer 10:3 [NAS]) or “falsehood” to counsel or “comfort” (21:34) those who follow God (most especially those who are suffering – 21:5-6) with the idea that “the wicked” or “evil man”(21:7, 16-17, 28, 30; i.e. those who “say to God” [21:14-15]) : 1) never experiences health, happiness, safety and prosperity (21:7, 9-10, 12-13, 17-18, 20-21 = When they do suffer, they don’t seem to mind or be bothered by it; 21:16, 22 “the counsel of the wicked is far from me…Will any teach God knowledge seeing that He judges those who are on high?” = I do not understand God’s knowledge/wisdom it is beyond me -especially as it relates to the wicked), 2) never produces offspring or descendants who are healthy, happy, safe and prospering (21:8, 11, 19), 3) can be readily identified simply by the state or end of their earthly life (21:23-26 w/27-34, 24:18-25 = Their lives end the same as everybody else) (See also [Pro 10:2-3, 7, 9, 24-25, 27-31; Psa 37:1-38; Ecc 8:12-14, 9:2-3; Psa 73:1-15] w/Psa 73:16-26 and Ecc 12:13-14 = The perennial distinction between the righteous and the wicked is in regard to their eternal futures).\n \nGod doesn’t need us to be righteous, we need us to be righteous (22:1-3 = God does not profit or “gain” anything from us, even when we are “wise” or “make [our] ways blameless”; “pleasure” = Even in this respect, there is no gain/profit to God. He was perfectly happy before He created us. To believe otherwise is to believe that God was/is imperfect, incomplete – or needs us [or our good] for His own good; Psa 8:4).\n \nGod brings temporal judgments on people as a means of promoting fear (of Him) and wisdom/righteousness (in us) (22:1-4; Isa 26:9; Pro 1:7).\n \nEvil, reckless slander (22:6-9,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/UXGjftzm8Yw--IISwUKe6A6-CX1YtARptisfLmFJFoI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81Zjc4/MmNmNTMxZjNmOTgw/YjA1NWRhYmMxMTNl/YmE1Zi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}