Job’s View of the Death of the Righteous and the Afterlife

(Check out the puzzle for Job chapters 22-27 at the end of chart.  Puzzles on earlier chapter can be found at the end of previous articles concerning Job).

 

He saw it as a sleep.

  • Job 3:13; Job 14:12
  • Daniel 12:2 – It was only the physical body in the grave that had the appearance of sleep.  The spirit had gone back to God – Ecclesiastes 12:7
  • John 11:11-14
  • 1 Thessalonians 4:14

He saw it as a place of rest and freedom from trouble.

  • Job 3:17-18; Job 3:13
  • 2 Thessalonians 1:6-7
  • Hebrews 4:9-11
  • Revelation 14:13

He saw it as

How Can Satan Approach the Throne of God?

(See end of article for puzzles on Job 19-21).            

            After the Book of Job opens by introducing to us this man who is the greatest man of the east, we are given the opportunity to peer into the throne room of heaven where an assembly of angels has gathered on an appointed day.  Into this gathering entered the adversary of mankind.  This is indeed a strange picture which is presented on two occasions in Job (Job 1:6; Job 2:1).  It is strange, because we have here the one who is all evil approaching the One

Serving Those Who Suffer

(See the end of this article for crossword puzzles on Job chapters 16-18; here are links for the crossword puzzles on Job chapters 13-15; Job chapters 7-12; and Job chapters 1-6)

Being compassionate and sensitive are without question some of the most valuable characteristics of those in the medical field.  Besides being concerned about being up-to-date and knowledgeable about a particular area of medical health, most people know of the importance of a doctor with a good bedside manner.

When Job’s three friends arrived from afar, they seem to have come with the best of intentions.  Not

Job: An Example of a Godly Father

(Note:  Crossword Puzzles for Job chapters 13-15 can be found at the end of this article.)

According to one study, “24 million children (34 %) live absent from their biological father.  1.35 million births (33 % of all births) occurred out of wedlock.  Over 3.3 million children live with an unmarried parent and the parent’s cohabitating partner.  The number of cohabitating couples with children has nearly doubled since 1990 from  891,000 to 1.7 million today” (The picture here is an artist’s conception of Job with his children when all was restored). 

Also according to this study,

Satan in the Book of Job

(Links for the crossword puzzles on Job 7-12 are at the end of this article; puzzles for Job 1-6 can be found by following this link).

“Satan” means “adversary,” and that characteristic is displayed in its fullest sense in the first two chapters of the Book of Job.  After Job’s pure and pious character is introduced in the first few verses of chapter one, the scene shifts to heaven where the angels appear before the throne of God.  Note the following adversarial characteristics of the devil as is seen in these particular passages:

He is Real