SATAN (cont.) they did, they were told to pray to God for food. According to the story, no food came. Then they were told to pray to Stalin, and upon doing so, they were immediately furnished with food. The moral of this was supposed to be that God was impotent, but Stalin could give all good things. As long as men are unwilling to ac knowledge the existence of an enemy who would destroy them and infer that
he has the power to destroy the power of a God who would redeem them, how can we be other than helpless in the hands of the enemy? Let us read God’s Word as to the permanent fate of this enemy, Satan. “And. the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where are also the beast and the false prophet; and they shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever” — Revelation 20:10.
This We Believe The Future Destiny of the Unsaved and the Saved by Arnold D. Ehleit, Th.D., M.S.L.S Librarian, Prof, of Library Science up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.” With God in full control of the sin situation, Job is able to burst out in the 19th chapter, verses 25 and 26, “For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.” While Job’s interest in these passages is in his own personal survival of the ordeal of physical death, and #deliver ance into a new life beyond the grave, he is aware of a judgment and of the desirability of escaping it. He speaks of the wrath of God. While physical death is involved, he sees the wrath of God active in judgment. This agrees with what Moses told the children of Israel in Deuteronomy 1:17, “judgment is God’s.” Isaiah con firmed this when he said, “The Lord is a God of judgment” (30:18). “ I the LORD love judgment,” He told Isaiah (61:8). Judgment and sovereignty be long together — See I Sam. 8:5, and Judges 2:16. One aspect of the judg- 30
I f a m a n die, shall he live again?” queried the old patriarch Job. This occurs in the 14th verse of the 14th chapter of the Book of Job. He reminds us in verses 10 and 12 that “man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? . . . So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.” While this may be the normal pattern of human life, Job is not resigned to it. He prays in verse 13, “O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest ap point me a set time, and remember me!” Then in the confidence of faith he is moved to prophesy in verse 15, “Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thy hands.” This hope and faith he bases on God’s work of dealing with the ques tion of his sins, when he explains, in verses 16 and 17, “For now thou num- berest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin? My transgression is sealed
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