Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Finally, God speaks. I don't know if you read the headings in your Bible or not, but when I saw

the heading of Chapter 38 that said the Lord answers Job I was so relieved this is

who I wanted to hear speak not Job's friends you probably felt the same way and

if so we can rest assured that Job definitely

wanted to hear God speak even more than we did. I hardly want to touch a

recap on these chapters honestly I kind of just want to enjoy them but I will point out a

few things in God's reply to Job. First of all you may have noticed that when God

responds to Job the word Lord is in all caps.

And you may remember that what we learned about the word

Lord in all caps in day one, when we read Genesis

one through three, was that that is God's personal name,

Yawe, Jehovah.

So right out of the gate here, we see that God is being very personal with Job.

This flies in the face of what Job's friends said would happen next.

They said Job would continue to get God's silence and even more harsh

consequences if he didn't repent. Well, Job didn't repent. But here God is speaking to him directly, intimately.

When God first starts speaking to Job, you might have noticed it had nothing to do with Job's problems.

He didn't answer any of his questions. He actually starts out by establishing who he is.

That's because everything else is secondary to who God is.

He establishes himself as the Creator and Commander of Everything.

He initiates, sustains, and fulfills everything in accordance with his plan,

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