The Book of Job

so in such an interesting manner because Job has absolutely every reason to lift his middle finger towards the sky and to curse God I mean God literally bets Satan that Satan can't take Job out you know and that's that's a pretty rough situation right and but I think the moral of the story is something like no matter what happens to you in your life and this is a this is a bitch of the thing to say no no matter what happens to you in your life no matter how deep the degradation and the suffering you are called upon to maintain faith in the essential goodness of being and to orient yourself upward you know and that's that's a hell of a thing to ask of people but the alternative seems to be degeneration into a kind of hopeless and bitter misery

God approves jobes rebellion rather than the three friends comfort at the end of the book of job god says an amazing thing he says to the three friends i burn with anger against you because you have not spoken rightly about me as my servant job has but what they said was so much more. Simply orthodox it's in the rest of the bible god is great and god is good let us thank him for our food amen and job who admitted his words were wild because the sufferings are so great is accusing god and wishing that he could take him to court. And yet god approves that honest rebellion on jobes part rather than the comfortable acceptance on the part of the three friends does he ask you must have loved that.

And he basically goes back to remember Job, remember our friend Job from the very first days of this Bible in a year podcast.

And Job's friends, they had the illusion of saying that no, if you're good, then good things happen to you. If you're bad, bad things happen to you.

You asked your cast to read the book of Job.

We were talking earlier about the book of Job.

You asked your cast to read the book of Job.

God is the glory of Vegas Okay, hey, hey Bill listen to the podcast and religious the religious douche giving his Douchey impression of the story of Joe pissed me off.

The Bible story is that Job was so devastated to Devoted to God sorry that there was no way He would ever curse God's name the devil went to heaven and said to God No shit he won't curse you he's rich as fuck. He's got a hot wife seven no non-gay sons and Three great-looking daughters who won't who don't date give me five minutes with that piece of shit And I'll get him to curse you upside down till next Tuesday

God said yeah, you want to make a fucking wager? See God knew Job God made Job God knew 100% for certain that he would win this This bet Bingo God is now the first casino boss because God has an inside knowledge of the game

But Job never caved so God won the bet of course God won it's God God did give Job all his stuff back, but now but how stupid was the devil that he bet against God?

The same as all of us when we go to Vegas and come out saying I got jobbed Jesus Christ That was so fucking clever. It made my fucking head burst. I think you're absolutely right

Well, that's why they included the script in that jobs book. It was yep, the last the last of the appendix of the job book is just the script for demolition man.

you have you know the book of Job and he's wavering in his faith because all the bad stuff that happened to him

If you read the Bible, the book of Job and um, things like that talk about, you know, how he lost everything, but he still trusted in God.

It's almost like being in the Bible, like the Book of Job.

And that one's got Neil McDonough in it and they just upped the score each time and this is like a sci-fi version of the book of Job.

It's actually technically the oldest story in recorded history. It's the book of Job where Job is a rich man and Satan comes along and says to God yeah Job only worships you because you made him rich.

And God's like nah, go make him suffer and you'll see that you're wrong. And so he takes, he basically devil attacks Job, takes everything away from him and Job's attitude is well came into the world naked and I'm going to leave naked so the Lord gave and the Lord take away.

Blessed be the name of the Lord.

He's reading from the book of Job.

I think they're reading from the Book of Job.

We'll be coming up on Job and we'll see that same thing. Everybody's, well, maybe you did this, maybe you did this.

And in this case, this is the Lord giving him something puzzling that they wrestle with. But Job is amazing through the whole thing.

When the devil presented himself before the throne with the angels, ... the book of Job ...