Fall Colloquium, Friday, 14 October at 13:30

Title: Piercing Leviathan: God’s Defeat of Evil in the Book of Job

Speaker: Eric Ortlund
 God is immoral (Job)
 The book of the Job is not relevant
 Whenever there is a sin, it leads to suffering (Biblical explanation)
 A Job like ordeal, the pain seems useless
 There are many Jobs, it is a not relevant to every situation
 Big four Questions
 What does God promise to Job
 In first two chapters we find he doesn’t fear
 Jobs look like a gold-digger
 He blesses our earthly life
 Every believer gets the gifts of eternal life
 God let’s Jobs loses everything in life
 He is allowing us to suffer to fit in the
 He is making us to be better in eternal life
 God is not angry with Jobs
 God is making us to make us for fitting us for eternally
 Job is mature in faith
 Sometimes he wants us to stay as a Christian even amid sufferings
 Jobs reaps what he sows
 Jobs characteristics God bad
 Jobs contradicts himself (in the beginning bringing kids to faith and later
make him bad)
 He wants to be good/right with the God
 He deeply loves God
 In the Old Testament the ocean is like chaos
 Jobs has made sweeping statement about God
 God keeps mothering
 God knows that Job needs a breakthrough
 Usually, Leviathan are related with whales
 Why would Job see and then worship God
 Job can be tough in the suffering
 God is showing to Job who is really the enemy
 And describe even without the sin He is suffering
 God says that he is going to defeat the evil
 He is going to battle on our behalf
 All God says that He is going to deal with the leviathan, and He says he can
deal with it
 And he says that He knows the problems better than Jobs
 He is going to continue the world and make it a good one day with removing
the Leviathan
 People must be happy, and world shall continue before the eschatology in all
the agony
 God let us suffer, not for the deficiency of faith but to remain faithful
 Ordeals like Job are always temporally
 Job serves the Lord with whole heart
 Job did not know what result/fruit is coming at end; however, he remained
faithful
 At the end I don’t think that God answer wholly to Job for his suffering
 God is extremely gentle here and He is graciously good with him even Job
really
 Jesus is the ultimate Job
 Book of Job is for those who already believe in Him