Chapter 282: God and Demon Gamble
Snead entered the scene, and everyone gasped when they saw it. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
On a plain, herds of cattle and sheep, as well as many camels and donkeys. Some men dressed in ancient clothes, holding sticks and whips to drive cattle, sat and watched. It's exactly what it looked like thousands of years ago, and it must be some kind of allusion or something.
Lisses once said that if it is in the New Testament and the Old Testament, you can add points to designing religious themes. But reality shows that I didn't see the extra points, but there were two dead. Religious themes are difficult to grasp, this kind of right and wrong thing, even the religious community has been arguing for thousands of years, can a dead spirit give a clear answer in just three days?
At this moment, a man in a robe with a gray beard walked over. Everyone could clearly hear the men who watched the cattle and respectfully addressed him, "Master Job." ”
Cheng Qianxun immediately searched on his laptop, and immediately sighed when he saw it, Sneijder may have chosen the wrong person.
Job was a God-fearing man in ancient times. He had seven sons and three daughters, plus a great fortune. His wealth was measured by the number of livestock, and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 pairs of cattle, and 500 female donkeys. At that time, it could be said that he was equivalent to the richest man.
He was not materialistic and did not rely on wealth. He was spiritually rich, a philanthropist, generous to the needy, and often gave clothes to those in need. [6] He was revered by all. Job worshiped the true God, Jehovah, and refused to worship the sun, moon, and stars as the Gentiles did. He remained faithful to Jehovah and enjoyed a close relationship with him through his faithfulness. [7] Job was the priest of the household, and if anyone in the household sinned, he offered a burnt offering to God.
At this moment, a devil covered in pitch black with bat wings appeared, and he looked sideways at Sneid, who was standing there, invisible to mortals, and smiled, Bai Sensen's teeth glowing. It was like a colleague's expression when he saw a colleague, which was regarded as a greeting, and then he flashed and disappeared for the time being.
After a while, a cloud of dust rose in the distance, and a group of people rushed over, beat the guards to death with sticks, and snatched the cattle and donkeys away. In the confusion, the sheepfold caught fire, and the sheep inside were burned to the point that almost all the sheep died, and the shepherds were burned to death.
Not long after, another group of people came from the other side and snatched the camel away. They also killed all the remaining herdsmen who resisted.
At the same time, a gust of wind, no less than a typhoon of force 12, blew Job's house down, and when the villagers came to help rescue him, all ten of his children were crushed to death.
"God~!" Immediately Job began to weep bitterly, and fell to the ground crying and fainted.
Sure enough, it's a religious story, and it started with a bet between God and Satan.
God used Job as the highest example of love for God and love for the truth: "There is no man on earth like him who is perfect and upright, who fears God and who is far from evil." (a8)
Satan did not believe and challenged God, believing that God was too protective of Job to make him glorious, and that his godliness was only for his own good. Safe godliness proves nothing: "Stretch out your hand, and destroy all that he has, and he will reject you to your face." (a:11)
The more Cheng Qianxun looked, the more panicked he became, because Job was not the one who should have died. Could it be that Sneijder made the wrong choice? Here, if there is a mistake, the result is obsolescence.
When Job finally awoke, he stood up, tore open his robe, ruffled his hair, and fell to his knees, bowing down to the heavens: "I am naked from my mother's womb, and I will return naked." God gives, God receives, and blessed is God's name. ”
Even if he already knows the end a little, Cheng Qianxun shook his head slightly, it was all miserable, this person's will is really strong.
Even Legel, who had been baptized, couldn't stand it anymore and muttered: "There is about masochism." ”
Don't say it's Regel, most of the teammates think the same way. After so many years, the original faith has begun to waver, and these stories, which were originally encouraging them to stick to their faith, seem to be so impersonal at this time, it is inevitable that there will be resistance in their hearts, and they can't help but start to reflect.
In his grief, Job and his weeping, heartbroken wife, endure greater and greater disasters in their ruined home. was originally the richest man in the East, but in just a few days, his family was ruined and his property was lost.
But that wasn't the end of it, and Job began to grow poisonous sores all over his body, each growing bigger than the other. He looked like a toad, covered in pus-drenched pimples. And you may have mouth sores in your mouth, and when you open your mouth, there is a foul smell.
Of course, Sneijder didn't do any of this, he was just a spectator throughout, just like the rest of his team-mates.
Job became like this because, after learning that Job's property was lost and his children were dead, he still said that God's name should be blessed and God pointed out that Job remained pure.
But Satan refused: "Man substitutes skin for skin, willing to give up everything he has to save his life. Stretch out your hand, and bruise his bones and his flesh, and he will reject thee to his face." (2:4-5) God accepts its challenge, but still sets a limit: Job's life must be spared.
So Satan let him continue to suffer, and Job really reached the point where he had sores on the top of his head and pus on the soles of his feet, and there was no good meat on his body, and even his mouth was full of foul odors. Job sat in a ruined sheepfold, full of ashes, so that the blood that had been shed could be sucked away by the ashes. With trembling hands, he picked up a broken tile and began to scrape the pimples all over his body, trying to scrape off some of the yellow, smelly pus.
His wife, with red and swollen eyes, staggered along, and she probably felt something, and she hated Job, "Do you still hold fast to your integrity, forsake God, and die?" (29)
Job said with some irritation, "Oh, are we not blessed by the hand of God, and not woe?" He then continued to scrape the pustule with the broken tile.
From a well-dressed and neat local tyrant at the beginning, now it seems that he is more downtrodden than a beggar.
Then Job stopped talking, and he ate the food that his wife had brought him. After eating, he pulled some broken sheepskin from the carcass of the sheep that had not yet been burned, covered his body casually, and then lay down to sleep.
"Miserable!" Gordon looked around at everyone, and his tone was a little uncertain: "It should be a relief for him to die, and he should also belong to the people who should die." ”
Without Cheng Qianxun, Hoffman shook his head first: "He can't kill, he doesn't want to die, no matter how difficult it is now, he is not wrong, as long as he doesn't want to die, he can't kill him." ”
Regel was a little anxious: "I know this story, Satan promised God not to take his life, to bet. That devil should have been sent by Satan, and it was also a matter of God and Satan to kill. Sneijder is so confused! ”
At this time, three men came to see Job, and it was written that they were three of Job's friends: Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophith. When they heard of Job's plight in other ways, they came together to "grieve for him and comfort him" (2:11), expressing their grief in their hearts as was customary, weeping aloud, tearing the robes and lifting dust up on their own heads. Then they did the wisest thing they could do, which was to stay with Job for seven days and seven nights in silence, for they all felt Job's great pain.
After seven days, Job, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke. So there was a book-to-book debate that was conducted on the basis of faith in God.
At this time, Sneijder, who had been watching silently, finally moved. He remained like a statue of nothingness, silently watching everything.
But as soon as he moved, everyone became more and more worried.
"Sneijder!" Cheng Qianxun was so nervous that his body almost trembled, looking at Sneijder who was walking towards Job step by step in the scene, he muttered softly: "Don't kill Job, think about it, he shouldn't kill, don't kill him." ”
But Sneijder should have a goal in mind and keep going. In the sheepfold, burned to black ashes and still stenching after days, Job and his three friends were arguing with each other.
At this time, most of Sneijder's teammates were in despair, and Sneijder really found the wrong target. People are like this sometimes, the person concerned is confused by the bystanders, and they think it is right, but the people outside have long seen it clearly.
"Sneiard, hurry up and find someone else, Job isn't damn yet!" Cheng Qianxun was so anxious that he bit his lip tightly, almost biting his lower lip. But all this is not something she can control, once everyone enters the scene, they can only rely on their own judgment.
Snead stopped, but instead of killing Job, he stood there quietly and watched Job's wife come with food. She placed the plate with the simple meal on the ground and walked away in silence.
Sneijder floated slowly beside her, and then spoke, "Hey, you! ”
Job's wife stopped, and in her agony, she looked left and right with her red, swollen eyes, and her children were all dead and tears were dry. When she saw Snead floating in mid-air. Suddenly his feet went limp, and he sat down on the ground.
"Poor woman, do you need me to help you out?" Snead looked down at her and asked with some pity.
Job's wife, after thinking about it, nodded at Sneijder: "Whoever you are, please help me to free yourself, I will thank you faithfully!" ”
Sneijder asked, "You still have your husband, he needs you!" ”
Job's wife didn't have a single expression, so many blows had numbed her: "He doesn't need me, he just needs God." "It's up to her to find out what she has eaten in the past two days. I thought that my husband would cheer up, but he did not give her the slightest comfort except to sit in the ashes and scrape the pus with the tiles, and even the words he said were dedicated to God.
Snead asked, "If your husband becomes the same person again, and gets a double reward, do you still want to die?" ”
(Job 42:7-17) The Lord rebuked Eliphaz and his two companions for their false remarks. They had to offer sacrifices, and Job interceded for them. Then Jehovah turned Job back from his suffering and doubled his blessings. His brothers, sisters, and former friends returned with gifts to reconcile with him, and God gave him double the number of sheep and oxen, camels, and she-asses. He had ten more children, and three of his daughters were the most beautiful men in the land at that time. After that, Job miraculously lived another 140 years to see his children and grandchildren, until four generations. In the end, he "died of old age, and his life was satisfied."
As long as he survives this last period, Job will have better days. (To be continued.) )