When God Goes Silent. Part [7] 09/27/2023 (Evening thought)

Jeremiah 30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.

[Spirit of Prophecy Bk 4 pp 427] The Lord's servants have faithfully given the warning, looking to God and to his word alone. They have not consulted their temporal interests, or sought to preserve their reputation or their lives. Yet when the storm of opposition and reproach bursts upon them, they are overwhelmed with consternation; and some are ready to exclaim, “Had we foreseen the consequences of our words, we would have held our peace.”

A host of reasons and explanations do not always strengthen persons to bear trial, and it is for this reason, why in certain circumstances, it is prudent and wise for God to go silent. Now, if God were to go the opposite route of giving Job the answers, He would have to explain why the devil was permitted to come to the gates of heaven in the first place. In other words, since God knows the end from the beginning, Job would most likely be questioning why God permitted satan to come.

Then God would have to explain to Job that satan had accused God of pay to play, or, of bribing Job to serve him, and this was done in the public square, in the presence of the other intelligences of heaven. Then, in response to the devil’s claims, to set the record straight, God would have to explain to Job that he had granted satan the permission to prove his point, if it were indeed true, and that this is the reason why everything in Job’s life, came tumbling down.

Hebrews 12:11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!