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Job 27:13
13 This is the portion [cheleq] of a wicked [rasha`] man ['adam] with God ['el], and the heritage [nachalah] of oppressors [`ariyts], which they shall receive [laqach] of the Almighty [Shadday]. KJV-Interlinear
13 'This is the portion of a wicked man from God, And the inheritance which tyrants receive from the Almighty. NASB
In science there is a principle known as Cause and Effect. If 'a' results in 'b' then 'b' is a result of 'a', or otherwise stated, 'a' is the cause of 'b.'
There is also a concept known as 'Entropy.' Entropy is the measure of the loss of usable energy. For example when kinetic energy is utilized the result is often heat. A light bulb burns electricity and produces heat. The electricity is lost but heat is produced. The total energy throughput is the same, the output changes from usable to unusable. The unusable energy is still usable but the technology is such that, that heat gets away and becomes lost to further use.
Now one more point before you start wondering if you are on the Bible study or have lost your way into Oz or some other web site.
There is a concept in communication and information theory. This theory states that as information is lost, then order tends to decrease.
Now Job, though he knew nothing of physics or science as we understand them today, is giving us all a lesson in the cause and effects of ones behavior.
I add the above concepts in order to help add to the studies of the previous days. We can all look around and see Gods work. In our late historical date, science has taken many of the things that God has invented, and analyzed them into scientific theories. Theories intending to describe how things work. Whether medicine, physics, psychology, or whatever, there is a study and theory set, that has been set out into structural terms in order to explain how these things work, and also to help us understand how they work.
Information brings order to our thinking, but more important, spiritual information brings correct order to our thinking.
Even the simplest things in life, have been analyzed by people who have greater intelligence than you and me, and their analyses have attempted to demonstrate the details and mechanics of how many things function. Whether a light bulb or the mating habits of crocodiles, makes no difference. All things came from God and they all came with a design. Those many theories, prove the existence of their design and order.
Nothing in life, nothing in existence, came into being by accident. All had an origin from intelligent design.
Now we have the thinking process of people. Remember cause and effect, information loss and order loss.
In life there are two opinions. The first is from God. Everything from God is truth. The second opinion includes everything which does not come from God, or everything else.
If a thing is true, then it is from God, if it is not true, then it is the opposite of truth or a lie.
Truth has design, attributes, order, purpose and so forth. Non-truth is the opposite. It is disorder, deceit, chaos, and so forth.
When people learn Bible doctrine, which is truth, or the doorway to truth, then they enhance their life with order and purpose. When people disregard truth, when they are indifferent toward Bible doctrine, when they substitute something else in their life instead of truth, then they send their own life into disorder, disarray, destruction. They do it all themselves.
In life, in ones spiritual or carnal life, there is a natural result and consequence of sin. Pursue sin, or generally stated, pursue non-truth, and you will reap the repercussions of your pursuit. Those repercussions of sin, being not good.
Evil is the disruption of truth. Disruption of truth causes confusion and disorder. Disorder leads to disorientation. Disorientation results in destruction.
This is the heritage, this is the inheritance, this is the result of ones rebellion against truth.
And from that Job begins, over the next ten verses, his promised instruction.
