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Job 41:11
11 Who hath prevented [qadam] me, that I should repay [shalam] him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven [shamayim] is mine. KJV-Interlinear
11 'Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is Mine. NASB
When a hunter goes hunting, he does not go out with noise to make his presence known. He goes out with stealth. He tries to find his prey, and advance on him in quiet such that he can at the last moment, spring on the prey and capture or kill it with quickness. Overwhelming the prey with surprise such that it cannot run, or even think of an avenue of escape.
The hunt is over quickly and the hunter has his prize.
And that is what 'prevented' means.
Who has come up quickly upon God? Who has caught God by surprise? Who has caught God off guard? Who has come up with a scenario that God has not anticipated?
And here we have two concepts in our study. First, history is a contest between God and Satan. Second, history is a contest between God and man. God is so far ahead of Satan and man, that the contest is not between God and anyone, but with Satan or man competing against themselves to prove who is the dumber.
God, in humor, just sits on the sidelines so to speak, and watches as man and Satan come up with one plan, one scenario, one complaint, after another. And history is just that. Man and Satan come up with all sorts of ideas and proposals, and scenarios, trying to discredit God and prove themselves.
And in each case, God demonstrates His superior wisdom and mans superior stupidity.
So, who has come up with something, anything, such that God owes a response, a reply, an apology?
God owes us nothing. We are dust and nothing more. Anytime that God gives us an explanation, it is out of His grace and courtesy.
What claim have we on this planet? What claim have we on this universe?
God owns everything. God owns heaven, and God owns everything under heaven. Our universe is under heaven. Our universe is vast, but heaven is infinitely larger.
We don't even know how large our universe is. We cannot know how large heaven is.
We can send satellites to the distant planets but at our present technology, sending a satellite to the nearest star, some four light-years away, would take well over 60,000 years, one way. That is if our satellites are traveling at 40,000 miles an hour. In order to reach the nearest star in 1000 years, we would have to travel 60 times faster, or at 2,400,000 miles an hour. And that technology is nowhere close.
And that is only the nearest star. Our own galaxy is far, far greater in distance, to get to the other side, or anywhere in the middle.
And as far as distant galaxies??? It is never going to happen. Man is not going to travel to the stars.
We probably have only a hundred or two-hundred years remaining in our dispensation (speculation of course). Satan has been bound to this earth, and so has man. So if we were to be able to travel to the nearest star, then our current technology would have to speed up things about five hundred times faster, each and every year, for the next century.
Will our speed of 40,000 miles an hour go to 20,000,000 miles an hour by next year, and faster still by the next year, increasing in speed by leaps and bounds each and every year thereafter. If travel speed does not increase in any given year, then that means that the speed just has to go up even faster in some future year.
Now, reason dictates that this is not going to happen. And that is what is required just to go, one way, to the nearest single star. As for the rest of the universe??? Well, man is bound to this planet and here our history will advance to its final conclusion.
God owns the universe. Man will never see all of his own planet, under the seas, much less our solar system. And by the way, does our solar system even have a name?
Hummm! The thoughts get deeper and deeper.
Man has no basis or grounds with which to challenge God. Man has no basis with which to question God.
This should be the end of the discussion, but since man is still extremely ignorant with respect to life, God has a few more things to teach us all.
