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Job 31:11-12
11 For this is an heinous crime [zimmah]; yea, it is an iniquity [`avon] to be punished by the judges [paliyl].
12 For it is a fire ['esh] that consumeth ['akal] to destruction ['abaddown], and would root out [sharash] all mine increase [tabuw'ah]. KJV-Interlinear
11 'For that would be a lustful crime; Moreover, it would be an iniquity punishable by judges. 12 'For it would be fire that consumes to Abaddon, And would uproot all my increase. NASB
Our first love should be Bible doctrine. God magnified His Word above His name. It is through the scriptures that we have access to God through His Son. Our perfect wife (spouse) as it were, is the Lord through Bible doctrine.
To substitute our true love (God through doctrine) for someone else (worldliness), is to pursue an adulterous relationship with the world.
The world is the slut, the prostitute, the adulterous from which there can be no, and never will be, anything good coming out of that kind of relationship.
To rebel against truth, is the worst, of the worst, of the worst of crimes. It is a sin, it is wickedness, it is the degeneracy of the thought and content of ones soul.
So heinous is negative volition toward Bible doctrine, it requires a mandatory hearing by a judge.
A perfect judge can hear all of the evidence (your life), evaluate all of the testimony (your life), and based on the facts (of your life), will decide your fate.
Jesus Christ is that judge.
Such destruction is negative volition, indifference, apathy toward doctrine, such that it is said here, that it becomes destruction (Abaddon). Ignoring ones spiritual life is the act of self-destruction or suicide.
Anything you might ever have (of a legitimate nature) in life will be consumed, uprooted, destroyed.
The unbeliever may accumulate things, treasure, wealth, prosperity and such in life, but upon his death, he will lose it all and far, far more.
The believer who advances in his spiritual life, having accumulated spiritual blessings within his soul, and then becomes distracted away from his spiritual life, will lose ground, will lose his spiritual growth, will lose his spiritual credits if you will. This is Jobs reference to his increases.
Job has already lost his worldly property and wealth, but his increases in his spiritual life remain with him, despite his current suffering. The only thing that can remove ones spiritual advances, is ones bad decisions in drifting away from the spiritual life.
While functioning within the spiritual life, you accumulate gold, silver, and precious stones. All expressions of intrinsically valuable prosperity within the spiritual life. All expressions of phenomenal decorations and spiritual production, accessorizing the soul.
While functioning outside of the spiritual life, you accumulate wood, hay and stubble, simultaneously losing any increases you might have had. Stubble is never as good as gold.
If someone were to offer you a hand full of rotten wood or a hand full of gold, which would you take? The gold of course.
God is handing you a mountain of gold and jewels, and allowing you to take from the doggie doo-doo of the world. Again, which should be preferred?
The choice should be obvious, and yet by maintaining a stubborn attitude, by rejecting Bible doctrine, by being indifferent, the majority, the vast majority of the world chooses for the doggie doo-doo, for the adulterous relationship, for the crime of all crimes by refusing their spiritual life and embracing anything else.
The result? Loss, failure, poverty, self-destruction.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Job 31:9-10
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Job 31:9-10
9 If mine heart [leb] have been deceived [pathah] by a woman ['ishshah], or if I have laid wait ['arab] at my neighbour's [rea`] door [pethach];
10 Then let my wife ['ishshah] grind [tachan] unto another ['acher], and let others ['acher] bow down [kara`] upon her. KJV-Interlinear
9 'If my heart has been enticed by a woman, Or I have lurked at my neighbor's doorway, 10 May my wife grind for another, And let others kneel down over her. NASB
Now Job uses the married woman in his example. Earlier he used the virgin as the expression of enticement into the ways of the world. Now the married woman signifies the act of adultery, or the taking of something which belongs to another, the taking of something which obviously does not belong to you. And all parties involved know it.
Lurking at another's door, is descriptive of waiting for them to leave, and then going inside their home, a place which you have no right to be, and taking or simply being there, in violation of the neighbors privacy and property.
The ways of the world are herein made obvious. No one can live their life and say that they 'didn't know.' No one has any excuse when their life finally ends and they finally stand before Jesus for their final grade.
To be an adulterous, is described as the worst of crimes. You not only cheat on your current partner, but you violate the property, the rights, the privacy, and life of someone else.
Marriage is considered to be extremely sacred. Around it revolves the stability of society. When marriage is violated, abused, compromised, then the fabric of society reels with the repercussions with trouble galore.
If Job (if you), were to commit an act of adultery, if you were to commit an act in which you took, openly and willingly and knowingly, that which did not belong to you, then you should have no objection when someone else comes along and takes that which is near and dear to you.
By cheating on his wife, then Job states that such a person should then place their own wife (someone they hold extremely close to their heart) in a position of the lowest levels of society.
To do menial tasks, such as grinding flour, or washing floors, or anything which a slave person would typically do. And, because the wife is female, to be automatically at the disposal and whim of the master to be used and abused (for sexual pleasures) as he pleases, is the quintessence of degradation and helplessness.
Such a slave has no recourse, no one to turn to for help. Such a woman is helpless and made to be useless except for the pleasures of a tyrant.
Now, the world is the tyrant taskmaster. You, when you cheat on your spiritual life, are standing, lurking, and watching the world for pleasurable opportunities and enticements. You seek out that which does not belong to you and take it for your own possession. You commit adultery with the world rather than committing fidelity with God through your spiritual life.
Why then, when your life finally ends, would you be surprised when God strips you of all of your possessions, your worldly things, and leaves you stark naked, just as a slave girl is naked, before your tyrant master - the world.
Job states clearly that if his life is such, then let its result be as stated.
For the spiritually deficient person, then that is what you should expect as the ultimate result of your life.
Unbelievers will lose the most, and that should be obvious.
All believers will go to heaven, but those who have ignored their spiritual life, or have not pursued it correctly, will be there without any spiritual assets, without any spiritual growth to show for their life. They will lose their eternal 'bonus' blessings. Stripped as it were, of all that they tried to carry from this world, into the next.
Only those who advance in their spiritual life, and certainly only those who advance to spiritual maturity, will end up with phenomenal blessings in eternity.
To adulterize the world is to be enticed by something that will never amount to anything, and at the same time, throwing away your most valuable possession.
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Job 31:9-10
9 If mine heart [leb] have been deceived [pathah] by a woman ['ishshah], or if I have laid wait ['arab] at my neighbour's [rea`] door [pethach];
10 Then let my wife ['ishshah] grind [tachan] unto another ['acher], and let others ['acher] bow down [kara`] upon her. KJV-Interlinear
9 'If my heart has been enticed by a woman, Or I have lurked at my neighbor's doorway, 10 May my wife grind for another, And let others kneel down over her. NASB
Now Job uses the married woman in his example. Earlier he used the virgin as the expression of enticement into the ways of the world. Now the married woman signifies the act of adultery, or the taking of something which belongs to another, the taking of something which obviously does not belong to you. And all parties involved know it.
Lurking at another's door, is descriptive of waiting for them to leave, and then going inside their home, a place which you have no right to be, and taking or simply being there, in violation of the neighbors privacy and property.
The ways of the world are herein made obvious. No one can live their life and say that they 'didn't know.' No one has any excuse when their life finally ends and they finally stand before Jesus for their final grade.
To be an adulterous, is described as the worst of crimes. You not only cheat on your current partner, but you violate the property, the rights, the privacy, and life of someone else.
Marriage is considered to be extremely sacred. Around it revolves the stability of society. When marriage is violated, abused, compromised, then the fabric of society reels with the repercussions with trouble galore.
If Job (if you), were to commit an act of adultery, if you were to commit an act in which you took, openly and willingly and knowingly, that which did not belong to you, then you should have no objection when someone else comes along and takes that which is near and dear to you.
By cheating on his wife, then Job states that such a person should then place their own wife (someone they hold extremely close to their heart) in a position of the lowest levels of society.
To do menial tasks, such as grinding flour, or washing floors, or anything which a slave person would typically do. And, because the wife is female, to be automatically at the disposal and whim of the master to be used and abused (for sexual pleasures) as he pleases, is the quintessence of degradation and helplessness.
Such a slave has no recourse, no one to turn to for help. Such a woman is helpless and made to be useless except for the pleasures of a tyrant.
Now, the world is the tyrant taskmaster. You, when you cheat on your spiritual life, are standing, lurking, and watching the world for pleasurable opportunities and enticements. You seek out that which does not belong to you and take it for your own possession. You commit adultery with the world rather than committing fidelity with God through your spiritual life.
Why then, when your life finally ends, would you be surprised when God strips you of all of your possessions, your worldly things, and leaves you stark naked, just as a slave girl is naked, before your tyrant master - the world.
Job states clearly that if his life is such, then let its result be as stated.
For the spiritually deficient person, then that is what you should expect as the ultimate result of your life.
Unbelievers will lose the most, and that should be obvious.
All believers will go to heaven, but those who have ignored their spiritual life, or have not pursued it correctly, will be there without any spiritual assets, without any spiritual growth to show for their life. They will lose their eternal 'bonus' blessings. Stripped as it were, of all that they tried to carry from this world, into the next.
Only those who advance in their spiritual life, and certainly only those who advance to spiritual maturity, will end up with phenomenal blessings in eternity.
To adulterize the world is to be enticed by something that will never amount to anything, and at the same time, throwing away your most valuable possession.
Monday, January 14, 2008
Job 31:7-8
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Job 31:7-8
7 If my step ['ashur] hath turned out [natah] of the way [derek], and mine heart [leb] walked [halak] after ['achar] mine eyes [`ayin], and if any blot [m'uwm] hath cleaved [dabaq] to mine hands [kaph];
8 Then let me sow [zara`], and let another ['acher] eat ['akal]; yea, let my offspring [tse'etsa'] be rooted out [sharash]. KJV-Interlinear
7 'If my step has turned from the way, Or my heart followed my eyes, Or if any spot has stuck to my hands, 8 Let me sow and another eat, And let my crops be uprooted. NASB
The steps of a person are the patterns of life he has chosen to follow. The heart is representative of the pump of the soul. The heart is the circulation of the information within the soul, or the active thought process. The hands represent the overt or physical activity, moment to moment, day to day, of the individual.
Turning out of the way, is an expression for one who has turned away from what is right and true. It is one who has turned away from God, from Christ, from doctrine, from their spiritual life. And when you turn away from truth, then you obviously turn toward lies.
Any pattern of life, whether you justify it within your own mind, whether it brings harm to anyone else or not, whether it seems reasonable to you, but it is not consistent with the principles taught within the Bible, these patterns are false.
And choosing a pattern of life follows the thought pattern within your soul. And the obvious result is that you will act overtly (the hands) based on what you think.
Anything that you do (the sowing), and anything that you possess (the crops) will come to nothing.
When you live your life outside of that which God has designed for you, you will end up with nothing.
Anything you do will end up benefiting someone else. Anything you own, will end up giving pleasure, the pleasure of ownership, to someone else.
And if you have read through the parables, then you know, or should know, that spiritually positive believers, will end up with everything. They may suffer now during this time in history, but there is coming a day when all positive believers will inherit and possess it all.
The ultimate evaluation is not yours to give. No person will decide for any other person, the ultimate outcome of ones life and destiny. That is Christs' right.
Job states boldly that he is ready for such an evaluation. His friends have accused him of wickedness, but he defers to God, and is more than willing to accept Gods decision.
Jobs present situation in suffering is irrelevant, and he knows it.
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Job 31:7-8
7 If my step ['ashur] hath turned out [natah] of the way [derek], and mine heart [leb] walked [halak] after ['achar] mine eyes [`ayin], and if any blot [m'uwm] hath cleaved [dabaq] to mine hands [kaph];
8 Then let me sow [zara`], and let another ['acher] eat ['akal]; yea, let my offspring [tse'etsa'] be rooted out [sharash]. KJV-Interlinear
7 'If my step has turned from the way, Or my heart followed my eyes, Or if any spot has stuck to my hands, 8 Let me sow and another eat, And let my crops be uprooted. NASB
The steps of a person are the patterns of life he has chosen to follow. The heart is representative of the pump of the soul. The heart is the circulation of the information within the soul, or the active thought process. The hands represent the overt or physical activity, moment to moment, day to day, of the individual.
Turning out of the way, is an expression for one who has turned away from what is right and true. It is one who has turned away from God, from Christ, from doctrine, from their spiritual life. And when you turn away from truth, then you obviously turn toward lies.
Any pattern of life, whether you justify it within your own mind, whether it brings harm to anyone else or not, whether it seems reasonable to you, but it is not consistent with the principles taught within the Bible, these patterns are false.
And choosing a pattern of life follows the thought pattern within your soul. And the obvious result is that you will act overtly (the hands) based on what you think.
Anything that you do (the sowing), and anything that you possess (the crops) will come to nothing.
When you live your life outside of that which God has designed for you, you will end up with nothing.
Anything you do will end up benefiting someone else. Anything you own, will end up giving pleasure, the pleasure of ownership, to someone else.
And if you have read through the parables, then you know, or should know, that spiritually positive believers, will end up with everything. They may suffer now during this time in history, but there is coming a day when all positive believers will inherit and possess it all.
The ultimate evaluation is not yours to give. No person will decide for any other person, the ultimate outcome of ones life and destiny. That is Christs' right.
Job states boldly that he is ready for such an evaluation. His friends have accused him of wickedness, but he defers to God, and is more than willing to accept Gods decision.
Jobs present situation in suffering is irrelevant, and he knows it.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Job 31:5-6
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Job 31:5-6
5 If I have walked [halak] with vanity [shav'], or if my foot [regel] hath hasted [chuwsh] to deceit [mirmah];
6 Let me be weighed [shaqal] in an even [tsedeq] balance [mo'zen], that God ['elowahh] may know [yada`] mine integrity [tummah]. KJV-Interlinear
5 'If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot has hastened after deceit, 6 Let Him weigh me with accurate scales, And let God know my integrity. NASB
Walking through life, is the pattern of life which you choose for yourself. It represents the principles for life which you choose to follow. You can follow principles which are defined in the Bible or you can choose to follow principles defined by the world around you.
Vanity is the same of nothingness, or emptiness, or falsehoods.
Only truth has substance and meaning and purpose in life. Anything else is vanity, which means that it is nothing.
Everyone has the freedom of choice, in choosing the pattern of life which they prefer.
To walk, is the function of ones choice in life. To hasten, is the attitude of vigor of their pursuit of their choices in life.
There are only two choices in life with respect to the standards and morals, and principles which govern ones life. There is Gods standard and then there is everything else.
But who is to decide which is best or right?
Well, only one who is perfect and pure and fair can make that decision. And it is God, through His perfect righteousness (sinless perfection) and through His perfect justice (the cleansing action), who can judge as to what is right and fair and pure in life.
God has the only set of scales the only set of standards, the only mechanism by which ones life can be judged.
Man is imperfect and God is perfect. Imperfection cannot make itself perfect. But perfection can reach down and thoroughly wash imperfection and make it clean.
So man, being inherently imperfect and flawed, cannot search out from this world and discover or invent a means of making himself perfect, or elevate himself to some higher level of morality or integrity, or whatever.
Therefore, by choosing anything other than Gods standards, means that you will never become anything more than what you already are - nothing. And what do you suppose the other choice is?
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Job 31:5-6
5 If I have walked [halak] with vanity [shav'], or if my foot [regel] hath hasted [chuwsh] to deceit [mirmah];
6 Let me be weighed [shaqal] in an even [tsedeq] balance [mo'zen], that God ['elowahh] may know [yada`] mine integrity [tummah]. KJV-Interlinear
5 'If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot has hastened after deceit, 6 Let Him weigh me with accurate scales, And let God know my integrity. NASB
Walking through life, is the pattern of life which you choose for yourself. It represents the principles for life which you choose to follow. You can follow principles which are defined in the Bible or you can choose to follow principles defined by the world around you.
Vanity is the same of nothingness, or emptiness, or falsehoods.
Only truth has substance and meaning and purpose in life. Anything else is vanity, which means that it is nothing.
Everyone has the freedom of choice, in choosing the pattern of life which they prefer.
To walk, is the function of ones choice in life. To hasten, is the attitude of vigor of their pursuit of their choices in life.
There are only two choices in life with respect to the standards and morals, and principles which govern ones life. There is Gods standard and then there is everything else.
But who is to decide which is best or right?
Well, only one who is perfect and pure and fair can make that decision. And it is God, through His perfect righteousness (sinless perfection) and through His perfect justice (the cleansing action), who can judge as to what is right and fair and pure in life.
God has the only set of scales the only set of standards, the only mechanism by which ones life can be judged.
Man is imperfect and God is perfect. Imperfection cannot make itself perfect. But perfection can reach down and thoroughly wash imperfection and make it clean.
So man, being inherently imperfect and flawed, cannot search out from this world and discover or invent a means of making himself perfect, or elevate himself to some higher level of morality or integrity, or whatever.
Therefore, by choosing anything other than Gods standards, means that you will never become anything more than what you already are - nothing. And what do you suppose the other choice is?
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Job 31:4
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Job 31:4
4 Doth not he see [ra'ah] my ways [derek], and count [caphar] all my steps [tsa`ad]? KJV-Interlinear
4 'Does He not see my ways, And number all my steps? NASB
God is thoroughly familiar with every aspect of your life. Your thoughts, your intentions, your desires, certainly your needs. God is thoroughly familiar with every spoken word, with every overt action of your life. God is totally familiar with every hair on your head (or lack of them), with every breath of your life, with every beat of your heart.
God is the omniscient, and possesses complete foreknowledge of all of history. God possesses and commands knowledge and understanding and wisdom concerning every aspect of this universe, of heaven, and far, far more than that.
God is the perfect and only counselor, the perfect and only evaluator, the perfect and only judge of everything.
God knows you better than you know yourself.
God dispatched the scriptures in order for you to come to at least some semblance of recognition of reality and truth, so you could have the greatest possible life ever.
The wise person, will take Gods advice and make it their own. The fool, will keep looking for something better.
The wise person will make up their mind and decide (make a covenant with themselves) to pursue their spiritual life. The fool will keep looking for a better spiritual life. One of their own making.
The wise person, figures out life and knows that God is the key to everything. The fool, is certain that they know everything there is to know about life, but they keep on looking for an even better key.
The wise person begins to monitor his inner thoughts and outer actions, in order to comply (as best he can) with Gods will for his life. The fool tries to adapt to the world around him and absorb into its inner workings.
The wise person, lives his life day to day, and prepares for eternity. The fool prepares for today and presumes there will always be a tomorrow which is at least as good if not better than today.
God, in the mean time, monitors our every step in life and at the appropriate time in heaven, will award to each according to their chosen life of today.
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Job 31:4
4 Doth not he see [ra'ah] my ways [derek], and count [caphar] all my steps [tsa`ad]? KJV-Interlinear
4 'Does He not see my ways, And number all my steps? NASB
God is thoroughly familiar with every aspect of your life. Your thoughts, your intentions, your desires, certainly your needs. God is thoroughly familiar with every spoken word, with every overt action of your life. God is totally familiar with every hair on your head (or lack of them), with every breath of your life, with every beat of your heart.
God is the omniscient, and possesses complete foreknowledge of all of history. God possesses and commands knowledge and understanding and wisdom concerning every aspect of this universe, of heaven, and far, far more than that.
God is the perfect and only counselor, the perfect and only evaluator, the perfect and only judge of everything.
God knows you better than you know yourself.
God dispatched the scriptures in order for you to come to at least some semblance of recognition of reality and truth, so you could have the greatest possible life ever.
The wise person, will take Gods advice and make it their own. The fool, will keep looking for something better.
The wise person will make up their mind and decide (make a covenant with themselves) to pursue their spiritual life. The fool will keep looking for a better spiritual life. One of their own making.
The wise person, figures out life and knows that God is the key to everything. The fool, is certain that they know everything there is to know about life, but they keep on looking for an even better key.
The wise person begins to monitor his inner thoughts and outer actions, in order to comply (as best he can) with Gods will for his life. The fool tries to adapt to the world around him and absorb into its inner workings.
The wise person, lives his life day to day, and prepares for eternity. The fool prepares for today and presumes there will always be a tomorrow which is at least as good if not better than today.
God, in the mean time, monitors our every step in life and at the appropriate time in heaven, will award to each according to their chosen life of today.
Friday, January 11, 2008
Job 31:3
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Job 31:3
3 Is not destruction ['eyd] to the wicked [`avval]? and a strange [neker] punishment to the workers [pa`al] of iniquity ['aven]? KJV-Interlinear
3 'Is it not calamity to the unjust, And disaster to those who work iniquity? NASB
The word for destruction means oppression, misfortune, ruin, calamity, separation. The word for strange means something different, something unexpected, something that is not of the ordinary. The word for iniquity means to pant as in over exertion of ones self in a task, to come to nothing, trouble, emptiness or vanity, an indulgence.
Iniquity is the activity of a person who is functioning outside of the will of God. Anyone who is not in fellowship, is outside of the will of God. Gods will, can only be followed while in fellowship. Anything you do while in fellowship, is Gods will. Remember that the state of fellowship, is the state which is absent sin and human good.
All unbelievers are by definition, living outside of the will of God. All believers who do not regularly confess their sins (to God the Father), are not in fellowship and therefore live their lives (imitating unbelievers) outside of the will of God.
Everyone who lives outside of the will of God, lives in iniquity. Iniquity is the production of their every effort in life. Iniquity is equal to nothing. Therefore, living a life outside of Gods will, living out of fellowship, simply means that your life amounts to nothing, regardless of who or what you are, or what you have.
What becomes of the person who lives in a state of nothingness? First, they live a life separated from God, and second their life will amount to ruin, nothing, trouble, misfortune. This is all that a spiritually deficient person can expect out of life. And by the way, ones life is summarized and evaluated at the end of ones life.
What does all of this ruin and destruction mean? It is a strange destruction. Not of the ordinary kind that is common to man.
We can all look around and see disasters in varying degrees and of many different types. Disasters can occur from acts of nature, from defects in ones genetics, from environmental hazards (smoking, chemicals,etc.), from accidents, from social ostracism, from work politics, layoffs, business downturns, etc. These are all common occurrences of problems that occur in our everyday lives.
But the disaster that will overwhelm the person of iniquity, the person of nothingness, the person of sin and human good, is of a strange type and uncommon. It is an unexpected disaster. And therefore, when it occurs, it totally shocks, takes by surprise, the person.
Everyone who lives their life outside of their spiritual life, comes to accept their everyday beliefs as truth. Their life becomes a habit. They see only the things and the world that exist around them, and never beyond that.
So, when their life finally ends, they will come face to face with reality, perhaps even the first real reality which will finally get their attention (not that God has not given them every opportunity to face and accept reality, during their life).
These are people who have not made the correct covenant between themselves and their eyes. Recall Job has made this commitment on the side of truth.
The eyes represent the physical or carnal side of ones life. They are the lusts, the desires, the attitudes, which form the pattern of life (in iniquity) which the individual freely chooses to pursue. An undisciplined choice.
The other party of this covenant is the real you, the human life within the soul. You can think, and what you think is the real you. So the real you, your human life which resides in the soul, interacts with the physical you (the biological), which is saturated with the sin nature, and makes an agreement.
You can choose truth, or you can choose to indulge yourself in the things of this world.
Truth becomes the recipient of good, reward, benefits that are real and permanent. Iniquity, which is nothing, can only expect nothing, which is the valid wage for nothing.
So, pursue your spiritual life and you can expect good things in your life. Good things includes God training you even with suffering.
Do not pursue your spiritual life, and you can expect nothing for your invested time, in the indulgences (whatever it is you believe, or do) in life.
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Job 31:3
3 Is not destruction ['eyd] to the wicked [`avval]? and a strange [neker] punishment to the workers [pa`al] of iniquity ['aven]? KJV-Interlinear
3 'Is it not calamity to the unjust, And disaster to those who work iniquity? NASB
The word for destruction means oppression, misfortune, ruin, calamity, separation. The word for strange means something different, something unexpected, something that is not of the ordinary. The word for iniquity means to pant as in over exertion of ones self in a task, to come to nothing, trouble, emptiness or vanity, an indulgence.
Iniquity is the activity of a person who is functioning outside of the will of God. Anyone who is not in fellowship, is outside of the will of God. Gods will, can only be followed while in fellowship. Anything you do while in fellowship, is Gods will. Remember that the state of fellowship, is the state which is absent sin and human good.
All unbelievers are by definition, living outside of the will of God. All believers who do not regularly confess their sins (to God the Father), are not in fellowship and therefore live their lives (imitating unbelievers) outside of the will of God.
Everyone who lives outside of the will of God, lives in iniquity. Iniquity is the production of their every effort in life. Iniquity is equal to nothing. Therefore, living a life outside of Gods will, living out of fellowship, simply means that your life amounts to nothing, regardless of who or what you are, or what you have.
What becomes of the person who lives in a state of nothingness? First, they live a life separated from God, and second their life will amount to ruin, nothing, trouble, misfortune. This is all that a spiritually deficient person can expect out of life. And by the way, ones life is summarized and evaluated at the end of ones life.
What does all of this ruin and destruction mean? It is a strange destruction. Not of the ordinary kind that is common to man.
We can all look around and see disasters in varying degrees and of many different types. Disasters can occur from acts of nature, from defects in ones genetics, from environmental hazards (smoking, chemicals,etc.), from accidents, from social ostracism, from work politics, layoffs, business downturns, etc. These are all common occurrences of problems that occur in our everyday lives.
But the disaster that will overwhelm the person of iniquity, the person of nothingness, the person of sin and human good, is of a strange type and uncommon. It is an unexpected disaster. And therefore, when it occurs, it totally shocks, takes by surprise, the person.
Everyone who lives their life outside of their spiritual life, comes to accept their everyday beliefs as truth. Their life becomes a habit. They see only the things and the world that exist around them, and never beyond that.
So, when their life finally ends, they will come face to face with reality, perhaps even the first real reality which will finally get their attention (not that God has not given them every opportunity to face and accept reality, during their life).
These are people who have not made the correct covenant between themselves and their eyes. Recall Job has made this commitment on the side of truth.
The eyes represent the physical or carnal side of ones life. They are the lusts, the desires, the attitudes, which form the pattern of life (in iniquity) which the individual freely chooses to pursue. An undisciplined choice.
The other party of this covenant is the real you, the human life within the soul. You can think, and what you think is the real you. So the real you, your human life which resides in the soul, interacts with the physical you (the biological), which is saturated with the sin nature, and makes an agreement.
You can choose truth, or you can choose to indulge yourself in the things of this world.
Truth becomes the recipient of good, reward, benefits that are real and permanent. Iniquity, which is nothing, can only expect nothing, which is the valid wage for nothing.
So, pursue your spiritual life and you can expect good things in your life. Good things includes God training you even with suffering.
Do not pursue your spiritual life, and you can expect nothing for your invested time, in the indulgences (whatever it is you believe, or do) in life.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Job 31:2
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Job 31:2
2 For what portion [cheleq] of God ['elowahh] is there from above [ma`al]? and what inheritance [nachalah] of the Almighty [Shadday] from on high [marowm]? KJV-Interlinear
2 'And what is the portion of God from above Or the heritage of the Almighty from on high? NASB
What is it that we can expect from life? What is it that we can get out of life?
In this universe, there are only two opinions. The first is that from God, which is truth. Truth is a very broad subject. It is not limited to only the words contained within the Bible. It includes everything which God has invented, designed, created and so forth. That includes the many laws of science, economics, social structures, establishment principles, spiritual rules and so forth.
The second opinion is everything else. Everything that Satan has invented as well as everything that man has invented based on his observations or imaginations, which takes truth (the content of the universe) and makes false interpretations or conclusions.
When facts are observed, and false conclusions are derived, then a lie is the result. Then ones views and understanding are based on lies. Lies lead a person nowhere.
So what can one expect, from the worlds viewpoint, a viewpoint which is based on the exclusion of God, and therefore based on lies? Nothing.
And yet people will wallow their life away, in their self indulgent, self-designed ego, selfish attitude, all of which are formed because they reject truth.
Far too many people will look to anything that will allow them to escape truth. Truth is just too difficult to bear. They will pursue self pity, alcohol, drugs, eating excessively or habitually, being opinionated, and they do these things because they gain some form of immediate satisfaction, but still they embrace the idea of failure in their life.
Victims worship at the alter of the 'poor me' or 'I know it all' attention. They pursue pity or approbation because it makes them somebody, or at least gets them attention and that satisfies their ego to a degree.
Job is in a position of tremendous and real suffering, and yet he knows that pursuit of the worlds opinions will not gain him anything.
What inheritance, what reward, what benefit is there?
God is the source of everything good. God is truth. Good comes out of truth. Legitimate reward, benefit, inheritance are all good. Therefore, they can only come out of truth, which is, and which is from, God.
The content of truth in ones soul is nothing more than a thinking process. Then once you know truth, applying it to ones life comes easy.
And yet people pursue the difficult things in life. Too hard to read the Bible. Too hard to study for a few minutes a day. Too hard to learn some scriptural topics.
Too easy to ignore it all and therefore open ones mind up to the opinions of the world. All of which are lies.
Too easy to be the victim. Too easy to define your own way through life as long as all is going well for you. Then life happens and the pressures overwhelm you and you quit. And then who gets blamed? Not yourself!
No, the fool blames everyone, argues with everyone, has tantrums in public (an attention getter), cares nothing for what impressions he makes on others. The fool will go to great lengths to embrace his thought processes and blame all for his failures.
And again, what inheritance, what reward, what benefit is there?
Too easy to ignore doctrine simply because all you have to do is pay no attention to it.
Too difficult to read and study and learn doctrine, because you have to actually think and learn and exercise self control and poise.
And what fun is there in that? What attention is there in that. To think that a person has to endure humility and respect for authority, and responsibility and such.
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Job 31:2
2 For what portion [cheleq] of God ['elowahh] is there from above [ma`al]? and what inheritance [nachalah] of the Almighty [Shadday] from on high [marowm]? KJV-Interlinear
2 'And what is the portion of God from above Or the heritage of the Almighty from on high? NASB
What is it that we can expect from life? What is it that we can get out of life?
In this universe, there are only two opinions. The first is that from God, which is truth. Truth is a very broad subject. It is not limited to only the words contained within the Bible. It includes everything which God has invented, designed, created and so forth. That includes the many laws of science, economics, social structures, establishment principles, spiritual rules and so forth.
The second opinion is everything else. Everything that Satan has invented as well as everything that man has invented based on his observations or imaginations, which takes truth (the content of the universe) and makes false interpretations or conclusions.
When facts are observed, and false conclusions are derived, then a lie is the result. Then ones views and understanding are based on lies. Lies lead a person nowhere.
So what can one expect, from the worlds viewpoint, a viewpoint which is based on the exclusion of God, and therefore based on lies? Nothing.
And yet people will wallow their life away, in their self indulgent, self-designed ego, selfish attitude, all of which are formed because they reject truth.
Far too many people will look to anything that will allow them to escape truth. Truth is just too difficult to bear. They will pursue self pity, alcohol, drugs, eating excessively or habitually, being opinionated, and they do these things because they gain some form of immediate satisfaction, but still they embrace the idea of failure in their life.
Victims worship at the alter of the 'poor me' or 'I know it all' attention. They pursue pity or approbation because it makes them somebody, or at least gets them attention and that satisfies their ego to a degree.
Job is in a position of tremendous and real suffering, and yet he knows that pursuit of the worlds opinions will not gain him anything.
What inheritance, what reward, what benefit is there?
God is the source of everything good. God is truth. Good comes out of truth. Legitimate reward, benefit, inheritance are all good. Therefore, they can only come out of truth, which is, and which is from, God.
The content of truth in ones soul is nothing more than a thinking process. Then once you know truth, applying it to ones life comes easy.
And yet people pursue the difficult things in life. Too hard to read the Bible. Too hard to study for a few minutes a day. Too hard to learn some scriptural topics.
Too easy to ignore it all and therefore open ones mind up to the opinions of the world. All of which are lies.
Too easy to be the victim. Too easy to define your own way through life as long as all is going well for you. Then life happens and the pressures overwhelm you and you quit. And then who gets blamed? Not yourself!
No, the fool blames everyone, argues with everyone, has tantrums in public (an attention getter), cares nothing for what impressions he makes on others. The fool will go to great lengths to embrace his thought processes and blame all for his failures.
And again, what inheritance, what reward, what benefit is there?
Too easy to ignore doctrine simply because all you have to do is pay no attention to it.
Too difficult to read and study and learn doctrine, because you have to actually think and learn and exercise self control and poise.
And what fun is there in that? What attention is there in that. To think that a person has to endure humility and respect for authority, and responsibility and such.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Job 31:1
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Job 31:1
1 I made [karath] a covenant [bariyth] with mine eyes [`ayin]; why then should I think [biyn] upon a maid [bathuwlah]? KJV-Interlinear
1 'I Have made a covenant with my eyes; How then could I gaze at a virgin? NASB
Between Jobs conscious mind and the desires driven by his eyes, or by his senses (touch, taste, sight, sound, smell), and the lusts driven by his wants and needs, Job has come to an understanding, an agreement, a contract, a promise with himself.
On the one hand, the conscious mind will not drive or be driven by his lusts, desires or senses. And, on the other hand, his senses will not drive or be driven by his patterns of thought.
Job has elected to pursue his life in accordance with truth and not the carnal characteristics of the world.
The only way he can do this, is to fill his soul with doctrine. And the only way he can do that is to have studied on a regular basis, believing what he studied, accepting what he learned, and applying it to his daily life.
Job has established his life solidly in the principles taught in the scriptures.
We already know from our study of the first chapter that Job followed the sacrifice principles regularly. The one in particular is the confession sacrifice. So, we know that Job lived within the fellowship sphere throughout his life.
The virgin or maid is a reference to the virgin state of a young woman. And this is a reference to the relationship Job has with God.
In a marriage between two people, there is a bond, a contract of sorts, in which they are loyal and bonded to each other. As the marriage has many components, both physical and mental, each party is loyal and consistent in the application of these marital attributes with each other. Neither withholding, neither cheating, neither compromising their relationship.
Thus, it is with the relationship between man and God. Our relationship with God, comes through the Son. That is the foundation of Christianity. It was the same in Jobs day, even though Job did not have the historical reality of the Cross yet. Job looked forward to the Cross, the savior, his redeemer and advocate, while we have the privilege of looking back to the Cross.
In our relationship with God, we have made a covenant, and contract, an agreement, in which we promise to keep an ever-watching eye on our spiritual status. We call that fellowship, or confession resulting in fellowship.
The virgin is the purity of an innocent relationship. While cheating on that relationship, is a compromise, a corruption, a turning to some other type of idol or object of desire. Sin and human good are both ends of the carnal nature spectrum.
Dabbling in sin or human good is the same as cheating, desiring, entertaining ones self with the prostitution concepts of life. Life outside of Bible doctrine.
Therefore, Job has entrenched within his own mind, to subscribe to and live by, the principles taught by God.
He both practices, as best he can, those things that are right and true in life. He makes a conscious effort to monitor his own thoughts and actions, moment by moment, day by day, in order to confess when necessary and remain in fellowship as much as is humanly possible.
We all fail in life. Job has already stated that he is not a perfect person, but a sinner, as we all are. But the one thing that separates the mature believer from the immature believer, is the conscious effort by which the mature believer monitors, maintains, and administers his spiritual life.
The mature believer actually pursues his spiritual life, academically and experientially. The immature believer, either ignores his spiritual life, or makes up excuses, or redefines his own views as to what is the spiritual life, and abides by beliefs that are convenient to his thinking pattern.
The mature believer is objective and constantly analyzing his relationship with God. The immature believer is constantly analyzing his spiritual relationship as compared to his own defined beliefs.
The mature believer can look in the mirror and see that he is but a speck of dust, and prays to God for help and spiritual growth and wisdom.
The immature believer can look in the mirror but cannot see the word 'Stupid,' stamped on their forehead, but presumes that he is doing all, if not more, than can be expected of himself.
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Job 31:1
1 I made [karath] a covenant [bariyth] with mine eyes [`ayin]; why then should I think [biyn] upon a maid [bathuwlah]? KJV-Interlinear
1 'I Have made a covenant with my eyes; How then could I gaze at a virgin? NASB
Between Jobs conscious mind and the desires driven by his eyes, or by his senses (touch, taste, sight, sound, smell), and the lusts driven by his wants and needs, Job has come to an understanding, an agreement, a contract, a promise with himself.
On the one hand, the conscious mind will not drive or be driven by his lusts, desires or senses. And, on the other hand, his senses will not drive or be driven by his patterns of thought.
Job has elected to pursue his life in accordance with truth and not the carnal characteristics of the world.
The only way he can do this, is to fill his soul with doctrine. And the only way he can do that is to have studied on a regular basis, believing what he studied, accepting what he learned, and applying it to his daily life.
Job has established his life solidly in the principles taught in the scriptures.
We already know from our study of the first chapter that Job followed the sacrifice principles regularly. The one in particular is the confession sacrifice. So, we know that Job lived within the fellowship sphere throughout his life.
The virgin or maid is a reference to the virgin state of a young woman. And this is a reference to the relationship Job has with God.
In a marriage between two people, there is a bond, a contract of sorts, in which they are loyal and bonded to each other. As the marriage has many components, both physical and mental, each party is loyal and consistent in the application of these marital attributes with each other. Neither withholding, neither cheating, neither compromising their relationship.
Thus, it is with the relationship between man and God. Our relationship with God, comes through the Son. That is the foundation of Christianity. It was the same in Jobs day, even though Job did not have the historical reality of the Cross yet. Job looked forward to the Cross, the savior, his redeemer and advocate, while we have the privilege of looking back to the Cross.
In our relationship with God, we have made a covenant, and contract, an agreement, in which we promise to keep an ever-watching eye on our spiritual status. We call that fellowship, or confession resulting in fellowship.
The virgin is the purity of an innocent relationship. While cheating on that relationship, is a compromise, a corruption, a turning to some other type of idol or object of desire. Sin and human good are both ends of the carnal nature spectrum.
Dabbling in sin or human good is the same as cheating, desiring, entertaining ones self with the prostitution concepts of life. Life outside of Bible doctrine.
Therefore, Job has entrenched within his own mind, to subscribe to and live by, the principles taught by God.
He both practices, as best he can, those things that are right and true in life. He makes a conscious effort to monitor his own thoughts and actions, moment by moment, day by day, in order to confess when necessary and remain in fellowship as much as is humanly possible.
We all fail in life. Job has already stated that he is not a perfect person, but a sinner, as we all are. But the one thing that separates the mature believer from the immature believer, is the conscious effort by which the mature believer monitors, maintains, and administers his spiritual life.
The mature believer actually pursues his spiritual life, academically and experientially. The immature believer, either ignores his spiritual life, or makes up excuses, or redefines his own views as to what is the spiritual life, and abides by beliefs that are convenient to his thinking pattern.
The mature believer is objective and constantly analyzing his relationship with God. The immature believer is constantly analyzing his spiritual relationship as compared to his own defined beliefs.
The mature believer can look in the mirror and see that he is but a speck of dust, and prays to God for help and spiritual growth and wisdom.
The immature believer can look in the mirror but cannot see the word 'Stupid,' stamped on their forehead, but presumes that he is doing all, if not more, than can be expected of himself.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Job 30:31
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Job 30:31
31 My harp [kinnowr] also is turned to mourning ['ebel], and my organ [`uwgab] into the voice [qowl] of them that weep [bakah]. KJV-Interlinear
31 'Therefore my harp is turned to mourning, And my flute to the sound of those who weep. NASB
Job is living an experience that resembles what life would be like with the absence of God. Regardless of your circumstances in this life. Whether you are filthy rich, or desperately poor, makes no difference.
Either situation can lead to ones embrace of the fantasies that would make you believe that you are well off. If all you see is the darkness then all you believe is out there in life, is that darkness. If all you see is your environment, then all you believe is out there, is that environment.
In fact, your outlook in life is simply wanting more and more, or less and less of whatever it is that you have now. The rich want more riches, and the poor want less of their poverty. The happy want more happiness and the sad want less sadness.
Unfortunately, they all look in the same places for their wants - the world. And the world is not a resource for anything permanent.
The end result, despite a lifetime of worldly prosperity or poverty, is all wrapped up in this last verse.
The harp and the flute from which you would expect joy and cheerful even knee slapping, foot stomping happiness, actually result in terrible, painful, and pathetic sorrow.
This is the destiny, this is the very best that one can expect from a life without God, without Christ, without doctrine, without a spiritual life.
Conversely, when God is in your life, when you are advancing in your spiritual life, then no matter what your earthly circumstances might be, whether rich or poor, your life will be far better off than anyone else in this world.
Job already has acknowledged that his redeemer and his advocate are God (the savior) Himself. And by this, even in his unusual suffering which we have been studying, Job demonstrates a calmness and a confidence of trust in God to whom he looks for relief.
Job does not look to the world. Job does not look to things. Job does not look to his friends. Job does not look to himself.
And whether his suffering ends up in death or recovery, he knows that it is only God who will bring him through safely, and no one and nothing else can accomplish that.
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Job 30:31
31 My harp [kinnowr] also is turned to mourning ['ebel], and my organ [`uwgab] into the voice [qowl] of them that weep [bakah]. KJV-Interlinear
31 'Therefore my harp is turned to mourning, And my flute to the sound of those who weep. NASB
Job is living an experience that resembles what life would be like with the absence of God. Regardless of your circumstances in this life. Whether you are filthy rich, or desperately poor, makes no difference.
Either situation can lead to ones embrace of the fantasies that would make you believe that you are well off. If all you see is the darkness then all you believe is out there in life, is that darkness. If all you see is your environment, then all you believe is out there, is that environment.
In fact, your outlook in life is simply wanting more and more, or less and less of whatever it is that you have now. The rich want more riches, and the poor want less of their poverty. The happy want more happiness and the sad want less sadness.
Unfortunately, they all look in the same places for their wants - the world. And the world is not a resource for anything permanent.
The end result, despite a lifetime of worldly prosperity or poverty, is all wrapped up in this last verse.
The harp and the flute from which you would expect joy and cheerful even knee slapping, foot stomping happiness, actually result in terrible, painful, and pathetic sorrow.
This is the destiny, this is the very best that one can expect from a life without God, without Christ, without doctrine, without a spiritual life.
Conversely, when God is in your life, when you are advancing in your spiritual life, then no matter what your earthly circumstances might be, whether rich or poor, your life will be far better off than anyone else in this world.
Job already has acknowledged that his redeemer and his advocate are God (the savior) Himself. And by this, even in his unusual suffering which we have been studying, Job demonstrates a calmness and a confidence of trust in God to whom he looks for relief.
Job does not look to the world. Job does not look to things. Job does not look to his friends. Job does not look to himself.
And whether his suffering ends up in death or recovery, he knows that it is only God who will bring him through safely, and no one and nothing else can accomplish that.
Monday, January 7, 2008
Job 30:30
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Job 30:30
30 My skin [`owr] is black [shachar] upon me, and my bones [`etsem] are burned [charar] with heat [choreb]. KJV-Interlinear
30 'My skin turns black on me, And my bones burn with fever. NASB
From the external skin to Jobs inside bones, the disease has taken its toll and has been thoroughly attempting to destroy him physically.
The skin is turning black and pealing away as with leprosy. The bones are often used to express the ultimate pain. When your bones ache, then you are really hurting.
Here Job describes his physical condition. He has been describing it all along and he is actually experiencing these symptoms, pains and so forth. Job is not telling a story filled with expressions, but he is actually living the horrors of this suffering.
The horrors of a life filled with a fatal disease, are real but temporary. The horrors of living a life without God, are just as real, even though they are often far less discreet, but they are permanent. So a life without God is far worse than anything you can imagine.
Being unsaved is the worst of the worst, but being saved and having no spiritual production to show for it means phenomenal loss as well.
Of course, we should note that this disease affects the physical only. Jobs soul, which is filed with doctrine and a spiritual life which Job has pursued throughout his life, is not affected. The world cannot touch the spiritually positive persons' soul. And the soul is the real you, by the way. Your physical body is a temporary vessel, which houses your human soul and human spirit, in this world. In the next life, you will have a much better resurrection body
While in this world, the world and the carnal nature of the world will continue to prey on what it perceives as your vital being. Remember that the 'world' is an expression for all things that are not from God. Everything from Satan or everything following the pattern of evil, in other words.
And, while the Bible gives us all of these warnings, primarily because people just do not listen to them, there is the better side of life out there just waiting for you to get you act together.
So, warning after warning, expression after expression, example after example are sent out from the scriptures. Why? Because the penalty for spiritual failure is horrendous and because the prize of spiritual success is beyond anything you can imagine.
You can spend your life ignoring the principles of truth, chasing political candidates, chasing issues of the world, chasing your weekend social activities, sleeping, or whatever and you will end up extremely disappointed when your life ends. Or, you can pursue your spiritual life, now, and end up wealthy beyond your wildest dreams.
There are three fundamental classes of people. There are the poor and they have nothing. There are the rich and they have a lot. But then there are the wealthy, and they have mind boggling resources. Even the rich are poor when compared to the wealthy.
Far, far better to live in the last category, than either of the first two.
These are the differences between a life without God and a life of spiritual maturity.
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Job 30:30
30 My skin [`owr] is black [shachar] upon me, and my bones [`etsem] are burned [charar] with heat [choreb]. KJV-Interlinear
30 'My skin turns black on me, And my bones burn with fever. NASB
From the external skin to Jobs inside bones, the disease has taken its toll and has been thoroughly attempting to destroy him physically.
The skin is turning black and pealing away as with leprosy. The bones are often used to express the ultimate pain. When your bones ache, then you are really hurting.
Here Job describes his physical condition. He has been describing it all along and he is actually experiencing these symptoms, pains and so forth. Job is not telling a story filled with expressions, but he is actually living the horrors of this suffering.
The horrors of a life filled with a fatal disease, are real but temporary. The horrors of living a life without God, are just as real, even though they are often far less discreet, but they are permanent. So a life without God is far worse than anything you can imagine.
Being unsaved is the worst of the worst, but being saved and having no spiritual production to show for it means phenomenal loss as well.
Of course, we should note that this disease affects the physical only. Jobs soul, which is filed with doctrine and a spiritual life which Job has pursued throughout his life, is not affected. The world cannot touch the spiritually positive persons' soul. And the soul is the real you, by the way. Your physical body is a temporary vessel, which houses your human soul and human spirit, in this world. In the next life, you will have a much better resurrection body
While in this world, the world and the carnal nature of the world will continue to prey on what it perceives as your vital being. Remember that the 'world' is an expression for all things that are not from God. Everything from Satan or everything following the pattern of evil, in other words.
And, while the Bible gives us all of these warnings, primarily because people just do not listen to them, there is the better side of life out there just waiting for you to get you act together.
So, warning after warning, expression after expression, example after example are sent out from the scriptures. Why? Because the penalty for spiritual failure is horrendous and because the prize of spiritual success is beyond anything you can imagine.
You can spend your life ignoring the principles of truth, chasing political candidates, chasing issues of the world, chasing your weekend social activities, sleeping, or whatever and you will end up extremely disappointed when your life ends. Or, you can pursue your spiritual life, now, and end up wealthy beyond your wildest dreams.
There are three fundamental classes of people. There are the poor and they have nothing. There are the rich and they have a lot. But then there are the wealthy, and they have mind boggling resources. Even the rich are poor when compared to the wealthy.
Far, far better to live in the last category, than either of the first two.
These are the differences between a life without God and a life of spiritual maturity.
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