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Was Job a real person?
lilitalienboi16:
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Hi Ray,
Do you believe the story of Job to be about a real person or and old testament parable?
God Bless,
Michael
Dear Michael:
Of course Job was a real person. Job was the nephew of Joseph who came to Egypt
to save them from the seven years of famine. Job was the son of Issachar (Gen. 46:13
& I Chron. 7:1). One of Job's three friends was Eliphaz the Temanite (Job 2:11) who
was the son of Esau (Gen. 36:10-12). God compares Job's pride of building a great
stone building to that of God laying the foundation of the Earth. Without going into great
etymological detail, suffice it to say that Khufu or Cheops (one of the Pharaohs of Egypt)
is non-other than our Job of the Scriptures. Job is the builder of the great pyramid of
Gaza, Egypt.
God be with you,
Ray
WOW! Did you guys know that? I had NO clue! That is awesome!! I wish ray would expound further on this one with the "etymological" detail or if anyone knows about this and has that information and could share I would greatly appreciate.
That is AMAZING! haha. How cool?
In Christ,
Alex
John9362:
WOW !! that is amazing, I never would have thought such a thing. :o :o :o
Kat:
I remember that Ray brought this up at a conference, 'How We Got The Bible.'
http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,5815.0.html --------------------
So we have - the Psalms, which is Psalms, Proverbs and Job.
Job is a poem. I don’t know if you know that. The 42 chapters of Job is a poem.
Now Job does not appear to be a Jew or a Israelite. It seems that he was a Pharaoh in Egypt. But to pin down when he lived, I got 2000 BC all the way to 500.
I personally think that he lived at about the time of Abraham, which would have been 1800 or 1900 BC. I based that pretty much on the fact that 500 or 600 years later people were living to be 120 - 110 - 80 - 75 years old. And 200 or 300 years earlier they were living to be 250 - 300 - 400 years old. Job lived to be about 200, so he lived to about the age that people were living to at the time of Abraham. I would probably put him about 1800 - 1900 BC. And he apparently was one of the Pharaoh of Egypt, don’t know which one.
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Now one of Job’s friends was okay, but the others God was angry with.
So God Himself acknowledged not only that he sinned not by saying that, but that what Job had said was right. The only thing where Job wasn’t right was when God talked to him directly and said alright smart guy, where were you when I laid the corner stone of the earth (Job 38:6).
Some historians (Dr. Haye was where I first heard about it) believe that God is saying this, “Where was thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?” (Job 38:4), because Job was a Pharaoh in Egypt. He maybe was Khufu, who built the great pyramid, the greatest one of them all. So God is saying to him, you think you are pretty smart, you built a little stone pyramid over here and you think you are hot stuff. Well, where were you when I laid the corner stone of the earth. Job was like, ‘oh yeah, there’s my pyramid and then there is the EARTH.’
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mercy, peace and love
Kat
eggi:
Hi all,
I started thinking about this, how Ray has mentioned that the pyramids were built before the flood. And the flood didn't destroy them. Well, if Job built a pyramid, how did Job know about the flood then?
That is, if this verse refers to the flood of Noah:
Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood: (Job 22:16)
Or are we talking about some other pyramids?
God bless you,
Eirik
Fester:
--- Quote from: Kat on May 03, 2012, 07:34:19 AM ---
I remember that Ray brought this up at a conference, 'How We Got The Bible.'
http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,5815.0.html --------------------
.......... Now Job does not appear to be a Jew or a Israelite. It seems that he was a Pharaoh in Egypt. .............
........ And he apparently was one of the Pharaoh of Egypt, don’t know which one. .......
...... Some historians (Dr. Haye was where I first heard about it) believe that God is saying this, “Where was thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?” (Job 38:4), because Job was a Pharaoh in Egypt. .........
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mercy, peace and love
Kat
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This appears to be very speculative as no proof is presented.
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