Elihu portrays God as the incomparable Teacher who instructs through affliction and provides through providence. Job 36 prepares us to hear the Lord, turning debate into worship and guiding sufferers toward hope.
Bible Themes and Doctrines
Elihu portrays God as the incomparable Teacher who instructs through affliction and provides through providence. Job 36 prepares us to hear the Lord, turning debate into worship and guiding sufferers toward hope.
Eliphaz’s counsel in Job 5 blends true praise of God’s providence with an overconfident verdict on Job’s pain. This study weighs those truths, shows their limits, and points sufferers to prayer, patience, and the Mediator who heals.
When Rehoboam abandoned the Lord, Shishak stripped the city and glory faded from gold to bronze. Yet humility changed the story. God spared Jerusalem and taught his people again the goodness of serving him.
Hebrews 12 shows how pilgrims endure—eyes fixed on Jesus, hearts trained by a loving Father, and hands lifted for one another. We run toward Zion and worship with awe because the kingdom we receive cannot be shaken.