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Question concerning teaching on spirits [message #11535]

Wed, 11 March 2015 15:16

james
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Registered: April 2008
Location: Birmingham, AL

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I have a question about what was taught concerning spirits. The question arises from reading in Job 38-41 where I found notes (made by me 30 yr ago in an old Bible) in my margin that Pleiades and Orion (Job 38:31); behemoth (Job 40:15); and leviathan (Job 41:1) were spirits??? I don't remember were I got that (assuming from Bro. Freeman?) from but I can't recall. Now 30 years later I don't see anything that would cause me to believe God was referring to spirits when showing Job his ignorance and reminding him of His mighty power.

I see from commentaries that Pleiades and Orion speak of the stars and that behemoth is believed to be either an elephant or hippo and leviathan probably a crocodile. Was this a case of taking scripture out of context or was it believed to be a revelation of something no one else could see?

Just wondering...William, thanks in advance for patience with me....<grin>

“But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us,”

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