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All right, Carol, thank you for being there. Good to hear your voice. Able to copy all your words, and really glad that the band is good today.

All right, any other check-ins, please come now. KJ7PVT, Mark, hey brother, we've been missing you. How you doing?

Got back from a trip to Montana and kind of sorting things out here, so I'll be listening in the background here. If that's okay. Back to you, man.

Copy that. Listen in the background. No worries on that.

Glad to have you with us, Mark, and glad you got back soon. safely all right that is mark kj7 pvt all right any other check-ins please come now okay little mike five foxtrot and there's will km5f will how are you doing i'm doing okay uh my pt uh scan won't be till next week they moved it back on us but that's a little bit a week from this coming thursday uh no other uh prayer request km5f later in the week. So, KM5N.

Alright, well picked you up real good there on the Utah SGR. Thank you for that. Your PET scan is going to be moved to next week.

Copy that. And that continues to deal with the ongoing cancer that you've got that's slow growing. All right, Will, thank you for that.

Keep us updated, and we will continue to pray for you and for that cancer to stay in remission and or be removed. Appreciate you being there, Will. Thank you.

Will, do you want to open a prayer for us today? Over. Sure.

Okay, I'm fine then. Thanks for that, Will. Appreciate that.

Okay, so, all right. Any other check-ins to the West Coast Bible Study, please come down. Thank you.

AK6OK AK6OK, Jeff, please go ahead Yeah, Max, I'll have you a full written instruction sheet today, okay, for the remote Copy that, really appreciate that, that's huge, thanks Jeff That would be 70s at L. And there he is, Roger. Good morning.

How are you doing, brother? Any prayer requests? Well, nothing huge.

I'd like to hear what was huge from Jeff, over. Yeah, he's just helping me out with my radio. He's going to send me some written instructions.

That is what was huge, over. Oh, my. Well, some of these radios I've heard are so complex that it's nice to have a mentor, over.

Yeah, Jeff is my local Einstein, and so he takes care of me and makes sure I stay on the straight and narrow, so appreciate that. Yeah, well that's always wonderful to have somebody like that. My mentor, so to speak, has passed away, so please make use of Jeff while he's around.

Yeah, copy that. We're not going to let him die here anytime soon, over. Okay, yeah he's already had nine lives as I recall Yeah, I think he's got 10 or 12 more in the tank there So anyway, we're anticipating him being around for a while All right, Roger, WB7VZL, thank you for being there We got you checked in We're ready to get started with the West Coast Bible Study Are there any more check-ins?

Please come down Alright, we're going to get started. This is WB7MAX, Net Control for the West Coast Bible Study. We're going to be reading today Job chapter 34 and 35.

And so what we have here is Elihu continuing his discourse, providing a new perspective on Job's friends and what they're saying and Job and what he is saying. And so in essence, Elihu is saying, to Job, whatever the reason God sends this affliction, it's not your place to question whether God is just in doing so or not. It's not your place to demand out of God an explanation as though he owes you one.

And it's certainly not your place to think that somehow you're being treated unfairly or inappropriately, because God's purpose in affliction is to do men good. It's to save them. It's to enlighten them.

It's to restrain them from sins that they would engage in if they had too much prosperity. And so we just have to trust God even though we don't understand God. So he's saying that Job is not suffering because he sinned.

But in his suffering, he is right at the edge of falling into sin and/or maybe committing some, although God, of course, does not rebuke him for it. So I think in the judgment of charity, we have to say that Job is not rebuked by God, although the three friends are. it's not fine to start falsely accusing God and that's where we've got to make sure that we're not stepping over that line alright well that's kind of where we're at we're in the middle of Elihu's discourse we looked at But my puny brain and my corrupt nature is not in the position to question him.

So the absence of Satan in all the rest of the book, I think, is for those two reasons. Incomplete theology and understanding on the part of the people, and God not saying, Satan caused this. though he did, but ultimately that I am in charge of all of this, which he was.

And he doesn't pass any responsibility along to Satan or any credit to Satan. He's just simply saying, I'm managing it. So...

God isn't going to say, "Oh well, you know, Job, I'm really sorry, but Satan stepped in and he did X, Y, Z." Which would imply then that somehow God is not in control of Satan. So that's the best I can come up with, Will. Back to you.

Go ahead, Will. Well, in our lives and our families and friends, We often have problems where people have died or something and then people blame God. And clearly here, Satan has the power over life and death too and a lot of our problems.

And we don't recognize it. TAM, 5S. Yeah, you're right, Will, and we have the benefit of much greater revelation so that we can say, you know, Satan is behind this or Satan is driving this person or Satan is responsible for what's going on here.

We can say those things and say them rightly with the greater body of knowledge we have, and we should. But that wasn't the case here in this book. We're clearly told Satan's role in chapter 1 and chapter 2.

And that helps form part of our theology about Satan and how he functions in this world. As well as we have a vast amount of other information, especially in the New Testament. So yes, we can say things that Job and his friends couldn't say, because we have more knowledge than they have.

But even as we look at Satan and the role he plays, ultimately he's on a leash. And God limits what he can and can't do without getting into the interpretation of the passage. In Revelation chapter 20, it says that Satan is bound by God in a pit with a chain and a lock and a key.

And an angel has got control over it. So the bottom line is that Satan is not a free agent. He's always under the control of God.

And so therefore, ultimately, we have to look past the second causes to the primary cause, who is God himself. and recognize that whatever happened, He was in control of it. Back to you there, Will.

Go ahead. Yeah, that's pretty much all that I had. We can also ask God to shorten that leash, as you said, to Satan in our lives.

But we don't do that a lot, or at least not as much as we should. KM 5S. Yeah, well said, Will.

To pray for the restraint of evil is a really good thing to do. You know, I pray for the restraint of evil in our political leaders. I pray for the restraint of evil with reference to false religions and their false and destructive teaching with reference to atheism and all that it attempts to do.

So, yes. in praying that God would shorten the leash, what we're acknowledging is that God is in control. And we're asking for mercy.

And we're asking for protection. And those are really good things to do. And that's an excellent way to pray.

I really commend that will. Thank you for those comments. Alright, anyone else have any comments on our passage, please come down.

KB7, ZX. KB7, ZX, Kevin, please go ahead. And so the answer to that is in 1 Corinthians 15 and verse 58, be steadfast and immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, for as much as you know that your labor for the Lord is not in vain.

and what Job is really implying here is it's the vain things that serve God and you know it seems like the wicked do fine, the righteous are oppressed why bother to be righteous And once again, this goes back to what Kevin was saying. God plays the long game. And while in the short term it may seem that the balances of justice are all askew, in the long term it was always a blessing to serve God.

In fact, we prayed for her today. And so we have on our West Coast Bible Study website, it's called westcoastbiblestudy.com, all one word. We have a list of prayers there that we pray for day by day as well as current requests.

And we keep her on the list. We continue to uphold her that God would save her. and that God would expose her to good influences.

And so, anyway, good news. How are you doing with your insomnia, Cody? Not very well.

I've been on the radio. But I haven't been to the medics a few times. I don't think that I've been to the medics, but my mind seems to be on the radio.

Yeah, call me. Well, I appreciate you plugging in here whenever you can, and appreciate you keying up and having a chat with us, because I really appreciate you and your ministry and your family. And I'm sorry for your insomnia, but I guess one of the blessings is that you're able to catch the West Coast Lava Study.

Anyway, yeah, I just have to go to bed like at 9:20 at night so I can get up at 5:20. That gives me eight hours. Although I seldom get in bed at 8:20 or 9:20 and sometimes it's only six.

Yeah, copy that Cody. You know there's a passage in the scripture that says, "For so he giveth his beloved sleep." I think it's in Psalms somewhere. And I've often thought of that, "Lord, give me sleep." And I know sometimes praying doesn't put you to sleep, sometimes it does, but my heart really goes out to people who struggle with insomnia.

because you need to rest but you can't sleep and that's a terrible state of affairs to be in. How's work going for you? Alright, copy that.

Well, we'll put that on the list too. That God will help you to find a good job. So anyway, yeah, I am going to be gone for the next four days.

Jeff, AK6OK, is going to be running the net for me. I'm going back to New Jersey to teach a seminary class. But I will be back Sunday morning.

So anyway, hopefully you can check in and we can hear you. even contributors' thoughts come to your mind. So, Cody, KI-7TR, thank you for being there.

Yeah, very much. The trip definitely brings a new state feeling from airing the hard time for people that are going to sleep with the vaccine for worse. It was a heated one.

Yeah, thank you. That's deeply appreciated and well said. That's my grand conclusion.

concerned. We're just preparing men for the ministry and I remember back in the days when I was in seminary and I had teachers that were up there instructing me and now we've come full circle and I'm in that position. So in any event, yeah, thank you for those prayers.

This is a supernatural work and it needs supernatural grace, strength and enablement if it's ever going to accomplish anything at all. We don't go in the arm of the flesh, we go in in profound dependence upon God and His grace and mercy over me. Roger that.

Very well, thank you. You too. All right, Cody, KF7TRF, 73 to you, thanks for checking in.

This is WB7MX. Anyone else want to chat, please come down to your call sign. AK6OK.

Jeff, AK6OK, go ahead. Yeah, Max, let's get on the phone in the next hour sometime and we'll kind of go over everything. All right, yeah, so it's 7 now.

How about if I call you at 8, does that work? Yeah, perfect. All right, thanks, Jeff.

Thanks, Jeff. Thanks, Jeff. Thanks, Jeff.

Thanks, Jeff. Thanks, Jeff. Thanks, Jeff.

All right, I'll ring you up at 8:00 and we'll have a chat. Jeff, thanks for that. Okay, anyone else want to chat, please come down to the call line.

Ready for a good safe flight there and back, Max, and I hope you have a good day. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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