Chapters 4 & 5: Eliphaz response to Job Part 2

One of Satan”s devices: Using biblical truth to get someone to use biblical truth foolishly. (Jere 29:8-9)

V4:12-16 In a frightening vision in the night: Eliphaz was visited by a mysterious, frightening spirit. He could not discern the form of the image he saw.

·       Num 12:6 God did speak to his prophets in a dream or vision.

·       In 33:15 Elihu, the young man who speaks last, seems to tell Job that he has denied God’s words that Eliphaz received in a the visions.

V17-21 The spirit’s words.

·       V17 A true question Job said the same thing 9:2 without needing a vision from a spirit.

·       V18 In this dream Eliphaz saw the judgment of the angels that followed Satan.  

Ø    He did not charge all His angels (servants) with folly only those who followed Satan. Spoken of in Jude 6; 2Pet 2:4.

·       Vs 19-21 Eliphaz used this dream to indirectly attack Job.  If God judged his His angels he will certainly judge a mere man of clay and dust (Gen 3:19, Ps 104:29) Where was Job sitting?

·       Eliphaz repeats this in 15:15-16

·       V20-21 Eliphaz speaks of the end of foolish, silly men. They die every day. They never consider when or even that they are going to die (without regarding it).

Ø    Their glory does not go with them.

Ø    They die without wisdom: they do not have knowledge of what death brings.

Ø    They also die without the Fear of God. Prov 9:10

Ø    Ps 90: 1-6 A prayer of Moses

·       What Eliphaz said is true of foolish, silly men. But, his error is implying that the vision he saw was really about Job. Eliphaz used truth from his vision foolishly

1John 4:1 we are to try the spirits to discern if they be from God.

·       Would the Holy Spirit speak as this spirit spoke to Eliphaz, giving him words to attack the man God called perfect?

·       Who was this spirit from? Satan

·       When God spoke to men in dreams and visions they knew it was from God. (Gen 15:1; Gen 31:11; Mat 1:20)

·       Eliphaz never says God was behind the.