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The second response of Job to God reflects submission and concession to God’s overwhelming power
Job’s blurry revelation of God takes a new shift as he acknowledges God as the all-power creator
His ears have heard of God before but now his eyes have seen God, therefore he despises himself and repents
God also expressed his anger to Job’s friends because, in their attempt to teach Job about God, they have not spoken the truth about God.
Hence, they are to present a sacrifice for this while Job prays for them, and thus the Lord forgave them and also restored the fortunes of Job
The Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before; comforting him of the troubles He (God) has brought on him.
God restored his social status, livestock, silver, relatives, children, and even grandchildren to the fourth generation.
Paul’s encounter with death, suffering, and progressive physical weakness prompts him to reflect on the nature of death for Christians.
Paul says the tent we live in, our body here on earth, will be torn down for the heavenly home to be put on us.
His comforting teaching affirms that we will possess a heavenly body.
We already possess the Holy Spirit as a deposit to guarantee resurrection transformation and that death means departing into Christ’s immediate presence.
Therefore we have been given a ministry of reconciliation, and to fear the Lord is to persuade others to come to repentance based on Christ's atoning death.
When anyone comes to be in Christ by faith, he becomes a new creation, signaling the restoration and fulfillment of God’s creation purposes.
For God had made Christ who had no sin to be sin for us and he became the object of God’s wrath and bore the penalty of sin in our place