Job 38:1-7 KJV
1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Job 40:1-9 KJV
1 Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said,
2 Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
3 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
5 Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.
6 Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
7 Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
8 Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
9 Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

Job 42:1-6 KJV
1 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

To have evil thrust upon us by God or anyone else we must ask within ourselves what did we do to cause the evil of man or God to fall on us. In Job case his storm was because Satan was looking for someone he could test and God asked if he had chosen Job. Job would loose everything he had except his nagging wife, His children , his livestock, his servants and even had skin irrations called boils on him. Yet Job thought his righteousness did not deserve this punishment, that he was worthy of the wealth of his hands and the wealth of having offspring and so forth. He felt he earned everything and deserved not the wrath in which he felt upon him, yet it came not from God.

Knowing that God desires good things for us, why do bad things happen? Knowing to fear God is often part cause of the problem, but it is not the root of the problem in Job's case. Job reverent God but his righteousness had cause him to be in a place I do not deserve this treatment I am receiving. Most would agree if you work hard that should be your reward the fruit of your labor. Yet in this case God allows Satan to take it from Job. Job decides he need an intercessor, and begins to plead for someone to be able to intercede in the trouble he has. God comes and talks to Job finally after three friends of not really understanding Job caused him to speak about the greatness of God himself in rebuttal to his friends who felt maybe he done something wrong to deserve his condition.

People that call all storms judgment of God they fail to know by not knowing the wickedness of area, or the wickedness of the city they say God judged. We have to ask did God judge or did he allow Satan to destroy for a godly purpose. God brought Job down to restore him by the end of the book of Job. Satan is off the hook completely his request finished and never to be allowed again in the happily ever after story of Job. Prophesy of a storm needs to be more specific in regards to sin, or testing. Does God give a response for either or is it something one needs to know by living in a particular region. New York has stood for years, known for drugs, gangs, violence, cartel, mafia and so forth. People still flock to the Big Apple. Satan knock a tower down was it a terrorist judgment or the will of God. Some say Notradamus prophecied the collaspe of the twin towers. People awed to know this. However Notradamus was an astronomer, did not Islam make a man made plot to destroy the Twin towers. Why would Islam be interested in astrology, they live in desert regions where many things look the same and they would follow the stars for navigation and sometimes even worship. Meaning not part of Islam persay but part of the works of Balaam. If a culture or group can deceive a people they will and by what reason to destroy not one person but many. Not every storm is of God, not every storm said to not be tagged by God is truly marked by God has his allowance in a person's life and he uses it for his glory. The Devil seeks to destroy, God seeks to build up, lift up and to establish hope in His people. Job hope rested in God even when asking for intercessor to got to God and plead his case.(Job 16 continual scripture study section).

Who authorize the storm, who allowed the storm, who allows Satan to test and shift his people for a divine purpose to help his people see the weakness of their humanity because Satan hit their achilles heel so to speak. If God going to build rocks he got to make sure all the places that can be made strong that we can only shatter by his authority, for him to remold us into what he needs us to be for the time in which we are in. God was allowing Job's achilles heel to be assault to the point he begging God for intercessor to talk to him for him. Begging for a priest, a savior that could make atonement for him, anything to stop the curse that befell his life. God response to him and tells him to answer is questions.

Job begins to melt down with fear as he begins to realize his disrespect of God and who God truly is. God being the master mind of his creation, God being in authority of all he does. His authorship in creating all before the eyes of Job and beyond. God's worthiness to be feared, God worthiness not to have to respond to us but he does. We all play what have we done game sooner or later, but in truth God just wants to get us to the place we see we need him, that our righteousness by works does nothing for us. That are works of righteousness can be thrown in the fire and come out either as hard stone, or burned up in a consuming fire. Job was being refined in his relationship with God and his relationship of who God truly was in his life that without God he had nothing, was nothing and would never be anything that would not be consumed by fire, which most of his worldly possessions had been consumed by fire. Yet his life had been spared with his wife.

Most of us have something that we treasure even if it memories, do you know our memories of this world will be destroyed. Hmm, makes me wonder if we will be starting over like Adam and Eve sometimes, but we must trust God's word to know that is not so. We must realize the home God's prepared for us, and we must be purified even in our thinking. The Holiness of where we are going is greater then our understanding. What is your treasure, is a china, piece of silver, a sport's car, jewelry, antique furniture, a heirloom, antique, or a rock that you carry in your pocket. One day you will have to give it all away. yet for now we treasure them why because they put in mind elements of our life that special to us. The value of the item. being precious because of worldly value perhaps or a memory of a love one. Maybe it item we just liked and no one else owned it before us besides God.

All things have no value when it comes to that relationship with God. Those wearing symbols of faith for memory sake, God able to hold you to your faith in him, without the relic of faith. God is able to take you naked and bring you back to your nakedness, with you receiving hope and faith inbetween hopefully. From birth to the grave. We value things in life more then faith, sometimes it so, without knowledge we feel this way. God checks us on the things of this world that he created and the things he already said would be destroyed, heaven and earth. That we going to a totally new place for us all to live in as believers in faith and harmony in one accord. Two singers singing in harmony, when you thought they never do it, harmonize to form a beautiful melody is a precious thing to hear. The tones of voice joined in unison. When we sing our praises to God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit we will harmonize in unity together in the New Jerusalem. Our memory of past gone and our bodies healed of all diseases, our faith still intact of who God is and how great he is because he did not just make our past but he making our present.

Job would be restored, to the fruit of his labor, by the gifts from those he had perhaps even minister. Neighbors giving him gifts of love and a gift of hope at a new beginning. A gift that God had already laid out ready to hand him upon his repentance. Upon his awe of who God is and his power in his life to allow the storm. The hand extended from the fruit of past labor greater then all he even owned.

Dear Heavenly Father thank you for reminding us the purpose of the storm maybe to bring us into your presence, into the knowledge of our need of you, our knowledge our own hands can not rectify or make our relationship with you. That faith, belief, hope and even fear is need in our relationship with you. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study: Job 16:1-22 KJV
1 Then Job answered and said,
2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
4 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
19 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.