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NASB | Job 22:23 "If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored; If you remove unrighteousness far from your tent, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Job 22:23 "If you return to the Almighty [and submit and humble yourself before Him], you will be built up [and restored]; If you remove unrighteousness far from your tents, |
Subject: Who is they in Job 22:28?. |
Bible Note: Possibly. When Adam deliberately - remember unlike Eve his decision wasn't based on deception (1 Tim 2:14) - sinned against God, he knew that the penalty was ultimately physical death. But you raise a very interesting point. The Bible says about eating from this tree in Gen 2:17 "... for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die." Of course, Adam physically lived "930 years, and then he died" (Gen. 5:5). So, he didn't physically die, as you know, in that day. What can we make of this? The first man, Adam, had a strong physical heart but a weak spiritual heart. He did not maintain strong affection for his Creator and for what is righteous and so allowed his inner desires and motives to become bad. This failure of his spiritual heart brought upon him eternal death. When Adam made that decision to eat from the tree of good and bad, he died immediately in a spiritual way, telling God in effect 'I don't care to live by your rules anymore'. So, it appears that Adam died spiritually (immediately upon disobeying God) and consequently physically, although it took 930 years because his body was so close to perfection - a body that could have partaken of the tree of life in Gen 2:9 if he obeyed the command in Gen 2:17, as we have discussed in these threads. So, Adam's spiritual death lead to his physical death. If you have ever cut the power to a smooth running fan, it runs for quite awhile before it stops. Adam's spiritual death cut him off from the life-giver, the Almighty Father and Creator of mankind, the Sovereign of the Universe. |