Will He?

He will inhabit ruined towns
and houses where no one lives,
houses crumbling to rubble. Job 15:28

From one of Job's friends, Eliphaz, comes this prediction of what will happen to the wicked man. However, along with King David and others in the Bible, we might dispute that as we have seen wicked men prosper in our times. Not that a billionaire is necessarily wicked because he or she is rich, but we have seen many a person find quick riches through wicked living. We have also seen followers of Christ fall beside us in sickness and poverty. So, Mr. Eliphaz, what's up with that? Will he really fall down to the ruined town and live where no one lives? It seems more like the wicked man gets to ruin the town by selling out to the foreign investors and then lives alone because he used the proceeds to buy the 50,000 acre ranch in the mountains. 

Of course we kn0w from the rest of the story in Job that his friends began wrong in their assumption that Job was being punished for his sins - and heinous they must have been for all that Job was suffering! As we have seen, the wicked often prosper in this world and the righteous may meet with misfortune and tribulation like Job did. However, this life is so temporary, and what comes after does not start with any pile of loot built up in this little life. Will he inhabit a lonely place? He may in the time to come if he will not listen to the warnings of the judgment about to fall on the wicked ones. We have yet a little time before the reaping of this world, warn the wicked ones! 

In Christ we live,

Bucky