Fri.’s Devo - Death for the Wicked

Read Job 18 Bildad rebukes Job for his complaints against them. He asks Job if he thinks he is right and the whole earth wrong. Job had just asked whether his life is going to just be over and worthless. Bildad gives a whole speech about what happens to wicked people when they die, insinuating that if Job doesn’t repent, he will be with them. The wicked bring their own death upon themselves. When he dies the Devil will capture his feet with a net and drag him to hell. He will be so afraid that his strength will be totally be gone. Any hope of escaping the Devil’s hold will be gone. He will be brought before Death, the king of terrors and consumed. His body will be covered in sulfur and his life will be dried up in the underground. Above the ground his branch, his family line will be cut off or stopped. No one will remember him in the earth and he will be “driven” out of life into death - out of light into darkness. There will be no one to carry on his name but the ones left of his household will be afraid of what happened to him. This is what happens to those who don’t know God. This is probably a good description of what does happen to the wicked. Thank God for Jesus’ blood that covers us and delivers us from death.