Daily Bible Reading Day 176

Job 1-3; Acts 7:1-19.   Job begins with a description of Job. He is an exceptional man of God. He is wise, mature, and thoughtful about God. He has it all. Wealth, family, and a great reputation. Then Satan challenges God to see if Job would curse God because Satan alleges that Job is only faithful because of his blessings. So his blessings are taken away. Four servants in a row come and tell Job of his loss of his wealth and then his children. Job appropriately mourns but doesn't curse or blame God. Satan furthers the challenge and says that if Job is inflicted with a disease then he would curse God. So Satan is allowed to smite Job with boils. His wife encourages him to curse God and die. But Job doesn't. His three friends show up and they mourn with him for they see his pain. Then Job curses the day he was born and begins his journey to try to make sense of what has happened to him.

Stephen begins his explanation before the high priest and other leaders of his message. He begins with Abraham and how God called him to a new land. He was promised the new land but first his descendant must spend some time in bondage before getting there. In order to make that happen the plan began with Joseph sold into slavery by his brothers. Then the process of rising to the top at Egypt and saving his family in Egypt. Then a pharaoh arose who didn't know Joseph and he enslaved the descendants of Israel.