27. Now commences the grandest era of Job’s life. It is double in prosperity to all going before. The time for its continuance is very long. The universal respect that will be shown the church, the voluntary contributions in liberal free-will offerings, the abundance of peace and prosperity, are well diagrammed and set forth in the closing events of Job’s life. Elihu will still talk of the “Twilight of Christianity,” but faith is looking for the dawn of Christ’s triumph, when the dragon, “like lightning,” must “fall from the heavens,” and nations will hail with joy the reign of righteousness. “Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. “Who is this King of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. The Lord of hosts; he is the King of glory.” CHAPTER III. All the Scripture References to Cosmology are in Harmony with the Book of Job. 1. Peter must have understood the import of this divine poem, when he wrote, “For this they are willingly ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water.” So also “The earth, that then was, being overflowed.” 2. So Solomon understood the poem. Personifying the eternity of wisdom, under things timely, he wrote, “Before the mountains were settled, before the hills were brought forth.” Notice the sedimentary character of the mountains! “While as yet he had not made the earth (in form). When he prepared the heavens, I was there; when he set a compass (circle) upon the face of the depth (space).” 3. The spirit of this poem must have inspired the Psalmist, when he ascribed thanks unto “Him who stretcheth out the earth above the waters.” And again, “He hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.” 4. Moses must have possessed this sublime poem in the wilderness. By an easy succession of steps, he could find his way back to where suns, in gathering, kept time to the marching forces of Jehovah, as a well trained choir. “When the morning stars sang together.” Not content here, he sought farther aid of God, and swung out into the voids of space, where heat, light, force, and gravitation slept in the embrace of chaos; yea, still farther back to when and where matter was not. He heard God speak matter into existence. It was from this vision he wrote, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” As it came from the hand of God, “It was without form, and darkness was upon the face of the deep.”