Speaking to Job, one of the most ancient writers of the Bible, He says: "Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up thy loins like a man: for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? * * * When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?" (Job 38:2-7.) Job certainly must have been somewhere when the "foundations of the earth" were laid, or why the query? There was doubtless more meaning to the words, "When ALL _the sons of God_ shouted for joy," than one at first supposes. The reader asks, "Who were these sons of God?" Luke, in giving the genealogy of the human family, gives the necessary information on this subject: "which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of _Adam, which was the_ SON OF GOD." (Luke 3:38.) But let us turn to another text. One of the ancient writers says: "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it." (Ecc. 12:7.) Let us ask ourselves how it would be possible to _return_ to a place, point or locality, which we had never visited. How could we _return_ to God unless we had once been in His presence? The logical conclusion is unavoidable, that to enable us to _return_ to him we must have once enjoyed His association, which must have been in a pre-existent state, before our spirit became clothed with this body of flesh and bone. Again, we find that the apostles must have had some conception of pre-existence, judging from their question to Jesus: "Master, who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" (John 9:2.) It will, doubtless, require no argument to convince the reader that the justice of God would scarcely permit the punishment of the individual before the crime was committed. If so, then the sin must have been committed before he came upon the earth, for he was _born blind_. It was evident that the question was not a doubtful one in the minds of the apostles as to whether a man _could_ sin previous to his existence in the flesh, but as to whether this particular man had sinned or not. Paul, in his writings to the Hebrews, says: "Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?" (Heb. 12:9.) We here gain the information as to who the sons of God were who _shouted for joy_ in the beginning. We also learn the reason why we address Him as, "Our Father which art in heaven," to distinguish Him from the father of our earthly tabernacles. In other words, He is the father of the spirits that inhabit our bodies, in precisely the same sense that our earthly fathers are the fathers of our bodies of flesh and bone.