Author's Note: All previous volumes of this series are here. The first 56 volumes are compiled into the book  "Bible Study For Those Who Don't Read The Bible." "Part Two," featuring volumes 57-113, was published in December 2022.

Every week, I rely on the Lord to reveal our study topic. As usual, out of nowhere, “pain” popped into my head. That means there is a reason for this topic, and I have come to know that someone reading this will be comforted by these passages. Moreover, I am always thrilled to receive emails saying this study was “what they needed” or similar. So I say, “If through His Word, God uses me to help others, I am blessed.”

From the beginning of humankind, pain has been part of the human experience, making it a central theme in the Bible. The first mention of pain appears in Genesis 3, a consequence of the Fall of Man. (See Vol. 110.) After Adam and Eve disobeyed God, pain has plagued us all. God’s punishment was severe:

“To the woman He said, ‘I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children’” (Genesis 3:16).

God told Adam that working to produce food from the ground would be painful:

“And to Adam He said, ‘Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life” (Gen.3:17-19).

Pain was not part of God’s original design. However, because Adam and Eve engaged in prideful behavior, pain disrupted the harmony God had intended for His creation. Therefore, pain is not only physical but also present in all broken relationships between humans and God and among humans against one another throughout the world.

In the following passage, God speaks of human conflict and the conflict between God and evil, represented by the........

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