Shall we bow our
heads for prayer?
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Father in heaven,
we thank you so much
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for the
opportunity of being here today
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to study this
magnificent book of Job.
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We ask Father for the
presence of your Holy Spirit.
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Give us clarity of thought
and give us willingness of heart
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to receive the
word that You will plant
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and we ask this
in the precious name
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of Your beloved son Jesus, amen.
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In our last study
together, we analyzed the story
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of this great patriarch
Job and today in part II
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we want to
study the story of Job
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from a different perspective.
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We want to look at
the messianic meaning
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of the Book of Job,
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because the Book of Job
really is not only about Job.
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It's first of all about
Job, secondly about Jesus
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and in the third place about
what will happen to God's people
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when they go through
the end time tribulation.
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Now, what I'm saying is
that the Book of Job is actually
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a type of what would happen
with Jesus, a type of Christ.
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Now we need to understand
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that a type is never as perfect
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as the
fulfillment or the anti type.
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In other words, Job
is a sinful human being
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who becomes an
illustration of the experience
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that Jesus would go through.
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Now there are
other types of Jesus
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in the Old Testament as
well, you know we have David,
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Joseph and other individuals
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in the Old
Testament that prefigured
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what Jesus would
do in his life time.
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And Job is no
exception to this rule
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that the Old
Testament characters
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are types or
illustrations of Jesus Christ.
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In other words, Job foreshadows
the experience of Jesus
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who would come about 2,000 years
after this story transpired.
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Now, something
that we need to remember
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about the first
study that we had together
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and that is that the entire
heavenly council is observing
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what is taking
place in the story of Job.
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In other words, this
story is transpiring in-
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on earth but it's been seen or
it's been witnessed in heaven,
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because God is trying to
prove a very important point.
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We also notice
in our last study,
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that Satan was the culprit
working behind the scenes.
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Job did not understand this,
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but the story is very
clear that all of the calamities
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that Job suffered
came to him as a result
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of the work of
Satan behind the scenes.
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In other words, it
was Satan who unleashed
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all of the powers of
hell against this man.
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And as we noticed in
the first study on Job,
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the purpose of
Satan's work was to lead Job
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to let go of his
relationship with God.
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In other words, it was
to prove before the universe
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that Job served God
not because he loved God
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but because of
everything that God did for him,
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because God helped
him and God prospered him.
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So we are gonna take a
look at the story of Job
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from the
perspective of the Messiah.
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In other words,
we are going to draw
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a parallel between
this Old Testament patriarch
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and the
experience of Jesus Christ.
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The first point that I
would like us to notice
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is the moral uprightness of Job.
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We are told in Job 1:8
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the following about
this great patriarch.
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And by way, these are
the words of the Lord.
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It says, "Then the
Lord said to Satan,
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"Have you
considered My servant Job,
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that there is none
like him on the earth,
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a blameless and upright man,
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one who fears
God and shuns evil?"
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Notice the description,
He was blameless, upright,
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he feared God
and He shunned evil.
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In other words, he had a
sterling moral character.
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Now, Jesus also had
a sterling character,
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moral character.
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We find in the
Book of Hebrews 7:26
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a description of
that character of Jesus.
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We are told
there in Hebrews 7:26
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"For such a High
Priest was fitting for us,
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who is holy, harmless,
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undefiled,
separate from sinners,
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and has become
higher than the heavens."
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Notice the description of
the character of Jesus holy,
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harmless, undefiled,
separate from sinners.
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Very similar to the description
that we find in Job 1:8
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and which is
repeated also in Job Chapter 2
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the first couple of verses.
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Another parallel that we notice
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between Job and
Jesus is the fact
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that Job was a very rich man.
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In fact, he was the richest man
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in all of the east
according to Job Chapter 1.
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And of course we all know
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that Jesus was the
owner of the universe.
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And we also know that
Job lost all of his riches.
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And Jesus also gave
up all of His riches.
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Notice 2 Corinthians
8:9, 2 Corinthians 8:9
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speaks about the riches of Jesus
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and how Jesus
gave up those riches
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to come to this world.
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We are told there
by the Apostle Paul.
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"For you know the grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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that though He was rich,
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for your sakes He became poor,
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that you through His
poverty might become rich."
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So very clearly the
Apostle Paul tells us
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that Jesus was rich,
but Jesus became poor.
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And according to scripture,
He not only became poor,
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He became the
poorest of the poor.
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He took the place of a servant
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and He even humbled
Himself more than a servant
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dying the death of the cross.
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Another interesting parallel
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that we notice
between Job and Jesus
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is the fact that both of them
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lost the support
of their own family.
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Their own family
did not understand
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the experience that
they were going through.
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Notice Job 19:13-15,
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Job 19:13- 15
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speaking about
job we find this words
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Speaking about God,
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"He has removed my
brothers far from me,
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and my acquaintances are
completely estranged from me.
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My relatives have failed,
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and my close
friends have forgotten me.
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Those who dwell in my house,
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and my maidservants,
count me as a stranger,
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I am an alien in their sight."
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In other words,
forsaken by His own family,
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misunderstood by His relatives
and by His acquaintances.
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Now, we find several
instances in the gospels
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that Jesus was
also misunderstood.
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We have for
example in Mark Chapter 13,
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the mother of Jesus
and His brothers come
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because they want
to take Jesus home
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because they feel that Jesus
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is going to have
a nervous breakdown.
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Obviously, they don't
understand His mission,
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and in fact, in John 7:5
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we find this very
telling short statement.
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John says, "For
even His brothers
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did not believe in Him."
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Even His brothers
did not believe in Him,
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just as happened
with the patriarch Job.
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Another interesting parallel
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is that Job was
not only forsaken
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by his relatives and his family,
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he was also
forsaken by his friends.
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Notice Job 19:and I'm
going to read verse 19
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and verses 21 and 22.
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Job 19:19 and
then verses 21 and 22.
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Here Job is
speaking and he says,
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"All my close friends abhor me,
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and those whom I love
have turned against me."
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Verse 21, " Have pity
on me, have pity on me,
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O you my friends, for the
hand of God has struck me!
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Why do you
persecute me as God does,
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and are not
satisfied with my flesh?
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So we find in this passage
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that Job is actually
persecuted by his own friends.
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He is forsaken by his
friends, not only by his family.
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Now it's interesting to notice
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that Job was especially forsaken
by three very close friends.
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You can find that at
the end of Chapter 2.
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Now, we find in
the New Testament
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that Jesus also had
three very close friends
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among the disciples.
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They were called
Peter, James and John.
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Notice Mark 14:33 and then
we are going to read verse 50.
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Mark 14:33 and then
we will read verse 50.
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It says here, "And He took
Peter, James, and John with Him,
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and He began to be
troubled and deeply distressed."
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Notice that he took
three disciples to be with Him
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in His greatest sufferings
in the Garden of Gethsemane.
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A little bit
later on in verse 50
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we find that these
three close friends
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as well as the other
disciples forsook Him.
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In fact, it says in verse 50,
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"Then they all
forsook Him and fled."
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It's interesting also to notice
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that Job even though God said
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that he was
blameless and upright
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and he feared God
and he rejected evil.
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He was accused by his
enemies as being a great sinner.
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Notice the words of
Eliphaz to Job 22:4 and 5,
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Job 22:4 and 5.
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Here Eliphaz says to Job,
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"Is it because
of your fear of Him
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that He reproves you,
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and enters into
judgment with you?"
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In other words, is it
really because you fear God
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that all of these
things are happening to you.
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Notice verse 5, "Is
not your wickedness great,
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and your iniquity without end?"
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In other words, it's
not because you fear God,
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it's because you are
iniquitous that these things,
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these calamites
are falling upon you.
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Do you know that this
is the very accusation
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that was made against Jesus
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when He hung on the
cross by His enemies?
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They said if
this man was of God,
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he wouldn't be going
through all of these sufferings
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that he is going through now.
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In fact, allow me
to read you a passage
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that we find in
The Desire of Ages,
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pages 60 and 61.
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Once again, The Desire
of Ages, pages 60 and 61,
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this magnificent biography
of Jesus written by Ellen White.
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Notice what she says,
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"Satanic agencies
confederated with evil men
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in leading the people to believe
Christ the chief of sinners,
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and to make Him the
object of detestation."
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Detestation means,
somebody to be rejected,
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somebody to be refused.
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So notice, satanic agencies
confederated with evil men
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just like in the story of Job.
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In leading the people to believe
Christ the chief of sinners,
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and to make Him the
object of detestation.
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She continues saying,
"Those who mocked Christ
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as He hung upon the cross
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were imbued with the
spirit of the first great rebel.
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He filled them with
vile and loathsome speeches.
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He inspired their taunts.
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So notice that the enemies,
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the enemies of
Jesus taunted Him,
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the enemies of
Jesus filled their,
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their mouths
with satanic arguments
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just like happened
with the friends of Job
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and with the enemies of Job.
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Another interesting
parallel between Job and Jesus
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is the fact that both of
them were physically disfigured.
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Notice for example,
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the description
that is given up in Job,
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in Job 2:7 and 8, Job 2:7 and 8,
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it says there,
"So Satan went out
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from the presence of the Lord,
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and struck Job
with painful boils
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from the sole of his
foot to the crown of his head.
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And he took for
himself a potsherd,
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that is a peace of pottery.
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"With which to scrape himself
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while he sat in the
midst of the ashes."
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Very interesting here,
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that Job had to
scratch himself with a potsherd
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and we find a little
bit later in the story
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that when the three friends
of Job come to visit him to-
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to comfort him they
actually don't recognize him
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because he is so
physically disfigured
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according to the last couple
of verses of Job Chapter2.
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Now, what about Jesus?
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Notice Isaiah 52:14
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on the physical
aspects of Jesus.
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It says in Isaiah 52:14
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"Just as many
were astonished at you,
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so His visage was
marred more than any man."
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Notice that the visage of Jesus
was marred more than any man,
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this is a messianic prophecy.
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It says, "And His form
more than the sons of men."
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So this text indicates
that Jesus was actually
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disfigured in His
sufferings in this earth.
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Notice, Isaiah 53:2,
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speaking once
again about the Messiah,
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"For He shall grow up
before Him as a tender plant,
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and as a root out of dry ground.
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He has no form or
comeliness, and when we see Him,
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there is no beauty
that we should desire Him."
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So clearly the
Book of Isaiah indicates
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that the Messiah was not going
to be physically attractive,
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in fact in His sufferings
He was going to be disfigured.
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Another interesting
parallel between Job and Jesus
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is the fact that both of them
were mocked by the multitudes,
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they were mocked by the nations.
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We notice first of all
that the family forsook Job.
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Then we notice
also that his friends
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forsook him and
did not understand him
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but also the
surrounding nations,
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the multitudes scorned Job.
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Notice Chapter 16:9 through 11.
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Job 16:9 through
11, He is speaking about
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what he appears to think
that God is doing to him.
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"He tears me in His
wrath, and hates me,
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He gnashes at me with His teeth,
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My adversary
sharpens His gaze on me."
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And then he goes to the plural,
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"They gape at me
with their mouth,
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they strike me
reproachfully on the cheek."
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I want you to
remember these things,
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they gape at him
with their mouth,
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they strike him
reproachfully on the cheek.
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"They gather
together against me."
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God has delivered
me to the ungodly,
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and turned me over to
the hands of the wicked.
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You know the description
which is given of Jesus
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while He was on the
cross is very similar.
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Notice Matthew 27:28 to 31.
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Matthew 27:28 to 31,
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it says, "And they stripped Him
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and put a scarlet robe on Him.
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When they had
twisted a crown of thorns,
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they put it on His head,
and a reed in His right hand.
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And they bowed the knee
before Him and mocked Him"
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notice the idea of
mockery with Jesus also
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"and mocked Him saying,
"Hail, King of the Jews!",
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Then they spat on Him,
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and took the reed and
struck Him on the head."
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We just read a few moments ago
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that Job was struck on his face.
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Verse 31, "And when
they had mocked Him,
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they took the robe off
Him, put His own clothes on Him,
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and led Him away
to be crucified."
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Another very
interesting parallel
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between Job and Jesus
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is the fact that both
of them were spit upon.
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Notice Job 17:6, Job 17:6
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it says there, "But
He" speaking about God
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what God he perceives
God to be doing with him.
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"But He has made me
a byword of the people,
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and I have become one
in whose face men spit."
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Notice also Job
30:9 to 13 the same idea
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of the surrounding
people spitting in his face.
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Job 30 and
beginning with verse 9,
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And now, "I am
their taunting song,
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Yes, I am their byword.
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They abhor me,
they keep far from me,
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they do not
hesitate to spit in my face.
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Because He has loosed my
bowstring and afflicted me,
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they have cast off
restraint before me."
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In other words,
there is no restraint
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for these people
that are abusing Job.
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Verse 12, "At my right
hand the rabble arises,
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they push away my feet,
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and they raise against me
their ways of destruction.
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They break up my path,
they promote my calamity,
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they have no helper."
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Now, notice what
happened to Jesus
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in Matthew 26:67 and 68.
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Job 26, excuse me
Matthew 26:67 and 68.
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Very similar to
the experience of Job,
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it says there, "Then
they spat in His face"
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that is in the face of Jesus
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"And beat Him and
others struck Him,
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we already read
this about Job struck Him
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with the palms of their hands,
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saying, "Prophesy to us, Christ!
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Who is the one who struck you?"
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His crown and
glory were torn away.
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In fact, let's go
to our next point.
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Job 19:9 speaks
about the glory of Jesus
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being removed
from Him and His crown
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being removed from
Him as happened with Job.
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Let's read
first of all about Job
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and then we will read
a statement about Jesus.
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Job 19 and we'll read
actually verse 9 through 11.
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Speaking about God once again,
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Job is perceiving that
God is doing this to him.
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"He has
stripped me of my glory,"
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notice he is saying,
God stripped me of my glory.
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"And taken the
crown from my head.
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He breaks me down on
every side, and I am gone,
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my hope He has
uprooted like a tree.
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He has also kindled
His wrath against me."
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Notice that he is feeling
the wrath of God against him.
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"And He counts me
as one of His enemies."
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In a very interesting
statement that we find
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in the Desire of
Ages, pages 22 and 23,
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we find that Jesus
also left aside His throne
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and His glory to
come to this world.
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It says, there
in Desire of Ages,
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pages 22 and 23,
speaking about Jesus,
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"He might have
retained the glory of heaven,
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and the homage of the angels.
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But He chose to
give back the scepter"
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that's what a king has
the scepter into the hands-
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of "into His Father's hands,
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and to step down from
the throne of the universe."
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In other words, He
set aside His glory
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and He set aside His crown
just as happened with the job.
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Another
interesting detail about Job
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is it evidently after
a period of suffering,
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His body was-
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actually his bones could
be seen through his skin.
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He was suffering so terribly.
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Notice Job 19:20,
Job 19:20 here Job says,
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"My bone clings to
my skin and to my flesh,
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I have escaped by
the skin of my teeth."
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In other words, he just
barely hanging on to life
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according to this and
all of his bones can be seen.
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Notice the very
interesting messianic prophecy
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in Psalm 22:17, which
is referring to Jesus.
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The whole Psalm 22 is
a reference to Christ.
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Jesus is
speaking here and He says,
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"I can count all My bones."
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See His bones could be
seen through His flesh.
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"They look at Me
and stare at Me."
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Now, another
interesting parallel
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between Job and
Jesus is the fact
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that both of them
cried out to God for answers,
00:23:02.39\00:23:06.26
but in both cases God was silent
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and God did not answer
their pleas immediately.
00:23:09.78\00:23:14.08
Notice Job 16
and verses 12 and 13.
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Job 16 and verses 12 and 13,
00:23:17.43\00:23:21.81
Job once again is
describing his experience
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and he can't understand
of course what's happening,
00:23:24.57\00:23:28.05
he wonders why God has turned
against him and he says this,
00:23:28.08\00:23:32.65
"I was at ease, but
He has shattered me,"
00:23:32.68\00:23:35.95
speaking about God,
00:23:35.98\00:23:37.72
"He also has
taken me by my neck,
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and shaken me to pieces,
00:23:41.09\00:23:43.09
He has set me up for His target.
00:23:43.12\00:23:47.22
His archers surround me.
00:23:47.25\00:23:49.59
He pierces my
heart and does not pity,
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He pours out my
gall on the ground."
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That's an important detail,
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He pours out my
gall on the ground.
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You remember that
gall was given to Jesus.
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It says, you have become
cruel to me and do not hear me.
00:24:00.85\00:24:06.30
So he is suffering this
terribly cruel experience.
00:24:06.33\00:24:09.13
He is crying out to God
00:24:09.16\00:24:10.68
and God does not
immediately answer his pleas.
00:24:10.71\00:24:13.86
It appears like even
God has forsaken him.
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Notice Job 30:20 and 21,
00:24:16.91\00:24:20.52
the same idea of Job crying
out and God not answering Him.
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It says, there in Job 30:20
00:24:25.34\00:24:28.02
"I cry out to You,
but You do not answer me,
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I stand up, and You regard me.
00:24:32.41\00:24:36.45
But you have become cruel to me,
00:24:36.48\00:24:40.16
with the strength of
Your hand You oppose me."
00:24:40.19\00:24:44.66
Both Job and Jesus
were men of sorrows
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acquainted with grief.
00:24:48.60\00:24:50.52
In fact, notice Job 16:16 and 17
00:24:50.55\00:24:54.23
that Job actually
shed an abundance of tears
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as he was going
through his sufferings,
00:24:58.27\00:25:00.40
he was a man of sorrow,
he was filled with grief.
00:25:00.43\00:25:03.32
Notice Job 16:16 and 17,
00:25:03.35\00:25:07.88
Job says, "My face
is flushed from weeping,
00:25:07.91\00:25:13.20
and on my eyelids is
the shadow of death."
00:25:13.23\00:25:16.57
And then he says,
00:25:16.60\00:25:17.93
"Although no
violence is in my hands,
00:25:17.96\00:25:20.94
and my prayer is pure."
00:25:20.97\00:25:23.75
In other words, this
is not happening to me
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because I'm a big sinner
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because I deserve
what is taking place,
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there is no
violence in my hands,
00:25:29.71\00:25:31.55
my prayer is pure
00:25:31.58\00:25:33.52
and my face is flushed
with weeping and on my eyelids-
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and my eyelids are
the shadow of death.
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Notice that Jesus went
through the same experience,
00:25:41.12\00:25:43.52
Isaiah 53:3, Isaiah 53:3
00:25:43.55\00:25:49.22
Once again this is
a messianic prophecy,
00:25:49.25\00:25:52.53
speaking about Jesus it says,
00:25:52.56\00:25:54.04
"He is despised
and rejected by men,
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a Man of sorrows and
acquainted with grief."
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Notice the idea
of sorrow and grief.
00:26:02.88\00:26:06.21
"And we hid, as it
were, our faces from Him;
00:26:06.24\00:26:09.41
He was despised, and
we did not esteem Him."
00:26:09.44\00:26:15.11
We have already noticed
that Job felt forsaken by God,
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every earthly
support was removed.
00:26:19.27\00:26:22.37
In other words
00:26:22.40\00:26:23.43
not only that Job lose
all of his possessions,
00:26:23.46\00:26:26.30
he also for our
practical purposes
00:26:26.33\00:26:28.78
lost the support of his family,
00:26:28.81\00:26:30.42
he lost the
support of his friends,
00:26:30.45\00:26:32.34
he lost his physical health
00:26:32.37\00:26:34.66
and now it appeared that
even God had forsaken him.
00:26:34.69\00:26:38.15
The same is true of
Jesus when He hung on the cross
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He had nothing in
this world to lean upon.
00:26:41.04\00:26:44.33
Notice Job 31:35, Job 31:35,
00:26:44.36\00:26:50.85
Here Job wishes that
there would be one in heaven
00:26:50.88\00:26:54.64
who would listen
to him, he says this,
00:26:54.67\00:26:57.32
"Oh, that I had one to hear me!
00:26:57.35\00:27:00.55
Here is my mark.
00:27:00.58\00:27:01.93
Oh, that the
Almighty would answer me,
00:27:01.96\00:27:05.79
that my Prosecutor
had written a book!"
00:27:05.82\00:27:08.47
In other words, I wish that
00:27:08.50\00:27:10.33
God would answer
me when I cry out.
00:27:10.36\00:27:13.06
Notice Psalm 69:20 and 21
00:27:13.09\00:27:16.26
it's speaking here about Jesus
00:27:16.29\00:27:18.14
and the fact that Jesus also
had no one to listen to Him,
00:27:18.17\00:27:22.08
He had no one to
answer His pleas.
00:27:22.11\00:27:24.58
It says there in Psalm 69:20,
00:27:24.61\00:27:28.26
"Reproach has broken my heart,
and I am full of heaviness,
00:27:28.29\00:27:34.76
I looked for
someone to take pity,
00:27:34.79\00:27:37.97
but there was none,
00:27:38.00\00:27:40.64
and for
comforters, but I found none.
00:27:40.67\00:27:44.77
They also gave me
gall for my food."
00:27:44.80\00:27:47.35
Remember we noticed
that in the story of Job.
00:27:47.38\00:27:49.72
"They gave me gall for my food
00:27:49.75\00:27:51.81
and for my thirst they
gave me vinegar to drink."
00:27:51.84\00:27:56.17
Both of these men apparently
were forsaken by everyone,
00:27:56.20\00:27:59.81
they lost everything
00:27:59.84\00:28:01.83
and it appeared that even
God had turned against them.
00:28:01.86\00:28:05.60
Notice in the case
of Jesus, Mathew 27:46,
00:28:05.63\00:28:09.77
the words that
Jesus speaks to His Father
00:28:09.80\00:28:12.29
while He is
hanging on the cross.
00:28:12.32\00:28:14.16
Mathew 27:46,
00:28:14.19\00:28:18.69
this is slightly before Jesus
dies on the cross of Calvary.
00:28:18.72\00:28:24.21
It says there, "And
about the ninth hour
00:28:24.24\00:28:26.80
Jesus cried out
with a loud voice,
00:28:26.83\00:28:29.32
saying, "Eli,
Eli, lama sabachthani?"
00:28:29.35\00:28:32.61
that is, "My God, My God,
why have you forsaken Me?"
00:28:32.64\00:28:38.59
You see Job and Jesus had
basically the same prayer,
00:28:38.62\00:28:43.03
they felt forsaken by
everyone including God Himself.
00:28:43.06\00:28:48.45
And they were
going through suffering
00:28:48.48\00:28:50.45
without any
apparent reason at all.
00:28:50.48\00:28:53.65
Notice Desire of Ages,
page 753, Desire of Ages, 753
00:28:53.68\00:29:00.13
about these
terrible sufferings of Jesus
00:29:00.16\00:29:02.48
where He actually sheds these
tears and He suffers alone.
00:29:02.51\00:29:08.82
It says there,
00:29:08.85\00:29:09.96
"But now with the terrible
weight of guilt He bears,
00:29:09.99\00:29:13.83
He cannot see the
Father's reconciling face."
00:29:13.86\00:29:18.61
See Jesus could not
see His Father's face.
00:29:18.64\00:29:21.52
"The withdrawal of
the divine countenance
00:29:21.55\00:29:24.20
from the Savior in
this hour of supreme anguish
00:29:24.23\00:29:28.96
pierced His heart with a sorrow
00:29:28.99\00:29:31.38
that can never be
fully understood by man.
00:29:31.41\00:29:34.95
So great was this agony
00:29:34.98\00:29:37.59
that His physical
pain was hardly felt."
00:29:37.62\00:29:41.29
You know, you
read the story of Job,
00:29:41.32\00:29:43.26
you don't find Job complaining
about his physical suffering,
00:29:43.29\00:29:46.21
you don't say oh, but you know,
00:29:46.24\00:29:48.41
I have this terrible disease.
00:29:48.44\00:29:50.73
You know, I have to
scratch myself with the potsherd
00:29:50.76\00:29:52.96
and I'm bleeding and
everything is so painful,
00:29:52.99\00:29:55.53
you never hear Job complaining
about his physical pain
00:29:55.56\00:29:58.68
because his
spiritual anguish is so great
00:29:58.71\00:30:01.29
because his friend apparently
has turned against him.
00:30:01.32\00:30:04.53
His family all of his friends,
00:30:04.56\00:30:06.63
the multitudes
have turned against him
00:30:06.66\00:30:08.77
and he can't
understand why this is happening
00:30:08.80\00:30:10.92
and with Jesus
the same transpired.
00:30:10.95\00:30:14.57
Notice another statement
Desire of Ages, page 753,
00:30:14.60\00:30:18.43
same page different statement,
00:30:18.46\00:30:21.66
"Satan with his
fierce temptations
00:30:21.69\00:30:25.14
wrung the heart of Jesus.
00:30:25.17\00:30:27.84
The Savior could not see
through the portals of the tomb.
00:30:27.87\00:30:32.09
Hope did not present
to Him His coming forth
00:30:32.12\00:30:34.95
from the grave a conqueror,
00:30:34.98\00:30:37.08
or tell Him of the Father's
acceptance of the sacrifice.
00:30:37.11\00:30:41.52
He feared that sin
was so offensive to God
00:30:41.55\00:30:46.72
that their
separation was to be eternal."
00:30:46.75\00:30:51.02
And meanwhile
Satan is saying to Jesus
00:30:51.05\00:30:53.75
and as he said to Job
00:30:53.78\00:30:55.63
it's because you are
bearing all of these sins
00:30:55.66\00:30:58.45
that this is happening to you
00:30:58.48\00:31:00.24
and if you go forward with it,
00:31:00.27\00:31:02.15
you are going to be separated
from your Father forever.
00:31:02.18\00:31:05.17
The difference is that Jesus
was actually bearing the sins
00:31:05.20\00:31:10.04
of the whole world upon Himself.
00:31:10.07\00:31:11.96
And the devil was saying to Him,
00:31:11.99\00:31:13.62
it's because of those sins
that you are suffering this
00:31:13.65\00:31:16.18
and you are never going to
see your Father's face again.
00:31:16.21\00:31:18.72
In the story of
Job, in the Old Testament
00:31:18.75\00:31:21.54
the devil also accused
Job of being a great sinner
00:31:21.57\00:31:25.04
but Job said, you
can look at my life
00:31:25.07\00:31:28.75
and in my life
00:31:28.78\00:31:30.04
I have consecrated
myself totally to the Lord,
00:31:30.07\00:31:32.96
I fear Him and I reject evil
and the devil whispers to Jesus.
00:31:32.99\00:31:38.93
You know, how can you trust
a God that treats you this way.
00:31:38.96\00:31:42.95
If God really
loved you, do you think
00:31:42.98\00:31:45.09
that God would leave you
00:31:45.12\00:31:46.30
suffering on
the cross like this?
00:31:46.33\00:31:48.54
He says, sin is so
great that you are gonna be
00:31:48.57\00:31:51.51
eternally
separated from your Father.
00:31:51.54\00:31:55.35
Notice Job 13:23 and 24
how Job feels this anguish
00:31:55.38\00:32:01.99
because he looks for sins
00:32:02.02\00:32:03.45
and he can't
find sins in his life
00:32:03.48\00:32:05.70
that would
justify the experience
00:32:05.73\00:32:07.39
that he is going through.
00:32:07.42\00:32:08.53
Job 13:23 and 24, here Job says,
00:32:08.56\00:32:14.21
"How many are my
iniquities and sins?
00:32:14.24\00:32:18.81
Make me know my
transgression and my sin.
00:32:18.84\00:32:22.95
Why do You hide Your face,
And regard me as Your enemy?"
00:32:22.98\00:32:28.86
In other words, he is
saying showing me my sins.
00:32:28.89\00:32:30.89
In fact, at the
beginning of the story of Job,
00:32:30.92\00:32:33.55
we find that God
Himself said that Job was a man
00:32:33.58\00:32:36.72
who feared God,
he rejected evil,
00:32:36.75\00:32:39.34
he was blameless
and he was upright.
00:32:39.37\00:32:41.95
In other words,
God Himself confessed
00:32:41.98\00:32:44.52
that Job was a righteous man
00:32:44.55\00:32:46.74
and yet Job says
show me my inequities
00:32:46.77\00:32:49.36
which would justify
what is happening to me now.
00:32:49.39\00:32:53.52
You know with Job as
I mentioned with Jesus,
00:32:53.55\00:32:56.20
his physical
sufferings were secondary
00:32:56.23\00:32:59.83
to his deep spiritual anguish.
00:32:59.86\00:33:02.53
In fact allow me to
read you from Job 9:32 and 33
00:33:02.56\00:33:06.92
and then I'm gonna read you
a passage from Desire of Ages.
00:33:06.95\00:33:09.82
Job 9:32 and 33,
"For He is not a man,
00:33:09.85\00:33:15.49
as I am" Job is
speaking about God.
00:33:15.52\00:33:17.96
"That I may answer Him,
00:33:17.99\00:33:19.94
and that we should
go to court together.
00:33:19.97\00:33:22.92
Nor is there" now notice this,
00:33:22.95\00:33:25.98
"any mediator between us,
00:33:26.01\00:33:29.41
who may lay his
hand on us both."
00:33:29.44\00:33:33.48
In other words, Job here
is pleading for a mediator.
00:33:33.51\00:33:37.39
He wants somebody to
stand between Him and God
00:33:37.42\00:33:41.83
and yet there is no one
00:33:41.86\00:33:43.49
that mediates
between God and himself.
00:33:43.52\00:33:47.31
Notice Desire of Ages,
page 686, speaking about Jesus,
00:33:47.34\00:33:52.45
it says, "As the substitute
and surety for sinful man,
00:33:52.48\00:33:57.07
Christ was suffering
under divine justice.
00:33:57.10\00:34:01.74
He saw what justice meant.
00:34:01.77\00:34:05.01
Hitherto He had been as
an intercessor for others,
00:34:05.04\00:34:09.40
now He longed to have an
intercessor for Himself."
00:34:09.43\00:34:14.62
So just like Job,
Jesus longed to have
00:34:14.65\00:34:17.29
an intercessor with His Father
00:34:17.32\00:34:19.18
because He knew that
if He can present His case
00:34:19.21\00:34:21.06
before His Father,
00:34:21.09\00:34:22.32
His Father would
see things as He did
00:34:22.35\00:34:25.28
and yet the answer
of God was silence.
00:34:25.31\00:34:29.72
Now, you remember
in our first study
00:34:29.75\00:34:31.70
that Job had these moments
00:34:31.73\00:34:33.65
where he was deep in the valley
00:34:33.68\00:34:35.63
and then he would come
up to the mountain top.
00:34:35.66\00:34:38.30
In other words, his faith
would rise and he would say,
00:34:38.33\00:34:41.37
I know that my redeemer lives,
00:34:41.40\00:34:43.74
I know that at the end of days
God is going to resurrect me
00:34:43.77\00:34:47.82
and in this flesh of
mind I'm going to see God.
00:34:47.85\00:34:50.91
The fact is Job 13:15,
00:34:50.94\00:34:54.02
Job in one of his
higher moments says,
00:34:54.05\00:34:56.57
"Though He slay me,
yet will I trust Him.
00:34:56.60\00:35:01.02
Even so, I will defend
my own ways before Him."
00:35:01.05\00:35:05.78
Do you know, Jesus
had the same experience?
00:35:05.81\00:35:08.31
Immediately after Jesus said,
00:35:08.34\00:35:11.22
"My God, My God, why
hast thou forsaken me?"
00:35:11.25\00:35:15.33
The next very
words that He spoke
00:35:15.36\00:35:17.77
expressed faith and
confidence in His Father.
00:35:17.80\00:35:21.73
In one breath He is
crying out to His Father,
00:35:21.76\00:35:23.92
Father I feel that
You have forsaken Me.
00:35:23.95\00:35:26.31
But in the next
breath He says, "Father,
00:35:26.34\00:35:29.94
into your hands I
commend my spirit."
00:35:29.97\00:35:33.37
That's Luke 23:46, "Into
your hands I commend my spirit."
00:35:33.40\00:35:39.04
And having said
this he breath his last.
00:35:39.07\00:35:42.99
In other words, Jesus and Job
00:35:43.02\00:35:44.83
even though they were going
through this intense experience
00:35:44.86\00:35:47.53
refused to let go
of the hand of God.
00:35:47.56\00:35:51.78
through 6,
00:35:51.81\00:35:56.84
Job 27:4 through 6.
00:35:56.87\00:35:59.87
Here we find that Job refuses
to release the hand of God
00:35:59.90\00:36:04.19
even though the
devil is telling him,
00:36:04.22\00:36:05.83
it's because of all of your sins
that this is happening to you.
00:36:05.86\00:36:08.93
How can you trust the
God that does this to you?
00:36:08.96\00:36:11.29
How can you love a God
00:36:11.32\00:36:12.51
that allows you to
suffer in this way?
00:36:12.54\00:36:14.74
And the devil is trying to
break his confidence in God.
00:36:14.77\00:36:17.85
Job hangs on for dear life
to his relationship with God.
00:36:17.88\00:36:21.99
Notice Job 27:4,
00:36:22.02\00:36:25.43
Job says, "My lips
will not speak wickedness,
00:36:25.46\00:36:29.10
nor my tongue utter deceit.
00:36:29.13\00:36:32.15
Far be it from me that I
should say you are right,
00:36:32.18\00:36:36.50
Till I die I will not put
away my integrity from me."
00:36:36.53\00:36:41.91
Notice, he says, till I die
00:36:41.94\00:36:43.21
I will not put away
my integrity from me.
00:36:43.24\00:36:46.07
"My righteousness I hold fast,
00:36:46.10\00:36:48.58
and I will not let it go,
00:36:48.61\00:36:50.70
My heart shall not reproach me
00:36:50.73\00:36:53.06
as long as I live."
00:36:53.09\00:36:55.90
You know, Job
realize that his experience
00:36:55.93\00:36:58.26
was actually a
refining experience
00:36:58.29\00:37:01.41
that was going to
benefit him in his future life.
00:37:01.44\00:37:05.61
Notice Job 23:8 through
10, Job 23:8 through 10.
00:37:05.64\00:37:12.57
Here Job
understands that the experience
00:37:12.60\00:37:14.75
that he is going
through is a refining experience
00:37:14.78\00:37:17.75
that is actually
gonna make his character
00:37:17.78\00:37:19.91
come forth from the
furnace as pure gold.
00:37:19.94\00:37:23.00
He says there,
"Look, I go forward,
00:37:23.03\00:37:27.07
but He is not
there, and backward,
00:37:27.10\00:37:30.28
but I cannot perceive Him."
00:37:30.31\00:37:31.41
See I can't find God anywhere.
00:37:31.44\00:37:34.10
Verse 9 "When He
works on the left hand,
00:37:34.13\00:37:37.51
I cannot behold Him,
00:37:37.54\00:37:39.10
When He turns to the right hand,
00:37:39.13\00:37:40.84
I cannot see Him."
00:37:40.87\00:37:42.67
But then notice verse 10,
00:37:42.70\00:37:44.27
"But He knows
the way that I take,
00:37:44.30\00:37:46.90
when He has tested me, I
shall come forth as gold."
00:37:46.93\00:37:52.63
I know that this
is a good experience
00:37:52.66\00:37:55.03
for the
refinement of my character.
00:37:55.06\00:37:57.65
By the way, do you know
00:37:57.68\00:37:59.30
that Jesus also
went through suffering
00:37:59.33\00:38:01.95
to prepare His character
00:38:01.98\00:38:04.68
so that He could serve as our
mediator in the heavenly courts.
00:38:04.71\00:38:08.87
It was also a
refining experience for Christ.
00:38:08.90\00:38:12.47
Notice Hebrews 5:7
through 10, Hebrews 5:7 to 10,
00:38:12.50\00:38:20.31
it's speaking about
the sufferings of Jesus
00:38:20.34\00:38:22.55
and it says, "Who, in
the days of His flesh"
00:38:22.58\00:38:26.41
that is while He
was on this earth,
00:38:26.44\00:38:29.23
"when He had offered up prayers
00:38:29.26\00:38:31.60
and supplications, with
vehement cries and tears,
00:38:31.63\00:38:38.12
" see the
experience of Job there
00:38:38.15\00:38:39.60
"and tears to Him who was
able to save Him from death,
00:38:39.63\00:38:44.73
was heard because
of His godly fear,
00:38:44.76\00:38:48.35
though He was a Son,
yet He learned obedience
00:38:48.38\00:38:52.82
by the things
which He suffered."
00:38:52.85\00:38:54.12
Doesn't mean that
Jesus was disobedient,
00:38:54.15\00:38:55.92
it means that He grew
ever more in obedience.
00:38:55.95\00:39:00.28
And so it says,
"Though He was a Son,
00:39:00.31\00:39:02.91
yet He learned obedience by
the things which He suffered
00:39:02.94\00:39:06.63
and having been
perfected" that means refined,
00:39:06.66\00:39:10.03
having his character been set
00:39:10.06\00:39:12.26
once and for all,
00:39:12.29\00:39:13.80
"He became the
author of eternal salvation
00:39:13.83\00:39:17.42
to all who obey Him."
00:39:17.45\00:39:21.15
Now, it's
interesting also to notice
00:39:21.18\00:39:23.01
that Job seeks
for sin in his life
00:39:23.04\00:39:25.46
and he cannot find
any sin in his life.
00:39:25.49\00:39:28.74
and 6, Job 31:5 and 6,
00:39:28.77\00:39:35.65
here Job says,
00:39:35.68\00:39:37.52
"If I have
walked with falsehood,
00:39:37.55\00:39:39.95
or if my foot has
hastened to deceit,
00:39:39.98\00:39:43.47
let me be
weighed on honest scales,
00:39:43.50\00:39:46.91
That God may know my integrity."
00:39:46.94\00:39:50.87
In other words, he says,
00:39:50.90\00:39:51.93
I'm willing to have
God weigh me on His scales
00:39:51.96\00:39:54.66
and He is going to
see that I have integrity,
00:39:54.69\00:39:58.15
that there is no sin in my life
00:39:58.18\00:40:00.56
which would bring this
about that I'm suffering.
00:40:00.59\00:40:04.54
By the way, in
Desire of Ages, page 761,
00:40:04.57\00:40:08.41
we find that Jesus as He hung
on the cross was also sinless.
00:40:08.44\00:40:12.97
Notice Desire of Ages, page 761,
00:40:13.00\00:40:16.18
of course He was
sinless in His own character
00:40:16.21\00:40:18.15
but He was bearing
the sins of the world.
00:40:18.18\00:40:21.78
Ellen White says this,
00:40:21.81\00:40:23.63
"Could one sin have
been found in Christ,
00:40:23.66\00:40:28.76
had He in one
particular yielded to Satan
00:40:28.79\00:40:32.48
to escape the terrible torture,
00:40:32.51\00:40:35.15
the enemy of God and
man would have triumphed.
00:40:35.18\00:40:40.12
Christ bowed His head and died,
00:40:40.15\00:40:42.65
but He held fast His faith
and His submission to God."
00:40:42.68\00:40:47.26
Not one sin
could be found in Jesus
00:40:47.29\00:40:51.06
other than the sins that
He was bearing for the world.
00:40:51.09\00:40:57.01
In other words,
both Job and Jesus
00:40:57.04\00:40:59.03
lost every earthly support.
00:40:59.06\00:41:02.65
The devil tried to
shake their confidence
00:41:02.68\00:41:05.02
and their
relationship with God the Father
00:41:05.05\00:41:07.52
but the devil
could not do it with Job
00:41:07.55\00:41:11.03
and the devil could
not do it with Jesus.
00:41:11.06\00:41:14.30
By the way, do you know
that in the experience of Job
00:41:14.33\00:41:17.11
the wile character
of Satan was revealed
00:41:17.14\00:41:19.66
before the whole universe?
00:41:19.69\00:41:21.82
We noticed in Job
Chapter 1 and Job Chapter 2
00:41:21.85\00:41:24.24
that this
experience is taking place
00:41:24.27\00:41:26.36
in the presence of
the heavenly council.
00:41:26.39\00:41:28.74
In other words God is
saying to the heavenly council,
00:41:28.77\00:41:31.37
look at Job
00:41:31.40\00:41:32.99
and he is saying to the
devil take everything he has,
00:41:33.02\00:41:35.79
take his health
only don't kill him.
00:41:35.82\00:41:38.74
And you will notice that he
is gonna continue serving me
00:41:38.77\00:41:41.55
because he loves me
even if calamities come.
00:41:41.58\00:41:45.37
God the Father said
the same about Jesus
00:41:45.40\00:41:47.76
before the heavenly beings.
00:41:47.79\00:41:49.26
I'm gonna send Him to the world.
00:41:49.29\00:41:51.34
You can do your
utmost to tempt Him,
00:41:51.37\00:41:53.73
you can do your
utmost to make Him suffer,
00:41:53.76\00:41:55.94
you can take everything from Him
00:41:55.97\00:41:58.01
and you will see that
He will be faithful to Me.
00:41:58.04\00:42:01.25
In fact, allow me to read
you a very significant passage,
00:42:01.28\00:42:04.40
Desire of Ages, page 761,
about the sufferings of Jesus.
00:42:04.43\00:42:09.30
Desire of Ages, page 761,
00:42:09.33\00:42:14.15
speaking about the
death of Jesus on the cross
00:42:14.18\00:42:17.15
and the way that the
devil made Him suffer,
00:42:17.18\00:42:19.55
"Satan saw that his
disguise was torn away.
00:42:19.58\00:42:25.25
His administration was laid
open before the unfallen angels
00:42:25.28\00:42:30.90
and before the
heavenly universe.
00:42:30.93\00:42:33.82
He had revealed
himself as a murderer.
00:42:33.85\00:42:36.96
By shedding the
blood of the Son of God,
00:42:36.99\00:42:39.05
he had uprooted himself
00:42:39.08\00:42:41.25
from the sympathies
of the heavenly beings.
00:42:41.28\00:42:44.31
Henceforth his
work was restricted.
00:42:44.34\00:42:47.70
Whatever
attitude he might assume,
00:42:47.73\00:42:49.89
he could no
longer await the angels
00:42:49.92\00:42:52.39
as they came from
the heavenly courts,
00:42:52.42\00:42:54.85
and before them
accuse Christ's brethren
00:42:54.88\00:42:57.41
of being clothed with
the garments of blackness
00:42:57.44\00:42:59.79
and the defilement of sin.
00:42:59.82\00:43:01.95
The last link of
sympathy between Satan
00:43:01.98\00:43:06.86
and the heavenly
world was broken."
00:43:06.89\00:43:10.73
In other words, the story of Job
was given in the Old Testament
00:43:10.76\00:43:13.44
to show the
heavenly intelligences
00:43:13.47\00:43:15.67
what was going to happen
00:43:15.70\00:43:17.18
when Jesus would
come to this world.
00:43:17.21\00:43:19.42
In fact, I have
no doubt whatsoever
00:43:19.45\00:43:22.30
that as Jesus was
going through His experience,
00:43:22.33\00:43:25.30
the people in
heaven, the being in heaven
00:43:25.33\00:43:28.63
were remembering
the experience of Job
00:43:28.66\00:43:30.85
and they were saying,
this experience of Jesus
00:43:30.88\00:43:33.79
is taking place on
a much larger scale
00:43:33.82\00:43:36.98
than the experience of Job.
00:43:37.01\00:43:38.71
The experience of
Job in other words,
00:43:38.74\00:43:40.69
illustrated the experience
through which Jesus went.
00:43:40.72\00:43:46.05
Now, there are two senses
00:43:46.08\00:43:47.19
in which Jesus
exceeded the experience of Job.
00:43:47.22\00:43:51.93
You remember that I mentioned
00:43:51.96\00:43:52.99
that we're dealing
with typology here.
00:43:53.02\00:43:55.29
Job is the type and
Jesus is the anti type.
00:43:55.32\00:43:58.28
Job is the shadow and Jesus
is the substance or the reality.
00:43:58.31\00:44:02.32
You know, the shadow is never
identical to the substance.
00:44:02.35\00:44:06.80
In other words, the type is
never as great as the anti type.
00:44:06.83\00:44:10.22
In other words, Job
is a small scale model
00:44:10.25\00:44:13.05
of the experience that
Jesus would go through.
00:44:13.08\00:44:16.07
There are two senses in
which Jesus exceeded Job.
00:44:16.10\00:44:19.99
First of all Job
was not allowed to die.
00:44:20.02\00:44:26.25
Jesus did die.
00:44:26.28\00:44:28.29
And secondly, Job was
not bearing upon himself
00:44:28.32\00:44:32.99
the sins of the world.
00:44:33.02\00:44:34.37
In other words, Job was innocent
and yet He was suffering.
00:44:34.40\00:44:38.23
Jesus was innocent but
He was bearing upon Himself
00:44:38.26\00:44:42.05
the sins of the whole world
00:44:42.08\00:44:44.12
and that is what lead
to the sufferings of Jesus.
00:44:44.15\00:44:48.41
So in other words, Jesus
was far greater than Job,
00:44:48.44\00:44:51.20
His sufferings were greater
because He was bearing sin.
00:44:51.23\00:44:54.74
The devil hated Jesus all
the more than He hated Job.
00:44:54.77\00:44:59.38
Now, what was the
secret of the victory of Jesus
00:44:59.41\00:45:03.42
in His trials here on earth?
00:45:03.45\00:45:06.36
Well, it was the same secret
that Job had when he overcame
00:45:06.39\00:45:12.33
the devil as the devil came
00:45:12.36\00:45:14.45
and put him through
all of the suffering.
00:45:14.48\00:45:17.69
You know, Job was close to
God in times of prosperity.
00:45:17.72\00:45:22.46
We noticed in
our study last time
00:45:22.49\00:45:24.70
that Job kept his
integrity when things went well.
00:45:24.73\00:45:29.71
He was a family man.
00:45:29.74\00:45:31.46
He offered the sacrifices
for each of his children
00:45:31.49\00:45:34.59
on a regular basis,
daily the Bible says.
00:45:34.62\00:45:37.88
In fact Job himself
says in times of prosperity
00:45:37.91\00:45:41.06
I was clothing to the
naked, I was eyes to the blind,
00:45:41.09\00:45:44.77
I was a blessing of giving
necessary things to the poor.
00:45:44.80\00:45:48.78
In other words, I used all of
my riches to benefit humanity.
00:45:48.81\00:45:52.76
We noticed that
in our last study.
00:45:52.79\00:45:55.06
In other words, Job had
a very strong relationship
00:45:55.09\00:45:59.13
with God in times of prosperity
00:45:59.16\00:46:02.16
and because he had
this strong grasp on God
00:46:02.19\00:46:05.48
in times of prosperity
00:46:05.51\00:46:07.22
when times of
adversity and difficulty came,
00:46:07.25\00:46:10.59
he could lean on the experience
00:46:10.62\00:46:12.87
which he had
developed previously with God.
00:46:12.90\00:46:16.67
I want to read you a passage
in Desire of Ages, page 756,
00:46:16.70\00:46:21.20
where Ellen White
describes the secret
00:46:21.23\00:46:25.09
of the victory of Jesus.
00:46:25.12\00:46:27.47
Once again, the
Desire of Ages, page 756,
00:46:27.50\00:46:33.83
speaking about Jesus
as He hangs on the cross.
00:46:33.86\00:46:36.49
"Amid the awful darkness,
apparently forsaken of God,
00:46:36.52\00:46:42.12
" not really forsaken of
God because Job wasn't forsaken
00:46:42.15\00:46:44.61
of God either, it
just appeared that way.
00:46:44.64\00:46:47.02
"Amid the awful darkness,
apparently forsaken of God,
00:46:47.05\00:46:51.75
Christ had
drained the last dregs
00:46:51.78\00:46:54.52
in the cup of human woe.
00:46:54.55\00:46:57.34
In those dreadful
hours He had relied,
00:46:57.37\00:47:00.22
" notice this "In
those dreadful hours
00:47:00.25\00:47:02.83
He had relied upon the evidence
of His Father's acceptance
00:47:02.86\00:47:07.44
heretofore given Him."
00:47:07.47\00:47:09.48
In other words, the evidences
of His Father's presence
00:47:09.51\00:47:12.22
up till this point in
His previous experience,
00:47:12.25\00:47:16.13
she continues
saying, "He was acquainted
00:47:16.16\00:47:19.13
with the
character of His Father,
00:47:19.16\00:47:22.12
He understood His justice,
00:47:22.15\00:47:24.64
His mercy, and His great love.
00:47:24.67\00:47:28.16
By faith He rested in Him
00:47:28.19\00:47:31.86
whom it had ever
been His joy to obey."
00:47:31.89\00:47:37.85
You will see that His
past experience colored
00:47:37.88\00:47:41.11
the sufferings
that He went through,
00:47:41.14\00:47:43.13
once again by
faith He rested in Him,
00:47:43.16\00:47:45.97
whom it had ever
been His joy to obey,
00:47:46.00\00:47:49.48
"And as in submission He
committed Himself to God,
00:47:49.51\00:47:54.26
the sense of the loss of His
Father's favor was withdrawn.
00:47:54.29\00:47:59.66
By faith,
Christ was the victor."
00:47:59.69\00:48:03.65
Now, do you remember
in the experience of Job
00:48:03.68\00:48:05.99
that after He went
through these terrible trials
00:48:06.02\00:48:08.70
and tribulations that at
the end of the book appears
00:48:08.73\00:48:13.77
the individual who caused
all of the sufferings of Job.
00:48:13.80\00:48:18.30
At the beginning of the
book, His enemy is called Satan.
00:48:18.33\00:48:23.14
At the end of the book,
Satan is no longer referred
00:48:23.17\00:48:27.07
to with that name.
00:48:27.10\00:48:28.52
He is called what?
He is called Leviathan.
00:48:28.55\00:48:32.89
And God asked Job, He says, Job,
00:48:32.92\00:48:35.12
are you able to fish
Leviathan out of the sea
00:48:35.15\00:48:39.01
and to cut him in pieces or
to take him as your servant.
00:48:39.04\00:48:42.72
Of course, Job would
have understood immediately
00:48:42.75\00:48:45.11
when God spoke of Leviathan
that this was the enemy of God.
00:48:45.14\00:48:49.56
Because in that
cultural context,
00:48:49.59\00:48:52.04
it's been
discovered archeologically
00:48:52.07\00:48:54.18
that there was a creature
called Leviathan or Lothan
00:48:54.21\00:48:58.83
who had several
heads who was considered
00:48:58.86\00:49:01.08
to be the enemy of the God.
00:49:01.11\00:49:03.13
And so suddenly it
dawns on Job he says,
00:49:03.16\00:49:06.21
oh, it's Leviathan
who is doing this to me.
00:49:06.24\00:49:10.02
And then after God shows
Him this portrait of Leviathan.
00:49:10.05\00:49:14.48
Job says, now, I know
that you can do all things.
00:49:14.51\00:49:19.48
You can even defeat Leviathan.
00:49:19.51\00:49:22.38
You can even defeat the devil.
00:49:22.41\00:49:25.67
By the way do you know,
that we were told in scripture
00:49:25.70\00:49:28.72
that Jesus is going
to defeat Leviathan.
00:49:28.75\00:49:33.03
He is going to defeat
the devil and destroy Him.
00:49:33.06\00:49:36.98
Notice in the Book of Revelation
if you go with me to Revelation,
00:49:37.01\00:49:41.48
let's read first
of all in Chapter 12.
00:49:41.51\00:49:43.89
Revelation 12 and
we are going to read
00:49:43.92\00:49:47.40
about this
multi headed creature.
00:49:47.43\00:49:50.67
Revelation 12
and notice verse 9,
00:49:50.70\00:49:56.35
it says, "So the
great dragon was cast out,
00:49:56.38\00:50:00.07
that serpent of old,
called the Devil and Satan,
00:50:00.10\00:50:04.37
who deceives the whole
world he was cast to the earth,
00:50:04.40\00:50:08.10
and his angels
were cast out with him."
00:50:08.13\00:50:10.58
Now, this casting out
that is spoken off here
00:50:10.61\00:50:13.13
is the fact that the devil
before Jesus died on the cross
00:50:13.16\00:50:17.32
could go to the heavenly
couch representing this world.
00:50:17.35\00:50:20.37
But after Jesus
died on the cross,
00:50:20.40\00:50:23.59
he was cast out of heaven
00:50:23.62\00:50:25.88
as the
representative of this world.
00:50:25.91\00:50:28.51
Now, notice the
names that he is given.
00:50:28.54\00:50:30.59
He is called the great dragon.
00:50:30.62\00:50:33.29
He is called the serpent of
old, and he is called Satan.
00:50:33.32\00:50:38.17
You know, it's very interesting,
00:50:38.20\00:50:39.29
we noticed in our
last study in Isaiah 27,
00:50:39.32\00:50:42.87
the Leviathan is
called the dragon
00:50:42.90\00:50:46.50
and he is called the serpent.
00:50:46.53\00:50:50.02
So you put it
together, the dragon, Leviathan,
00:50:50.05\00:50:54.43
the serpent, Satan
mentioned in the Book of Job
00:50:54.46\00:50:59.55
make reference to Satan,
00:50:59.58\00:51:02.63
the enemy of Job
and the enemy of God.
00:51:02.66\00:51:05.90
Now, the question is,
what is gonna be the end
00:51:05.93\00:51:09.11
of this being who is
called the devil, Satan,
00:51:09.14\00:51:14.39
the dragon and the serpent?
00:51:14.42\00:51:17.00
Notice, Revelation
20:7 and following,
00:51:17.03\00:51:23.67
and following.
00:51:23.70\00:51:27.34
"Now when the
thousand years have expired,
00:51:27.37\00:51:30.27
Satan will be
released from his prison
00:51:30.30\00:51:32.79
and will go out to
deceive the nations
00:51:32.82\00:51:34.74
which are in the
four corners of the earth,
00:51:34.77\00:51:36.55
Gog and Magog, to
gather them together to battle,
00:51:36.58\00:51:39.72
whose number is as
the sand of the sea.
00:51:39.75\00:51:42.40
They went up on the
breadth of the earth
00:51:42.43\00:51:44.04
and surrounded
the camp of the saints
00:51:44.07\00:51:46.34
and the beloved city.
00:51:46.37\00:51:48.54
And fire came down from God
00:51:48.57\00:51:50.51
out of heaven and
what, and devoured them."
00:51:50.54\00:51:54.77
In other words,
Satan, his angels
00:51:54.80\00:51:58.17
and all of the wicked
people who oppressed Jesus
00:51:58.20\00:52:02.37
and the devil who oppressed Job
00:52:02.40\00:52:04.88
eventually is going to be
destroyed by the Lord Himself,
00:52:04.91\00:52:09.65
just like He
prophesied in Job Chapter 41.
00:52:09.68\00:52:13.76
And then you
remember in the story of Job,
00:52:13.79\00:52:16.42
that Job received a
double amount of the blessings
00:52:16.45\00:52:21.67
that he had
enjoyed before his trials.
00:52:21.70\00:52:24.62
And of course, the
Book of Revelation says that
00:52:24.65\00:52:26.99
God is gonna make a
new heavens and a new earth
00:52:27.02\00:52:29.89
and those who have
been oppressed by the devil,
00:52:29.92\00:52:32.03
Jesus Himself who went
through these savior trials
00:52:32.06\00:52:35.13
is gonna sit on
the throne of God
00:52:35.16\00:52:37.51
and He is gonna
reign on this earth forever
00:52:37.54\00:52:40.91
and ever among His people.
00:52:40.94\00:52:43.23
And so the story of
job will have reached
00:52:43.26\00:52:45.94
its fullest fulfillment
at the end of the millennium.
00:52:45.97\00:52:50.81
Now, there is one further
dimension of the Book of Job
00:52:50.84\00:52:53.16
which I'm going to
mention only in passing
00:52:53.19\00:52:55.91
and that is that the experience
of Job also is an illustration
00:52:55.94\00:53:00.23
of what's gonna
happen to God's people
00:53:00.26\00:53:02.62
during the great
final tribulation
00:53:02.65\00:53:05.80
in the history of this world.
00:53:05.83\00:53:07.56
There are many
texts in the Bible,
00:53:07.59\00:53:09.00
I'll only mention the concept
00:53:09.03\00:53:11.01
perhaps those who
are watching this now,
00:53:11.04\00:53:13.15
will be
encouraged to go to scripture
00:53:13.18\00:53:15.70
and look for the
final fulfillment
00:53:15.73\00:53:17.80
of this story of Job.
00:53:17.83\00:53:19.37
But the Bible tells
us, that in the end time
00:53:19.40\00:53:22.59
God's people are going to lose
the support of their family.
00:53:22.62\00:53:27.70
They are gonna lose the
support of their friends.
00:53:27.73\00:53:29.88
You can read it there
in Matthew 24 in Mark 13,
00:53:29.91\00:53:33.69
in Luke 21, they are gonna
lose the support of friends.
00:53:33.72\00:53:36.81
The nations are going
to arise against them.
00:53:36.84\00:53:41.14
And they are going to go through
a severe time of tribulation
00:53:41.17\00:53:43.90
such as the
world has never seen.
00:53:43.93\00:53:45.95
They are gonna lose
everything that they have.
00:53:45.98\00:53:48.83
They are gonna lose houses,
they are gonna lose automobiles,
00:53:48.86\00:53:51.80
they are gonna lose
the money in the bank,
00:53:51.83\00:53:53.67
they are going
to lose every single
00:53:53.70\00:53:55.65
earthly support on planet earth.
00:53:55.68\00:53:59.82
And when they go through
the severe time of trouble
00:53:59.85\00:54:01.81
it's going to even appear
00:54:01.84\00:54:03.21
that God has
forsaken them on this earth.
00:54:03.24\00:54:06.22
In fact, the story of
the widow in Luke Chapter 18
00:54:06.25\00:54:09.55
where it says that
this widow kept on coming
00:54:09.58\00:54:11.59
and coming and
coming to the judge,
00:54:11.62\00:54:13.91
so that the judge would do
justice against her advisory.
00:54:13.94\00:54:17.34
The advisory of
course here is the devil
00:54:17.37\00:54:19.47
and finally the judge says,
I'm going to do justice to her.
00:54:19.50\00:54:23.05
The same is going to happen
during the time of trouble.
00:54:23.08\00:54:25.54
God's people will
cry out day and night,
00:54:25.57\00:54:28.29
they will plead with
the Lord to deliver them
00:54:28.32\00:54:30.97
from the hands of their enemies
00:54:31.00\00:54:33.10
who are being used by the devil
00:54:33.13\00:54:34.95
to persecute God's people.
00:54:34.98\00:54:37.67
And yet for a while at least,
00:54:37.70\00:54:40.55
God will keep His silence,
00:54:40.58\00:54:43.24
but just like in the Book of
Job where God after Chapter 37
00:54:43.27\00:54:48.74
now is revealed
in a great theophany.
00:54:48.77\00:54:51.07
In other words, He is revealed
in creation at the end of time.
00:54:51.10\00:54:54.62
God is going to be revealed
00:54:54.65\00:54:56.00
in the midst of
great scenes of nature.
00:54:56.03\00:54:58.27
He is gonna speak to His people
00:54:58.30\00:55:00.11
and He is gonna
invite His people
00:55:00.14\00:55:01.88
to inherit the kingdom
which was lost by Adam.
00:55:01.91\00:55:06.53
In other words, God's
people are going to go through
00:55:06.56\00:55:08.19
the same experience
that Job went through.
00:55:08.22\00:55:10.87
They are going to suffer
00:55:10.90\00:55:12.04
the same
sufferings that He suffered.
00:55:12.07\00:55:13.57
They are gonna feel
like God has forsaken them,
00:55:13.60\00:55:16.00
but God will not
have forsaken them.
00:55:16.03\00:55:18.77
God will be as close as ever,
00:55:18.80\00:55:21.23
even if they do not feel Him.
00:55:21.26\00:55:24.39
Now, what can we
learn from the story of Job.
00:55:24.42\00:55:28.44
We can learn the fact
that Job was faithful to God
00:55:28.47\00:55:32.37
in these severe
trials because He knew God
00:55:32.40\00:55:35.42
from the prosperous times.
00:55:35.45\00:55:37.57
In other words, he
had a connection with God
00:55:37.60\00:55:39.74
when things went well.
00:55:39.77\00:55:42.65
Now these days we
don't have persecution.
00:55:42.68\00:55:45.60
We have many
material possessions.
00:55:45.63\00:55:49.08
We have every thing
that the heart could desire,
00:55:49.11\00:55:51.97
but are we developing
that relationship with God
00:55:52.00\00:55:54.92
in these times of prosperity,
00:55:54.95\00:55:56.82
because times of
adversity are coming
00:55:56.85\00:55:58.87
where we are gonna
lose every earthly support.
00:55:58.90\00:56:01.81
Are we so connected with God
00:56:01.84\00:56:04.90
that no matter if
we lost everything
00:56:04.93\00:56:07.33
if we lost
family, spouses, friends,
00:56:07.36\00:56:12.78
if the whole world
turned against God's people,
00:56:12.81\00:56:15.79
if we lost all
of our possessions,
00:56:15.82\00:56:17.94
if we lost our health.
00:56:17.97\00:56:19.53
If it appear like we
were gonna lose our life.
00:56:19.56\00:56:22.20
Would our relationship
with God be so strong
00:56:22.23\00:56:25.81
that we would say like Job,
00:56:25.84\00:56:27.49
"Though He slay me,
yet will I trust in Him."
00:56:27.52\00:56:31.50
That is the kind of faith
00:56:31.53\00:56:33.14
that we are going to have
to develop in the end time.
00:56:33.17\00:56:36.85
In fact I'd like to
end by reading a text
00:56:36.88\00:56:39.47
that we find in Revelation 13,
00:56:39.50\00:56:43.97
Revelation 13 here
it says in verse 9,
00:56:44.00\00:56:51.24
"If anyone has an
ear, let him hear.
00:56:51.27\00:56:55.08
He who leads into captivity
shall go into captivity,
00:56:55.11\00:56:58.28
he who kills with the sword
must be killed with the sword."
00:56:58.31\00:57:01.35
And then it says,
"Here is the patience
00:57:01.38\00:57:04.19
and the faith of the saints."
00:57:04.22\00:57:06.72
Notice Revelation 14:12,
00:57:06.75\00:57:10.23
"Here is the
patience of the saints,
00:57:10.26\00:57:13.04
here are those who
keep the commandments of God
00:57:13.07\00:57:15.84
and the faith of Jesus."
00:57:15.87\00:57:17.86
Yes, my friends, God's
people will keep the faith,
00:57:17.89\00:57:21.14
God's people like
Job will be patient
00:57:21.17\00:57:23.72
and in the end
they will be victorious
00:57:23.75\00:57:26.17
because they trust
their life to the Lord.
00:57:26.20\00:57:28.97