Commentary on the Book of Job part one hundred two

                                  Job 38:1-41

In Job 38:12-13, God spoke of the "dayspring" as being a person. In the Hebrew, and in the Greek in Luke 1:78, this word means the rising of the sun. Zacharias prophesied that his son, John the Baptist, would reveal the "dayspring" who would be Jesus "the light of the world." Certainly, when Jesus was born in Bethlehem, God sent His Light into the world to save the world. John 1:6-10. John 1:9 teaches that this Light will provide light to every human who would ever be born. This revelation can only mean that God will provide some form of salvation for all living humans. The being of every human contains a living part created by God which He can never lose, and a evil and dead part injected into every human by the Devil. In the end of the world, God will use His consuming fire to separate and recover every living image of Himself within the regions of the dead to be recreated, and He will cast the evil and dead part of these humans into the everlasting lake of fire. Luke 20:38; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5.

In Job 38:12-13, God provided Job with a prophecy that this "dayspring," meaning the Messiah, would one day take complete control of the earth and shake all of the wicked out of it. The word "shaken" in the Hebrew, as well as in the Greek in Hebrews 12:25-27, means to agitate something, like flour in a sieve, to separate all that is good in it from all of its impurities. As verse 15 teaches, these wicked possess no light whatsoever. They can only be totally evil. Job's prophecy meant that one day in the future, the Messiah will absolutely and completely separate all the goodness that God has created, including His living images in every human, from all of the total evil within each one of their beings. Christ will one day fulfill this prophecy by raising all of His living images from the regions of the dead as recorded in Revelation 20:5, and casting all of the dead, who are totally evil, into the everlasting lake of fire as recorded in Revelation 20:11-15. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38.

In Job 38:17, God answered Job's doubts and despair that he displayed in Job 7:20-21 and in Job 10:20-22. In those moments of doubt and despair, Job thought that when he died, he would be forever separated from God and go to a place of absolute darkness and nothingness which God calls the bottomless pit. But the answers to God's questions to Job in verse 17 were obvious to Job. God made Job know that God, his Savior and friend, would never allow him to even see the bottomless pit. Job realized within himself that God had saved him by His grace forever.

By God's question to Job in verse 36, He made Job understand that God had put some wisdom into Job's living image when He created him. But God also made Job realize that his Redeemer had given him additional wisdom and understanding about God when He saved Job by His grace.