Job 42:1-17
Job 42:10-17 records that after Job had prayed for his friends, God healed Job of his suffering and restored more wealth to him than he had before. Job's prayer for his friends demonstrated that Job had forgiven them and had become reconciled with them. Job had become more like God.
God also gave Job seven children to replace those that had been killed. But Job did not lose his first seven children. Before God recreates the heaven and the earth, He will resurrect His living images within Job's first seven children from the regions of the dead and recreate them to live on His recreated earth. God will use His consuming fire to dissolve their systems in order to separate and recover His living images in them from their spiritual deaths, but they will not be exactly the same persons that they were as Job's children. They will lose their former lives as Jesus prophesied in John 12:25. But God will allow Job to descend from heaven from time to time to visit them on earth, and he will recognize enough of himself in them to know that they are his children. Revelation 21:1-5.
As an Old Testament patriarch, Job lived to be 140 years old and saw four generations of his children. When Job died, his spirit and soul descended into Paradise located at that time close to the region of death called hell. Luke 16:19-26. Job would wait there for his Redeemer to come to Paradise and preach the gospel to him and all the other Old Testament saints there saved by grace. Job and all the Old Testament saints would believe the gospel that Jesus preached, be washed in the blood of Christ and forgiven of all their sins, be bodily resurrected and translated to heaven along with Paradise itself. Ephesians 4:7-10; Luke 23:43; Matthew 27:52-53.
Saturday, December 7, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part one hundred nine
Job 42:1-17
In Job 42:7-10, God spoke to Eliphaz and his two friends through Job and informed them that He was angry with them because they had sought to know Him through their own feeble reasoning and had not sought His revelations as Job had. God then commanded Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar to go to Job and offer a burnt offering and God would accept them but not to the higher degree that He had accepted Job. The blood sacrifices of the Old Testament symbolize salvation by grace through faith, the sins of the believer having been washed away by the shed blood of Christ. But the burnt offering sacrifices symbolize the fact that God will use His consuming fire to provide a lesser form of salvation for the rest of humanity by separating and purifying His living image in them that He had created them to be from their total evil in them which He will cast into the lake of fire. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Exodus 29:14; Matthew 3:11-12; I Corinthians 3:11-15; John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:5; Revelation 22:11-12.
Great significance attaches to the fact that God left Elihu out of the burnt offering that He had Job make for his three friends. Possibly, God meant for Elihu to be a symbol of the total evil in man which equates to an absolute rejection of God. Elihu had maintained that God was far away and not much interested in mankind. This belief amounted to a complete rejection of God's Love and a desire to get rid of God. Elihu had become religious but self-righteous. He felt no need to humble himself to God. He had become allied with Satan. Elihu had become symbolic of the total evil in man that Christ will cast into the lake of fire in the end of the world. Matthew 12:31-32; Revelation 20:11-15.
But apart from the fact that God used Elihu to be a symbol of spiritual death itself, Elihu was still a human being who possessed a living image of God within him created by God. In the end of the world, Christ will recover and recreate His good image in Elihu just as He will with every human He has ever created. Luke 20:38; Revelation 20:5; Genesis 1:31.
In Job 42:7-10, God spoke to Eliphaz and his two friends through Job and informed them that He was angry with them because they had sought to know Him through their own feeble reasoning and had not sought His revelations as Job had. God then commanded Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar to go to Job and offer a burnt offering and God would accept them but not to the higher degree that He had accepted Job. The blood sacrifices of the Old Testament symbolize salvation by grace through faith, the sins of the believer having been washed away by the shed blood of Christ. But the burnt offering sacrifices symbolize the fact that God will use His consuming fire to provide a lesser form of salvation for the rest of humanity by separating and purifying His living image in them that He had created them to be from their total evil in them which He will cast into the lake of fire. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Exodus 29:14; Matthew 3:11-12; I Corinthians 3:11-15; John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:5; Revelation 22:11-12.
Great significance attaches to the fact that God left Elihu out of the burnt offering that He had Job make for his three friends. Possibly, God meant for Elihu to be a symbol of the total evil in man which equates to an absolute rejection of God. Elihu had maintained that God was far away and not much interested in mankind. This belief amounted to a complete rejection of God's Love and a desire to get rid of God. Elihu had become religious but self-righteous. He felt no need to humble himself to God. He had become allied with Satan. Elihu had become symbolic of the total evil in man that Christ will cast into the lake of fire in the end of the world. Matthew 12:31-32; Revelation 20:11-15.
But apart from the fact that God used Elihu to be a symbol of spiritual death itself, Elihu was still a human being who possessed a living image of God within him created by God. In the end of the world, Christ will recover and recreate His good image in Elihu just as He will with every human He has ever created. Luke 20:38; Revelation 20:5; Genesis 1:31.
Thursday, December 5, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part one hundred eight
Job 42:1-17
In Job 42:1-6, Job finally reached the absolute pinnacle of faith to which God had brought him. Job realized that God was absolutely Almighty and Omniscient, and that meant all of His judgments had to be right. God had given Job a Redeemer. God had given Job faith in his Redeemer. God had promised that He would purify Job like gold. God had promised Job that he would live with Him forever.
God's revelations to Job humbled him. Job realized that all of his negative judgments and feelings about God came from a lack of faith in Him. Job understood that God knew him better than he could know himself. Job became awestruck by his newfound comprehension of God. Job discovered that God was far more wonderful and beautiful than Job had ever imagined. Job found that God who created the universe could also have compassion on a little creature like Job.
Job also discovered that since God loved him as His child, then he could talk with God as one person to another. Job could ask God questions and expect answers, and God would not be angry with him. Job knew that he could never hope to fully understand an eternal God, but he could have confidence in the revelations that God had given to him. Job found that he could pray to God and be assured that God would answer his prayers.
Job further came to understand that before God had given him his Redeemer, Job had only heard about God as others had speculated about Him, but now Job could see God face to face, not with his physical eyes, but with his inner, spiritual eyes of faith. Job now knew God personally and far better than anyone around him.
But having now found himself in the presence of a Holy and Majestic God, Job could only become disgusted with himself and repent of his sins. But this was exactly the state of humility to which God desired to bring Job. No one can really know God as being loving and compassionate until one humbles oneself to Him and repents. Only when a person comes to a state of complete humility and dependence on God can God give that person assurance that only He can cleanse and forgive that person of his sins, only He can purify that person like gold, only He can adopt that person as His child and give him the very righteousness of his Savior so that that person can live with God in heaven forever. John 3:16; John 5:24; Luke 13:3; John 17:19; John 17:23-24; II Corinthians 5:21; Romans 8:14-17.
In Job 42:1-6, Job finally reached the absolute pinnacle of faith to which God had brought him. Job realized that God was absolutely Almighty and Omniscient, and that meant all of His judgments had to be right. God had given Job a Redeemer. God had given Job faith in his Redeemer. God had promised that He would purify Job like gold. God had promised Job that he would live with Him forever.
God's revelations to Job humbled him. Job realized that all of his negative judgments and feelings about God came from a lack of faith in Him. Job understood that God knew him better than he could know himself. Job became awestruck by his newfound comprehension of God. Job discovered that God was far more wonderful and beautiful than Job had ever imagined. Job found that God who created the universe could also have compassion on a little creature like Job.
Job also discovered that since God loved him as His child, then he could talk with God as one person to another. Job could ask God questions and expect answers, and God would not be angry with him. Job knew that he could never hope to fully understand an eternal God, but he could have confidence in the revelations that God had given to him. Job found that he could pray to God and be assured that God would answer his prayers.
Job further came to understand that before God had given him his Redeemer, Job had only heard about God as others had speculated about Him, but now Job could see God face to face, not with his physical eyes, but with his inner, spiritual eyes of faith. Job now knew God personally and far better than anyone around him.
But having now found himself in the presence of a Holy and Majestic God, Job could only become disgusted with himself and repent of his sins. But this was exactly the state of humility to which God desired to bring Job. No one can really know God as being loving and compassionate until one humbles oneself to Him and repents. Only when a person comes to a state of complete humility and dependence on God can God give that person assurance that only He can cleanse and forgive that person of his sins, only He can purify that person like gold, only He can adopt that person as His child and give him the very righteousness of his Savior so that that person can live with God in heaven forever. John 3:16; John 5:24; Luke 13:3; John 17:19; John 17:23-24; II Corinthians 5:21; Romans 8:14-17.
Monday, December 2, 2019
Commentary on the Book of Job part one hundred seven
Job 41:1-34
In Job 41:19-21, God described the sea dragon as being able to issue fire from its mouth. God wanted Job to know that He can use a consuming fire in wrath against His enemies. According to Hebrews 12:29, God exists as a consuming fire, and according to Deuteronomy 32:22, His fire consumes hell for Him to destroy and the earth for Him to recreate it. Revelation 20:14; II Peter 3:10. God exists as the lake of fire which will burn up all evil forever. Psalm 21:8-11.
God will separate all that He ever created from the influence of evil itself, cleanse it all, and recreate it. Revelation 21:5; Revelation 22:11-12. God will cast all forgiven sins into the sea of forgetfulness and in the end eliminate that sea by a means not specified. Micah 7:19; Revelation 21:1.
God is Infinite. Psalm 147:5. God exists as both an infinite destroyer of evil and as being infinite Love, grace, and mercy at the same time which is eternity. God exists as an infinite good system, and God can only create good systems. For God to exist as the lake of fire which forever destroys all evil makes Him a good and creative system just as His Love also does.
In verse 22, God revealed to Job that the fire of the sea dragon turns sorrow into joy. This symbolizes the fact that eventually God will use His consuming fire to eliminate all evil from His creations, save some humans by His grace, rescue all living humans within the regions of the dead by His mercy, and recreate the heaven and the earth to be permeated with pure bliss and joy. Revelation 21:1-5.
In Job 41:23-34, God assured Job that the sea dragon was so powerful and well armored that no attacks by his enemies could ever hurt him. God's description symbolizes the fact that God can never be permanently injured by any attacks of the Devil against Him. Jesus suffered deeply from being permeated by sin and evil as He hung on the cross, but He overcame all sin and evil when He rose from the dead. Psalm 22:6; II Corinthians 5:21; John 16:33; John 19:30; Revelation 1:18.
In Job 41:19-21, God described the sea dragon as being able to issue fire from its mouth. God wanted Job to know that He can use a consuming fire in wrath against His enemies. According to Hebrews 12:29, God exists as a consuming fire, and according to Deuteronomy 32:22, His fire consumes hell for Him to destroy and the earth for Him to recreate it. Revelation 20:14; II Peter 3:10. God exists as the lake of fire which will burn up all evil forever. Psalm 21:8-11.
God will separate all that He ever created from the influence of evil itself, cleanse it all, and recreate it. Revelation 21:5; Revelation 22:11-12. God will cast all forgiven sins into the sea of forgetfulness and in the end eliminate that sea by a means not specified. Micah 7:19; Revelation 21:1.
God is Infinite. Psalm 147:5. God exists as both an infinite destroyer of evil and as being infinite Love, grace, and mercy at the same time which is eternity. God exists as an infinite good system, and God can only create good systems. For God to exist as the lake of fire which forever destroys all evil makes Him a good and creative system just as His Love also does.
In verse 22, God revealed to Job that the fire of the sea dragon turns sorrow into joy. This symbolizes the fact that eventually God will use His consuming fire to eliminate all evil from His creations, save some humans by His grace, rescue all living humans within the regions of the dead by His mercy, and recreate the heaven and the earth to be permeated with pure bliss and joy. Revelation 21:1-5.
In Job 41:23-34, God assured Job that the sea dragon was so powerful and well armored that no attacks by his enemies could ever hurt him. God's description symbolizes the fact that God can never be permanently injured by any attacks of the Devil against Him. Jesus suffered deeply from being permeated by sin and evil as He hung on the cross, but He overcame all sin and evil when He rose from the dead. Psalm 22:6; II Corinthians 5:21; John 16:33; John 19:30; Revelation 1:18.
Commentary on the Book of Job part one hundred six
Job 41:1-34
In chapter 41, God described to Job a creature He called a "leviathan" which seemed to be a sea dragon. But according to verse 22, God used this creature to be a symbol of Himself since only God can turn sorrow into joy.
In Job 41:1-18, God described this creature as being one which no one can catch or control. God provided Job with a simple illustration of Himself that Job could understand. God wanted Job to know that He is so awesome that no one can stand up to Him. Everything that He created belongs to Him, and no one can take any of it from Him.
God also provided Job with an indirect rebuke of his four false comforters. All four of Job's false friends had described to Job a God as they wanted Him to be. Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar had concluded that Job had to be so wicked that he would find it extremely difficult to ever obtain mercy from God. To them, God was powerful but seldom merciful. They thought they had gotten control of God because they imagined that they completely understood Him. Elihu also thought he had control of God because he saw God as being far away and not really all that interested in mankind. But God revealed to Job the awesome Truth that He could not be Almighty and Omniscient if He were not also gracious and merciful.
In chapter 41, God described to Job a creature He called a "leviathan" which seemed to be a sea dragon. But according to verse 22, God used this creature to be a symbol of Himself since only God can turn sorrow into joy.
In Job 41:1-18, God described this creature as being one which no one can catch or control. God provided Job with a simple illustration of Himself that Job could understand. God wanted Job to know that He is so awesome that no one can stand up to Him. Everything that He created belongs to Him, and no one can take any of it from Him.
God also provided Job with an indirect rebuke of his four false comforters. All four of Job's false friends had described to Job a God as they wanted Him to be. Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar had concluded that Job had to be so wicked that he would find it extremely difficult to ever obtain mercy from God. To them, God was powerful but seldom merciful. They thought they had gotten control of God because they imagined that they completely understood Him. Elihu also thought he had control of God because he saw God as being far away and not really all that interested in mankind. But God revealed to Job the awesome Truth that He could not be Almighty and Omniscient if He were not also gracious and merciful.
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