Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Revelation In Job

Reading through Job, I have made some discoveries that are worth writing down. For the sake of continuity, I'll use His name, Yeshua, as opposed to Jesus in this post.

Job 7:21
(21) And why do You not lift up my transgression, and make my iniquity pass away? For now I shall lie down in the dust, and You shall seek me; but I will not be.

God did lift up Job's transgression, in the form of Yeshua.
John 3:14
(14) And even as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

In this way, Job's iniquity passed away. Instead of Job lying in the dust, Yeshua was laid in the ground, and was sought there, but was not found there, for He rose.

Next...
Job 9:32-33
(32) For He is not a man, as I am, that I should answer Him; that we should come together in judgment;
(33) there is no mediator between us, who might lay his hand on both of us.

God, listened and sent such a Mediator between man and Himself. His name is Yeshua.

Next...
Job 10:4-5
(4) Have You eyes of flesh; or do You see as a man sees?
(5) Are Your days as the days of man? Or Your years like the days of man,

God must have been listening to that, too, because He did take on flesh in the form of Yeshua. He felt our length of days and the toil of daily living.

Next...
Job 12:24-25
(24) He takes away the heart of the heads of the people of the land; and He causes them to wander in a waste in which is no path.
(25) They grope in the dark, and there is no light; and He makes them stagger like a drunkard.

Job complains that the people have no path. Yeshua said, "I am the way (path)." Job said man gropes in the dark, but Yeshua said, "I am the Light of the world."

Next...
Job 13:16
(16) He also is my salvation, for an ungodly one shall not come before Him.

Job said God is his 'salvation'. The Hebrew for salvation here, is "Yeshua". Job had no clue. What I find is that the trials of Job serve to OUTLINE A NEED of suffering humanity. God saw and graciously complied and supplied.

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