Month: July 2020

Job 13, Never leave me LORD!

Job 13:4-5, But you FORGERS OF LIES, YOU ARE ALL WORTHLESS PHYSICIANS. OH, THAT YOU WOULD BE SILENT, AND IT WOULD BE YOUR WISDOM!

Job was tired of the false accusations of his friends; speaking without knowledge of the truth. It would be better if they just stay silent!

Pro 17:28, Even a fool is counted wise when he holds his peace; When he shuts his lips, he is considered perceptive.

Job 13:7, WILL YOU SPEAK WICKEDLY FOR GOD, AND TALK DECEITFULLY FOR HIM? 

when calamity strikes a person do we say “IT’S BECAUSE OF YOUR SINS”? We speak with limited knowledge, and have no idea what GOD is doing behind the scenes! 

Job 13:15, THOUGH HE SLAY ME, YET WILL I TRUST HIM…

EVEN IF GOD KILLS ME, I STILL HAVE HOPE IN HIM! Paul said, Php 1:21, “FOR TO ME, TO LIVE IS CHRIST, AND TO DIE IS GAIN”

Pro 14:32, The wicked is banished in his wickedness, BUT THE RIGHTEOUS HAS A REFUGE IN HIS DEATH. 

Job 13:20-21, “ONLY TWO THINGS DO NOT DO TO ME, … (1) WITHDRAW YOUR HAND FAR FROM ME, (2) And LET NOT THE DREAD OF YOU MAKE ME AFRAID.

1) Job knew where his strength came from, even in this situation. Job lost everything, YET HE DIDN’T WANT TO LOSE HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LIVING GOD! “NEVER WITHDRAW YOUR HAND FROM ME”!

2) God is love and HE wants the best for us! Yet, Job didn’t want to be frighten of GOD! WE SHOULD NEVER BE FRIGHTEN THAT GOD WILL HURT US, BUT THAT WE WILL HURT GOD WITH OUR ACTIONS, SINS, AND UNBELIEF!

Psa 27:13-14, I would have lost heart, unless I had believed That I would see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living. Wait on the LORD; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the LORD!

WHATEVER WERE GOING THROUGH NOW, WAIT ON THE LORD, SEEK HIS FACE! NEVER LOSE HOPE IN HIM BECAUSE EVEN IN DEATH OUR LOVING FATHER STILL REIGNS! JUST WAIT AND SEE!

Job 12, God is in full control!

Job 12:6, THE TENTS OF ROBBERS PROSPER, AND THOSE WHO PROVOKE GOD ARE SECURE—In what God provides by His hand. 

Nothing makes sense to Job now! He sees the wicked prosper and the upright man suffer? WHY DO THE WICKED PROSPER?

Psa 73:12-14, BEHOLD, THESE ARE THE UNGODLY, WHO ARE ALWAYS AT EASE; THEY INCREASE IN RICHES. SURELY I HAVE CLEANSED MY HEART IN VAIN, AND WASHED MY HANDS IN INNOCENCE. FOR ALL DAY LONG I HAVE BEEN PLAGUED, AND CHASTENED EVERY MORNING.

It may seem that the wicked are enjoying life,  BUT REMEMBER, FOR THEM THIS IS THE CLOSEST THEY WILL EVER GET TO HEAVEN! AND FOR THE GODLY MAN THIS IS THE CLOSEST THEY WILL EVER GET TO HELL!

Job 12:7, 9, “But now ASK THE BEASTS, and they will teach you; And THE BIRDS OF THE AIR, and they will tell you; … WHO AMONG ALL THESE DOES NOT KNOW THAT THE HAND OF THE LORD HAS DONE THIS!

If it weren’t for Chapters 1 and 2 of Job, we would also believe that this is from the LORD! GOD ALLOWED IT TO HAPPEN!

Job 12:23, HE MAKES NATIONS GREAT, AND DESTROYS THEM; HE ENLARGES NATIONS, AND GUIDES THEM. 

ONLY THE LORD CAN MAKE A NATION GREAT

Job 12:24-25, HE TAKES AWAY THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE CHIEFS OF THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH, AND MAKES THEM WANDER IN A PATHLESS WILDERNESS. THEY GROPE IN THE DARK WITHOUT LIGHT, AND HE MAKES THEM STAGGER LIKE A DRUNKEN MAN.

I SEE OUR COUNTRY IN THESE SCRIPTURES! HE HAS TAKEN THE UNDERSTANDING OF OUR LEADERS, AND THE PEOPLE AND APPARENTLY FLUSHED THEM DOWN THE TOILET!

Luk 21:28, Now when these things begin to happen, LOOK UP AND LIFT UP YOUR HEADS, BECAUSE YOUR REDEMPTION DRAWS NEAR.

LOOK UP, HE IS COMING! HE IS AT THE DOOR BE READY!

Job 11, the wrath to come

Job 11:1-4, Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said: “Should not the MULTITUDE OF WORDS BE ANSWERED? And should a man FULL OF TALK BE VINDICATED? SHOULD YOUR EMPTY TALK MAKE MEN HOLD THEIR PEACE? And WHEN YOU MOCK, SHOULD NO ONE REBUKE YOU? For you have said, ‘My doctrine is pure, And I am clean in your eyes.’

Yet another, so called friend, who attacked Job and called his words empty talk, words without understanding! THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE TODAY WHO ARE COMPLETELY BLINDED BY THEIR OWN WISDOM, AND UNDERSTANDING THAT THEY CAN’T SEE THE TRUTH IN SCRIPTURE! THEY ARE HOLLOW WORDS FOR THE, SO CALLED WOKE, PEOPLE OF TODAY!

Joh 12:40, “HE HAS BLINDED THEIR EYES AND HARDENED THEIR HEARTS, LEST THEY SHOULD SEE WITH THEIR EYES, LEST THEY SHOULD UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEARTS AND TURN, SO THAT I SHOULD HEAL THEM.” 

Job 11:6, …KNOW THEREFORE THAT GOD EXACTS FROM YOU LESS THAN YOUR INIQUITY DESERVES.

Job’s friends came to him to comfort him (Job 2:11), yet they are now in full attack? Yes, it’s true that the LORD doesn’t deal with us as our sins deserve, yet this doesn’t apply to Job!

Job 16:2, “I have heard many such things; MISERABLE COMFORTERS ARE YOU ALL! 

Job 11:11, 20, FOR HE KNOWS DECEITFUL MEN; HE SEES WICKEDNESS ALSO. Will He not then consider it? … BUT THE EYES OF THE WICKED WILL FAIL, AND THEY SHALL NOT ESCAPE, AND THEIR HOPE—LOSS OF LIFE!” 

Again, implying Job is a deceitful person who believed that GOD would not see his sin!

THIS WORLD IS PERISHING AND THE ONLY HOPE OF THE WICKED WILL BE TO DIE! THE FATHER HAS MADE A WAY OF ESCAPING THE WRATH TO COME! ONLY BY HIS SON JESUS! Heb 2:3, HOW SHALL WE ESCAPE IF WE NEGLECT SO GREAT A SALVATION, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him,

Job 10, Judging ourselves!

Job 10:2, I WILL SAY TO GOD, ‘DO NOT CONDEMN ME; SHOW ME WHY YOU CONTEND WITH ME.

WHY? Why is this happening to me? What have I done to deserve this? THIS IS ALWAYS GOOD TO DO! RATHER THAN BLAMING OTHERS FOR OUR SITUATION, TAKE A LOOK INSIDE AND JUDGE YOURSELF, AND CHANGE THAT WHAT NEEDS TO BE CHANGED! I WOULD RATHER JUDGE MYSELF THAN BE CONDEMNED WITH THE WORLD BY THE LORD!

1Cor 11:31-32, FOR IF WE WOULD JUDGE OURSELVES, WE WOULD NOT BE JUDGED. BUT WHEN WE ARE JUDGED, WE ARE CHASTENED BY THE LORD, THAT WE MAY NOT BE CONDEMNED WITH THE WORLD.

Job 10:3-4, Does it seem good to You that You should oppress, THAT YOU SHOULD DESPISE THE WORK OF YOUR HANDS, And smile on the counsel of the wicked? DO YOU HAVE EYES OF FLESH? OR DO YOU SEE AS MAN SEES?

Again, Job blames GOD, because he doesn’t know that it is satan who is causing all of this!

The eyes of the LORD are not limited like ours!

Pro 15:3, THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE IN EVERY PLACE, KEEPING WATCH ON THE EVIL AND THE GOOD. 

Job 10:20-21, Are not my days few? CEASE! LEAVE ME ALONE, that I may take a little comfort, BEFORE I GO TO THE PLACE FROM WHICH I SHALL NOT RETURN, TO THE LAND OF DARKNESS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH

Psa 39:13, Remove Your gaze from me, that I may regain strength, Before I go away and am no more.”

King David felt the same thing as Job, please leave me alone that I may die in peace! Complete desperation of Job, wanting to die!  BUT, HIS UNDERSTANDING IS WRONG IN LIGHT OF THE SCRIPTURES! FOR THE BELIEVER, DEATH HAS BEEN ABOLISHED BY THE LORD JESUS! LIFE DOESN’T END WHEN WE DIE HERE ON EARTH! IT’S JUST THE START!

2Ti 1:10, BUT HAS NOW BEEN REVEALED BY THE APPEARING OF OUR SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, WHO HAS ABOLISHED DEATH AND BROUGHT LIFE AND IMMORTALITY TO LIGHT THROUGH THE GOSPEL, 

Job 9, How do you answer GOD?

Job 9:1-2, Then Job answered and said: “TRULY I KNOW IT IS SO, BUT HOW CAN A MAN BE RIGHTEOUS BEFORE GOD?

Truly being righteous before GOD is impossible for man to ever achieve!

Psa 143:2 NLT, DON’T PUT YOUR SERVANT ON TRIAL, FOR NO ONE IS INNOCENT BEFORE YOU. 

Heb 10:14, FOR BY ONE OFFERING HE HAS PERFECTED FOREVER THOSE WHO ARE BEING SANCTIFIED. 

ONLY THROUGH FAITH IN OUR LORD JESUS DOES ONE FINDS RIGHTEOUSNESS BEFORE GOD! NOT OURS BUT HIS!

Job 9:7-8, HE COMMANDS THE SUN, AND IT DOES NOT RISE; HE SEALS OFF THE STARS; HE ALONE SPREADS OUT THE HEAVENS, AND TREADS ON THE WAVES OF THE SEA;

JOB KNOWS THE MIGHTY POWER OF GOD; FOR ONLY GOD CAN WALK ON WATER!

Joh 6:19, So when they had rowed about three or four miles, THEY SAW JESUS WALKING ON THE SEA AND DRAWING NEAR THE BOAT; and they were afraid. 

Job 9:20,32, THOUGH I WERE RIGHTEOUS, MY OWN MOUTH WOULD CONDEMN ME; THOUGH I WERE BLAMELESS, IT WOULD PROVE ME PERVERSE…. “FOR HE IS NOT A MAN, AS I AM, THAT I MAY ANSWER HIM, AND THAT WE SHOULD GO TO COURT TOGETHER.

Job wants his day in court before GOD, but how do you answer GOD; how does one prove himself innocent before GOD? ALL WE CAN DO IS STAND IN HIS PRESENCE WEARING OUR FILTHY, SIN STAINED, CLOTHING! (Zec 3:3)

Job 9:33, NOR IS THERE ANY MEDIATOR BETWEEN US, WHO MAY LAY HIS HAND ON US BOTH.

Job is wrong here! For we do have a mediator between GOD and man, and HIS NAME IS JESUS, THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD! PUT YOUR TRUST IN HIM FOR HE COVERED OUR SIN WITH HIS BLOOD! THANK YOU LORD!

1Ti 2:5-6, FOR THERE IS ONE GOD AND ONE MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND MEN, THE MAN CHRIST JESUS, WHO GAVE HIMSELF A RANSOM FOR ALL…

Job 8, the Father of all comfort!

Job 8:1,3-4, Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: … DOES GOD SUBVERT JUDGMENT? OR DOES THE ALMIGHTY PERVERT JUSTICE? IF YOUR SONS HAVE SINNED AGAINST HIM, HE HAS CAST THEM AWAY FOR THEIR TRANSGRESSION.

Bildad said, “YOUR PUNISHMENT SHOWS THAT YOUR GUILTY AND YOUR KIDS GOT WHAT THEY DESERVED!”.  BILDAD, NEVER CONSIDERED HIS PAIN, NOR HIS SUFFERING!

Job 8:5-6, IF YOU WOULD EARNESTLY SEEK GOD AND MAKE YOUR SUPPLICATION TO THE ALMIGHTY, IF YOU WERE PURE AND UPRIGHT, SURELY NOW HE WOULD AWAKE FOR YOU, And prosper your rightful dwelling place.

Isa 3:10, “SAY TO THE RIGHTEOUS THAT IT SHALL BE WELL WITH THEM, FOR THEY SHALL EAT THE FRUIT OF THEIR DOINGS. 

Job, IF you were pure, live with integrity, and seek HIS face then HE would delivery you! YET, God doesn’t help you? YOU REAP WHAT YOU HAVE SOWN JOB!

Job 8:15, HE LEANS ON HIS HOUSE, BUT IT DOES NOT STAND. HE HOLDS IT FAST, BUT IT DOES NOT ENDURE. 

Job, you didn’t build your home, on the ROCK, that’s why it came crashing down!

Mat 7:24-25, “Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I WILL LIKEN HIM TO A WISE MAN WHO BUILT HIS HOUSE ON THE ROCK: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; AND IT DID NOT FALL, FOR IT WAS FOUNDED ON THE ROCK.

While truth may be found in Bildad’s words, HE LACKED COMPASSION, HE LACKED MERCY, BUT WHAT HE TRULY LACKED WAS KNOWING GOD!

2Cor 1:3-4, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, THE FATHER OF MERCIES AND GOD OF ALL COMFORT, WHO COMFORTS US IN ALL OUR TRIBULATION, THAT WE MAY BE ABLE TO COMFORT THOSE WHO ARE IN ANY TROUBLE, WITH THE COMFORT WITH WHICH WE OURSELVES ARE COMFORTED BY GOD.

Job 7, What have i done, why don’t you pardon me?

Job 7:5-6 NLT, MY BODY IS COVERED WITH MAGGOTS AND SCABS. MY SKIN BREAKS OPEN, OOZING WITH PUS. “MY DAYS FLY FASTER THAN A WEAVER’S SHUTTLE. THEY END WITHOUT HOPE.

For Job this is hell; FOR IN HELL THERE IS NO HOPE, ‘THEIR WORM DOES NOT DIE AND THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED (Mark 9:48)

Isa 38:18, For SHEOL cannot thank You, Death cannot praise You; THOSE WHO GO DOWN TO THE PIT CANNOT HOPE FOR YOUR TRUTH. 

Job 7:13-15, When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, My couch will ease my complaint,’ Then YOU SCARE ME WITH DREAMS AND TERRIFY ME WITH VISIONS, So that my soul chooses strangling And death rather than my body.

For Job there is no rest during the day or even in his sleep, and he attributes all this pain to GOD?  His hope now is to die! WHAT JOB AND HIS, SO CALLED, FRIENDS DON’T KNOW IS THIS IS FROM SATAN HIMSELF! TRYING, WITH ALL HIS MIGHT, TO PROVE GOD WRONG!

1Pe 5:8, BE SOBER, BE VIGILANT; BECAUSE YOUR ADVERSARY THE DEVIL WALKS ABOUT LIKE A ROARING LION, SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR. 

Job 7:20, HAVE I SINNED? WHAT HAVE I DONE TO YOU, O WATCHER OF MEN? WHY HAVE YOU SET ME AS YOUR TARGET, SO THAT I AM A BURDEN TO MYSELF? WHY THEN DO YOU NOT PARDON MY TRANSGRESSION, AND TAKE AWAY MY INIQUITY?

JOB KNOWS GOD, HE IS MERCIFUL, PATIENT, LONGSUFFERING, AND READY TO FORGIVE, YET JOB SAYS “WHAT HAVE I DONE THAT YOU DON’T PARDON ME?”

Psa 130:3-4, IF YOU, LORD, SHOULD MARK INIQUITIES, O LORD, WHO COULD STAND? BUT THERE IS FORGIVENESS WITH YOU…

WE ALL HAVE SINNED AGAINST GOD, NOT ONE OF US IS GOOD, YET HIS LOVE FOR US IS GREATER THAN OUR SINS TOWARDS HIM!

Isa 1:18, “Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the LORD, “THOUGH YOUR SINS ARE LIKE SCARLET, THEY SHALL BE AS WHITE AS SNOW; THOUGH THEY ARE RED LIKE CRIMSON, THEY SHALL BE AS WOOL.