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So many people advise me to read the book of Job. So let us do it step by step, and we will learn Job was not so perfect and innocent as he thought he was.
Job1: 1..
1There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
Now... that man was perfect and upright, and feared God and eschewed evil. Three times Job was declared quite a man. Perfect and upright! Fearing God! And rejected evil! All three times declaring that this man was a God fearing good man. Now I ask if he was perfect would he ever have reason to repent?
Well that depends on the degree of perfection we talk about, and since I believe God only has one degree of perfection: His, there is only one degree of perfection. Job had to be pretty perfect for God to call him perfect and upright as well! If God did do so.. many believe He did!
Verse.. 8 a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
Now my question is, does a perfect man like this ever have to repent from anything! I say no! Perfect is perfect, but... if the man realise he is not as perfect as he thought he was once he comes to know of the things he did not understand, then he has reason to repent, and who declared him perfect in the first place?
If is was Job, and I lived a Godfearing, evil rejecting, perfect and upright life, and all of a sudden a lot of bad things happen to me, and I hear, Satan asked God to lift this blissfulness from me so that Satan can have his way with me, would I as human be upset? And then I hear that God has faith in me not to curse Him whatever happens. And in anyway, the only ones that did die in the wind is that awful sons and daughters of mine, that does not want to listen. But I stay upright and perfect! When i heard the news i tore my clothes and worshipped, naked I came in naked I shall leave this world!
And then I hear the next conversation between God and Satan. Again God called me perfect and upright. And God said to Satan ...I stayed fast and held on to my integrety, although Satan moved God against me to destroy me without cause.
NOw as a perfect and upright man I just outshined God! God does what Satan wants of him and I do not! Oh boy! Something is terribly wrong here! God gives in to the requests of Satan! No way!!!! How can Job reject evil and God does not! Maybe Job should swop places with God, Job rejects evil and God gives in to the wishes of the father of evil! Something is wrong!
Now you can read the whole Book of Job and continue to believe that God gave into Satan's requests, demands, wishes or will. Job did, until the day the Lord actually showed Job His perfection! So perfect, that NO evil can even approach Him. So perfect that evil cannot be in His presence. And Job sees this in Job 42. What Job understood to be perfect, and upright, made him repent in dust and ashes, and abhor. Why, because he was never perfect! And why abhor? Why recall all he said? He was perfect! No he was not, that is why he abhor. And now... He asks God this and makes this statement!...
Job 42:
1Then Job answered the LORD, and said, 2I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. 3Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. 4Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. 5I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. 6Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Job says he knows God can do everything... And that no thought can be hid from God. Then Job says...Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? Which man can make up a mind like I did without knowledge? Oh Lord God... I have uttered things i do not understand... Satan telling God what to do etc... Things too wonderful for me, I thought and said things I believed was true, but I have heard these things, and i understood wrong!!! But now Lord God i have SEEN!!! with mine own eyes, I saw thee... I withdraw all of the Book of Job what i said and believed, please I will demand of thee and thee can teach me, the TRUTH! I repent, in dust and ahses, and I abhor, withdraw all things I heard and believed!
And now God has a liking in Job, and for the first time Job saw the Truth, and now he would most likely be a God fearing man, because God says... To the two friends of Job... they should go and offer and Job should pray for them and God will accept, Job's prayer lest God treat them as they deserved!
Ok let me put it to you like this... Satan cannot get to God! so that was wrong! God does not have council with Satan... That was wrong. Job was not perfect, he had to repent. That was wrong! God does not puninsh his servants, the get punished by evil for His Name sake. God only sent His Son to be punished, but He did not crucify Him, He resurrected Him! Evil killed Him, I did! Job did, and all sinners did!
Jesus is the personification of God, He did not punish any righteouss, he saved sinners, quite the opposite, and that Job realised when he saw God! And that I also realised when I saw Jesus. He did not have counsil with SAtan he rebuked him and repremanded him. He went against him in all three temptations! And Jesus will never, NEVER give in to any request of Satan. That would put them on the same side in one single opinion, and that is enough to make Jesus imperfect! God is the same, he cannot be made imperfect, least of all by SAtan to give in to his requests! He threw him down to the earth, NEVER to enter where God resides! Not even in us!!!
If God was any less than this, I would not have considered Him worthy, but He is even more worthy than i can consider Him to be!
HOLY HOLY HOLY is our God!
Amen!
Job1: 1..
1There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
Now... that man was perfect and upright, and feared God and eschewed evil. Three times Job was declared quite a man. Perfect and upright! Fearing God! And rejected evil! All three times declaring that this man was a God fearing good man. Now I ask if he was perfect would he ever have reason to repent?
Well that depends on the degree of perfection we talk about, and since I believe God only has one degree of perfection: His, there is only one degree of perfection. Job had to be pretty perfect for God to call him perfect and upright as well! If God did do so.. many believe He did!
Verse.. 8 a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
Now my question is, does a perfect man like this ever have to repent from anything! I say no! Perfect is perfect, but... if the man realise he is not as perfect as he thought he was once he comes to know of the things he did not understand, then he has reason to repent, and who declared him perfect in the first place?
If is was Job, and I lived a Godfearing, evil rejecting, perfect and upright life, and all of a sudden a lot of bad things happen to me, and I hear, Satan asked God to lift this blissfulness from me so that Satan can have his way with me, would I as human be upset? And then I hear that God has faith in me not to curse Him whatever happens. And in anyway, the only ones that did die in the wind is that awful sons and daughters of mine, that does not want to listen. But I stay upright and perfect! When i heard the news i tore my clothes and worshipped, naked I came in naked I shall leave this world!
And then I hear the next conversation between God and Satan. Again God called me perfect and upright. And God said to Satan ...I stayed fast and held on to my integrety, although Satan moved God against me to destroy me without cause.
NOw as a perfect and upright man I just outshined God! God does what Satan wants of him and I do not! Oh boy! Something is terribly wrong here! God gives in to the requests of Satan! No way!!!! How can Job reject evil and God does not! Maybe Job should swop places with God, Job rejects evil and God gives in to the wishes of the father of evil! Something is wrong!
Now you can read the whole Book of Job and continue to believe that God gave into Satan's requests, demands, wishes or will. Job did, until the day the Lord actually showed Job His perfection! So perfect, that NO evil can even approach Him. So perfect that evil cannot be in His presence. And Job sees this in Job 42. What Job understood to be perfect, and upright, made him repent in dust and ashes, and abhor. Why, because he was never perfect! And why abhor? Why recall all he said? He was perfect! No he was not, that is why he abhor. And now... He asks God this and makes this statement!...
Job 42:
1Then Job answered the LORD, and said, 2I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. 3Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. 4Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. 5I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. 6Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Job says he knows God can do everything... And that no thought can be hid from God. Then Job says...Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? Which man can make up a mind like I did without knowledge? Oh Lord God... I have uttered things i do not understand... Satan telling God what to do etc... Things too wonderful for me, I thought and said things I believed was true, but I have heard these things, and i understood wrong!!! But now Lord God i have SEEN!!! with mine own eyes, I saw thee... I withdraw all of the Book of Job what i said and believed, please I will demand of thee and thee can teach me, the TRUTH! I repent, in dust and ahses, and I abhor, withdraw all things I heard and believed!
And now God has a liking in Job, and for the first time Job saw the Truth, and now he would most likely be a God fearing man, because God says... To the two friends of Job... they should go and offer and Job should pray for them and God will accept, Job's prayer lest God treat them as they deserved!
Ok let me put it to you like this... Satan cannot get to God! so that was wrong! God does not have council with Satan... That was wrong. Job was not perfect, he had to repent. That was wrong! God does not puninsh his servants, the get punished by evil for His Name sake. God only sent His Son to be punished, but He did not crucify Him, He resurrected Him! Evil killed Him, I did! Job did, and all sinners did!
Jesus is the personification of God, He did not punish any righteouss, he saved sinners, quite the opposite, and that Job realised when he saw God! And that I also realised when I saw Jesus. He did not have counsil with SAtan he rebuked him and repremanded him. He went against him in all three temptations! And Jesus will never, NEVER give in to any request of Satan. That would put them on the same side in one single opinion, and that is enough to make Jesus imperfect! God is the same, he cannot be made imperfect, least of all by SAtan to give in to his requests! He threw him down to the earth, NEVER to enter where God resides! Not even in us!!!
If God was any less than this, I would not have considered Him worthy, but He is even more worthy than i can consider Him to be!
HOLY HOLY HOLY is our God!
Amen!