glory to GOD FOR TRUTH Amen ! I give the glory to GOD THE GlORY GOES TO MY LORD JESUS AMEN ! We have all heard of the patience of Job. But the great and important question is this: Have we seen the end that the Lord had in view in all His dealings with Job? The end that He brought about in His own perfect way? You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy (James 5:11). Of this end that God accomplished in Job it is written: And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends: for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has. Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that you have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job. So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the Lord commanded them: the Lord also accepted Job. And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold. So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. He also had seven sons and three daughters. And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch. And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren (Job 42:7-15). Jobs restored and happy state brought to him the double blessing — twice as much as he had before. He had the greatest fortune in the East and now it is that greatest doubled, coupled with itself to produce absolute plenitude. It is the greater inheritance in Christ Jesus — greater far than the glory of the first Adam in Edens fragrant Garden. The double portion is the portion of the FIRSTBORN. Our Lord Jesus Christ is the firstborn among many brethren (Rom. 8:29), the firstborn from the dead (Col. 1:18), and the beginning or Head of the New Creation Man (Rev. 3:14). His body is the Church of the Firstborn (Heb. 12:22-24), and is anointed to stand with Him on Mount Zion as a FIRSTFRUITS unto God and the Lamb (Rev. 14:1-5). The end of the Lord, the consummation of His purpose in man is a NEW BODY, a NEW FAMILY, NEW SONS and DAUGHTERS, a NEW WIFE, a NEW MINISTRY, and NEW POSSESSIONS — a NEW AND MORE EXCELLENT INHERITANCE. And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends (Job 42:10). While Jobs friends were three, there was actually a fourth — Elihu. Elihus speech fills chapters thirty-two through thirty-seven. Elihu has a far juster and more spiritual conception of the problem than Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar because he has an infinitely higher conception of God. God does not class him with Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar; but he is still a dogmatist, and his eloquent discourse is marred by self-assertiveness (soulishness). Yahwehs judgment of Elihu is that he darkened counsel by words (Job 38:2), the very charge that Elihu had brought against Job (Job 34:35; 35:16). Even Elihus lofty discourse abounds with accusations against Job. Therefore, Jobs antagonists are four in number. This is most meaningful. When ancient man went outside of his home and looked about him, he had no conception of the modern world as we know it. No Copernicus had ever opened his eyes to the vast significance of the universe. To him the world was a great flat surface with four boundaries, east and west and north and south. There were four winds from the four sides of the earth. Thus, when he thought of the world he thought in terms of four. Four became the cosmic number. The world in which men lived and worked and died, was conveniently symbolized by four. There were four corners of the earth; four elements of earth, air, fire and water; four seasons, and four phases of the moon; the great World Powers as revealed to the prophet Daniel were four in number: Babylon, Media-Persia, Greece and Rome. Four is the number of all that is worldly, world-wide, or universal. Jobs four antagonists represent all the intellect and wisdom of this world. All of mans philosophy, psychology, learning, lecturing and judgment is but the wisdom of the carnal mind. God is raising up a people in this hour that literally and totally rejects the wisdom of this world, for it is foolishness with God. The foolishness of God is greater than the wisdom of man, says the Lord. But Job prayed for his friends. God is raising up a people who are kings and priests after the order of Melchizedek — redeemers, reconcilers, restorers. That is their heart and that is their nature. Jesus prayed for those who crucified Him, Father forgive them, for they know not what they do. Just as Job prayed for his antagonists, and Jesus prayed for His murderers, so the sons of God shall pour forth grace and mercy and salvation unto all the ends of the earth.
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