Christian Internet Evangelism: Outreach of BIBLE TRUTH MINISTRY INC. by Evangelist Larry Wolfe

"Job, The Untouchable"


Part III

After Satan’s initial attack on Job’s health described in 2:7, Job’s reaction was one of contemplation as ‘He took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.’ But his wife said unto him: ‘Dost thou still retain thine integrity? Curse God and die. But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of the God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.’(2:8-10)

His wife, frustrated with the circumstances and the condition of her husband, became another source of temptation as she obviously gave him the wrong advice for the situation Job was experiencing. His helper had become his hindrance. Her ungodly attitude suggests the opposite of what God’s servant Job needed to hear from someone who should have been his encouraging partner during this severe affliction.

But, Job, nevertheless, went on in the midst of Satan’s assault seemingly without a friend in the world until his ‘friends’ appear on the scene. They came to sympathize with him, to comfort him and their response was mourning and weeping, tearing their clothing and sprinkling dust upon their heads when they did not recognize him due to the physical damage Job suffered. They fully realized that his affliction was dreadful! (2:11-13)

In chapter three Job opens his mouth and Cursed His Day (3:1-10). He then went on Questioning His Delivery/Birth (3:11-13) followed by Questioning His Light (3:20-23). This, his first vacillation, was thorough in that he questions his very existence and desired death instead.

But, Job gives us his heart condition and the cause for his calamity: ‘For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.’ He was in fear of what might happen, this fear was now upon him, it had taken over his thinking, fear ruled his mind and his faithless response is seen in the preceding verses when he vacillated and Cursed His Day, Questioning His Delivery/Birth, and the Light God gave him! Fear was in charge and not faith!

He abandoned his trust in God, he faltered, he fainted, he lost confidence in the LORD because his physical affliction was severe and had continued on now for at least seven days. This extended period of suffering was what Job had dreaded and it brought him down. He was at the bottom desiring death. Suicidal tendencies, thoughts of ending it all are the work of Satan’s oppressive attack on the soul of even the strongest saint of God!

God had to take him through this valley for it was the one thing that Job feared. He had to get the victory over this in order to be able to get victory over Satan and this was God’s only way to make it happen! God so used Satan through this affliction that Job ended up getting the victory over his greatest fear…extensive and severe suffering…it is significant that Job would be the first to proclaim the Coming of the Redeemer Who would suffer and die for him: ‘I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth’ (Job 19:25)

Yes, Job, the first book of the Bible to be written prophesies of the Coming of the Redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ, the One Who suffered and died for the sins of the mankind that we might have eternal life, and live and suffer for Him here on earth, that He might receive maximum glory!

Maybe you are experiencing this same type of affliction. Suffering for God’s glory is the way God refines his children. But, we must respond God’s way, rejoicing regardless through it all, for He is building and deepening our faith, supplying us with patience, for the Lord Jesus Christ tells us that through patience we possess our souls! (Luke 21:19)

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