Our Latter Days

Job 42:12

12 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.

Jobs Repentance

1 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.

3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

Job declares in verse 5 “I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.”

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Chapter 38:1-11

 And now, finally, GOD answered Job from the eye of a violent storm. He said:

“Why do you confuse the issue?

Why do you talk without knowing what you’re talking about?

Pull yourself together, Job!

Up on your feet! Stand tall!

I have some questions for you,

and I want some straight answers.

Where were you when I created the earth?

Tell me, since you know so much!

Who decided on its size? Certainly you’ll know that!

Who came up with the blueprints and measurements?

How was its foundation poured,

and who set the cornerstone,

While the morning stars sang in chorus

and all the angels shouted praise?

And who took charge of the ocean

when it gushed forth like a baby from the womb?

That was me! I wrapped it in soft clouds,

and tucked it in safely at night.

Then I made a playpen for it,

a strong playpen so it couldn’t run loose,

And said, ‘Stay here, this is your place.

Your wild tantrums are confined to this place.’

In verse 6 Job confessed his unworthiness and repents of his sins. Job had claimed all along to be innocent of any deliberate sin. Now, as a consequence of his face-face meeting with the Lord, Job did what any person word do: he confessed his unworthiness and repented.

All who know God Almighty wound be humbled by Him who is holy, perfect, and eternal. Obviously, Job felt exactly as Isaiah did when Isaiah met the Lord:

Isaiah 6:5 “Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.”

2. Jobs Reconciliation

7 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 thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

 8 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 hima will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

9 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 Jobb .

10 And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gavec Job twice as much as he had before.

11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they 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.

The Lord accused Job friends of false teaching. He said, he was angry with them because they were saying things about God that were not true. Although the LORD did not specifically name the errors in each of the friend’s arguments, they erred on at least two fronts:

They falsely accused Job of sin he had not committed. this was a grave error and contradicted what the Lord Himself had declared about Job.

Job. 1:8 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil.

Job 1:21 “ And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.”

Job 2:1–3 “Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD. And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou?

And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.”

b. Second, the friends had falsely claimed that all human suffering is due only to sin and God’s judgment of sin. This was plainly wrong, and it demonstrated that they did not understand human suffering nor God’s justice and mercy.

As mere mortals, they had no way of knowing exactly how God deals with people, in particular, when they suffer. It also demonstrated their spiritual pride and exposed an attitude of arrogance.

Apparently, the three men were true believers, moral men and upstanding citizens by human standards.

But they lacked a tender spirit, they lacked compassion, sensitivity, and kindheartedness in there dealing with Job. When Job continually denied that he was not guilty of unconfessed sin, the men’s tone became harsh and unrelenting toward him.

They refused to give up in their attempts to convince him that he had to be guilty of hidden sin; otherwise, God would never have allowed him—a true believer—to suffer so severely.

These three men presumed to know a lot about God when, according to God, they actually knew very little. And they presumed to speak for the LORD when, in reality, they were merely sharing their own thoughts and ideas about God and human suffering. In short, the friends rambled on about their own notions and failed to comfort Job as they should have.

Job had not sinned as they had claimed, and sin is not the only reason that people suffer. The friends’ relentless arguments amounted to nothing more than pretentiousness—three vain men promoting their own shallow beliefs about God and the way He works with people. In the process, the friends had spoken grave errors and stood guilty of false teaching before God.

Furthermore, they were guilty of cutting the heart of a fellow believer to the core with their insistence that Job was suffering due to secret sin. They had failed and failed miserably to console and encourage their dear friend.

Jesus Christ is the exact opposite of this and He is the perfect remedy to false teaching: He is “the way, the truth, and the life” (Jn. 14:6).

Jobs friends condemned him but Christ “Christ came not to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved (Jn. 3:17)”.

In verse 8 God commended the friends to sacrifice a burnt offering.

The offering was a picture of atonement for sin, it was a picture of the atoning sacrifice made by Jesus Christ.

The friends were required to approach God through a blood sacrifice as seen in Hebrews 9:12–15

“12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:

14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.”

God appointed Job to be the intercessor for his friends: It is a picture of Christ as our intercessor.

Romans 8:34 “Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.”

God assured the three friends that He would hear Job’s prayer and accept them: Or they would have had to face God’s Judgement.

1 Timothy 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, to be testified in due time.”

3. Jobs Restoration

12 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.

Job had deliverance

Job had Decoration

Job was Determinant

Job had a givening heart Job 29:12-16

12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.