GUIDEBOOK | [18] | Job

My favorite number is 18..so I love that Job lands at 18 because it also happens to be one of my favorite books in the Bible. I used to think Job was about suffering.. God’s answer for why bad things happen to good people. But the more I studied it, the more I realized that is not really what Job is answering.

Job’s three friends preach the explanation most people still default to today: if you are suffering, you must have done something to deserve it. God blesses the righteous. God punishes the wicked. It is religious. It is logical. And it is essentially the same cosmic karma I used to believe in before I ever opened a Bible. However, in Job 42:7, God Himself declares that Job’s friends were wrong about every neat, religious explanation for suffering they suggested.

Job is not suffering for sin. He is suffering because there is a heavenly realm operating behind the visible one..a courtroom, an accuser, a permission granted (Job 1-2). None of which Job ever sees. None of which his friends consider.

In what may be the oldest book of Scripture, Job speaks one of the earliest Messianic lines in the Bible: “I know that my Redeemer lives.” (Job 19:25). What he could not yet see is that this Redeemer would one day come as God Himself..to end suffering by entering it ❤️

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