HOPE AND LIFE THROUGH THE WORD-3

The man of God-Job did not understand the revelation, the Lord gave him thoroughly. I know what you are thinking now! Chidi, how did you know and what do you mean by that?
Job believed, that this was true for a tree, but not for a man. He got this word in his spirit, but did not understand it in his mind. Is that possible-yes it is!
We are told that the Old Testament prophets, or Holy men of God, spoke as they were moved by the Spirit, meaning that sometimes they did not understand what they spake.However for us to understand this better, let us go back to the scriptures. In Job chapter14 and verses 10, 11, 12, and some others down, you see him express his ignorance, that God will actually resurrect and can resurrect a dead man. Equally in verses 16 and 17 he seems to believe that God was looking out for his sins was packaging them, so that he will punish him. These we know are not true. In verse 19, he says that God destroys the hopes of man, which is not true! Let us look at the scriptures: Job chapter 14, verses 10-12
“But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep”.
These scriptures strongly suggest that Job did not believe or know that God could raise up a dead man out of the grave. It is possible that he felt it was possible, but was not sure. I say this because he also got a revelation that I know we sing as a song today, strongly suggesting that he knew that a day of change was coming when his dead worm eaten body will be glorified as he beholds the king of glory.
Therefore in the 19th chapter of Job and beginning from verse 25, Job addresses his previous ignorance, when he talks about the rapture of the saints, and hope in his present condition, let us read and compare: Job 19, verses 25 -27:
“For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at a latter day upon the earth:
And though after my skin, worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
Whom I shall see for myself and my eyes shall behold, and not another: though my reins be consumed within me”
The only time that Job would see his redeemer in his flesh on the earth, and with his previously destroyed body now made new, is on that day of the rapture. This tells us that Job has now realized that there is hope after all for a dead man.
Many times when we are faced with difficulties and problems, we behave like Job in chapter 14 of Job. We allow our troubles to block our vision and our revelation.
We see our problems big and magnify our doubts. Even as Job talked about his doubts concerning hope for a dead man, he expressed a little ray of hope when he said in verses 14 and 15of chapter 14, of Job:
“If a man dies, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come.
Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou will have a desire to the work of thine hands”
This question Job asks at this point seriously tells us that he was not totally ignorant that God could raise the dead, or change a man’s rotten, sick or dead state, else he will not be talking about change. The real issue was that he could no longer convince himself at some point, that there was still a ray of hope.
Let us not forget however that Job never saw a dead man raised, because he lived long before the time of the prophet Elijah, whose miracle is the first recorded in the Bible of the dead being raised. He equally did not live in the time of Christ, so he never saw or heard about the raising of Lazarus from the dead. These things could explain why he did not understand that just as there is hope for a tree that has been cut down, there is hope for a man that has died for both of them to live again!
You and I know better, because we have not only read from the scriptures, but have read about as well as seen in video documentaries or even met one on one with the dead who have been raised. This should go a long way to magnify the power of that scripture in our lives that there is hope for a tree that has been cut down. It will surely spring up again through the scent of water.Hallelujah, and to God be the glory!There is hope for you and I.
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