Job

Job Chapter 3

Job Laments His Birth

Job 3:1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
2 And Job spake, and said,
3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

There are probably many that feel this way when things is this life go wrong. Especially among those that have not yet found that one on one relationship with Jesus Christ. They have no hope of eternity where things will be 100 percent better and there is no suffering, pain, sorrow, fear, hardship or death.

Jesus left Heaven to be born as a baby through a woman chosen of God to carry the child and care for Him until He started His ministry on the earth. God the Son became human, became one of us. He went His whole life until the age of about 33 without breaking the law of God in any point. When He was put to death by wicked men who hated Him for preaching the truth, He died without having done any sin. Sin came on all humans after Adam sinned against God at the beginning. Jesus became the second Adam in a figure. When He was killed or crucified after committing no sin, He could literally reverse that curse that came upon human flesh. After 3 days Jesus rose from the dead ushering in the way of salvation for all who would just simply believe and receive the sacrifice that was paid on our behalf.

Job may have known this was coming by prophetic words of those from the past. It is said that the book of Job was one of the first books of the bible but there have been other books found written by those before Moses but were not made part of the canon of scritpure. Right now he is in such misery that he curses the day he was born. Once we go through things like he suffered it is easy to temporarily forget the future time when it is finished and we have that hope of eternal life. Those in Old Testament times look forward to that day while we in modern times look back at the time when Jesus paid it all. All those that receive Jesus become children of God. We are reconciled back to God that was lost when Adam opened the door to sin.

Job 3:4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

I will say here that this is no excuse for aborting a baby. We need to leave the time of our death up to God our creator. We have no authority to take a life even our own unless it is given to us from God as in the case of legal death penalty when a person commits murder and is fairly judged to be executed. An innocent babe has not done any sin. Also in cases where one has to kill to protect his or her family from invaders or when a nation goes to war after being invaded and threatened by outside forces of evil.

Abortion became legal back in the 1970s in the United States but it was only meant to be in the first trimester of pregnancy. They were not satisfied with that but allowed partial birth abortion where a baby could survive if born alive but killed inside the womb before birth and delivered dead. It was discovered also that the baby does feel the pain when that happens. They still were not satisfied but the baby can now be born just before the time for it to be born naturally if they take the feet out first and crush the head. Now their evil has gotten so bad that they allow a baby to be born alive but left to die so that they might sell their body parts for transplants or medical experiments.

Such evil starts out small by making it seem like a woman's right to choose or some justified right. We begin to say words like what if???? A woman is raped or her life is in danger to justify it. After we make allowances for medical reasons, the door opens wider and they can be aborted just because someone does not want them. When any evil starts being legitimized the evil becomes bigger and bigger. This could continue on until we know for sure it is murder just as if someone kills a child of 2 or 3 years old. In fact I heard a couple of months ago, one woman in California saying that she believed we should be able to kill a child under 2 years old. That is how our conscience gets so seared that we begin to justify anything that we want to do.

Job is saying these things from anquish and suffering. If he was not sick, he would never contemplate cursing the day he was born.

The words of Job and also his three friends are sometimes assumed to be "Thus saith the Lord" just because it is in the bible but that is a mistake we must not make. The bible contains words of many that do not know God and even Satan. We must read the bible and study it correctly by discovering who is speaking, why and to whom are the words being spoken. I notice that many times people assume certain words are for them but when it comes to the curses it is for someone else. God makes it plain what words are meant for individuals or nations and what words are meant for all who believe or don't believe in Him.

Job 3:12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

The words of Job are partly true in that once we leave this life and our human body dies, slaves are no longer slaves, the rich are no linger rich and the poor are no longer poor. All of us are the same. This is how it is seen by a human viewpoint that has no hope of the resurrection or eternal life. Once the body dies if killed by another human, there is nothing the murderer can do to harm them any longer. All suffering ends for those that have trusted in God and believed in Him. For those that are still in their sins at death though, the suffering is just beginning. They will stand before God for what was done in the flesh.

That is why Jesus came to pay the price for the sin of human creation. He was suffering on our behalf. When we come to Jesus for salvation, our sins are forgiven, we become a new person. Job by trusting in God even before Jesus brought in the way of salvation, would be part of this just by faith and believing in God by looking forward to that day when His soul is taken from the temporary place called Abraham's bosom or Paridise and taken to Heaven at the resurrection of Jesus. Now when a believer dies, he or she goes straight to Heaven to await the resurrection of the body. That hope is for all who just believe. This of course means little children or babies below the age of accountibility. I sometimes wonder where the souls of the little babies murdered in the mother's womb are at now. I believe they are with God somewhere also awaiting the resurrection. I wonder if they know someone didn't want them. It is sin but can be forgiven because of what Jesus did.

I want to make it clear that even if somone has aborted their child or done any sin great or small, can have those sins forgiven by coming to Jesus for forgiveness and giving their lives to Him. They will enter eternity and be with God. Their sins are cast into the sea of forgetfulness. That is why God sent Jesus. To save us from sin.

At this point in time though, Job is miserable and suffering. God understands this and doesn't cut him off as we shall see. He is so sick, weak and miserable that what eternal is temporarily forgotten and he curses the day he was born.

We need to be careful with verse 25 where Job says that which he feared has come upon him. Some have taken this verse out of context and claimed that if Job would never have had any fear of bad happening to him, it wouldn't have happened. I don't know about that. This was a time of testing that was allowed by God. Job didn't know God was going to deliever him so it was natural to experience what he is going through. I've had fear and imaginations before that never have happened. Sometimes I pray until the fear is defeated and gone but we all experience fear at times. We are human. That doesn't necessarily mean that bad is going to happen just because we fear it. However we do need to learn to live by faith and not fear. Fear is tormenting. DC

Job Chapter 4