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JOB WAS A PERFECT MAN, IN AN IMPERFECT WORLD!

A New Light Dawns!

WITH ANGELS!

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The Daughters

  of Job 

 the second set of daughters, not

the first set destroyed by Satan's storm,

 have become a Masonic Tradition!

as the "Jobies"

        They, like their father Job, are very nearly

"Perfect" and Satan leaves them alone!

    Job 1:6 "Now there came a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came among them."

     7 "And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou?  Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."

     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, the Perfect Man

Survives His Test by SATAN

    Job 1:1 "There was a man in the land of Uz (a part of northern Arabia), whose name was Job: and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil."

    2 "And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. 3 "His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east."

    4 "And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and drink with them."

    5 "And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that one of my sons has sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.  Thus did Job continually."

   It's at this point that the author of Job introduces the word-picture of Satan showing up in heaven, claiming by his actions to be master of the entire earth, and God protests that the existence of Job on earth shows this is not really the case.  The Pilgrim Bible suggests  that this is really a drama or play written in poetry, and it was written to consider the problem of "Why do the righteous suffer and the wicked prosper?"  I'll note here that many of David's Psalms are obviously dealing with this same ethical and religious problem.
     9 "Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?"

   10 "Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land."

    11 "But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face."

    12 "And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand.  So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord."

    13 "And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:  14 "And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: 15 "And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only have escaped alone to tell thee."

    16 "While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them, and I only am escaped alone to tell thee."

    17 "While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camnels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee."

    18 "While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:  19 "And behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead, and I only am escaped alone to tell thee."

    Job 1:20 "Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped."

     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."

    22 "In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly."

 Job 2:1 "Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also to present himself  before the Lord."

   2 "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."

   3 "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 integrety, although thou movest me against him, to destroy him without a cause."

   4 "And Satan answered the Lord, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.  5 "But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face. 6 "And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life."

    7 "So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.  8 "And he took him a potsherd (broken pottery) to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes."

      Pictured here also is Job's wife, who was of no more help to him than his other supposed friends and advisors, who became known sarcastically as "Job's Comforters".  Her advice in verse 9 "--Dost thou still retain thine integrety? Curse God, and die."

     Now I'll not subject my viewers to the 40-chapter long religious debate or play about what this all means, and decide whether or not the question of "Why do the righteous suffer and the wicked prosper?" is any closer to being satisfactorily answered by the existence of the Book of Job, but will zoom to the end of the debate or drama, which is as follows:

     Job 42:12 "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."

     13 "He had seven sons and three daughters.  14 "And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch."

15 "And in all the land were no women found SO FAIR as the DAUGHTERS OF JOB: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren."

     16 "After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his son's sons, even four generations.  17 "So Job died, being old and full of days."

THE PILGRIM STUDY BIBLE comments about Job giving his later-life daughters an inheritance like his sons (verse 15) "This was most unusual, except in cases where there were no sons."

    I'm seeing an even more significant meaning here, and that is this -- because no marriages and grandchildren are mentioned here for these daughters, one can assume they were Prophetesses, celibate females who dedicated their lives wholly to the Lord.  Which also may be why their names are given us.  They may have been famous in their time, not thought of as "ordinary people" at all!

 

     

pThe "Daughters of Job" in Masonic Lodges

although Christian churches have not as yet "discovered" the full potential for young girls, teenagers, and their mothers inherent in taking literally the possibilities for their gender in Job 42:13-15, the Masonic Lodges have. 

 

 

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