Job is a type of Christ. Without getting into too much theological jargon, this simply means that Job foreshadows Jesus and in the story of his life, points to the coming Messiah. One of the things I find most interesting is the fact that God appears intent on demonstrating His power to keep Job faithful to Himself, regardless of what it might cost Job to prove this point to Satan. Remember, the point of creation and more importantly human beings is to glorify God and enjoy Him. Job shows this glory to God in God keeping him faithful in spite of the fact he loses everything. Reading through chapter 19 today we can hear the brokenness in Job and see how much he has lost and the pain he is experiencing.
Read through the first 20 verses again of chapter 19, but this time put the cross of Christ in view rather than Job. Do you see it? Do you hear the suffering servant, the righteous King who gave it all? Job was a sinner. Bildad and his friends assert this much and as a sinner must have done some serious wrong to experience this kind of wrath from God. Job assert he has done no wrong, but he also knows he needs a redeemer to stand before God to plead the case. Jesus, well He never did anything wrong but he experienced everything Job describes in chapter 19. Why? Well because he loves us and wants to reconcile us, broken sinful rebellious people, back to the righteous Judge. Job is pointing to Jesus, see if as you read more in the next week, you can her the echo of a suffering Savior and living Redeemer of mankind.
Read through the first 20 verses again of chapter 19, but this time put the cross of Christ in view rather than Job. Do you see it? Do you hear the suffering servant, the righteous King who gave it all? Job was a sinner. Bildad and his friends assert this much and as a sinner must have done some serious wrong to experience this kind of wrath from God. Job assert he has done no wrong, but he also knows he needs a redeemer to stand before God to plead the case. Jesus, well He never did anything wrong but he experienced everything Job describes in chapter 19. Why? Well because he loves us and wants to reconcile us, broken sinful rebellious people, back to the righteous Judge. Job is pointing to Jesus, see if as you read more in the next week, you can her the echo of a suffering Savior and living Redeemer of mankind.
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