Beloved, in continuance of our theme, “The Allegory in the Book of Job” – To offset the spirit of worship, Satan caused the world to be filled with sin and violence. After Adam sinned in the Garden of Eden, man’s fate was sure to be that none would ever be good, no not one! The human family was in “the image” of God’s tribulation (remember I told you that the word “allegory” means the description of one thing under the image of another) – the human family was full of “wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores” – “the whole head [was] sick, the whole heart [was] faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there [was] no soundness in it” (Isaiah 1:5-6).
Precious Ones, the “allegory” of the three friends of “Job” are the Conscience (Eliphaz), the Law (Bildad), and the Prophets (Zophar). Just as these three men’s council was unprofitable to help Job out of his condition, even so the Conscience, the Law, and the Old Testament Prophets were unable to deliver man from his miserable, loathsome state.
Chosen Ones, today only the blood that Jesus shed on Calvary has the power in and of itself to atone for all of our depraved Consciences and cleanse us from the disobediences of God’s Laws and even the words of God’s Prophets. Paul explains, “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself [no one made him do it!] without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works [or the Old Testaments Laws] to serve the living God [as the Old Testaments Prophets did]?” (Hebrews 9:1)
I will write more on this subject next week. Until then, know this…
I love you all so very much.
In His Love,
Pastor William L. McCoy
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