Job – On the Ash Heap Pt.2
ROMANS 8:28-31
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. (Do we really know that?)
29 ¶ For whom he did foreknow (Paul is speaking of our eternal representation from the foreknowledge of God), he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son (Your life is predestinated by God to be conformed into the image of the word), that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called (we have heard a voice that has called us in this hour): and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
(Notice - the “you” that was, and the “you” that is now, and the “you” that will be in the world to come)
31 ¶ What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
*So from your existence in the thinking of God at the beginning, and all the way through this life to your glorification - there is nothing that can be against you concerning the plan of God for your life.
All the mistakes and the bad experiences of your life God has allowed for those things to happen in order to make them work for your good.
JOB 1:1
1 ¶ There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
The book of Job introduces Job as a perfect man; this doesn’t mean that he never made mistakes, but that he had come into a completeness of a character and revelation that pleased God.
*The challenge of Satan to God was that Job would curse God to his FACE, and the face is when the identity of the person is fully unveiled – and we have also seen the full unveiling of God in this hour.
*And so God knew that when a man comes into a personal revelation of God at a level of a face to face unveiling of God, then that man becomes invincible because Satan cannot defeat a man with that level of revelation in his heart, and that is why it is impossible for this end time bride to fail.
*So the book of Job is showing us a mystery of the end time bride of this hour just before the resurrection, and that is why the new birth in this hour is the revelation of Jesus Christ to you personally at the level of what God has unveiled Himself to us in this age.
**So that is why our object is not to point people to look for a sensation as the evidence of the Holy Ghost in their lives (that was what the last Pentecostal age did, and we all know how that failed), but we are to look for the evidence of the revelation of the word in our hearts of the mighty God unveiled to us in this hour.
That is why Satan doesn’t fight sensations, but he fights the revelation of the word of this hour taking up residence in the hearts of the people because there is no more prevailing power than when the word for your age is made clear to you and becomes anchored in your soul.
Our Bridegroom is the word – so we are to become united with the full word in marriage.
Ezra and Nehemiah in the Old Testament is the Jews coming back to their homeland after the seven decades of captivity which is a type of the end of the seven church ages of the Jews coming back to their homeland under the 5th and 6th trumpets of Revelation 9.
Revelation 8 is the first four trumpets and does not include the 5th trumpet.
**So when we look closely at the book of Job we notice that there are three stages (or phases) of Job’s suffering.
The first two stages of Job’s suffering were caused by the devil and required God’s permission.
First Satan took away all of Job’s material possessions including his 10 children. Then after that Satan obtains further permission from God and takes away Job’s health.
But then in the third phase of Job’s suffering, we notice that it is not Satan inflicting the suffering on Job, but his suffering is coming through the channel of his closest friends by their rejection because of how they are misunderstanding his life in the way that God has been dealing with him, and notice that in contrast to Satan there is nothing said about Job’s friends requiring permission from God to cause this suffering on Job – God allowed it because of the free moral agency of man.
**And so it is in this third stage of Job’s suffering (by him being misunderstood and rejected by his friends and family and community) is where much of the book of Job is spent, because this is one of the hardest trials for a human being to endure, yet this was the test that God placed in Job’s life just before the revelation of the resurrection was opened to him.
*We see the same thing with Joseph with the rejection of his family placed before his resurrection from the prison house to Pharos house.
*We also see that before Christ rose on the third day that He was first rejected by the ones of his own household.
*Brother Branham was rejected by the denominations of the people of his closest associates before the revelation of the rising of the SON was revealed to him.
*And so this is very important for all of us to know that it can’t be any different in that God has to write that experience in our own lives also, and when you know this and you are going through those experiences in your life, then you will be able to understand how God is dealing with you in the current event of Him writing the same mystery of the same story in your own life.
*That is why your life has already been written in the word, but you just need to find where it is written – and when you find where it is written, then it will give you faith to know your position in the word.
***So our trials are predestinated to us by God in order to set our character in the right channel for the category of the life that we will go to after this life is over. We are being influence and we are reflecting here what we will be there.
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111-37 …You cannot be here a spiritual being, sinner or saint, without having an influence from the underworld or from the above world. If you're influenced from here, you're from above. Your celestial body is waiting up here. But if you're wicked, and hypocritical, and indifferent, your celestial body is down here, regardless of how much you think it's up there; because the fruit that you bear before people proves where you're from. So you are here what you are somewhere else. Your life that you live here is just reflecting what your inheritance is when you leave here. Do you understand?
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But knowing that this life has only been a--a shadow of what we had to--to come. It's a reflection, because it can not be the perfect thing that God made. God doesn't make anything that perishes. See? God is Eternal. And, therefore, this life that we now live in, is only reflecting what is ahead of us. The real one that cannot die. The body that cannot perish. The Life that cannot be taken. See?
**So all of the trials and testings that you will ever go through in your life is pre-known and precisely designed by God for the purpose so that you will come to know Him as your Saviour and Redeemer and Healer and Provider, and all of these great expressions of who God is in his great character.
***This is why your trials in this life are far more precious than having riches in this life, because the trials in this life is what is preparing you for your eternal habitation like how the prison house prepared Joseph for Pharos house.
ROMANS 8:16-18
16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
17 ¶ And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
***And so when we look into this book of Job, we can see how it is dealing with the mystery of the three stages of our pre-existence, and earthly journey, and eternal destination. And when we see that picture of our journey from the mind of God, to this life, and then to our future eternal home, then this brings into perspective the purpose of this temporal period of our lives on earth.
JOB 1:1 (opening scripture)
1 ¶ There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
**So from last week we saw how that in this very first verse of the first chapter of Job, the bible is introducing Job to us at a stage of his life of when Job had already become a mature man in his character – a perfect man, a man that had come to a level of completeness of a character that pleased God.
*We notice that nothing is mentioned of all the previous troubles and trials and all the mistakes and failures of Job’s previous life up to this point that God had allowed in order to mould his character into this level of maturity – but we can be certain that Job was not born with this mature character, because character is not a gift, character is a victory.
**So right here at the beginning of the book of Job we see that so much is omitted of what Job has already been through in his life that has brought him to this place of maturity and revelation.
*It is also important to know that God will monitor your level of trials in life so that they will not go beyond what you are able to bare.
I CORINTHIANS 10:13
13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able (Sometimes you think the trial that God has allowed in your life is so great that it will destroy you, but you must trust that God is in full control, and that He has not design the trial to destroy you but to advance you in your character); but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
God knows what is required in your life to bring you to a maturity of character.
JOB 1:1-5
1 ¶ There was a man in the land of Uz, 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.
*Job was experiencing a time of great prosperity in his life, and many times when people come into prosperity and wealth, they can begin to lean upon their wealth for all their needs and wants to a point that they can begin to lose their need to trust in God for the things of life, but we notice how that this was not Job’s condition with the level of maturity that his character had come to – so the book of Job is showing us what a perfect man looks like of a character that pleased God and that doesn’t forget about God in times of plenty.
*This is why the grace of God has to sometimes keep us on the poorer side in this life so that it will keep us looking towards the Lord for our help, because God knows that there would be some of us who would backslide in our relationship with Him if we became too well off - and He loves us too much to let that happen.
4 ¶ And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day (on their birthdays); and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
Look at the brotherly fellowship among the siblings of this family – every member was in fellowship with one another under this prophetic ministry and revelation of their father – like an age of brotherly love.
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 my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
**So the book of Job begins with showing us how that Job applied the token of the blood to his family of a slain lamb by a burnt offering to God, this is showing us a mystery of how that Job had the revelation of the Token message of what we have also been given in this day by a prophet of God – so right here we see that this revelation brings the book of Job right up into this end time now.
**And notice that all of his children that were taken from him in this life were all waiting for him on the other side; not one of them was lost – so this is the privilege of what we have been also given in this day of the token of the blood of the revealed word of this hour so that we can know for sure that not one of our children will be lost also.
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E-48 Notice. Oh, this really sounds good to me. When Job got in the Spirit, and the lightnings begin to flash, and God restored to him... If he'd had five thousand sheep, God give him back ten thousand sheep. If he had twenty-thousand goats, He give him back forty-thousand goats. And if he had ten thousand camels, He give him back twenty-thousand camels. But now notice, here's a beautiful picture, and God restored these seven children back to Job. Never give him twice as many; He just give him the same amount, his seven sons and daughters, I think it was, restored his seven sons and daughters back to him. Never doubled them, never give him some more, but he restored them to him.
Did you ever think about where they was at? They was in glory, waiting for him. You see it? Because he was a father who believed in God, and offered the prayer and so forth, and upon the basis of the shed blood, and God had saved them. They'd been saved, because they had a faithful father, and was waiting for him across the shadows, over yonder.
*Notice how that when God took little Sharon Rose Branham away from Brother Branham, God showed him that she was on the other side waiting for him.
King David also had this same revelation.
II SAMUEL 12:19-23
19 But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.
20 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.
21 Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.
22 And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
23 But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
**This is the day when all of these mysteries have been made know to us by the opening of the seven seals.
**The book of Job has 42 chapters which is 6 x 7 = 42.
Six is the number of man’s six thousand years of suffering on earth since sin and death entered into the world in Eden.
*Brother Branham’s life also showed this revelation because for 6 lots of seven years he suffered with an acidic stomach condition of which he explains about in the message “On the Wings of a Snow White Dove” (28th of November 1965). And now at the end of his life’s journey on earth, God had healed him after 6 cycles of suffering, and then within one month his earthly journey was over, and he went into that theophany body that he had visited once before in 1960 when God took him beyond the curtain of time.
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225 Why, me an old man, suffered all my life, why did He heal me now? I believe I'll ride this trail again, I got to bring a Message! And I say to my Father, tonight, (as Junior seen in a--a dream the other night of the wings of this Dove, moving in these windows here), Lord, Your servant's reporting for service. Amen, I'm ready!
***In all of Job’s trials of life up to this time of Job chapter 1, Job didn’t understand the three stages of his pre-existence, then his earthly journey, and then his Eternal destination – this was the revelation that he was lacking because Job was born with spiritual amnesia, and so he couldn’t remember where he was before he came to earth, nor did he know the future of where he was going to after this life was over.
**And so we were all born with spiritual amnesia, but in this last age between the 6th and 7th trumpet, we have been promised that we would come to an understanding of our pre-existence, earthly journey and our Eternal destination back to Father’s house again, because this was the revelation that Job received after the book of Esther of a woman being married to a King.
**And so all of our experiences that we go through in this age under this prophetic eagle anointing are all planned by God so that we would come to know who we are in the same why that God knows who we are – to understand the plan of God from our pre-existence in the mind of God, to our earthly journey on earth, and then to our eternal home.
***This is the age that God wants you to know yourself as God knows you as being a part of His eternal thoughts expressed in this day.
**And this is what the opening of the Book is to do for us in this hour, it is revealing to you your heredity all the way back into the mind of God, showing you that you are of a divine heredity – and that if you have a divine heredity then you have a divine destination in eternity.
**We are living in the hour when the rapture event has already commenced and has begun to unfold itself in the cycle of the shout, voice and trump, and as a people on earth we have already been caught up in the process of the rapture cycle in real time of the reality of that cycle as it has progressed over these last 60 years – and so the commencement of that cycle shows us that there is a people that are coming into a revelation of what Job came into of the resurrection.
**From the sounding of the message, to the voice being in the bride, to the trump of God when the dead in Christ shall rise first – this is the process that we are privileged to be a part of in this day.
**Esther’s journey was from hearing the voice of Mordecai (she was raised under the leadership of his voice - a type of the shout of the message of this hour), all the way to her marriage to the king and then on to the resurrection of her people. Her story begins with the voice of Mordecai and ends with the resurrection of her people.
*So as God designed Esther for that hour and for that role, it shows us that God designs a people for an hour, and he has those people live out that portion of the word for that hour.
*God has a specific plan for a specific people of a specific age, and so he has to guide those people from their birth and train them in life for that purpose to carry out that plan of what they are called to achieve for that age.
**Look at Brother Branham’s life of how God lead him and trained him from a little child for the job that he was call for in life.
We have our children trained in different fields of expertise as younger people so that they can achieve things later on in life and fulfil their life’s purpose – and so that is what God does, but the way God trains us is so often different to how we would think that he would train us, that we think it is just us having a bad life because we cannot see that greater purpose of what God can see.
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E-24 Everybody wanted to find God down through the age. Job of old, he said, "Oh, if I only knew where He was." In his trouble setting there on the ash heap scraping his boils... God dealing with a saint in this case... There he was setting there scraping his boils. Some of his church friends come to him, set with their backs turned to him, not much consolation. But Job wanted to know, "Oh, if I only knew where His house was. (In other words.) If I'd go knock on His door, He'd come out and talk to me." That's what he wanted to do.
But notice, when a man is hungering and thirsting for God, God will draw nigh to the man always. See? Give up, surrender your will to God.
Then when his church members came and could not console him, accused him to being a secret sinner, said he'd sinned before God... Job knew he had not sinned, and he knew he was all right. But then God sent a young man down by the name of Elihu, come down to meet Job, perfect type of Christ again. He didn't accuse Job of being a secret sinner. He tried to tell him of Someone Who would come and stand in the breach in the last days, to put his hands upon a sinful man and upon a holy God and bridge the way.
E-25 Job, being a prophet, caught the vision. He stood up. Lightnings begin to flash; thunders begin to roar. The prophet had come in contact with his Father, God. He turned and said, "I know my Redeemer liveth. At the last days, He'll stand upon the earth. Though the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God, Whom I shall see for myself. My eyes shall behold, and not another."
**God had to make Job know himself as he was foreknown, and when we come to know that also, then it empowers us to go through this life with a knowledge that this life is only a preparation for the true life that is to come.
**Your earthly journey of this temporal life on earth is where you come to know God in Redemption.