Book of Job Conceals Secrets
Posted by Adrian Tremayne on January 10, 2011 at 3:56pm in Secrets Of The Bible
Believe it or not, the story of Job disguises the intimate thoughts of Jesus while he was on the cross suffering with open sores from his "head to his feet." If this is true, then the Book of Job contains proof that Jesus Christ was and is the Messiah, the very same Messiah the Jews expected to come anciently (and still do). This means the story of Job is a misdirecting cover story which disguises the greater story of Jesus suffering with similar problems as Job's.
There are more than fifty really excellent verses to start your thinking in this direction, but the following lines might be the best. The following verse is impossible to understand in terms of Job but most revealing about Jesus. For Job 13:27 the King James Version reads: "Thou settest a print upon the heels/soles of my feet." What could that mean to Job? But read the explanation of the original Hebrew words in Keil and Delitzsch's commentary and these lines come alive with meaning. Their commentary explains that "the Hebrew means much more than the English translation conveys, such as wounds "digged" into the soles of his feet, even circular wounds filled with metal . It's hard to understand why Keil and Delitzsch failed to make a connection between Job and Jesus when it is plain to see that this line describes the condition of Jesus' feet with the nails driven through them. What would a "print" on Job's feet have to do with anything? Still another big problem is trying to think of Job being pinned up like a target with nails, or more precisely in the language of Job, a "mark" (a target) "plastered or stuck up by "arrows in array" (Job 6:4); or, being "lifted up to ride on the wind(Job 30:22), very much like a shirt on a clothes line pinned up by the cuffs to dry--or "die."
Another great line is the punishment
that Job/Jesus suggests he should receive if he were actually guilty of any sin;
that is, the description of the great pain in the bones and sinews of his arms,
even causing him to suggest that they be broken from their sockets. He
said, "Then let my arm fall from my shoulder blade. And
mine arm be broken from its channel bone." (Job 31:22); another one
is the statement about the iron weapon (spear) being drawn out of his
body: "He shall flee from the iron weapon, and
the bow of steel shall strike him through. It is drawn; and cometh
out of his body" (Job 20:24,25). These verses could be easily
understood if Job were hanging on a cross with his arms and shoulders being torn
apart by the weight of his body, not to mention the spear slashing into
his side. In other words, if he were being crucified on a cross like Jesus
was. But for the story of Job these lines simply don't belong, and they
leave us confused as to what they could possibly mean, especially since Job
didn't die for another hundred and forty years (Job 42). The Bible really
does hide secrets or mysteries, which are referred to within its own pages as
"God's secrets," "dark
sayings" and "words of the wise."
These are new and
interesting images are they not? but again they have no relevance to the
story of Job. Many scholars have said that most of the Book of Job
makes very little sense, and if we had to explain the above verses only in terms
of Job we would have to agree. Some have even suggested that the
fault lies with too many "cooks," that many errors have crept in over
the years from all the hand copying done by scribes or overzealous copyists who
made changes where they thought there were errors. Morris Jastrow Jr.,
Ph.D., LL.D., actually rearranged the book verse-by-verse, freely swapping
verses and even chapters around in an attempt to fix what he thought were
errors. Happily however, when we put aside these kinds of opinions
and search more diligently ourselves, and just as it is, we find that it
can be read on a second, deeper level. This deeper level of understanding
reveals that the Book of Job does have more to do with Jesus than it does to the
cover story of Job as the above verses suggested, and then with this new
understanding the rest of the confusion and contradictions begin to make
sense. In the end, the Book of Job turns out to be two stories in one,
which makes it allegorical (an allegory being a long parable), even a most
extraordinary allegory that has remained hidden from our understanding for
thousands of years. Think about the story of Job for a moment and surely
you will see several parallels between Job and Jesus for yourself, very much
like the following:
1. Both lost everything, friends and position, in virtually one
day.
2. Both had to endure
great physical pain, including open wounds or
sores.
3. Both lived
perfect, upright, god-fearing lives (verse
1).
4. Both felt that they
had been forsaken by God, and said so over and
over.
5. Both questioned the
unfairness of their predicament on the basis of their
purity.
6. Both were
absolutely sure of their purity from any transgression.
7. Both in the end "were raised" to much greater things.
Hopefully, by now you are beginning to see the similarities between Job and Jesus and realize how the story of Job, at the
very least, is an excellent choice to make into an allegory for the
suffering Jesus and will continue reading; because later on, in
the Introduction to Job, you will see fifty more eye opening verses
from Job where the relevance to Jesus is fairly easy to see. You
will also see many internal contradictions to the story of Job cleared up and
explained, all in terms of Jesus. For example the following verse from the
Hebrew translation
reads:
"Yet shall he be brought to the
grave,
while a watch is kept at his tomb" (Job 21:32 Hebrew version).
What
sense does this make when we know Job was not "brought to the grave," at least
not concurrently with the story? And there is nothing in the story
to explain the need for a watch at his tomb when he finally did go to his
grave-- one hundred and forty two years later (Job 42:16). Really
confusing isn't it, especially since we read that Job was destitute and
abandoned by everyone including his close friends (See Job 19)? But
for Jesus, we not only know that his body was placed in a tomb but
also why Roman solders were assigned by Pilate to "watch" it, saying: "Ye have a
watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can" (Matt. 27:65). Furthermore, it
was Jesus who was abandoned by everyone including his close friends, not
Job. In the obvious story, Job's friends came to visit him, namely
Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar and Elihu. Easily seen contradictions like these
are the reasons why so many scholars have been so critical of the book.
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