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            “  But I’m not Jewish “  You might protest when the fiery eyes turn in your direction, and suddenly you are standing alone in front of images which you…and you alone…created being flashed against an eternal backdrop which allows no excuses or selfish justifications as shielded the actions while you were living them out, feeling isolated and alone.

            No longer. Nor is anything hidden. All creation stands beside you or ahead of you, already separated into two groups.

            “  So?  “ 

            He will ask and the whole of your life will be exposed, one scene at a time, no matter the embarrassment or the joys or the sorrows. No thought will be left unrevealed, no action hidden, no motive left coated with palatable justification. No one left to intercede because the one who would have been our Intercessor has become our Judge. 

            Shouldn’t you know who He is? Why you have come to this moment at the crossroads between mortal death and Life, between eternal life in perpetual light and joy or in darkness and loss? ⁴

            “  But I’m not Christian!  “  You might protest. “  I didn’t know all about that sin and judgment stuff! “

            The Judge may well shake His head and say that it doesn’t matter. The Book lay open for all to read these last centuries, and before that, all creation itself sand of Him. ⁵

            You are without excuse. Without the Love you took for granted with the world that upheld you through your brief years on God’s world.  It was His to begin with, as we are. But to Whom do we belong, if not ourselves and our needs and desires until death’s chill hand puts us into waiting for this moment?

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The Jewish Messiah

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            The entire Bible reveals Messiah in prophecy, in promise, in types and foreshadowing of spiritual realities. Although Genesis is listed first, in both Hebrew and Christian resources, since Genesis begins at the beginning of the created world but it is the Book of Job which shows the Almighty already in control over a completed creation with angels worshiping before Him and lives being lived on the completed Earth below.Satan, already a long time adversary of God’s mortal creation on earth ⁶ has come before  The Throne of God ⁷ and it is the Holy One who challenges him to see His righteous servant Job ⁸. Satan challenges God through Man, as he has since the creation of the first two human beings, and the challenge is accepted.

              Through Job’s struggles he is stripped of everything that matters to him, from his family, his wealth, his means for survival ⁹, finally his health ¹⁰, and even the reputation he maintained among his friends and acquaintances ¹¹. When his closest friends unjustly accuse and condemn him, righteous Job is brought face to face with the mighty GOD. No longer on His rightful throne of glory, surrounded with the spontaneous and deserved adoration of angels, but in intimate contact with the wounded and grieving man whose been driven to curse the very day he was born! ¹²  On the ash heap, scraping boils with the edge of a broken piece of pottery, Job is able to say with confidence, “ For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh, I shall see GOD. [Hebrew: “ After I shall wake, though this body be destroyed, yet out of my flesh I shall see God.”] ¹³

            The One who speaks to Him in such power in Chapters 38 thought he first half of Chapter 41 is what could only have been a rhetorical question between a grieved and bereaved man and his misunderstanding friends, gives no sign of being able to die, that He might live again, and still be God! Or that a time would come which could be looked upon as ‘the latter years’ … a separation between what was and what is to come, but Job’s heart knows the truth. As do we, whether we admit it or not. We were designed to be creatures of praise of a worthy God. This is the first image man was given. A personal God intimately involved with His creation even on its mortal level, who will answer a man Face-to-face as the powerful creator ¹⁴, Ancient of Days ¹⁵, and Redeemer. ¹⁶  The same heart that could later tell Jeremiah “ For I know the thoughts that I have toward you, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an expected end [Hebrew: and end and expectation. i.e. a hope and a future] ¹⁷

            How then can we know Him? He tells us in His Word…

            “ Then shall you call upon the Me and you shall go and pray unto Me, and I will hearken unto you. Then shall you seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. “  Jeremiah 29:12,13

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Footnotes:

1.  1 Thessalonians 1:10
2.  Revelation 20:11-15
3.  Psalm 2:1-12. Revelation 19:11-16
4.  Colossians 1:2,12-17, Revelation 20:12,13,15
5.  Romans 1:19,20
6.  Genesis 3:15
7.  Job 1:6,7
8.  Job 1:8
9.  Job1: 14-28
10.  Job 2:7,8
11.  Job 2:11-13
12.  Job 3:1-11
13.  Job 19:25,26
14.  Job 38, 39:1-30
15.  Ezek 1:1-28, 8:1-4, 11:1-5, Daniel 7:13, Rev 1:13-17
16.  Job 19:25, Ps 19:14, Prov 23:11, Isaiah 63:16, Jer 50:34
17.  Jer 29:11

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