There are many links that bind Job on his dung heap with Christ on His cross, and yes, links that bind him to God's people today.
(1) Job had to endure his trial alone. Even his wife told him to "curse God and die." His three best friends turned against him because they couldn't understand him, and in their supposedly orthodox "Christian" way tortured him even further.
(2) So Christ was alone in His agony on the cross. His closest friends, His mother and His eleven disciples left (one had betrayed Him), couldn't understand Him and fled.
(3) So will His people in these last days each one stand alone, people of "every nation, and kindred, and tongue" will each be placed in circumstances where his/her faith will be tried as each is forced to stand alone as a witness for Christ.
(4) In total darkness, with Heaven closed against him, no answers to his prayers, bereft, apparently forsaken by God and by loved ones on earth, Job maintained his loyalty to God.
(5) So Christ with everything against Him, enduring what He knew was the "curse" of God, remained loyal all by Himself.
(6) So will those "144,000" (whether a literal or a symbolic number doesn't matter so far as this principle is concerned) will "follow the Lamb whitherseover He goeth" in their darkest hour of trial when again Heaven seems closed against them and no visible or perceived answer to their prayers comes.
(7) The honor of God, the stability of His throne, His credibility, depended on Job choosing to be loyal in his total darkness and despair. As an individual, Job was God's last hope. If he had taken his wife's advice and cursed God and died, God would have been proved a liar and a failure, and Satan would have won the great controversy. Job was supremely important.
More tomorrow (God willing) about how important YOU are, yes YOU in your tiny sphere.
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