MARCH 2007 | ARTICLE |
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JOB AND HIS HOUSEHOLD |
Job really appears as an epic hero of mythical dimensions. The problem of the innocent suffering, highlighted as the central theme of the book, is the seeming nucleus of Christian endurance that brings salvation to the disquieted soul. A religious man whom God Himself considered as a blameless person is stolen of the flower of his life: children, dignity, social status, wealth, and lastly even health, are taken away. It seems that Satan challenged God with the accusation that He protected and blessed Job unduly, meaning that the Almighty violated the rule of free will given to man. To vindicate Job God allowed the infernal guardian to prowl upon him, but not allowed laying hand on his life. Job’s wife, a typical everyday woman, instigated him to curse God. His three friends set to the aim of justifying God for punishing for antecedent sins, the charge that his friends made augmented his pains and woes. God’s commendation in 1:8 certainly depletes this assertion. This theological assumption of punishing sinners has proved that the final vindication that the just will triumph over the evil comes under the justice system of a benevolent God . Despite suffering is the outcome of sins, Job’s victory at the end is that the just will also suffer for the sake of winning over Satan, just as Jesus’ trials and tribulations was to nail down the infernal one on the cross that declared the destruction of the wall that separated between God and man by driving him out of Paradise for eating the enigmatic fruit of darkness.
Comparison between Adam and Job: Instead of trying to find out the sources of evil times by introspection and self-examination we accuse all others for the problems that are created and ultimately end up under the malicious art of necromancy. Woman being a secondary concoction of God’s experiment after Adam’s creation, in St.Paul’s concordance, should be led and cared for. “Live considerately with your wives, bestowing honour on the woman as the weaker sex, since you are joint heirs of the grace of life, in order that your prayers may not be hindered”, 1.Pet.3: 7. Women are no longer softer or weaker sex in today’s dying world of organized chaos; as they are embroiled by the insinuated female sex power of the high-tech life of the banality of the Kaliyuga syndrome that blossoms the era of spinning a third Eve culture. If the second Eve, Mother of God, was the symbol of a counter culture of the first Eve, the third one is the supreme high-tech version of the first one that has to find its own destruction at the last page of human history. The majority of modern women who are electrified by an obscene culture of women’s magazines and pornography and women’s Liberation Movement of a gym life is no longer soft in their carnivorous life that root out all the remnants of a religious life of the past. The high-tech woman is the product of a careless Adam whose absence from his wife opened the door for the serpent to prod over her for an independent life. The work place culture and high-flying life that ruined the woman cannot be remedied.
Comparison with Job and Christ: The narration in the book of Job is sublime and subtle in carving out this essential element that is inherently woven with ingenuity, dignity and passion. Sacrifice or loss of the essentials for any victory is a highlighted passion in this narration. Job’s wife, the representative of ‘femaleness’, wanted to curse God and kill her husband’s piety that in her view could be the reason for the loss of her children, wealth and the untold misery of hers and also her spouse who were in travail and agony. Religiosity invites automatically the dark forces for their role of mischief ness to the venue of worship and righteousness. Job’s perseverance and utter faith in God brought back all what he lost in geometrical exponentials that testified virulently the ultimate climb of good over evil. This is how Christ also brought redemption to mankind by shedding His own blood. Suffering is an inevitable nexus in any success in life. Christ’s Body or the Bride that is femininity in its strength represent the Church. Just like Job’s wife wanted to curse God, His own church that is multiplied in fractions and cults betray His sacrifice in the twilight hours at the fag end history of mankind. Symbolically or otherwise the ‘femaleness’ that has been trying to besiege God’s Kingdom from the very beginning of creation has been thwarted away by the power of the Almighty at the end.
I have made it clear in my previous exegeses that there is only dormant ‘maleness’ in God’s territory of Eternal Bliss, whereas femininity is a quality and essentiality that is given for the propagation of human species in this planet. There are proofs that angels are men and God’s image need to be the likeliness of man, the reason for God created Adam in His own image. Job’s household is a miniature mirror of the universal portrayal of Eternity that gives homage to the Creator in the start but is chaliced by the entry of Satan who brings havoc to the whole participants, yet at the end the Destroyer is vanquished in the final scene. The innocent suffering is seemingly an unjustifiable vindication that brings inner catharsis or purification of any individual because everyone is conceived in sin. Therefore, the book lays down the principle of faith, asserts us to find out a proof from nature, that we should not be mistaken the error of imagining His knowledge in par with ours. Job had an ideal family life that started with worship and sacrifice for the Lord, but was ravaged later by the deaths of the dearest ones, pestilence and chronic disease. His consoling words that never die are a solace for the whole suffering humanity. “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord”, Job.1: 21-22.
The final act also ends with a burnt offering to God. “And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends; and the Lord gave job twice as much as he had before”…..And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning, Job.42: 10. The book presents the perennial afflictions of man who has to wade through the river of tears that is an outcome of our doings and misdoings by engaging ourselves with the hidden battle which rages in our minds until we kiss the dust. Whether good or bad, every man has the sharing of good and bad days that is a product of our inherent creation in essence. One who is acclimatized with the sunny and wintry days of life is the wisest one who is truly on the path of a blissful life at the end of the tunnel. “He who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I myself conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne”, Rev.3:21. This is the central core of any religion, particularly Christianity that teaches that suffering for righteousness is a pre-requisite for the throne of Peace. There are two types of sufferings: firstly the suffering for our own sins that needs penitence for absolution, secondly for the cultivation of virtues that are the ingredients for furthering our spiritual progress.
Never have I abused or denigrated the unique and exquisite role of motherhood that the Gracious God has given as a gift of producing supermen for the vacancies that are created by the fall of Lucifer and his hosts, whereas the angels of darkness make as many foot soldiers for the propagation of infernal vices by the perpetration of sex. Because femininity is akin to this plane of transition only both God and His enemy use motherhood as a test case of producing as many followers of their kind as possible. This is the only plane that both God and the devil use their power either to uphold the purity of motherliness or desecrate it to the lowest level. There is nothing wrong with motherliness, but both these groups try to make advantage for their own good or evil purposes. Women, therefore, shouldn’t pose a threat to God by becoming the pawns of evil angels. Just like the aeon started with rays of hope and luminosity, the end of the tunnel will be brighter than ever. “No thorns, no crown”.
As it was in the beginning, it will be at the end of this aeon.
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