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MARCH 2007 ARTICLE
VOL:6 ISSUE:03

JOB AND HIS HOUSEHOLD
By E.S. JOHN AUSTRALIA

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:
Job seems to be the prototype of pre-fall Adam. Intervention of Satan in both cases has accelerated the magnitude of sufferings of both. Satan seems to be the hero in the beginning of these two narrations, despite those scenes had altered by the silent appearance and final retribution the hell’s angels received by the Creator. When Adam was alone, he didn’t have a temptation of eating the gall fruit, but the appearance of Eve re-wrote the history of mankind. Job’s wife who insinuated him to curse God has a reminiscence of Eve coaxing Adam to taste the fruit that turns them as slaves of the nether world fire. In both instances the Shakespearean conclusion of “frailty, thy name is woman’ is proved beyond doubt. Adam who honoured the sacred commandment of God, just like the man of the household before the advent of liquor culture into our everyday life, used to be the household head that spin the religious way of family life. If led properly and orderly, the mother of the house used to set a congenial spiritual atmosphere in our everyday life. It has proven beyond limit that a sinless Adam paved the way for making a paradise lost by the intervention of Satan through the woman who was enticed by the colour and beauty of the diabolic fruit. Family life is the testing place of the Devil’s connivance and victory. If one member of the family pair is extraordinarily religious, the spouse is likely to be of opposite extreme. The commonality of low religion only will have a place on this earth, or in other words mediocrity is the inheritor of tomorrow. Either too good or too bad is obsolete in the fallen, carnivorous life. Omnivorousness has been the order of a so-called successful life ever since our first parents were driven out of the beauty parlour that once they enjoyed before tasting the laminated evil fruit. Jesus, His Mother and the apostles were the ones who carried the cross for us, yet their life on earth was equivalent to darkness because Satan who annihilated Judas also is the hero and the prime mover of all perniciousness of this betraying life. Too good is too bad; too bad also is not too good. A family that is run by two or more governments is the recipe for disaster, so also there should be only one pocket in the transaction of money. Adam and Job are the protagonists of righteousness of apparent dimension of mythical portrayal, therefore Job’s wife want him to curse God for hailing the abysmal powers into the house. This is the source where sorcery and black magic flourish in Christian families.

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:
All the Heavenly angels under his legion that used to worship God in timelessness was poisoned by the rebellion of Lucifer, so also when “the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and also Satan came among them to present himself before the Lord”, Job.2: 1. The intrusion of Satan is there wherever there is worship of the Lord. In timelessness, there was only God, so also in the beginning of the terrestrial life there was only Adam. The narration of the worship by job’s family in the beginning was also later throttled by the ravage of Satan. Christ’s public ministry was also bridled in the beginning by Satan who tempted Jesus in the wilderness. Despite the Creator’s presence is everywhere always, the real hero or villain to start with is Satan before the creation of man, in Eden, in Job’s household worshipping venue and also at the start of the Saviour’s public evangelization. The creation of femininity or ‘femaleness’ is a common accord between God and Lucifer, and that is the testing ground for both of them to declare a final victory that decides the duel which started after the pride that brought down the prince of perdition to the nether world gloom. Despite our body, mind and soul are the common testing grounds for God and Satan, the abode of a pure heart that cleanses everything is the exclusive zone of the Spirit of God. Satan has no room there, proving the fact that God cannot be defeated by the evil angel at any means. God is the author of the valve that opens and controls the entry into the serene part of the heart. Thus the winner in the saga of this continuing battle is the Creator, although baffled apparently for Satan in the outset, who moulded and formed everything and us.

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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