Insight on Job 25 - Andrew Kingsly Raj (AKR MINISTRIES) on a Brethren Church in Tirunelveli, TamilNadu, India [Dated: 28.11.2021]
Bildad Speaks (Job 25:1-6)
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:
2 “Dominion and fear are with God; he makes peace in his high heaven.
3 Is there any number to his armies? Upon whom does his light not arise?
4 How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?
5 Behold, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in his eyes;
6 how much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm!”
1->Bildad (the tyrannus, or governor, of the Sauchaens) Speaks: Man Cannot Be Righteous
2-> i) “Dominion and fear are with God; ~ Dominion and fear are not with Man but with God. God is the sovereign Lord of all, and with him is terrible majesty. Dominion and fear are with him, Job 25:2. He that gave being has an incontestable authority to give laws, and can enforce the laws he gives. He that made all has a right to dispose of all according to his own will, with an absolute sovereignty. Whatever he will do he does, and may do; and none can say unto him, What doest thou? or Why doest thou so? Dan 4:35. His having dominion (or being Dominus - Lord) bespeaks him both owner and ruler of all the creatures. They are all his, and they are all under his direction and at his disposal. Hence it follows that he is to be feared (that is, reverenced and obeyed), that he is feared by all that know him (the seraphim cover their faces before him), and that, first or last, all will be made to fear him. Men's dominion is often despicable, often despised, but God is always terrible.
Rom 8:7,8 • because the mindset of the flesh is enmity toward God, for it is not subjected to the law of God, for it is not able to do so, • and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God. (LEB)
ii) he makes peace in his high heaven ~ He makes peace in His High Places. He does (according to) His desire in the host of heaven and among the host of heaven and among the dwellers of Earth. He is making war at one place and other a Peace. (Dan 3:35)
3 -> • Is there any number to his armies? ~ His armies in heaven, the heavenly host of angels, which are innumerable; there are more than twelve legions of them, thousand and ten thousand times ten thousand, employed in a military way, for the safety and preservation of the saints; see Gen_32:1; and the sun, moon, and stars, often called the host of heaven, the latter of which cannot be numbered, and which fought in their courses against Sisera, Jdg_5:20; and his armies on earth, all the inhabitants of it; yea, every creature, even the smallest insect in it, which are without number: thus, frogs, lice, flies, and locusts, were the armies of God, with which he fought against Pharaoh and the Egyptians, see Joe_2:11;
“Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” - God (Gen 15:5)
How much more His armies be!
Yahweh the God of hosts,Yahweh is his renowned name! (Hos 12:5)
• Upon whom does his light not arise? ~ It is God's Benevolent grace all the creature without a difference. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust (Mat 5:45). The light of the Gospel set and shine before all men. Then why do there are unbelievers? The god of this world has blinded the eyes (2 Cor 4:4). So they are incapable of seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of CHRIST.
2 Cor 4:4 among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that they would not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
It is totally by the grace of God, our eyes had been opened to see the marvellous light of the Gospel. The Scripture says, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given." - JESUS CHRIST (Mat 13:11). That's what St. Paul reminds in the epistle to Philippians,
Phil 1:29 • because to you has been graciously granted on behalf of Christ not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on behalf of him,
4 -> How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure? ~ The book of Job is filled with Rhetorical questions which most commonly answers 'No'/'No, we can't'/'impossiple'...
Job 4:17 Can a human being be more righteous than God,or can a man be more pure than his Maker?
The sin which was caused by Adam, made man seperated from God. God demand's a perfect holiness, perfect heart, perfect submission. Unfortunatly we doesn't have anything. But God who is rich in Mercy had been incarnated in the flesh (100% Man & 100% God) and lived our life, kept all the laws and fulfilled it. The Law is good. But the man has incapacity to fulfil the righteous requirement of the law. Yet CHRIST (GOD) who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. He made us alive together with HIM.
in order that ->>the righteous requirement of the law<<- might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. (Rom 8:4 )
Am I worth to receive this much Grace?
God is the righteous judge and a God who has indignation every day (Ps 7:11). God shows His wrath to man and to other He shows mercy. Because He bore His curses, iniquities, trespass, etc.,
Rom 9:18 Consequently therefore, he has mercy on whomever he wishes, and he hardens whomever he wishes.
5-> Behold, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in his eyes; ~ They lose all their lustre and brightness, when compared with the Divine Being. It is darkened, confounded, and ashamed; it hides its beautiful face, and draws in its borrowed and useful light, at the approach of him, who is light itself, and in whom is no darkness at all. Then the moon will be confounded and the sun ashamed, for the LORD of hosts reigns on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and his glory will be before his elders (Isa 24:23).
If Moon and Star are in this view to God, how much less Man be in the sight of God?
6-> how much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm!” ~
We (sons of men, Wretched men) were unworthy. No worthy. While we were yet sinners, although we never taken any decision to follow Him, God loved us. In order that the purpose of God according to election might remain. And made us sat togather with Him and had prepared a table for us. Let us thank CHRIST with the heartful of Thanks.
The Name of LORD alone be glorified forever.
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