"DARK SAYINGS"  OR  "SECRETS"  FOUND IN THE BIBLE  

REVEALING THE TRUE MESSIAH,
YES, FROM THE BOOKS OF JOB, JONAH, JOEL, AND ISAIAH.

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INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK OF JOB

Believe it or not, the story of Job disguises the intimate thoughts of Jesus while he was on the cross suffering with open sores from his "head to his feet."  If this is true, then the Book of Job contains proof that Jesus Christ was and is the Messiah, the very same Messiah the Jews expected to come anciently (and still do), and will be "a great earthquake" to the Jews when they  recognize this truth.  This means the story of Job is a misdirecting cover story which disguises the greater story of Jesus suffering with problems similar to Job's.   Jonah, Joel, and Isaiah support this same idea and they will also be revealed after a study of the Book of Job.
 

There are more than fifty really excellent verses in the Book of Job  to start your thinking in this direction, but the following lines might be the best.  This verse is impossible to understand in terms of Job but is most revealing about Jesus.  Job 13:27 in the King James Version  reads: "Thou settest a print upon the heels/soles of my feet."  What could that mean to Job?  Keil and Delitzsch's commentary explains that "the Hebrew means much more than the English translation conveys, such as wounds "digged" into the soles of his feet,  even circular wounds filled with metal and blood" (See K&D, Vol.4, pgs.220-222).  It's hard to understand why Keil and Delitzsch failed to make a connection between Job and Jesus when it is plain to see that this line describes the condition of Jesus' feet with the nails driven through them.  What would a "print" on Job's feet have to do with anything? Still another big problem is trying to think of Job being pinned up like a target with nails, or more precisely in the language of Job, a  "mark" (a target) "plastered or stuck up" by "arrows in array" (Job 6:4); or, being "lifted up to ride on the wind"  (Job 30:22), very much like a shirt on a clothes line, pinned up by the cuffs to dry.  

       Another great line is the punishment that Job/Jesus suggests he should receive if he were actually guilty of any sin; that is, the description of the great pain in the bones and sinews of his arms, even causing him to suggest that they be broken from their sockets. He said, "Then let my arm fall from my shoulder blade. And mine arm be broken from its channel bone." (Job 31:22); another one is the statement about the iron weapon (spear) being drawn out of his body:  "He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.   It is drawn; and cometh out of his body" (Job 20:24,25).  These verses could easily be understood if Job were hanging on a cross with his arms and shoulders being torn apart by the weight of his body, not to mention the spear slashing into his side. In other words, if he were being crucified on a cross like Jesus was.  But for the story of Job these lines simply don't belong, and they leave us confused as to what they could possibly mean, especially since Job didn't die for another hundred and forty years (Job 42).  The Bible really does hide secrets or mysteries, which are referred to within its pages as "God's secrets, dark sayings, and words of the wise."

These are new and interesting images are they not?  But again they have no relevance to the story of Job.  Many scholars have said that most of the Book of Job makes very little sense, and if we had to explain the above verses only in terms of Job we would have to agree.   Some have even suggested that the fault lies with too many "cooks," that many errors have crept in over the years from all of the hand copying done by scribes or overzealous copyists who made changes where they thought there were errors.  Morris Jastrow Jr., Ph.D., LL.D., actually rearranged the book,  verse-by-verse, freely swapping verses and even chapters around in an attempt to fix what he thought were errors. He even said there were not ten verses without an error.  Happily however, when we put aside these kinds of opinions and search more diligently ourselves, and just as it is, we find that it can be read on a second, deeper level. This deeper level of understanding reveals that the Book of Job does have more to do with Jesus than it does to the cover story of Job as the above verses suggested;  and then with this new understanding the rest of the confusion and contradictions begin to make sense.  In the end, the Book of Job turns out to be two stories in one, which makes it allegorical (an allegory being a long parable), even a most extraordinary allegory that has remained hidden from our understanding for thousands of years.  Think about the story of Job for a moment and surely you will see several parallels between Job and Jesus for yourself, very much like the following:

         1. Both lost everything, friends and position,
               in virtually one  day.
         2. Both had to endure great physical pain, including open
             wounds or sores.
         3. Both lived perfect, upright, God-fearing lives (verse 1).
         4. Both felt that they had been forsaken by God, and said
              so over and over.
         5. Both questioned the unfairness of their predicament on the basis of
             their purity.
         6. Both were absolutely sure of their purity from any transgression.
         7. Both in the end "were raised" to much greater things.  
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Hopefully, by now you are beginning to see the similarities between Job and Jesus and realize how the story of Job, at the very least,  is an excellent choice to make into an allegory for the suffering Jesus and will continue reading.  Later on in the Introduction to Job you will see fifty more eye opening verses from Job where the relevance to Jesus is fairly easy to see.   You will also see many internal contradictions to the story of Job cleared up and explained, all in terms of Jesus.  For example the following verse from the Hebrew translation reads:

                "Yet shall he be brought to the grave,
                while a watch is kept at his tomb" (Job 21:32 Hebrew version).

What sense does this make when we know Job was not "brought to the grave," at least not concurrently with the story?  And  there is nothing in the story to explain the need for a watch at his tomb when he finally did go to his grave-- one hundred and forty two years later (Job 42:16).  Really confusing isn't it, especially since we read that Job was destitute and abandoned by everyone including his close friends (See Job 19)?  But for Jesus, we not only know that his body was placed in a tomb but also why Roman solders were assigned by Pilate to "watch" it, saying: "Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can" (Matt. 27:65). Furthermore, it was Jesus who was abandoned by everyone including his close friends, not Job.  In the obvious story, Job's friends came to visit him, namely Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar and Elihu.  Easily seen contradictions like these are the reasons why so many scholars have been so critical of the book. Do you need more evidence that these claims are not the imaginations of a misguided fanatic and should be studied more carefully?  Read how Jesus hung there naked and blinded by his tears because his hands were nailed down, preventing him from wiping his eyes. 

Many people think Jesus died of a broken heart, and according to the Book of Job it's true;  but what could have disappointed him so much that it would break his heart, and I mean literally?  Was it because God really did forsake him,  just as he suggested himself with his dispiriting question from the cross?   "My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?"  Oh, but what reason could there have been for God to do such a thing, to his Only Begotten Son, especially since we know he completed his mission perfectly?  Think for a minute, how a broken heart could explain his death and what it would mean in terms of an infinite sacrifice and atonement.  What else but disappointment could have broken his heart?  Think of what this means in terms of proof of his love for us if he died of a broken heart because he thought he had failed us. The eternal ramifications would be staggering if he had failed, which would certainly be enough to break his heart.  What else could take his life, especially when we know his life was completely in his own hands?  He could lay it down or he could take it up as he chose, but there was no reason to prolong his life if he had failed in his all important mission.  This view also explains just how long he had to suffer to qualify for an infinite atonement.  Answers to these questions and more are brought to light by this amazing little book. 

Later you will see more than one hundred verses in the Book of Job that parallel verses in the Book of Psalms, all of which have to do with Jesus.  And we know the Psalms are about Jesus; Jesus told us so himself (see Luke 24:44).  Martin Buber, a German scholar, also knew this very well; for he said: "We read Psalms that seems to be nothing but the cry for help lifted upwards by a man in torment: yet we need only listen carefully to see that the speaker is not just any man but a man standing in the presence of revelation, and witnessing revelation even in his cries and shouts."  Dr. Buber  is suggesting that King David witnessed the crucifixion through revelation and his words reflect what he saw, especially during Jesus' final trials. A prime example supporting this conclusion is Psalm 22, not to mention Psalm 17 and 35 (see Psalms 22.   Everyone should see the obvious parallels to Jesus in these well-known Psalms. If you approach the Book of Job in the same way, with Jesus in mind, little by little, verse by verse, the pieces fall into place. And like any puzzle, it is only after one piece is in place that you can see where the next one fits--precept upon precept, if you will.  

Continue on, and you will also see several more verses explained (like the tomb one discussed above), which are more clear in the Hebrew version of the Bible than they are in the Christian versions, which is a little surprising and at the same time ironic, since the Jews fail to see Jesus as the Messiah and the Son of God (but that should soon change).  Also included in this site is a complete verse-by-verse commentary on the Book of Job, with nearly every verse explained in terms of Jesus. A side note: All along the way in this site you will see the most astounding  patterns in the length of the lines of the scriptures (probably a form of chiasms), which I  first discovered in the books of Job and Isaiah, and then later in all the other scriptures. These patterns seem to authenticate the revealed word of God and certainly will confound the evolutionists that fail to find intelligent design in any of the creations of God.  Talk about Intelligent Design or Divine Design, it's even found in all of God's revealed words . Now they will never be able to claim that it just took millions and millions of years of time for the scriptures to come into existence with these "intelligent designs,"  as they have claimed in the past. Maybe they will claim that all the prophets of old were part of a great conspiracy but kept it a secret for thousands of years. (see Patterns) God is wonderfully amazing!

For sure, with so much evidence that the story of Job is really allegorical for Jesus Christ, any counterclaims of "reaching" or "coincidence" can easily be dismissed.  But you might be wondering why you haven't heard of this before, especially if you have been an ardent student of the Bible.  The answer is not perfectly clear yet, but an early conclusion would be that the deeper meanings of the Book of Job have been kept hidden from our understanding until these last days, at the time of the promised "restitution of all things," when this powerful testimony that Jesus is the Christ will be instrumental in turning God's  children back to the truth, meaning all mankind, both the wayward Jews and the wayward Gentiles. 

 Isaiah spoke about such a thing being "shewed" to the Jews at a time when there was "no strange god among them"  and why it was given to them before they "turned away backward," clearly indicating that there would be an apostasy (which was later lamented by Jeremiah, Ezekiel and others), during which time the words of their false prophets could not be trusted; and then finally a time of restoration  or "gathering" of the Jews, which, in my view, will be accelerated by "this thing" that was "shewed" them anciently, before they lost the truth and went astray;  "this thing," being the Book of Job.             

              I have even from the beginning declared it to thee: 
             before it came to pass I shewed it thee:
             lest thou shouldest say,  Mine idol hath done them,
             and my graven image, hath commanded them." (Isaiah 48:5)

In other words, the Book of Job was given to the Jews anciently ("from the beginning") so that now, when it is allowed by God to be understood, the source is certain and undeniable, leaving the Jews and the world with clear evidence of Christ's Divinity. This would certainly explain why scholars have been blinded from seeing the truth about this little book for so long.  Think about that for a moment and realize just what God has done.  He gave us  proof that Jesus is the Christ by telling us about the crucifixion long before it happened but didn't allow us to understand it for another 2000 years or so. What a "strange work" to do; but on the other hand, how effective it should  be in turning His children back to the truth, after they went "whoring after other gods," such as golden calves.  And now, how can they dispute with their very own Bible?    When they learn this truth about the Book of Job, that Jesus Christ was their expected Messiah, it is bound to be a very big shock, even as a "great earthquake" so to speak.  Then, it will mark the beginning of their restoration back to the same truth that they once had when they were guided by true prophets and were great in the eyes of God.  In light of these great truths, how mislead, yea, how absurd and silly are those who have asked, Is God dead?  The Lord said of this thing:               

               "For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim,
               he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon,
               that he may do his work, his strange work;
               and bring to pass his act, his strange act" (Isaiah 28:21). 
  Indeed, it is a strange act. Furthermore, now the following words of Isaiah take on a new meaning of how Israel will be an effective witness for the LORD to all the nations concerning their God, the true and living God, even Jesus Christ.  Isaiah 43:9-12 explains it all:

          Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled:
        who among them can declare this, and shew us former things?
        let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified:
        or [when they cannot] let them hear [these words], and say, It is truth.
        Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen:
        that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he:
        before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
        I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour.
        I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed,
        when there was no strange god among you:
        therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God.
              (emphasis and clarity added) 

This "great and marvelous work," prophesying "out of the dust" so to speak,  was almost certainly designed by God to  "gather the dispersed of Judah" in these latter days, back to Zion-- and not just physically back to Zion, but more importantly, spiritually.   Stay and broaden your knowledge of our God, and even Jesus Christ too.  I promise that you will be greatly enriched and even surprised, finding great "secrets," even hidden treasures of knowledge without costing any money.  If you stay and "drink" of these truths, you will find  "living waters"  that will astound you and thrill your heart. "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk [living waters] without money and without price" (Isaiah 55:1, clarification added).  "So shall he sprinkle [with living waters] many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider" (Isaiah 52:15 with clarification added).  After Job, you will begin to read the Old Testament with more understanding and grow a deeper appreciation for Jesus Christ then ever before, with many "dark sayings," or difficult to understand sayings (secrets if you will) giving up their truths to strengthen your testimony. (A noteworthy example from Isaiah is explained here.)   

 This site is primarily about Job, Isaiah, and other related Old Testament books, and is, therefore, basically nondenominational. It does use some scriptures esoteric or peculiar to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but mostly as a second source. If you are of a different faith and find these references objectionable, this site can still be beneficial to you by simply passing over them.  This site points out from The Old Testament that Jesus was and is the Christ, profoundly so.  Its main focus is on the Book of Job. Then, several other books of the Old Testament are explained which point out some of the things that will happen very soon based upon the words of Isaiah (Job being the catalyst).   These are bold claims for sure, but stay no  matter what your faith might be and see for yourself;  search out great treasures by clicking on a subject listed below. It is well worth your time.  Begin with Job, the greatest treasure of all. Download any pages of this site by right clicking on it, followed by "print." The pages of Job and Isaiah will print properly by Microsoft Internet Explorer (800x600 resolution with 7.5" in margin), but not on Netscape and I don't know why. Most other pages have to print on "landscape" instead of "portrait" because of the length of lines.  Testimonials.   
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