SANCTIFYING our SONS and our DAUGHTERS - 10 June 2019 (The Fountain of Living Waters Ministry) by Celia Joy Martins
The Book of Job is a Book that can only be understood if we KNOW our heavenly FATHER - KNOW HIS NAMES - AND KNOW the ENEMY and what we are up against.
Right in chapter one, the righteous Job became the prey of the enemy after he (Satan) gained our heavenly Father's permission. All Job's possessions PLUS his CHILDREN were taken from him ... but Job KNEW that his children were SAVE in the hands of ELOHIM YAHWEH (God, the Lord) for Scripture tells us, that Job GATHERED his CHILDREN after their feasts, and he (Job) as the SPIRITUAL HEAD of HIS HOME, MADE AMENDS before ELOHIM YAHWEH for his children, just IN CASE they HAVE SINNED whilst FEASTING at their homes during their *birthday celebrations. [* Job.1:13 "And there was a day when Job's sons and his daughters were eating and drinking WINE in their eldest brother's house [on his birthday] (AMP).]
The fact that Job's children were drinking WINE, could have ignited the feeling of Job - that they might have sinned against Elohim Yahweh, giving way to them having idolatrous thoughts, or maybe done something prescribed by idolatrous rites and mistakenly or ignorantly blessed and honored the pagan-occult gods instead of Elohim Yahweh.
To understand Job's concerns, we need to look at the name(s) they used for the God of Israel - Elohim Yahweh.
ELOHIM - [God or a god]:
Elohim means "God" and is the Hebrew and the Aramaic name for "God" or a god. Elohim refers to the CREATOR, the ALMIGHTY, the JUDGE.
YAHWEH -[a Unique name - the loving HEAVENLY FATHER]:
YAHWEH refers to the LOVING HEAVENLY FATHER - YAHWEH (YHWH) a UNIQUE NAME for addressing our ABBA FATHER.
So when Job was concerned about his children, it was because they could have used the name Elohim that means God or any other god.
EVILNESS FLOURISHED:
Uz was a pagan-religion country - where abomination, and evilness flourished as the people were worshipping the occult gods ... a practice that spread over - and flood the entire world when Yahweh scattered the people - confusing their language so that they would stop the evilness they were doing. The people were busy building a WORSHIPPING TEMPLE (TOWER) AND CITY (of BABEL), in HONOR of THESE occult gods. (Gen. 11:8 "So Yahweh SCATTERED them abroad from that place upon the FACE of the WHOLE EARTH, and they GAVE UP BUILDING the CITY.")
Job was a BLESSED MAN:
Although this family lived under the pagan culture - Job was blessed by our heavenly Father and he prospered in all his ways. He took up his spiritual authority as head of his home making sure that his children were sanctified, just in case they have sinned ...
Job did not ignore the fact that they could have sinned ... he addressed it ...
The fact that the Book of Job tells us that it was on the exact date that Job's children were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house on his birthday (Job. 1:13) when Satan came against Job in destroying Job's wealth and killing all his children is no co-incidence.
Having these feasts most probably started with the eldest, then went right through to the youngest. So the children of Job, must have been just sanctified when the cycle started again ... and through the mercy of Yah, they were taken ... sanctified ...
One after the other, the messengers brought the sad news ... and then in Job. 1:18 "While he was yet speaking, there came also another and said, Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,
:19 And behold, there came a great [whirlwind] from the desert, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people and they are DEAD, and I alone have escaped to tell you."
JOB SAID NOTHING about HIS CHILDREN - HE KNEW they were with YAH:
Job. 1:20 "Then Job arose and RENT his ROBE and SHAVED his HEAD and FELL DOWN UPON the GROUND AND WORSHIPED.
:21 And said, NAKED (without possessions) Came I [into this world] from my MOTHER'S WOMB, and NAKED and [without possessions] shall I depart. YAHWEH (the Lord) GAVE and YAHWEH (the Lord) has TAKEN AWAY; BLESSED (PRAISED and MAGNIFIED in WORSHIP) be the NAME of YAHWEH (the Lord)!
:22 In ALL THIS JOB SINNED NOT nor CHARGED YAH (God) FOOLISHLY."
We as PARENTS can LEARN so MUCH FROM JOB:
Job was a PRAYING FATHER - a STANDING In the GAP FATHER - a CARING FATHER - a RIGHTEOUS and SET-APART SON of the KING, and we can LEARN so MUCH from him.
Just like Job, we are LIVING in a SOCIETY of EVILNESS and just like Job we NEED to:
STAND in PRAYER for our CHILDREN ... just in CASE.
STAND in the GAP for our CHILDREN ... just in CASE.
We NEED to TEACH OUR CHILDREN the WORD of YAHWEH God so that THEY CAN STAND especially in this EVIL world and this EVIL TIMES we are living in right now.
We NEED to TEACH our CHILDREN to PRAY - to KNOW their YAHWEH God - their loving heavenly Father ... to WALK in an INTIMATE WHOLEHEARTED RELATIONSHIP with Him.
We NEED to be an EXAMPLE for them ... FATHERS NEED to TAKE UP their RESPONSIBILITIES as HEAD and PRIESTERS of their HOMES - LEADING THEIR FAMILIES on the NARROW ROAD ... AWAY from the WORLD and the WORLDLY ... LEADING them on the PATH to EVERLASTING LIFE.
THANK YOU ABBA for BEING our REFUGE and our TRUST (Ps. 40:4) - O please WRITE YOUR LAWS WITHIN our HEARTS (Ps. 40:8). Let YOUR LOVING-KINDNESS and YOUR TRUTH CONTINUALLY PRESERVES us (Ps. 40:11). Be MERCIFUL and GRACIOUS to US O YAH, and RAISE US UP ... (Ps. 41:10) - BLESSED be YAHWEH, the YAH of ISRAEL, from EVERLASTING and to EVERLASTING, from THIS AGE to the NEXT, and FOREVER and EVER, in YAHSHUA MESSIAH'S NAME. AMEN AND AMEN. (Ps. 41:13)