I Only Am Escaped

The first chapter of Job has given us much insight into the methodology and purpose of both good (God) and evil (Satan). We close the writing on this eye opening page of God’s Word with sadness but according to the will of God. Other lessons more pertinent to this hour awaits opening.

I only am escaped:

In Summery: We find Job getting messages concerning the carnage left behind as the devil passed death and destruction over Job’s huge estate with much livestock, crops and servants.
Job 1:14-22And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
15 And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.”
16 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
17 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
18 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
19 And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshiped,
21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
22 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.”

Job’s “friends” offered little support and no help to him during his suffering. Job never became vindictive though troubled with their false and self generated accusations of many vile and evil doings. They, no doubt, considered themselves as examples of why Job thus suffered destruction without divine intervention. Job, however had walked upright in ALL his ways. He was a “good man” in the sight of all. He obeyed God to the letter of His commandments. One thing Job lacked; he failed to know the Lord in all His glory. There are none good in the sight of the Lord. Goodness is applied to them only after recognition and acceptance in knowledge and truth that God is omnipotent and of ALL things, the author. Finally Job realized this truth. He realized, as many of us do, that he only knew a far off God. He had heard of God. Now he has come to realize that God is ever present and working our lives.

Job 24:5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

Job 32:1-2 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
2 Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.”

Job repented his errors before God. God heard his prayer of confession and promise of reconstruction of soul. We must not for get that our little things may be great in the sight of God just as our big problems are small to Him. Job took his self centered ways and assumed self-righteousness and pushed them into nothingness. His friends, whom he had reason to hate but did not, became his focus for prayer. God knew the change and His compassion enlarged even as Job confessed and repented.


Job 42:10 “And the LORD turned the captivity [note: Job was being held captive by the devil] of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold. 12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. 13 He had also seven sons and three daughters. 14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch. 15 And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. 16 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations. 17 So Job died, being old and full of days.”
Proverbs 25:12 As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.

Luke 18:27-30 27 And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God. 28 Then Peter said, Lo, we have left all, and followed thee. 29 And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, 30 Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.”

Luke 18:30 Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.”

I only am escaped” is a bold statement. It was made by each bearer of bad news concerning Job’s Troubles. It is made often by some today when they are apparently fated to dodge suffering on disastrous occasions. Job attributed his misery to the hand of God. It was not. All good things come from above. Nothing good comes from the dark side of creation because it is designed by the devil. God did not watch Job suffer as he did not watch His son on the cross. But, God heard Job’s repentance and he responded. That same God is our God. Know God, know peace. Amen. 04-08-2019 Bll

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