God’s salvation work, displayed before the universe, is centered in and proceeds from the sanctuary in Heaven.    Purchase the DVDs and study notes at www.SecretsUnsealed.org

God’s salvation work, displayed before the universe, is centered in and proceeds from the sanctuary in Heaven. Purchase the DVDs and study notes at www.SecretsUnsealed.org

Secrets Unsealed

His Way is in the Sanctuary

Stephen Bohr

1. His Way is in the Sanctuary

2. The Sanctuary’s Angels

3. Death and Life in the Sanctuary

4. The Incarnation’s Seven Secrets

5. The Lamb of God Slain

6. Reaping the Sanctuary’s Benefits

7. A People Close to His Heart

8. The Triangle of Sanctification

9. The Sanctuary’s Two Covenants

10. The Bible’s Foundational Prophecy

11. The Chronology of the Judgment

12. The Sanctuary Shall Be Cleansed (Part 1)

13. The Sanctuary Shall Be Cleansed (Part 2)

14. Three Stages of Israel’s History

15. The Prophecy of the 70 Weeks (Part 1)

16. The Prophecy of the 70 Weeks (Part 2)

17. Found! The Ark of the Covenant

18. The Manna Test

19. Disappointment in the Sanctuary

20. As a Thief in the Night

21. God On Trial

22. The Judgment’s Three Stages

23. The Scapegoat and Revelation’s Millennium

24. A Monumental Conversion Experience

25. In Antichrist’s Temple (Part 1)

26. In Antichrist’s Temple (Part 2)

27. The Sanctuary’s Financial Secrets

28. The Holy and the Profane

29. The Two Temples

30. The Sanctuary and the Prophetic Gift

31. Three Inseparable Doctrines

32. Home At Last

Our loving Heavenly Father, thank you for the privilege of approaching your throne, not in our merits, but in the powerful merits of your son Jesus Christ.

As we look at the world, we see so many things that are going wrong.

And this has led people to say, where is God?

I ask father that as we study the answer to this very important question that you will guide us through the ministry of your Holy Spirit.

Help us to understand the message of the book of Job, A story that not only has past relevance but future relevance as well.

And we thank you for hearing our prayer, for we ask it in Jesus name, Amen.

The book of Job is the most ancient book of the Bible.

It was written by Moses approximately 1, 500 years before Jesus was born, but it actually tells the story of a patriarch who lived about 500 years before Moses wrote the book in the early patriarchal age.

The book is composed first of all of prose the first 2 chapters, and then from chapter 3 all the way through chapter 42 verse 7 it's written in poetry, and finally in chapter 42 and verse 8 through verse 17 once again it returns to prose.

Now this book has confused many theologians.

There are many ideas on the purpose of this book.

Some say that the purpose of the book is to answer the question why do the righteous suffer?

Some also say that the purpose of the book is to teach us to be firm and constant in the midst of suffering.

Now there's no doubt that these issues are included in the story of Job but the story is much deeper than just why do the righteous suffer or the need to persevere in the midst of suffering.

What's taking place in the book of Job is really a trial.

It is a trial that is taking place in heaven, interestingly enough, and it really foreshadows the investigative judgment that is taking place now in heaven.

If you look carefully at this story you're going to find that there is an accuser who is Satan, there is a defense attorney who is Jesus or God, There is a judge who sits on his throne.

There are accusations and there are responses to those accusations.

And we'll notice that at the end of the story there is a final verdict.

This book is saturated with legal language.

In other words, it is to be understood in a judicial context.

It is actually a trial that is taking place in heaven, believe it or not.

Let me give you 1 verse as an example of the legal language that is used in the book and I have in the written material many more texts from Job that use legal or judicial language.

Here Job is speaking to God and he says surely even now my witness is in heaven and my evidence is on high.

Witness and evidence, language of a court of law.

Now it's very important for us to remember that there was no written revelation when this story took place.

None of the books of the Bible had actually been written yet, so Job did not have all of the information that we have today that helps us know what's going on in the invisible world.

In fact we're going to notice in this story that heaven knows what is happening on earth but earth does not know what is happening in heaven.

And if Job had had scripture and he had known his trial would have been much easier for him to bear.

The curtain opens and we're on earth and Job is introduced in chapter 1 and verses 1 to 3.

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, and 1 who feared God and shunned evil.

And 7 sons and 3 daughters were born to him.

Many children in biblical times were a sign of God's blessing.

But he not only had many children, because it continues saying also his possessions were 7, 000 sheep, 3, 000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large household, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east.

Job was a very rich and prosperous man, but he was also a very spiritual man.

Notice Job chapter 1 and verse 1 and then we'll read verse 4 and 5 verses 4 and 5 and also verse 8.

There was a man in the land of us whose name was Job and that man was, listen to his character, was blameless and upright and 1 who feared God and shunned evil.

And you know I read this because some theologians say that Job was an arrogant individual, self-sufficient.

And his sons would go and feast in their houses each on his appointed day, probably on their birthday, and would send and invite their sisters, their 3 sisters, to eat and drink with them.

So it was when the days of feasting had run their course that Job would send and sanctify them.

He was interested in the spiritual welfare of his family.

So it says Job would send and sanctify them and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all.

For Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.

Verse 8 Then the Lord said to Satan, Have you considered My servant Job?

Have you looked at My servant who lives down in your territory?

That there is none like him on earth, a blameless and upright man, 1 who fears God and shuns evil.

Now notice here that it is God who is speaking.

In the introduction to the book it's simply being recorded that he was this, but here it's saying that God is saying this about his servant Job, that he was blameless, upright, feared God, and shunned evil.

Job was also a very generous man, a philanthropic man, he used his possessions to bless others.

Notice Job 29 verses 12 through 17, Job 29 verses 12 through 17.

Here Job is describing what he used his riches for.

Because I delivered the poor who cried out, the fatherless, and the 1 who had no helper.

The blessing of a perishing man came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

I put on righteousness and it clothed me.

I was eyes to the blind and I was feet to the lame.

I was a father to the poor and I searched out the case that I did not know.

I broke the fangs of the wicked and plucked the victim from his teeth.

Oh very philanthropic, rich, spiritual, generous.

The stage is rearranged and now the curtain opens and we are in heaven.

Job chapter 1 verse 6, God is entertaining a dialogue with Satan and it says there, now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord.

The sons of God, I don't have time to get into it, but the sons of God are the representatives of the worlds that never sinned.

Each world has a representative in the heavenly council.

And so it says, now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them.

The reason Satan came among them is because he had stolen Adam's position as the representative of this world when Adam allowed himself to be conquered.

Verse 7, And the Lord said to Satan, From where do you come?

So Satan answered the Lord and said, From going to and fro on the earth, that is, from patrolling my territory, and from walking back and forth on it.

And then God perhaps with a touch of healthy pride says in verse 8, then the Lord said to Satan, Have you considered my servant Job?

He lives in your territory but he's my servant, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, 1 who fears God and shuns evil.

Even though he lives in your territory, he fears me, and he loves me, and he obeys me.

Now in Job chapter 1 verses 9 through 11 Satan challenges God, and these are perhaps some of the most important verses in the whole book.

Satan challenges God and he says, does Job serve you because he loves you or does Job serve you for the loaves and fishes?

Would Job love and serve you even if everything went wrong?

So Satan answered the Lord and said, does Job fear God for nothing?

In other words, would Job serve you even if he didn't have anything that you have given to him?

Have you, now notice, have you not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side.

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