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2/3 Reading Portions: Genesis 35-36; Mark 6; Job 2; Romans 6
Job 2:5, 10
“But stretch out Your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse You to Your face.”….In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
CURSE
Satan was expecting righteous, faithful Job to sin because he was physically afflicted. He didn’t realize that the ancient patriarch was a prophet and servant of God; and he did not sin with his lips through his afflictions because it foreshadowed the afflictions and sufferings of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus was the Servant of YHVH who, as Isaiah proclaims,
…shall act wisely… [and] shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted.” Isaiah 52:13
Physically, Jesus Messiah was beaten so mercilessly by His accusers and His Idumean and Roman examiners that…
His appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and His form beyond that of the children of mankind— Isaiah 52:14
Christ’s afflictions were far greater than what Job suffered. After being awake for over twenty-four hours, brought to His most weakened state physically, and then also suffering the excruciating pain of being stretched out and nailed to a Roman cross, Jesus was “smitten by God, and afflicted” (Isa 53:4) with the infinite and eternal wrath of God for sins He did not commit. Of Jesus, it is written:
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us— for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree.’ Galatians 3:13
Jesus never cursed God to His face, neither did He sin with His lips, as it is written:
He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so He opened not his mouth. Isaiah 53:7
For the Lord Jesus had “borne our griefs and carried our sorrows” (Isa 53:3), bearing our sins as if they were His very own. The Son of God was cursed so that we may be called the children of God. Hallelujah! What a Savior!
Though Satan sought to ravish Job
To cause him to curse God;
Yet Job stood firm, his life show’d forth
Christ’s sufferings from man’s hateful rod.
