Doubling up

Jordan says, “What did God do with Job in the end? He turned His captivity. You got 41 chapters of captivity and then ‘BANG!’ the Lord came and turned it: ‘Just be patient because in the end I’m gonna turn your captivity.’ Now that expression, ‘turn the captivity of Job,’ is a fascinating one.

“In Deuteronomy, the expression is lifted right out of the Book of Job, which was on the table right in front of Moses when he wrote. Moses brings the children of Israel the second time to the door of the Promised Land. The new generation is there. The former generation that came to Kadesh Barnea, and refused to go in, died in the wilderness. The generation that was innocent, those 19 and under, are the leaders now and they’re ready to go in under Joshua.

“God, through Moses, makes what we call the ‘Palestinian Covenant.’ He reiterates his intention to bring Israel into the land, plant them in the land, and make them the head of the nations, thereby accomplishing his purpose in Israel and in her land.

“God is going to do for Israel in the future, at the end of ‘the day of the Lord,’ exactly what He did for Job at the end of the Book of Job. Job is a picture, or a type, of the Believing Remnant of Israel in ‘the last day,’ in ‘the day of the Lord.’

“And just as Job is in satanic captivity, Israel is in satanic captivity. Just as God turned the captivity of Job, He turns Israel’s captivity.

“Psalm 14. Psalm 126. You go through a concordance and find these passages all through your Bible. What He does for Job He’s going to do for Israel in her kingdom.

Isaiah 11:10-11.

“You notice in Job 42:10 it says He ‘turned his captivity’ and gave him twice as much as he had before. Isaiah 61:7. You know in verse 1 and 2 of Luke 4, the Lord Jesus Christ, and He ends the quote in the middle of verse 2 because He says, ‘This day is the Scripture fulfilled in your ears.’
So the first verse, and half of the second verse, is the first coming of Christ. Then the second half of the verse 2 is the Second Coming of Christ, so verse 3 and on look to the Second Coming of Christ.

“Verse 6-7 of Isaiah 61 says, ‘But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
[7] For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.’

“You see, folks, God gives Israel back double for their trouble just like He did with Job. Job is a picture, a type, a parallel of the tribulation saint, and the Book of Job, just as Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon do, has a specific role to play with Israel and the Believing Remnant of Israel and securing their heart in the last days.

“Job explains the plight and why the things that are happening to Israel are happening to them and how in the end, if they just endure and be patient and see to the end, God’s going to restore them.

“Job 42:11. By the way, there’s one thing in this passage Job doesn’t get back. He doesn’t get his wife back. She’s never listed there. But he does get the sons and daughters back. Well, if his sons and daughters were killed, and now he’s got them back but he doesn’t have a wife, how’d he get ‘em back?!

“You remember what Job believed in? He said, ‘Though worms eat my body yet I know one thing. My Redeemer lives, and in my flesh I’ll stand on the earth and see Him.’ That’s the resurrection! Just like the Lord blesses his latter end, at the latter end when Job gets that twice as many back, he gets back his boys. There’s a resurrection at the end of Job.

“Verse 14. Now if he lived 140 years after that and he got back double, well half of 140 is 70, so he would have been 70 years old when the things that hit him in the book hit him, and that fits with him having 10 grown kids in chapter 1. So Job lived a total of 210 years, or three times 70.

“Notice verses 13- 14 he renames these girls. Each one of them is given a name. Jemima means ‘fair as day, or there’s a day coming; the Second Advent when the Son of righteousness ‘arises with healing in His wings.’

“Kezia is one of the perfumes used in Psalm 45 for the coronation of the Messiah. The last one, Keren-happuch, means ‘a horn of paint.’ You say, ‘Well what in the world does that mean?!’ That means she’s all prepared. And so these are things that are descriptions of what the Believing Remnant is going to be transformed into when Christ comes.

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“Job also receives a new name. The reason Job gave those new names to his girls is identified in Rev. 2:17 and Isaiah 62:6.

“Just like God turned the captivity of Job and restored him back double, and just like his latter end was better than his former, and just like he got blessings from all of his friends and blessed them, and just like he had a resurrection of his lost people, and just like he renamed his kids, God gave Job a new name.

“What was Job’s last name? Gen 46:13. Now look at I Chronicles (the Book of Genealogy) 7:1. By the way, the name Job means ‘persecuted one.’ In Genesis, it’s Job ‘the persecuted one.’ In I Chronicles it’s Jashub. That name means ‘the returned one; he returns.’ God turned the captivity of Job.

“That name is only found one other time in the Bible. Only one other person carries this name and it’s one of Isaiah’s children. You recall in chapter 8 of Isaiah God gave Isaiah a kid and said, ‘Name the kid to indicate what’s going to happen to Israel in the future.’ God had Isaiah name his children just like He did Hosea in order to demonstrate and educate to Israel what was going to happen to them.

“Isaiah 7:3 says, ‘Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-Jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.’ Isaiah’s boy has the word ‘Shear’ put in front of it. Now, Shear is the Hebrew word for ‘a remnant.’ Shear-jashub means ‘a remnant returns.’

"You see, Job has a new name given to him for he transformed from ‘the persecuted one,’ and at the end of Job, Job becomes a picture, or a type of the remnant who returns. The Lord turns again the captivity of Job, and the significance of the Book of Job is he’s in exactly the same situation the Little Flock will be in the day of wrath, when Israel’s name will be Job, ‘the persecuted one,’ but will be changed to Jashub. In fact, Shear-jashub, means ‘the remnant that returns.’ ”