Lie: 'Hey, no need to get personal'

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, on Fox News yesterday, specifically criticized Hillary Clinton for “impersonalizing” millions of fellow Americans by lumping them into “a basket of deplorables.”

Just two letters--i and m--tacked onto “personal.” God calls Himself "I Am" and Satan cops the title.

How many times I have heard or read about a famous unsaved person who says, “I believe in an impersonal God.” Of course, this is what the Eastern religions teach.

Merriam-Webster defines the word “impersonal” as, “Having or showing no interest in individual people or their feelings: lacking emotional warmth.”

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The American Heritage Dictionary defines allegory as, “A literary, dramatic, or pictorial device in which characters and events stand for abstract ideas, principles, or forces, so that the literal sense has or suggests a parallel, deeper symbolic sense.”

Bible expert R. Dawson Barlow, in his 2004 book The Origin of the Races, testifies that “after many years of studying the Holy Scriptures, I remain categorically convinced that the most effective tool of the ‘god of this age,’ the ‘prince of the power of the air’ (i.e. Satan), has had at his disposal, is the allegorical approach to the Bible.

“. . . My study of church history leads me to believe the deadliest of all the ‘cancers’ infecting the professing, apostate church of Christendom today, is this ‘Allegorical Method’ of interpretation of the scriptures.” 

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While people are told that (“Of course, DUH!”) Job was simply a fictional character set into a fictional situation to teach some life lessons, it’s obvious from the Bible that the Israelites once understood Job was as much a real historic figure as Adam or Noah.

In Ezekiel 14, a passage about the Day of the Lord and the judgment of Christ when He comes back to destroy His enemies and pour out His wrath, is the verse, “Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.”

Jordan reasons, “If I were going to reference three men, I wouldn’t say, ‘Morris, John and Mr. Magoo,’ or, ‘Morris, John and Mickey Mouse.’ In other words, if I’m going to use two people, and if the third one isn’t a real person, there’s no reason to believe any of the people are real people, so there’s the assumption built-in of the real identity of Job. Now, I know there are a lot of people who don’t believe that.”

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Job is the first written book of the entire Bible and fits at the head of the five “poetry books” that deal with the heart of the believing remnant in Israel as it endures the plight of satanic captivity.

Just as the best physical description of Jesus Christ is found in the Song of Solomon (the last of the five books), the Book of Job gives the best physical description of the Antichrist.

“When you think about the fact Job was written early, that means Israel knew this information all along and could have understood some tremendous things,” says Jordan. “There are places in Moses’ writings where he’s literally using words out of Job to tell Israel what God’s going to do for them.”

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The author of the Book of Job is Elihu, a young man who appears at the end of the book and has kept a first-hand chronicle of all that’s been said to Job by his three friends, the “miserable comforters.”

Elihu understood that what he was writing was more than just the life story of the man Job. Job’s life and the things that were happening to Job were a parable. Job’s life paralleled something bigger.

Elihu says to Job in Job 33: “The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life. If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up. Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.”

Elihu did not have the benefit of Book of Genesis since Job was written years before, but yet he knew all about how God formed Adam out of the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life to make Adam a living soul.

“When Elihu said what he said, nobody around him responded, ‘Wow, where’d you get that idea?!” because it was common knowledge in his day,’ explains Jordan. “This is not a bunch of ignorant dudes out in the backside of nowhere that don’t have any communication about what God ever did.

“The teachings have been handed down to them. Now, think about what isn’t talked about. There’s no reference to the Exodus. The Exodus is kind of a significant event in the history of the nation Israel, isn’t it? It’s the birthday of the nation.

“There’s no reference to Moses or the law of Moses that God gave. There’s no reference to the Red Sea and the passing of the deliverance of Israel across the Red Sea and the coming in of the nation. Job was undoubtedly written sometime after the Flood but before the birth of the nation Israel.”

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“From the beginning of the book, we know Job was an extremely prominent, powerful figure in the community in his day.

“You read in chapter 1 about the wealth he had and all the stuff, but he was not just a wealthy guy sitting off behind a fence somewhere. Job was a wealthy businessman who was involved in the government and judicial system of his community. Everybody knew who Job was and everybody loved him.

“He says, ‘When I went down to the courthouse to work, the young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged men rose and stood up.’ They’re honoring him. The young guys quit playing and got out of the way and the elders respected him—he was an honorable, respectable man.

“Further in Job 29, it says the ‘princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth’ and ‘the nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.’ That’s saying, ‘When E.F. Hutton speaks, everybody listens.’

“Job continues, ‘I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
[15] I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
[16] I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
[17] And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.’

“He says, ‘When I see a wicked man going over and devouring somebody, I want to sock him right in the chops and bust the teeth out of his mouth.’ He’s upholding justice.

“Job goes on yet, ‘Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
[22] After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
[23] And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
[24] If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
[25] I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.’

“He’s saying, ‘They just couldn’t get enough of me.’ You ever see somebody out in the rain try to get water like that? You get thirsty.

“He’s saying, ‘When I talked, people were so hungry to hear what I had to say it was just like that. If I laughed on them they believed it not--the light of my countenance. I dwelt as a king in the army.’

“You remember what the army of Israel said to David? They said, ‘David you can’t go, you’re the king! One of you is worth 10,000 of us! You’re too valuable.’ Job says, ‘That’s the way they looked at me.’

“And then, all of a sudden, it’s gone. And then Job’s sick, hit twice. Can you understand why he says over there, ‘I’m confused?’ . . .  This was not some isolated little fellow; a hermit off on a mountain somewhere who just got head lice and developed boils. This was the ‘big man on campus.’ ”

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