True repentance in the eyes of Almighty GOD!~
Everyone talks about repenting as if repentance is a just a word or some religious cliché, but JOB is the exact image of what true repentance is in the eyes of Almighty GOD!
Brothers and sisters, can you even imagine yourself having to repent from not knowing GOD like you are supposed to know him?
Can you imagine yourself saying to GOD, “I repent for only hearing of you by the hearing of the ear, only knowing you by second hand knowledge, only knowing you by second hand information, and hearsay?
Can you imagine GOD having a conversation about you with Satan, and GOD calling you righteous, and telling Satan you are his righteous servant, but you are not actually righteous at that moment in your life?
And the righteousness GOD is speaking to your life will come into your life through the sufferings of life, the trials of life, tribulations, and all the attacks of the enemy GOD allows to come your way, and you will learn obedience and righteousness through the things you suffer for the sake of true righteousness in GOD!
Can you imagine GOD calling you righteous, and confessing your righteousness to the enemy Satan, but the words GOD is speaking over your life are eternal spiritual words, and those eternal spiritual words are speaking to your future destiny in GOD, and GOD is calling those things that are not, as if they already were!~
But the reality of those GOD spoken words will cause you to go through the fire, and the fire is the attacks of the enemy, the trials, tribulations, temptations, and the sufferings for righteousness sake, the righteousness of GOD!
(Job 42:1-6) Then Job answered the LORD, and said, I know that you can do every thing, and that no thought can be withheld from you. Who is he that hides counsel without knowledge?
Therefore have I uttered things that I did not understood; things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
Hear, I beseech you, and I will speak: I will demand of you, and declare you unto me.
I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear: but now my eyes see you.
Wherefore I abhor myself, AND I REPENT IN DUST AND AHSES.
Brothers and sisters, many people talk about repentance as if it’s just a word or some religious cliché we use, but Job is what true repentance looks like in the eyes of Almighty GOD!
In the book of Job, Job actually repented from not knowing GOD through revelation knowledge, at the end of the book Job confessed to GOD that he had only known of him by the hearing of the ear, by second hand knowledge, second hand information, and hearsay!
And at the beginning of the book of Job, GOD called Job righteous, but GOD was not calling JOB righteous based off his life as of then, his performance, what he knew about GOD, or how obedient Job was to GOD!
GOD called Job righteous by faith, and when GOD spoke those words to Satan about Job, then GOD was speaking spiritual eternal words to Jobs future destiny!
GOD was calling those things that are not yet in Job’s life as it they were already there!~
Brothers and sisters, I know many of you have read the book of Job, and thought it was all about the sufferings of GOD, and suffering for the sake of GOD, but the book of Job is a book of revelation knowledge given through suffering, the wisdom of GOD, understanding, and learning righteousness and obedience through the things we suffer, because even JESUS learned obedience through the things he suffered!
(Hebrews 5:4-10) And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.
So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.
As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
Brothers and sisters, There are many Christians, Jews, Hebrew Israelites, Catholics, Muslims, Church folks, religious folks, religious leaders, pastors, prophets, evangelists, bishops, apostles, teachers, and ministers, who need to repent from not knowing GOD through the revelation knowledge of JESUS CHRIST!
Many people need to repent from only knowing GOD by second hand information, second hand knowledge, and hearsay!
Many people need to repent like Job repented, so GOD can restore unto your life sevenfold, and give you back a hundred fold of what’s been taken away from you!
(Job 42:1-17) Then Job answered the LORD, and said, I know that you can do every thing, and that no thought can be withheld from you.
Who is he that hides counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of you, and declare you unto me.
I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear: but now my eyes see you.
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you, and against thy two friends: for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.
And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
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.
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.
He had also seven sons and three daughters. And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch. 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. After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations. So Job died, being old and full of days.
REPENT!~
(Hosea 4:6) My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.