"THINGS told in advance, lo! they have come to pass, and new things am I telling, ere yet they spring forth I let you hear them." He who speaks thus to all persons of faith and good-will is not an imperfect man who practices religion with statues and images, but is the Almighty God, who says: "I am Jehovah, that is my name, and my glory to another will I not give, nor my praise to images." (Isaiah 42:8,9, Rotherham) The astounding prophecy told long in advance concerning "the king of the north" and "the king of the south" is now coming to pass and is very near its final stage of fulfillment, proving that we are near the final end of this old world of wickedness.
Now the great Source of all true prophecy is telling and enlightening the inquiring minds to see new things pertaining to the new world, the world of righteousness. In a reliable picture thereof he spoke out of the storm to his faithful witness of old, Job, and he taught Job new things and made him to see and experience new things of great meaning to our day.
42 The wicked activities of the demons had made Job thirst for knowledge and understanding to refresh and revive him. In answer to all of Job's vital questions Jehovah both described to Job and questioned him on all the visible wondrous works of God in sky, earth, and the waters. God showed him the symbols of the two great opposing organizations, Jehovah's organization and Satan's organization, which organizations now line up for the showdown fight at Armageddon to decide for ever the leading issue of universal domination. How did this merciful and timely revelation by Jehovah settle Job's worrisome problem of why he was suffering such affliction by God's permission? It put the question at rest because impressively and by demonstration it proved the fact and truth of Jehovah's supremacy. It showed Job then, and the Job class now, the smallness and insignificance of man, even when devoted to God. It magnified the greatness of Jehovah God and now helps them to appreciate that He is above all and before all
and that the interests of no creature on earth are to be placed before the good name of the Creator, who does not need their assistance in the slightest, but by whose creative power they exist. All creatures fade out of view when compared with the Supreme Universal Ruler.
Being so high and mighty, and being eternal and not depending upon counsel from any source outside of himself, Jehovah may do according to his own will. This he may do without first laying his purposes before creature man to be censored and approved by man, especially man who is consecrated to do God's will unquestioningly. God's way of action does not first have to be understood by man or be seen by man to be just and righteous before Jehovah may undertake such action. His acts and course of conduct are above all censorship by creatures and are not deserving to be complained of, even when not understood. Jehovah cares not for the ignorant opinion of creatures. He is self-sufficient to know he is right and all-powerful. In respect of Him, his might is right and makes right.
At the vision of Jehovah's highness, his mightiness, his wisdom in counsel, his all-importance, and his worthy name, the Job class now, like Job of old, perceive that Jehovah permits the suffering and that nothing could come save by his permission when one is devotedly serving Him. Hence it is a
privilege and an honor to suffer according to the will of God and for any end or purpose that Jehovah has in view, whether creatures know and understand it or not. (1 Peter 2:19, 20; 4:19) Their prime business is to keep their covenant with God and carefully pay their vows unto him. Maintaining their integrity unto him under test is THE THING. Their physical or mental feelings are not to determine their action under any circumstances of trial and testing. The vision of the two great organizations in opposition clears up the understanding of the issue with which the trial and test is connected. "Then Job answered the Lord, and said, I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee." — 42:1,2.
Prior to the Lord's shortening of the days of tribulation for the elect's sake and then answering them out from the quiet spot of the storm, the Job class were unwittingly hiding Jehovah's counsels because without full and proper knowledge. Human opinions and teachings of men from which they had not altogether gotten rid were largely expressed, and their garments of identification had soils of religious influence on them. (Zechariah 3:3) Now they say: "I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not" (42:3); and they cast away all religious influence and seek unto the Lord for his teaching, that they may dispense
this knowledge unto others. (42:4) They could not understand until the "time of the end" began in 1914. — Daniel 12: 9,10.
Wasting away to a skeleton, Job had expressed the confidence that, for all that, yet his Vindicator-Redeemer lived and that without fair flesh or out from his flesh Job would "see God". (Job 19: 25-27) This hope he realized. He did not actually see the person of God, for no man in the flesh can see God and live on. (Exodus 33: 20) Job saw the manifestation of God's power, heard His word, and had his eyes of understanding opened to see the truth about God. Before that he had heard of God by the information concerning Abel, Enoch, Noah and the Flood, and Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. "I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. " — 42:5,6.
Likewise, when the prophet Isaiah had his vision of Jehovah represented by his Messenger at the temple, Isaiah abhorred himself as unclean and repented of his uncleanness of lip in failing to declare God's praises, and thereafter God cleansed him. From 1922 on the remnant were illuminated by God's Word and by fulfillments of its prophecies to see the vision of His Messenger at the temple. Greatly humbled by the vision, they repented of their unclean fear of men and failure in God's witness work and received
cleansing from him by his spirit and went earnestly to work. The glorious vision of Jehovah revealed to the eye of faith through his Word and works continually brightens with greater magnificence. The vision shall increase to unsurpassed brilliance and glory at Armageddon by Jehovah's victorious act of vindicating his name. Then the very enemies shall be made to know that He is Jehovah, and "the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea". (Habakkuk 2:14, Am. Rev, Ver.) Then, too, the Job class, though reduced to like a skeleton without flesh and sinews of strength by action of the totalitarian enemies, shall "see God" and survive. Their fat-fleshed enemies shall perish.
WAY OF ESCAPE
Jehovah could with right have killed Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar, to faithfully foreshadow the destruction of the religious leaders and their political and commercial allies at Armageddon. Almighty God did not do so in the prophetic drama because now he would mercifully show the way of escape from destruction in this "time of the end" for those of any class who have hitherto been defamers of God's name, opposers of The Theocracy and persecutors of his witnesses. It is a humiliating way, but the righteous and only effective way. Those who do not take it,
while possible, shall miserably perish, because God is angry. "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 thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath." (42: 7) To the modern-day trio the declaration of God's disapproval upon them by His witnesses is a "strange work" to that religious-totalitarian combine, and stranger will be God's "act" to follow soon. They proclaim themselves to be the favorites of heaven and the persecuted Jehovah's witnesses to be the objects of God's wrath; but now God turns the tables. He rejects them and openly displays the persecuted remnant to be his approved ones, by giving them his revealed message and sending them forth as his fearless witnesses to all nations. Who is preaching the truth concerning Jehovah God? Let all honest persons mark that it is to the modern RELIGIOUS trio that Almighty God says: "Ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath." Let the persons who love life clear away from that religious trio if they want to miss the divine wrath about to be expressed upon that crowd. Let them hear now God's appointed way of escape:
"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." (42:8) The expression "my servant Job" particularly designates Christ Jesus. The "feet" members, or last members of his body of 144,000, are still on earth. Only Christ Jesus can intercede with God and provide ransom merits and cleansing for them if they do repent. The perfect number of bullocks and rams which the trio must offer pictures the ransom sacrifice of Christ, and their offering such as a burnt offering manifests their acceptance of the ransom sacrifice of Christ Jesus, Jehovah's High Priest, as the only means of purification and life. Their proceeding to "go to my servant Job" shows that suchlike today must with broken heart and a contrite and humble spirit go and hail Christ as Jehovah's approved King and take their stand for The Theocracy and against all demon rule. Since the remnant members of Christ's body are already standing there, this means that such repentant ones seeking the truth and life must associate themselves with this remnant part of the Job class.
The unintentional manslayer of old time must flee to the Lord's "city of refuge" and there put himself under the atonement power of Jehovah's high priest and associate
himself there with the underpriests and other Levites, or else be slain by God's executioner. So, too, the individuals who would now escape the judgment of destruction must flee to God's capital organization, The Theocracy, the Head of which is Christ Jesus the King. They must put themselves under him and his organization for protection and deliverance. They must abide there under his redemptive provision and in the company of the antitypical Levites, the remnant, and also of the other refugees, the "other sheep". They must do this before the Executioner strikes at Armageddon, and must ever keep within bounds; else they shall be executed. — Numbers 35:6-32.
"And my servant Job shall pray for you; for him will I accept." Christ Jesus never prayed for the wicked, but solely for those who repented and gave their lives in consecration through him to God Jehovah, and for such only has he given his ransom sacrifice. "I pray for them: I pray not for the world," said Jesus. (John 17:9,20) The remnant, or "feet" members of his body, pray likewise. They pray God to send forth more laborers into his witness work. The remnant are also active in the field, witnessing from house to house and otherwise, publishing Jehovah's gracious message of invitation. This is in effect a prayer to Him in behalf of all those who accept the warning message, forsake Satan's side of the con-
troversy, abandon religion, and turn to God and Christ his King. For long they have been fishing for such, and now the remnant and their companions are hunting for such "other sheep". It requires prayer to keep on in this strenuous work. — Jeremiah 16:16.
"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." (42: 9) Does this foreshadow mass conversion of the modern Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar combine? No; for those three elements of "Christendom" and of the world continue to reject the Greater Job, Christ Jesus, the Mediator, and also to persecute his remnant. But there are individuals of those three elements, and also others who have hung on to and done the bidding of those three elements, who get their eyes opened to what they have been doing and the disaster to which it is leading them. These accept the Lord's reproof. They see Jehovah's approval upon his remnant of witnesses, and they follow the course prescribed by the Lord God and join with his accepted remnant in serving God. The Lord also accepts and blesses the loving activities of his remnant in behalf of such repentant ones. Jehovah has only one organization through which he deals with those seeking life, and Christ Jesus is the Head of that Theocratic organization, and the remnant, or "feet" of his body, are also members of
that organization. Bildad, Eliphaz and Zophar had to swallow pride. So must men today, humbling themselves under God's mighty hand. — James 4:10; 1 Peter 5: 6.
No further direct mention is made of Job's wife. She had yielded to demon influence and said to Job: "Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die." In that she represented those once associated with the remnant, but who fall to smiting their Christian brethren and become the "evil servant" class. (Matthew 24: 48-51) It appears Job's estranged wife was reconciled to him, by God's mercy and arrangement. This, however, does not mean the "evil servant" class is recovered, but that individuals who are in line for that class may be recovered and escape destruction with that wicked covenant-breaking class by repenting, turning about and declaring the Lord's Kingdom truth in unity and harmony with God's remnant. Let such remember Ezekiel's wife. — Ezekiel 24:15-24.
"CHANGE"
"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." (42:10) Refusing to curse God for what He had permitted, Job presented himself to Jehovah God for further service while as yet Job was physically afflicted. But his understanding had now been enlight-
ened, and that made all the difference to him. He proceeded to do for his former persecutors what he had done for his ten children killed by the demons. (Job 1: 4, 5,18,19) This shows that while the Job class are doing God's commandments in behalf of his "other sheep" they will continue to be assaulted by demons and religionists down till Armageddon. As soon as Job turned from worrying over his own sufferings and was revived again to God's service and applied himself thereto, the Lord changed matters for Job.
The like is true of the remnant from 1918 on. Now with minds enlightened they care not for and are not affected by the Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar combine today. By God's mercy, some individuals of that triple combine get their eyes open to the Lord's reproof and change their course, to the comfort and joy of the Job class. Job was no longer left in captivity to Satan, to do anything to Job's skin, bone, and flesh, except to take his life. This foreshadowed that Jehovah lifted the "rod of the wicked" from the "lot of the righteous" in 1919, nevermore to rest again on them, because the Lord established over them his Theocratic organization with Christ Jesus as Head and Leader, and all the assaults by demons, religionists and governments shall fail to break that organization down. (Psalm 125: 3) In that year 1919 Jehovah God by his Messenger at the
temple delivered the remnant from literal prisons and other restraints in Babylon, Satan's organization, and especially from the paralyzing bondage of the fear of men, and sent them forth fearless in his service as his witnesses.
That Job "prayed for his friends" foretells the tremendous witness work worldwide by the remnant concerning "this gospel of the kingdom", and which witness benefits only and all those who accept it and become the friends of the Greater Job, Christ Jesus the King, who is God's "high priest after the order of Melchizedek". (Psalm 110:1-4) Prayers of religious priests like Eliphaz avail nothing for themselves or their parishioners or their "Purgatory" victims. When Job renewed his intercessory work of prayer Job's desired and awaited "change" came, and God healed him. — Job 14:14.
God healed his remnant when they awoke at his call by his Messenger at the temple and arose from the dust of inactivity and fear of men and got alive again to his service as Jehovah's witnesses. He poured out his spirit upon them, and graced and beautified them with his message and his "robe of righteousness" as his approved servants. Instead of being spiritually weak, sick and lean in his service, they became strong, vigorous, youthful in mind and vision and eagerness for service. From dead skeletons, so to speak,
they became an organized host of fair-fleshed, strong-sinewed warriors for the Lord God and his Theocracy, filled and moved by the spirit of the Lord. (Ezekiel 37:1-10) In the eyes of this world the religionists still try to make the remnant and their companions appear unsightly, repulsive, and reproachful, as if smitten of God. This, however, does not trouble the Job class nor make them hole up from before the people or slack their hands. Onward they continue in his service, proving that they are "strong in the Lord and in the power of his might". Those, also, who have been blinded by religion but who have anointed their eyes with the salve of the healing truth of God's Word see the remnant as God sees and knows them. (Revelation 3:18) "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!" — Isaiah 52: 7.
The healing and "change" of condition of the Job class corresponds with the change of condition of Lazarus as described by the Greater Job, Christ Jesus, in the parable of the rich man and the beggar. (Read Luke 16:19-30.) Lazarus' name means "God is helper". The poor man needed God's help as he lay, full of sores and with dogs to sympathetically lick his sores, at the gate of the rich man and got not even the crumbs that
fell from the table of the religious rich man. That rich man pictured the same group as Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar, who gave not a crumb of sympathy or aid to Job in his affliction at the hands of the demons. Lazarus' death in course of time brought a change of condition for him, a transfer by the angels to the bosom of favor, comfort and support of Abraham. Thus the one whom the rich man rejected the Father of the promised Seed of The Theocracy took up.
Likewise with the Job class. The changed condition of the faithful remnant after 1918 affected not alone themselves. It also meant a changed condition for their companions, the Lord's "other sheep", who suffer like things as the remnant suffer from the "rich man" class. Thereby the great Interpreter of parables, Jehovah, makes it clear that the beggar Lazarus symbolizes those of the Job class after the Lord comes to the temple, namely, the faithful remnant and also the "other sheep", who unshakably abide as the remnant's companions through evil report and who therefore share with them the favor, help and comfort of the Greater Abraham, Jehovah God. They stand immovably with the remnant at the other side of the "great gulf" fixed by God's unchangeable judgment and which gulf now separates them from the "rich man" class who oppose The Theocracy and who shall therefore have no part in the new world. Since the temple judgment
began in 1918 this "rich man" class have had a change of condition and are dead in hell as to Jehovah's Theocracy and its service. They still dare to call the Greater Abraham "father", but their "father's house" is really that of Satan the Devil, and none of that house take heed to God's law and prophecies and repent. Therefore such ones receive not even a moist finger-tip of comfort from the Lord, but are tormented by the Lord's fiery message of judgment as proclaimed by the Lazarus or Job class. This faithful class, the remnant and their companions, are abundantly comforted with the good things of Jehovah's established Theocracy. They let the "goats" alone, and lovingly comfort those that mourn with the same comfort with which they themselves are comforted by the great 'Abraham of mercies and God of all comfort'. — 2 Corinthians 1: 3, 4; Isaiah 61: 2.
It was not necessary for Jehovah to bind Satan hand and foot or to destroy him in order to turn Job's captivity or before God could do so. Jehovah permitted Satan to remain and continue active, but Jehovah showed his superiority over Satan by turning back the disease-infecting hand of Satan and miraculously healing Job of the "incurable wound" with which Satan had plagued Job. Job was still surrounded by the demons and by the totalitarian powers of the leviathan organization, the world power to the
south of Job, namely, Egypt, "the king of the south," and the coming rival world power to the north of Job, namely, Assyria and its Chaldean allies, "the king of the north." Jehovah pushed back the demon hordes and held them at bay by again hedging Job about with the encampment of the angel of the Lord who encamps round about them that fear Him. (Psalm 34:7) Thereby Job became a more forceful witness for Jehovah to declare Jehovah's name in the earth before Jehovah's power blots out Satan and his leviathan.
The same holds true today as to the remnant under Christ Jesus. Satan and his leviathan organization have not yet been bound and put out of action; Jehovah's supreme power at Armageddon has yet to do that. (Revelation 20:1-3) "The king of the north" and "the king of the south", though for a time divided in total war over world domination, will yet merge all their forces in a regimented world federation in united opposition to Jehovah's Theocracy. They will thus bring forth in its final form the "abomination of desolation", the "scarlet-coloured beast" with the harlot of religion perched on top, and which beast "shall ascend out of the bottomless pit [after the total war], and go into perdition". (Revelation 17:8) They will strive to keep it standing in the holy place as something better and more practical than The Theocracy, which they view as weak and
hideous as diseased Job. The most trying times, the most severe tests of integrity toward Jehovah God and his Theocracy, are therefore yet ahead of the remnant and their companions and are due to reach a climax in the forcible stopping of the organized Kingdom witness, whereat the totalitarian-religious enemies responsible therefor will crow "Peace and safety!" Yet now, before Satan and his demons have been bound and destroyed, and continuously since God turned the captivity of the remnant in 1919, Jehovah has had his name declared throughout all the earth by his Job class. Under the extraordinary circumstances only God Almighty could have and has accomplished that! — Exodus 9:16.
"And Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before." (Am. Rev. Ver.) When Job was in good earthly circumstances before his great loss and disease brought him low, Job particularly pictured Christ Jesus, who suffered the loss of all things in proof of his unbreakable integrity toward Jehovah and His Theocracy. Compare now that condition of Jesus when on earth in the flesh amid his disciples with his glorified condition since his enthronement as King in 1914 and coming thereafter to the temple in 1918 and being presented as King before all the world. Jehovah has given this Greater Job the Kingdom, The Theocratic Government, and made him "heir of all things", exalted above
all, and "by whom also he made the worlds", that is, the eons (Greek: aionas), constituting the "world without end". (Hebrews 1:2) This endowment was foreshadowed long ago when Abraham "gave all that he had unto Isaac". (Genesis 25:5; 15:4) To the religionists of "Christendom", however, Christ Jesus is still as unsightly and undesirable as plague-stricken Job. They still do not want him to reign over the earth directly, but prefer their so-called "vicegerent of Christ" and their totalitarian dictators and their politicians and their "abomination of desolation" instead, in a "new order" without Theocracy.
HAIL THE THEOCRACY!
"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." (42:11) This foretells what is taking place today and since 1918. It pictures that multitudes now come to see that Christ Jesus is the "tried stone", The Stone which was disallowed and rejected of the religious-totalitarian builders of the "new order", but which Stone has become the Headstone of the corner, Jehovah's Chief Official in The Theocracy, The
King thereof! (Psalm 118:22; Isaiah 28:16; Matthew 21:42-45) Therefore they turn from the desolating abomination and the "new order" and take their firm stand for The Theocracy and salute and accept Christ Jesus as God's appointed Rightful Ruler. They bemoan the Greater Job by sympathetically sharing in the sufferings with Him for The Theocracy, and instead of their hitherto evil course against him they take the course which brings joy to his heart and praise to his name. They feast with him at the Lord's table of Kingdom truths and of service of the truth. They contribute their money and their all to Him in the interest of The Theocracy by joyfully consecrating themselves wholly to the Great Theocrat, Jehovah God, through Christ Jesus.
"So Jehovah blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: and he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses." (42:12, Am. Rev. Ver.) The present exalted condition of the Greater Job, Christ Jesus, is more powerful, secure, and lofty than before he became a man and suffered for bearing witness to the truth of Jehovah's name and promised Government, his capital organization. He was raised from the dead to immortality, to the brightness of God's glory and the express image of His person, and to the highest place immediately next to Jehovah the Supreme One. (Hebrews
1:3-9) Having waited at Jehovah's right hand in heaven for nineteen centuries, he now actually exercises the power as the installed King of The Theocracy in 1914. All the animal creation of the earth in the new world shall be in subjection to him and shall be multiplied under his merciful treatment, and he will make them the friends and helpers of obedient man. — Hebrews 2:5-9; Psalm 8: 4-8; Isaiah 11: 6-9.
"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, Keren-happuch. 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." (42:13-15) These children were miraculously given by Jehovah's renewal of the vital reproductive powers of Job, who had been as good as dead. Job's renewal of relations with a wife suggest that at Christ's coming to the temple in 1918 it is time for the "marriage of the Lamb" to begin. (Revelation 19: 7) He comes and receives unto himself at the temple those begotten of his Father's spirit and who are "espoused ... as a chaste virgin to Christ" and who keep their virginity unspotted from this world. Such ones include the faithful remnant. (2 Corinthians 11: 2) For this virgin company, as joint-heirs with him of the Kingdom, Christ Jesus gave his all, and they get life by him.
Job's first ten children, who were killed by demon power, pictured Jesus' disciples when he was on earth as a man. Job's new children, of equal number, and miraculously brought forth to life, picture those of the Job class under Christ who maintain integrity before Satan is destroyed at Armageddon. All these receive life from Jehovah and through his Perfect One of integrity, Christ Jesus. This means that, first, Jehovah by Christ Jesus miraculously raises to life immortal in the spirit those members of Christ's body who died faithful unto death before his coming to the temple and who slept in death awaiting that blessed event. It means that Jehovah by Christ Jesus shortens those days of tribulation for the sake of the remnant of his elect, thereby sparing them from destruction; and that he brings them into the temple condition into unity with Christ Jesus the King. Continuing further faithful, even unto death, the remnant members shall by an immediate resurrection from the dead have an instantaneous "change" from human to spirit and shall live and reign with Christ. — 1 Corinthians 15: 50-54.
The children of the Greater Job shall also include those faithful men of old, including the historical Job himself. These shall in due time, and, it appears, before the final end of Satan's world, be raised to life in the "better resurrection". These former "fathers" of the man Christ Jesus shall thereby become
his children, and he as King shall make them "princes in all the earth" to visibly represent him to humankind on earth. His "children" also include his "other sheep", whom he now brings into the one fold under the one Shepherd and who become the loving companions of the remnant of the "little flock". These are in line to become the "children of the King" by regeneration under the Kingdom. — Matthew 19: 28.
All such ones of proved integrity toward Jehovah's Theocracy, namely, the remnant, the "other sheep", and the coming "princes", must stand together in the "one fold" and against the wicked world that is about to perish. As witnesses of Jehovah, they are all as visible living symbols of the new world, the "new heavens" of which now rule, to the glorifying of God. By the miraculous power of God through Christ his King these advocates of The Theocracy shall pass through the storm of Armageddon and its destruction of the wicked world and shall enter into the new world fully established.
The loveliness of these to God because of maintaining their blamelessness toward God is brought before the eye in the names of Job's three daughters: "Jemima," meaning "warm", that is, "affectionate," and hence a "dove"; "Kezia," meaning "cassia", which is an herb planting of the Lord and which is of an aroma pleasing to the King (Psalm 45:8); and "Keren-happuch", meaning
"horn of beautiful paint", like a beauty box used by women, a "horn of fair colors". (Isaiah 54:11) They are affectionately devoted to God with inseparable love, and hence like a dove to him; they are of sweet fragrance to him in their burning zeal and service; and they are strong and beautiful to him as his witnesses. None of those who shall under the Kingdom be raised in the general resurrection of redeemed humankind shall be as fair in God's sight as these. Prophesying of the beautiful relationship between the remnant of the bride of Christ and their earthly companions, Psalm 45:13, 14,16 says: "The King's daughter is all glorious within; her clothing is of wrought gold. She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee. Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth."
Job's giving his daughters inheritance among their brethren appears to picture that now, in the precious privilege of witnessing for Jehovah's name and kingdom, Christ Jesus makes no distinction of sexes; faithful women and girls may share therein as well as males. It also indicates that on earth under the Kingdom the sex distinction will not be wiped out among humankind, no more than among the lower animals, but that the survivors of Armageddon who shall form
the "great multitude" will marry and carry out the divine mandate of filling the earth with a righteous race.
"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." (42:16,17) Satan would have killed Job. Job's extension of life to a good old age was miraculous, the wondrous work of Jehovah God. This suggests that the Job class, Jehovah's servants of integrity, who have by His grace and power survived the demons' assault thus far, shall be carried alive through Armageddon, if continuing faithful. Job's seeing his children become fruitful, unto the fourth generation, pictures that the "other sheep", the "great multitude", shall obey the divine mandate until the earth is full, a complete generation. Job's death appears to mean that yet the remnant must in due time after Armageddon finish their earthly course and, like the other members of Christ's body, have their change from human to spirit. The "princes" and the "great multitude", however, shall abide on the perfect earth and shall there serve Jehovah God and Christ Jesus, his King of The Theocracy, forever, "world without end."
No power of Satan and all his wicked world can now reverse the situation or push back the hands of the great clock of the universe. His failure to usurp the universal
domination is certain, and his time of being permitted to remain to show whether he could do so ends at the stroke of Armageddon, when Almighty God's power checks him out in decisive defeat. The days of his wicked world are numbered, and but few left. Let him exercise all the savagery he still may against the Job class, yet the captivity of these dear ones who keep their integrity is for ever turned away, and Satan cannot supplant the Theocratic Government which Jehovah has established over his own, nor halt the incoming of God's new world. In the heavens the announcement has gone forth: "The kingdom of the [new] world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ: and he shall reign for ever and ever." — Revelation 11:15, Am. Rev. Ver.
True as never before possible are now the inspired words to God's covenant people: " Rejoice evermore." (1 Thessalonians 5:16) What though in the death throes of Satan and all his demons and human servants they bring the severest tribulations yet upon the faithful Job company, these shall continue to look unto the Greater Job, Christ Jesus, "the author and finisher of our faith." Like him they shall keep their integrity blameless and be "patient in tribulation" and shall "overcome the [wicked] world". Understanding the reason therefor and the great issue to be determined, they endure and "glory in tribulations", and let nothing
move them away from The Theocracy. (Romans 12:12; 5:3; John 16:33) With the golden light of the new world streaming upon their countenances they joyfully continue to obey the divine command: "Say among the nations, Jehovah reigneth: the world also is established that it cannot be moved: he will judge the peoples with equity. Let the [new] heavens be glad, and let the [new] earth rejoice." (Psalm 96:10,11, Am. Rev. Ver.) In adoration of the everlasting Theocrat Jehovah they fervently pray: "Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus [The Theocracy], throughout all ages, world without end. Amen." — Ephesians 3: 21.
