Here's a message from CJ Lovick, author of the widely popular Living Word in 3D series. Watch as he unfolds a mystery hidden just under the surface. The book of Job reveals the first time that God calls anyone, my servant. Is there a mystery hidden for us to discover in the Hebrew word servant?
You're about to find out. In Job 1.8 we read the following. The Lord said to Satan, Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil. Let's look at the meaning of the three letters in the Hebrew word we translate into English as servant.
The letters A-N, bet and dallet. The dictionary defines servant as a person employed by another to perform duties. Most often those duties are domestic. The servant is not related to the master of the household but serves only at his pleasure. The ideal Hebrew word picture paints a different picture.
Let's examine the pictographic meaning of each of the Hebrew letters. Eyan, pictured as an eye, means to know, to see. and experience.
Bet, pictured as a tent or a house. Dalet is pictured as a door or a pathway. God called Job my servant. Now let me ask you a question. Had Job seen, known, or experienced the home of the Son of God?
The answer is no. Does it follow that those who are God's servants here on earth will one day see, know, and experience the hospitality of heaven, not as servants, but as sons? Job thought so. What would give Job that blessed hope?
Listen to what Job reveals in Job 19 verses 25-27. For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God, whom I shall see for myself, and mine own eyes shall behold, and not another, though my reins be consumed within me.
The Pictographic Messianic Translation of the word servant based on the three pictures found in the three-letter word servant is as follows. Ayan, we can only know and experience. Bet, the hospitality of heaven's household. Dalet, when we open the door and enter the pathway that leads to eternal life.
Is God looking for domestic servants in heaven? Of course not. What is God's plan for his servants here on earth?
God who called Job my servant would one day call Job his adopted son. Job, a man and always a creature, would nonetheless be adopted into the household of God. Job's destiny is to be resurrected in order that one day he might call his creator and redeemer his heavenly father. Job's destiny is our destiny if we love God and have put our faith and trust in his only begotten son who came to undo the curse brought into this world by Satan and sin.
Listen to the invitation given by our Redeemer, Jesus the Christ, as recorded in John 10, 9a. I am the door. By me, if any man enter, he shall be saved.
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