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Jewels from the Book of Job - Part 2

In the beginning portion of the Book of Job we see that the sons of Job had houses. The brothers would invite the sisters to their homes. However it appears that the sisters had no homes of their own. The custom of the time was for the women to be entirely dependent on their fathers until marriage. If the sisters never married and the father had died then the brother was in charge of them and their upkeep.

After his life changing experience Job had a new vision. After his encounter with God Job saw that the cultural norms of his day were not necessarily the God given ones. Like the New Testament states there was no male or female in Christ. Job saw a clearer picture of God's plans. Job became a non-conformist. How much more we would be like God in His dealings with men and women if we could really encounter the God of the universe.

Job became like Christ who never put women down. Christ liberated women, not only from their sins but from their oppression. The woman with the issue of blood was oppressed by an inefficient health care system that left her broke and unhealed. The woman at the well was oppressed by men who took advantage of her vulnerabilities. The woman about to be stoned, alone without the man, after being caught in the very act of adultery was oppressed by an unequal implementation of the law.

Job was in line with the Creator the King of Kings. Christ is the True Liberator of Women. When we talk about the women's liberation the movement of the 70's it was about thousands of years too late. Job had the vision to liberate his daughters. Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job's daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers. Job 42:15

Job's daughters would now be able to provide for themselves because their father had an encounter with God. Job was no longer conforming to the society in which he lived. Now Job became the trailblazer to show other fathers what to do for their daughters. Having an encounter with the God, the King of kings will bring about revolution for us personally and those with whom we interact. I can imagine that if we could peek at the lives of the second set of children one of the verses might say that the sisters were inviting the brothers to their homes too.

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