Episode 145: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 111

Episode Summary:

So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes. Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips. (Job 2:7-10)

28 I preached on Job one time for about six months when I pastored. There was a lady had the honesty enough… I got him up to that ash heap, setting out there, you know, all full of boils and a piece of crock combing off his boils. And a lady said, “Brother Branham, are you ever going to get Job off that ash heap?” About three Sundays, but I was building around to make it.

There he was. He was a prophet. He was God’s anointed. And the only thing the man knowed to do was stay with the Word. That’s all. They come and they said, “Job, you know you’ve done wrong. Look what’s happened to you. Everybody’s turned their back upon you. And here your friends are gone and all. The only thing you can do is set out here, and look at, you’re a miserable looking wretch with boils and everything broke out on you. And look at your condition.” But Job said he had not sinned, because he is coming God’s appointed way under the shed blood.

29 Then God’s obligated to a man who will stand like that. He let him go right down to the last person, even to his wife come out and said, “Job, why don’t you curse God and die?” Just think, his own wife turned against him. And because someone will turn against us and think that we’re funny and odd… All God’s people are funny and odd to the world. Sure, they are. “You are a peculiar people, a royal priesthood, offering sacrifices to God, the fruits of your lips giving praise to His Name.”

Now, we notice that even Job’s wife turned against him. Turned her back on him and said, “Why don’t you curse God and die?” In other words, “You look miserable. Why don’t you just curse God and die?”

He said, “Thou speakest like a foolish woman.”

Now, he never called her foolish; he said she talked like one. He never said she was foolish. After, let me… I correct this. Sometimes I’m calling down you sisters; I’m not saying you’re worldly; but sometimes you look like it. So I—I—I don’t say you do wrong. But sometimes you dress yourself like—like looks like it. You see? So Job told his wife… I won’t get on that.

Job told his wife, said, “Thou speakest like a foolish woman.”

30 And after while… Oh, God’s always faithful when we’re coming God’s provided way. Job said, “I’ve made my confession. I have burnt the offering.” That’s exactly what God required. He worshipped God under the shed blood. And all of a sudden then the Spirit come upon the prophet, and the thunders roared, and the lightnings flashed, and he said, “I know my Redeemer liveth. And in the last days… Though after the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself.” See, under the blood…

There set the rest of them as far away as anything. But Job stayed under the blood with the Word (That’s it.), under the blood with the Word. No matter how dark it gets, just keep going on. Hold to God’s unchanging Word. Go right down. If you hold the Word, you got His hand. Go on down.

62-0519 – “Fellowship”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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