Job is the one who went through tremendous suffering, who lost everything, but who later had double what he had lost. And today we are going to see that Job was raised "a phrase" ... a Word.
Let's see chapters 1 and 2 of the book, at the beginning of the story (Job 1: 3), where he says that Job was a very rich man: he had five hundred yoke of oxen-a man with two yoke of oxen was already "respectable" in that business-, five hundred she-asses, seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels and numerous servants; that is, people who worked, who produced for him. But Job lost everything. He had many children, heirs, he had a beautiful family ... but it disintegrated, he lost everything on the same day. That same man was the one who said: "I know that my Redeemer lives". What "I know" is glorious, it is power, it is power of change. What "I know" is healing. Hallelujah!
Job had a "Helper" in the middle of the tribulation. He says "my Redeemer." Job declares: "I am full of tribulations, but in the midst of them I have a Helper." Some translations put the word "Defender", but in Hebrew the word is "goel", which means: redeemer, rescuer, one who buys for another. This has to do with an old institution that we find in the Bible, that of the "goel", the "close relative". There we see - in different passages - that the "goel" was a blood relative -varón-, who assumed the responsibility of his family when it was afflicted by some evil. For example, in Leviticus 25: 23-34, we see that when there was a family that was in financial distress for having done bad business or economic abuse, there was a "goel", a redeemer, a defender, a rescuer who, disinterestedly, he paid with his money what he lost for that family: "If your brother becomes impoverished and sells part of his property, his closest relative will come and rescue what was sold by his brother" (vs. 25). This was a financial rescuer. Another case is found in Numbers 35:19. Here, when a family suffered death damage caused by some stranger, he had his "goel", his redeemer, his defender, a "blood avenger" who would kill the aggressor: "The same avenger of blood He will kill the murderer: as soon as he finds him, he will kill him. " We can say that this "goel" was the protector of the family. And now, in Deuteronomy 25: 5-10, we also see another "goel" appear. This biblical portion relates what is known as "The law of the levirate". The same said that when the husband of a woman died and did not leave offspring (children), the brother of the deceased husband - here appears the "goel" -, he had to marry the widow to give him a son, which would not bear the name of the father but of the one who had died, so that in this way the name of the deceased would be perpetuated. I want you to notice that this living brother was making a great sacrifice, because he had to take responsibility to get close to that woman, to have the son, and give him part of his inheritance: "... His brother-in-law will come to her and take her for a wife and he will fulfill her as a brother-in-law, and the first-born whom she gives birth will perpetuate the name of his deceased brother; so his name shall not be blotted out of Israel "(vs 5-6). Here the "goel" freed from abandonment due to widowhood and lack of inheritance. Then, a "goel" rescues you in finances, rescues you from the violent and rescues you from the sadness of widowhood, from the lack of inheritance and shame. It is from this that Job says: "I know that my Goel lives". My Rescuer lives and it is He who paid the price for me to be free.
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