Job 12 and Creation's Testimony

Shalom friends. My name is Chadwick Harvey, and you're watching Faithful Performance. Thank you so much for joining us tonight as we explore this fascinating chapter in the Bible, Job 12, where God will tell us a story with His creation. It's a fascinating chapter that we're going to explore. We're going to tie the days of creation into it, and also other scriptures into it that prove the point of how this chapter is so amazing for us to really dive into.

Before we do that, I wanted to discuss that today, on the Jewish calendar, the Hebrew calendar, it is Elul 25. What's so significant about that day is that it's the first day of creation. So, whatever biblical calendar one's on, six days before the Feast of Trumpets, or Yom Teruah, would be the beginning of creation. And on the Hebrew Jewish calendar, it is today, or was today before sundown, which was Elul 25. That's the reason we wanted to tie all of these things together before we get into the feast season on the Hebrew calendar.

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But tonight, we're going to explore this amazing prophecy in Job 12. I think we're all familiar with Job, the book of Job, and the hardships Job had, etc. But there's an interesting chapter right there in the beginning of Job 12 that we're going to explore that I want to bring some revelation out for people, to give people inspiration, to get them into God's creation and to really get intimate with Him in His creation. I think it's very important to really understand what He loves and what He will do through His creation, not in a reckless way, but in a responsible way, to really give us revelation and inspiration and comfort and hope and all of these things, if we look at it in the right biblical lens, in the right biblical context.

So, that being said, we'll begin with this beautiful chapter, Job 12:7-12. And look at what it says. It says, "But now ask the beasts, and they will teach you; and the birds of the air, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; and the fish of the sea will explain it to you. Who among all of these does not know that the hand of Yah has done this? And whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind? Does not the ear test words, and the mouth taste its food? Wisdom is with aged men, and with the length of days, understanding."

Okay, so this is an amazing scripture. Again, sometimes we have to go deep into the Bible to get some of these revelations in the book of Job, etc. But what this scripture is and is not saying is Yahweh is teaching us that creation itself bears witness to the Creator, His sovereignty, His wisdom, and His activity. It's not teaching us to practice divination through creation. Okay, that would be witchcraft. And we have to worship the Creator, not the created, who moves His creation for all of His purposes.

In Psalm 86:17 and also Matthew 12:39, I wanted to make a very big distinction as far as looking for a sign and seeking a sign. In Psalm 86:17, King David said, "Show me a sign for good." You know, that's what he prayed to the Lord is, "Show me a sign for good." He didn't say seek. He didn't say, "I'm going to seek a sign." He said, "Show me a sign for good." Okay? So that shows you the balance that we have to have with not but to show us a sign for good. There's a huge difference in that that we'll go through tonight.

In Matthew 12:39, remember Yeshua told the Jewish people, or the leadership of the Jewish people at the time, the children of Israel, that "an adulterous and evil generation seeks a sign." So there's your difference between what Yeshua said about don't seek signs like the Gentiles do, is what He told the Jewish people, and Psalm 86, King David says, "Show me a sign." So there's a huge difference again with "show me a sign for good" and also "seeking a sign," you know, like the Gentiles do. Okay.

So, in Job 12, there are four witnesses as we just read in the passage, verse 7 through verse 12. It talks about beasts, it talks about birds, it talks about the earth, and it also talks about fish as well. And then Job tells us what their testimony ultimately says: "The hand of Yah has done this." So, Job isn't saying the animals possess secret prophetic knowledge independent of Yah. Rather, creation testifies to the hand behind creation. And verse 10 goes even further, "In whose hand is the soul of every living thing?" Right? So that proves that when Job continued to write, that it says, "In whose hand is the soul of every living thing," which points it back to the Creator and not the created. In other words, the birds aren't outside of His hand. The beasts aren't outside of His hand. The fish aren't either, and the earth isn't outside of His hand either. Everything Job just told us to observe is ultimately in Yah's hand. Creation isn't the source of revelation; Yah is. And He can use what He created to reveal His hand and also His purposes for all of us.