LIFE-STUDY OF JOB

MESSAGE THIRTY-FOUR

THE COMPLETED DIVINE REVELATION
IN THE ENTIRE SCRIPTURES
CONCERNING GOD'S RELATIONSHIP WITH MAN

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Scripture Reading: John 1:1, 14; Matt. 1:23; 2 Cor. 3:18; 4:16-17; Rom. 8:29-30; Col. 1:12, 14-19; 2:9; 3:4a, 10-11

God's answer to the book of Job is the completed divine revelation in the entire Scriptures concerning God's relationship with man. In a previous message we saw this relationship in the Old Testament. Now we will cover this matter in the New Testament.

IV. FROM THE FIRST COMING OF CHRIST
TO THE MANIFESTATION
OF THE NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH

God's relationship with man in the New Testament begins with the first coming of Christ and consummates with the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and new earth.

A. God Coming
to Be Conceived in a Human Virgin
and to Be Born of Her
to Be a Man

The New Testament reveals that God came to be conceived in a human virgin to be born of her to be a man, thus bringing divinity into humanity and causing God and man to be mingled as one entity but not as a third substance (John 1:1, 14; Matt. 1:20, 23; 1 Tim. 3:16). This is the first step God took in order to give Himself to Job by the way of dispensing.

B. Jesus Christ,
as the Incarnated God
and as the Embodiment of the Triune God,
Dying in His Humanity
a Vicarious and All-inclusive Death

Jesus Christ, as the incarnated God and as the embodiment of the Triune God (Col. 2:9), died in His humanity a vicarious and all-inclusive death to terminate all the negative things and to release the divine life from within Him for us.