One should NOT JUDGE the REASON for another's OUTWARD
CIRCUMSTANCES (Matthew 7:1)
Job's "three friends" WRONGFULLY CONDEMNED his
OUTWARD SUFFERING as being due to his SIN:
"Eliphaz the Temanite" (Job 4:1),
a descendant of Esau's son Teman (Genesis 36:10-11), declared "WHO ever perished being INNOCENT ... WHERE were the
RIGHTEOUS cut off?" (Job 4:7)
"Bildad the Shuite" (Job 8:1),
a descendant of Abraham's son Shuah by Keturah (Genesis 25:1-2), declared "IF thou were PURE and UPRIGHT ... THOUGH thy BEGINNING
was SMALL, YET thy latter END should INCREASE" (Job 8:6-7)
"Zophar the Naamathite" (Job 11:1),
a descendant of Benjamin's son Naaman (Genesis 46:21), declared "BUT oh that GOD would speak and open His lips AGAINST
THEE" (Job 11:5)
ISRAEL'S FAITHFUL TRIBULATION REMNANT will be "KEPT
BY THE POWER OF GOD" having been "TRIED WITH FIRE" AS GOLD IS TRIED (I Peter 1:5,7 cf.Zechariah 13:8-9) - for they will be "ARRAYED IN WHITE ROBES" having "COME
OUT OF GREAT TRIBULATION" (Revelation 7:13-14)
The HYPROCRITE is one who passes JUDGMENT on a MINOR OFFENSE
while at the SAME TIME being GUILTY of a MAJOR OFFENSE (Matthew 7:3-5 cf.Matthew 23:27-28)
"Therefore thou art INEXCUSABLE ... whosoever thou
art that JUDGEST ... for thou that JUDGEST DOETH the SAME things" (Romans 2:1)
When the PHARISEES brought to the Lord for JUDGMENT the
WOMAN caught in ADULTERY (John 8:3-5)
- HE ACCUSED the PHARISEES of the LIKE SIN (John 8:7)
of COVETOUSNESS (Luke 16:14
cf.Exodus 20:17)
Her ACCUSERS being CONVICTED and SELF CONDEMNED - DEPARTED,
starting with the ELDEST, i.e. the one MOST GUILTY (John 8:9)
The ACTION of the Lord STOOPING DOWN and WRITING ON THE
GROUND (John 8:6,8)
may very wll have been a PROPHETIC FULFILLMENT of God's WRITING IN THE EARTH - the NAMES of "THEY THAT DEPART
FROM ME" (Jeremiah 17:13), i.e. the NAMES of the HYPOCRITICAL PHARISEES WHO DEPARTED, so that
"JESUS WAS LEFT ALONE" with "THE WOMAN STANDING IN THE MIDST" (John 8:9)
The JEW who BOASTED having been "INSTRUCTED out of
THE LAW" (Romans 2:17-18) - BROKE that SAME LAW (Romans 2:23)
and, thus, CAUSED GOD'S NAME to be BLASPHEMED "AMONG THE GENTILES" (Romans 2:24
cf.Ezekiel 36:20)
Two of ISRAEL'S most SPIRITUAL KINGS also sadly CAUSED
the GENTILES to BLASPHEME ISRAEL'S GOD BY THEIR ACTIONS: