Why Did Noah, Daniel, And Job Have In Common?
Though Noah, Daniel and Job were in it as I live, says the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.Ezekiel 14:14
Through Ezekiel, God commends three Old Testament ‘worthies’ to us: Noah, Daniel and Job. Three saints who were not contemporaries – for their lives on earth were passed in distant centuries and different circumstances.
Why did God single out these three? What doNoah, Daniel and Job have in common?
We read that “Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations” (Genesis 6:9). Of Job, we are told that he was “a blameless and upright man” (Job 1:8). And by the time of prophet Ezekiel, Daniel’s life had also shown him to be a righteous follower of the Lord in the …show more content…
All through Scripture, God calls us to righteousness. For example, He urges through Amos: “Let justice run down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream” (Amos 5:24).
Now, as the prophet Ezekiel tells us, the time for the long-threatened judgment had come. There had been a time when Abraham interceded for the righteous in Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis ch.18), but the time had run out for the people of Judah.
The text puts it plainly: “Though Noah, Daniel and Job were in it as I live, says the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.”
If there was any transference of righteousness from one man to another, we could hope to shade ourselves under the wings of Noah, Daniel or Job!
Listen, to the verdict that comes from the throne of God! They deliver their own souls by their righteousness and no more!
I have heard people say that their parents were righteous! That grace comes with ancestry would be a supposition that contradicts the declaration of the Spirit of God by John, where he says of the godly, “which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of
Through Ezekiel, God commends three Old Testament ‘worthies’ to us: Noah, Daniel and Job. Three saints who were not contemporaries – for their lives on earth were passed in distant centuries and different circumstances.
Why did God single out these three? What doNoah, Daniel and Job have in common?
We read that “Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations” (Genesis 6:9). Of Job, we are told that he was “a blameless and upright man” (Job 1:8). And by the time of prophet Ezekiel, Daniel’s life had also shown him to be a righteous follower of the Lord in the …show more content…
All through Scripture, God calls us to righteousness. For example, He urges through Amos: “Let justice run down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream” (Amos 5:24).
Now, as the prophet Ezekiel tells us, the time for the long-threatened judgment had come. There had been a time when Abraham interceded for the righteous in Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis ch.18), but the time had run out for the people of Judah.
The text puts it plainly: “Though Noah, Daniel and Job were in it as I live, says the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.”
If there was any transference of righteousness from one man to another, we could hope to shade ourselves under the wings of Noah, Daniel or Job!
Listen, to the verdict that comes from the throne of God! They deliver their own souls by their righteousness and no more!
I have heard people say that their parents were righteous! That grace comes with ancestry would be a supposition that contradicts the declaration of the Spirit of God by John, where he says of the godly, “which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of