LIVE: "His Eyes Shall See His Destruction" (Job 21:17-21), (Part 3/4)

Hell is not a metaphor in Job’s warning, and we don’t treat it like one. We sit with Job 21 and the unsettling insistence that the wicked will see their own destruction and personally “drink of the wrath of the Almighty.” That single image forces a question many Christians avoid out loud: what are we actually saved from, and why does the gospel feel powerless when we never say it?

We talk about the wrath of God, eternal judgment, and why delayed justice is not canceled justice. If God is holy, then sin is not cosmetic and the consequences are not temporary. We also push back on preaching that highlights comfort while skipping the cross as the place where wrath is satisfied. “Saved” has content, and we argue it must be front and center: salvation through Jesus Christ alone, not religious effort, not sincerity, not a blended faith that adds extra loyalties.

Along the way, we challenge popular distractions that pull believers into fear-driven news cycles and prophecy speculation, and we ask whether political tribalism can become a substitute for real discipleship. The goal is not shock, it’s clarity: repent, believe, and speak plainly because eternity is real and time is short. If this conversation sharpened you, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find it.

Transcript

The Wicked Will See Destruction

SPEAKER_01 0:00

And he will drink of the wrath of the Almighty. So here the argument presses for a more fitting form of justice, which is that if the wicked are to be punished, it would seem appropriate that they themselves witness the downfall that their sins deserve. We have a solemn promise here in the Word of God that the wicked person, no matter what it may appear like to us, be assured he will see, or she will see with his or her own eyes the destruction that awaits them. They will see their destruction. They will live with that destruction. This is not this is not something that they will see as a one-time thing. Their seeing will be their existence. It will be how they live, seeing this destruction. It is an ongoing thing. It is not a one-time thing, it is an ongoing thing. They will die and they will lift up their eyes, being in torments, and this is what they will see and be witness to forever. No end in sight. And this is why we provoke to persuade. We persuade men because we know the terror of the Lord. And so we persuade men. And people don't want to hear this conversation. We had a brother up here that wanted to talk about a song from about Job. Right while we're talking about hell, we lost that conversation. Men don't want to hear it. And I'm not saying that that's what happened, but that's what it felt like. Oh boy, another one of these Christians talking about hell. We should be ashamed if we never talk about it. We should be ashamed for never talking about it. You should be ashamed of yourself if you're a Christian and you haven't warned somebody about the wrath of God to come. You should be ashamed of yourself. We all should. We need to warn souls that they're going to face a holy God who cannot look upon sin. And to face God, having not been reconciled to Him through Christ will be the most dreadful, most terrible act you will ever have to encounter. To be told first that I don't know you, depart from me, you worker of iniquity. Your wrath awaits you, and here it is. You're going to see it with your own eyes. Your own eyes will see your destruction. It's coming. It's coming. So many of you are worried about what's going to happen with Iran. Oh my gosh, in times, in the world, you know, worried about Iran, worried about Russia, worried about China and Korea and all this kind of stuff. You need to worry about he who is in heaven who looks down upon man and he holds a sword over the head of the wicked, ready to devour them and to make his sword drunk with their blood. His words, not mine. His words. Any talk about salvation where the wrath of God is not brought up, I don't even know what kind of gospel that is. You need to be saved. Why? We don't need to talk about that right now. There is no talk, no legitimate talk of salvation. There's no compelling argument to woo a sinner to Christ if the wrath of God, the indignation of God is not part of that conversation. Salvation means saved. Saved from something. What are we being saved from? The wrath of God. That needs to be front and center. We are in debt to a holy God, and that debt must be paid. If you can't afford to make that debt, you need to turn to one who was willing to pay for you. And there's only one who is capable of doing that. The Lord Jesus Christ and him alone. Not Allah, not Mohammed, not Joseph Smith, not Eddie Baker, not any of these false people, not Joe Osteen, not Benny Hinn, not Hagee, none of these people. The only one who can bring you before God where you are assured that wrath will not be your lot in eternity is if you turn to Christ immediately. Not tomorrow, today. You understand what I'm saying? We need to understand this. Amen.

SPEAKER_02 5:24

Amen, brother Juan. Amen. Come on, bring it. We want to listen and we need that. We need that preaching. You got to give inspire that refill that soul. We need that spirit filled up daily, brother. You gotta encourage it. You gotta preach it, you gotta live it, you gotta study it, you gotta understand it, you gotta walk it and you gotta show it, you gotta reflect it, you gotta make sure it's living in you wherever you go. You can't be ashamed of it. You gotta be able to proclaim his name, you gotta be able to understand what you're talking, what you're speaking, what you're loving, and what and who you're getting to know on a daily basis, and performing you inside, who's growing spiritually living within us, and not only that, who's forming a foundation that he's granting by God, that he's granting, bro. So that's something that I'm gonna follow you, bro. I love your preaching, homie. God bless you. You know what I mean? All the real brother, but I just I just gotta have follow. I've seen you with that fire. I said, Oh, I need that inspiration right there, bro. You know what I mean? At these days of time, you need that motivation, you need that help, you need that spark, you need that daily in your life because if you don't see it daily upon yourself, you're gonna fall into the temptations of the world. You're gonna fall into the into the dignity of life that people have been saved, like those to show the light. All right, man. Show the light to the that's something that I bro. I love the Lord Jesus Christ, man.

SPEAKER_01 6:49

I love brother. Listen, let me tell you something. I can tell, and I love it. You you you are welcome here any night, every night.

SPEAKER_02 6:58

God bless you guys. Thank you very much.

Drinking The Wrath Of Almighty God

SPEAKER_01 7:00

All right, brother. And you come back whenever you can, all right? All right. Good brother there. They had good things to say, and I love that kind of excitement. I love that. And I wish that every Christian could have that kind of motivation. You know, we need that. We need that. So Job says, yeah, his eyes will see his destruction. The offender would observe the collapse of his prosperity and the ruin of his condition. He guarantees they will see it. Their eyes will see it. And secondly, it says, he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. He shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. This imagery of drinking suggests personally receiving the full measure of divine anger, which is what Candy was talking about. And that's 100% true. Just as a cup is drained by the one who drinks it, likewise the sinner would experience the consequences of divine judgment directly. Directly.

Preachers Who Avoid God’s Wrath

SPEAKER_00 8:08

Brother Jeffrey, go ahead. Jonathan, I just want to stop here to make the very quick point. Tragically, unfortunately, sadly, too many preachers, teachers, whatever you want to call them, will not preach the wrath of God. They want to preach the love of God. They want to preach that God is forgiving, He is kind, He is. But He also has a wrath satisfied, has to be satisfied. The only way to do that is through the cross. If you don't go through the cross, the wrath is what you're going to occur. And yet, Jonathan, it's so refreshing to hear you teach this tonight because just there's just so many teachers, preachers, pastors, whatever, that Jonathan just aren't doing it or have gotten away from it. Now there's a lot that are out there still doing it. God bless them. But there are so many, Jonathan, that aren't. Right. They're preaching and teaching about, well, you need to be delivered from this and you need to do this. What about salvation? Right. Jonathan, if you don't have salvation, you have nothing. Right. See, that's the point that just gets me. If you don't have that, it doesn't matter what else you have. You've missed it. Right. We've missed it all. And you're going to stand before God, and He's going to say those words that you said a few moments ago. Depart from me, you worker of sin and iniquity. I never knew you.

Sin That Clings And Christ Who Cleanses

False Gospels And Mixed Allegiance

Politics, Prophecy, And Dispensationalism

SPEAKER_01 9:42

Right, brother. That's right. We got to keep preaching this message, man. And we gotta, we gotta, we gotta keep preaching all of it. We can't be selective about it. You know, I you know, it's just like I said, if you if all you talked about was the love of God, that wouldn't be gospel enough. That's not enough. We gotta teach the whole counsel of God. How do we get here? How do how did my how did my sin become mine? Why does it still hang with me? Why can't I shed it? Why can't I shed it? I want to, but somehow it stays with me. It lingers. The stench of it, I can't help but smell it. It abides me. How do I shake it off? What soap can cleanse this filth? Only Christ can. He is our fuller's soap. He cleanses. He causes us to see the wickedness of our ways and the extent of what we are going to endure if we don't, if we don't obey him and fall to him in submission. There's no way around this. Men think that somehow they can believe their way out of believing what is going to happen to them. Just because you embrace Allah or Islam, just because you embrace Jehovah's Witnesses or the Seven Day Adventists or the Mormons or the Baha'i Faith, or just because you decide that you want to make your mind absorb all that nonsense, that somehow the reality of what God is going to do is going to go away. It is not. You want to be agnostic? Fine. You want to be an atheist? Fine. You want to be a Mormon or a Catholic? Fine. You are not going to change what God is going to do for those who turn, who have rejected Christ or diluted his salvation. If you dilute his salvation with something that does not belong there, that he did not describe, you have corrupted it and you have perverted it, and you will incur the wrath of God because of it. You can't say, Oh, I believe in Jesus, but I also believe that Mary is who we should worship also. They will say, Well, yeah, I worship Jesus, but I also worship Mary. Then you don't worship Jesus. You don't. So many of you have so many Christians, they're like on a rampage. They want to talk about, well, we got to condemn these Muslims. We got to talk about Islam. We got to talk about Mamdami and we got to talk about Iran and why they all deserve to be wiped off the earth. What about that other group? The Jews. What about that other group that hate Jesus? That don't take the name of Christ on their lips at all. They are the embodiment of what antichrist actually is. Even the false religions, the other false religions of the world, even they will acknowledge some modicum of respect to the best of their ability without compromising their own filthy doctrines. Some of them will say, oh yeah, he was a good dude. He had good intentions. They all acknowledge he was here. But not the ones who put our Savior on the cross. Christianity is giving them a pass. And they hate Christ and they hate you, Christians. Judaism hates Christianity. You guys better understand this. Get away from a dispensational baloney. It's stupid and it's crazy, and it's a lie, and it's heretical, all of it. I know I say this a lot, but it has to be said because it is so prevalent in our day. This has been one of the single most, one of the greatest corruptions to Christian faith ever, dispensationalism. And especially the part where people, Christianity is holding out pulling out all the stops to aid a people who hate your God, that hate your Savior. They hate Jesus Christ. And you want them to build a temple in Jerusalem where you can be satisfied that they're fulfilling prophecy, which they're not. I could go all day with this. But you need to understand this. And everybody's not going to tell you. Those people are not your friends. They hate you. They want to dominate you. And they are using you and they're laughing at you while they do it. Look at these Christians. They're supporting us. We don't even like Jesus. We don't even believe that he was the Messiah. We believe that he deserved to be crucified. And now you have the people that I would never be suspecting to be defending this very position. People like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens. These people who are not known for being Christian people, they weren't known for that. They were known for politics. And it's sad that these people are the ones that are actually telling the truth about that nation. They are the ones. And the Christians, generally speaking, are not. This issue should be on the lips of every Christian. Always. You are helping the ungodly. You are helping the wicked. You are paying them to oppress you. It's astonishing. Astonishing.

SPEAKER_02 16:18

But they love the pre-trip.

Job’s Point About Delayed Judgment

Time In Hell And A Call To Repent

Unapologetic Witness And Final Summary

SPEAKER_01 16:20

Oh, yeah, they love all that stuff. It's all lies. It's all lies. It's all it's all lies. And so we have here this whole thing. Where, you know, he he he he he lays it out in verse 21. He continues. What pleasure does he, the wicked man, what pleasure does he have in his house after him when the number of his months is cut off in the midst? Now we reach a cut, a climactic, decisive point in the narrative of this passage. If punishment falls only after the wicked man has died, that doesn't affect him the way some people would see it. Once his life is ended, when the number of his months is cut off, which is when his life is ended, he no longer has awareness or concern regarding what happens to his household. But we know he will not escape. He will not escape. They are making the case to Job that a wicked man, for him to be wicked, if he is wicked, it must be that his judgment will be made manifest while he yet lives. Job is arguing that may be so, but that is an exception. That is not the rule, and you certainly cannot live by that and put that in God's mouth as an ordinance, as a statute, as an unbending rule. This is what Job is saying. You can't go by what you see on the outside. You can't go by that. And just because judgment is delayed doesn't mean it's not coming. And this is what this is what the wicked and the scorners of our day and time are always telling us. You guys have been talking about the end times forever. Yes, we have, but we also know something that they don't know. We know that God stands outside of time, and we know that the timetable for him is different than it is for us. And he is pay, he is patient. The longer a man lives, the the longer he lives without incurring the wrath of God, the greater his judgment. The greater his judgment. He's been given ample time to repent. He's been given ample time to hear the gospel. He has been given ample opportunities to have the gospel preach to him and to have him rejected. He has lived his life feeling that he's above all things that are God. And yet, like Joseph says, God, it is going to be his patience that was unheeded, that was not yielded to. It is the patience of God that will be your downfall. It will be his patience that destroys you. It's as if he's saying, wait a minute. You deserved immediate destruction, virtually upon birth. But I gave you a hundred years to repent. I gave you wealth, I gave you prosperity, I gave you family, I gave you health, I gave you the fruits of your labor in abundance, and some would say excessively so. And after all of that, you rejected me and all that you have, you got, received from me. I suffered with you long, I endured patience with you long, and you still rejected it. But now your life is demanded of you, and now I'm going to show you the outcome, the consequences of your rejection and of your sin. And know this, sinner, it is going to be an eternal suffering, and you will never ever become numb to it, you will never become used to it. And if you thought that one drop of water could hit your tongue a million years from now, you would long for that day. But that day is never coming. If you, sinner, don't listen to this gospel message that me or my other brothers and sisters in Christ are telling you and warning you about, woe be unto you to stand before God. You may laugh at me, you may mock and scorn me, but you will not do that to him. Amen. You will not. You will die in eternal death, and you will your eyes will be open and you will know it the entire time. And let's understand something the way you view time now. That's going to be the way you view it then. You're not going to have a perspective of time the way God has. 1,000 years won't seem like a day to you. One second in hell will seem like billions of light years. And that's only second one. If you don't know Christ, you better rethink it now. Turn to Christ now. He's the only one who died for sinners. In fact, he himself was cut off so that sinners might be saved. He is just a physician to the sick, to the sin sick. And if you are not sick, you have no interest in him. You have to be made sensible to your sin sickness. And when you do, you repent to him, you repent and you submit to him in faith and believe with every fiber of your being. And there's no way of reaching God without the Lord Jesus Christ. You may think you can do some in run around Christ, but it is impossible. You don't get to choose your Messiah. God did that. God did that. And boy are we glad he did. Amen. Once the wicked man's life has ended, when the number of his months are cut off, as the scripture says, he no longer has the awareness or the concern regarding what happened to his household. Now all he has left to deal with is his eternal condemnation of himself. All of his selfish pride that he embraced and held to while he was alive, now he will get the actual fruits of his actual labor. He was selfish all of his life. And now all he has is himself to suffer. Eternity. Does it sound fantastical? Yeah, it does. Because it is. It's unfathomable. It is immeasurable. It is outside the finite man to lay hold of. And I'm certain that when we go into eternity and have so many things exposed to us, we still won't understand the nature of eternal condemnation. But we won't have to. But if you are listening and you don't know Christ, you are gambling with your very soul this night. You're gambling with your very soul. You need to mourn for your sin. You need to roll out of that bed, get off of that seat you're sitting on, and find a private place somewhere and ask God to change you now. This is nothing you need to study. You just need to hear it and believe it. And I'm telling you, Christ came to save sinners. Are you a sinner? Then turn to Christ. If you are not a sinner, then hell awaits you, and that is where your home will be forever. And it will not be a place where you can be complacent or comfortable. You will be stirred at every single moment, tormented by the wrath that you yourself was willing to deal with. You mocked the Lord when you were here. You mocked God's people. You spurned the overtures of the gospel message and you rejected it. And you teased those who brought it to you and told them to shut up and maybe even threaten them. Some of them you probably killed, some of them you probably had arrested. But know this your day is coming. Your day is coming. And yeah, you may say, Well, I didn't do those things. I didn't do the crime. Yeah, but you were like Paul. When he was holding the clothes of those who were stoning Stephen. You were okay with yeah, you could say you didn't throw a stone. But you became, you chose to become the hat rack, the goat rack. For the killers. And now you absolve yourself because you say, Well, I didn't personally do it. If you did nothing to stop it, you did it. We just gotta tell it like it is.

SPEAKER_02 26:50

Unapologetically.

SPEAKER_01 26:51

Unapologetically. So this observation here in his passages that Job makes, he exposes the weakness of his friend's argument. They think that condemnation comes swift upon men of renown and prosperous men and oppressive men. And Job is saying, no, not necessarily. Not necessarily. That's not a rule. That's not a hard and fast rule. Where did you get that from? Job is telling him you don't know what you're talking about. He goes, look at experience. Experience tells you otherwise. If their theory was correct, the wicked should regularly experience ruin while they're still alive. We would see it everywhere, but we don't. You see it from time to time, but you don't see it very often. And it certainly doesn't happen to all who are wealthy and powerful and who oppress the poor and the weak. And we need to be a people that are always aware of these things and not have our isolated salvation be just that. We need to make sure that what we have, we are communicating to others so that they may be saved from the very things that we were saved from. It's not enough for you to say, well, I know I'm saved. That's all that matters. So many Christians say this. But I'm telling you something. We need to be out there letting people know. And we need to not be afraid. We don't need to be afraid of TikTok. We don't need to be afraid of Israel. We don't need to be afraid of Trump. We don't need to be afraid of any other nation in the world who might be our enemy. We need to be afraid and reverence one. And that is the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord God Almighty Himself. He is the only one we need to have fear of. He's the only one I have fear of. Let man bring and dish out what they can, what they will. Let them do that. But what they will find out is that the more you crush us, the more fragrant we become. And the more the scent of godliness spreads by the blood of his saints, by the crushing of his people. And you should count it at great joy if you are blessed to be able to go out that way. I'm not saying you gotta be asking for it, because I certainly wouldn't be asking for it. But if it happens, it's because, like Job, God put his best out there. And this is what we need to understand. So in these verses here, by way of summary, Job continues the argument about the prosperity of the wicked by examining the frequency of the downfall of the wicked. He's arguing against it being frequent, a rule that his friends had made. They made it a rule. And so in verse 17, we see the extinguishing of the wicked man's prosperity is not as frequent as many claim. That's what's in verse 17. Verse 18, though scripture sometimes compares their destruction to chaff scattered by the wind, this is not always immediately seen. That's verse 18. Verse 19. Some suggest that punishment falls upon their children, but this does not fully satisfy the demand for justice. It has to happen to the one who was the offender. It has to. Are there consequences that may fall upon the children? Certainly. But will they suffer the severity that is due to their father? Will they themselves have to suffer that severity for their father's action? Or will they stand in judgment for their own? The latter is true. They will stand in judgment for their own, even though the effects of what their father may have done may have an impact on them, as we described earlier. Verse 20. True justice would require the wicked man himself to see and experience judgment. To me, of these verses here, 17 through 21, this is the heart of this whole message. At the end of the day, Job is saying here.