Job 25:3 (ESV Strong's)
3 Is there any number to his armies?
Upon whom does his light not arise?
How Powerful is God?
In the above passage, Bildad, one of Job’s three friends, is speaking to Job about the power of God. All three of Job’s friends believe Job is suffering because he has great sin in his life. They believe he is failing to acknowledge God in the sin and therefore their arguments to him about the character of God ... as they know it. They are often right on theology. They are almost always wrong on application to Job’s situation. This is often true of our own counsel we give people today. We see a situation and draw a theological conclusions, without really knowing the hand of God in the midst of it all. In the above passage Bildad makes the claim about God’s power being limitless and His presence being all encompassing. Again, Bildad is not wrong. God’s armies cannot be number, demonstrating His great power. God, like the sun, shines down on man and exposes all his shadows. Nothing is hidden from His sight. To those who have a relationship with God based on grace through faith, that can be a great thing to know and believe. For Bildad, talking to a man he thinks is full of sin (Job), this is supposed to strike terror and repentance. But, Bildad would have been better to understand the application to Job’s situation. We ought not use good doctrine to club people living in a bad situation. In chapter one of the book we read that even God thought Job was a righteous man. Never-the-less this does not diminish Bildad’s doctrinal truth. No one and nothing compares to God. His armies are without number and He sees all the world. We ought to rejoice in that truth whether we are Job or Bildad.
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