Job’s Response – When God confronted Job with questions that exposed his limited understanding (Job Chapters 38–41), Job humbled himself: “Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.” (Job 32:1, 40:8, and 42:6) Job models the mercy available: repentance at exposure halts the spiral of discipline. Unlike Israel, which often ignored prophetic warnings and slid into deeper woes, Job’s humility brought restoration and blessing.

Clarification on the Second Woe

Unlike the first woe, where death was forbidden, the second woe marks an escalation in divine discipline. Here, spiritual death (unbelief) is permitted to touch some. This sobering shift underscores the seriousness of ignoring earlier warnings: what was once limited to exposure and unrest now advances. The second woe thus serves as a grave reminder that continued resistance to correction invites consequences of greater weight.

Hypocrisy that resists correction matures into practical unbelief. In both cases, the servant is handed over to delusion (2 Thessalonians 2:11), joy is cut off, and the believer’s Spiritual condition itself becomes their judgment.

Clarification on the Third Woe

This phase signifies the ultimate departure of light, where disobedience solidifies into unbelief.

“Ezekiel 38:4 says, ‘I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out…’ The Hebrew verb yatsaʾmeans ‘to bring forth’ or ‘to lead out,’ not necessarily ‘against.’

The image of hooks in the jaw suggests God’s sovereign act of drawing Gog forth, much like a fisherman pulling a catch.

Read this way, the text emphasizes God turning the spirit of Gog (which motivates Magog/physical people), and drawing those under the authority of the Gog‑spirit.

📖 Better Never Born: Luke 23:29 in Light of Job, Ecclesiastes, and Matthew

Summary Insight
When Jesus said, “Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed” (Luke 23:29), He was highlighting the fearful reality of judgment for willful sin (Matt 24:19 and Hebrews 10:26) that occurs on The Day of the Lord. In a way, those who avoid such discipline are “better off,” reflecting the laments found in Job, Ecclesiastes, and even Jesus’ own words about Judas.

Layered Connections

• Luke 23:29 – Jesus warns that in the Day of the Lord, those who never bore or nursed are spared the anguish of judgment tied to willful sin among God’s people (cf. Heb. 10:26–27).
• Job 3:16 – Job laments that it would have been better to be “a stillborn child” than to endure unbearable suffering.
• Ecclesiastes 4:2 and 3 – The Preacher declares the dead are better off than the living, and better still are those who have never been born to see the world’s evil.
• Matthew 26:24 – Of Judas, Jesus says, “It would have been better for that man if he had not been born,” underscoring the terror of falling under divine judgment.

Unified Teaching
Across these passages runs a sobering thread:

The imagery of barrenness, stillbirth, and “better not to be born” functions as a prophetic warning — a call to perseverance, holiness, and faithful endurance.

The Day of the Lord is not only about the world’s rebellion but also about God’s discipline within His household.

To fall into willful sin after knowing the truth is to face a judgment so severe that Scripture repeatedly declares it would be better never to have been born.

“In Luke 23:29, Jesus, on His way to the cross, frames a parable (Spoke in Tongues) regarding judgment: in the Day of the Lord, those who have ‘conceived’ and ‘nurtured’ delusion will come under wrath, while those who refused to propagate it will paradoxically be called ‘blessed.’”

• Pregnant (Luke 21:23) → Paul’s travail with believers (Gal 4:19).
• Those who give suck → teachers passing on delusion (2 Thess 2:11).
• Blessed are the barren → those spared from propagating sin while under judgment.

📌 In Luke 23:29 and Zechariah 13:4, Jesus and the prophets unveil the same truth: in the day of judgment, those who “conceived and nursed” delusion or cloaked themselves in false authority will be exposed and brought to shame, realizing too late that what they thought was right was deception. By contrast, those who had not propagated it—though once despised as barren or cursed—will paradoxically be called blessed when judgment reveals the truth.

Embedded Doctrinal Drift: A Historical Snapshot

Darby (1830s): Introduced dispensationalism and the pre-tribulation rapture, shifting prophecy away from allusions toward personal transformation and toward distant predictions.

John Nelson Darby mistakenly viewed the revelation of Jesus as an external, future event rather than an internal reality for believers.

The passages in John 14:23 and Colossians 1:27, however, teach that through love and obedience, Christians experience the indwelling of the Father and the Son, and that “Christ in you” is the “hope of glory”.

• Brookes (1830–1897): A Methodist Pastor Mentored C.I. Scofield and helped shape American pretribulational thought…
• Scofield (1909): Amplified Darby’s views via the Scofield Reference Bible…
• Branham (1946–1965): Merged dispensational themes with charismatic revivalism…
• Seminary Adoption (1950s–present): Institutionalized through theological education and media…

These views, once fringe, became mainstream—not through Scripture alone, but through repetition, institutional endorsement, and emotional appeal—often distorting the original context of prophetic texts.