Msg#1622 Job's Redeemer and Resurrection

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

Of the sixty-six books assembled into God's Holy Bible Job, the oldest, contains the most graphic description of the resurrection of the believers at the second coming of Christ. “For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another” (Job 19:24-27). The clarity and assurance of Job is seconded two-thousand years later when the Apostle John wrote what Christ revealed about the resurrections. Job also declared, “Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were printed in a book!” (Job 19:23). God liked Job's suggestion so much that the sixty-six book collection began immediately. The book of Job was written in an older Hebrew tongue than the Pentateuch. After God's confusion of the languages at Babel (Gen 11, 2247 BC) the son's of Eber spoke and wrote Job's Hebrew, as did Abram (1920 BC). In all the philosophical debate of Job's epic Hebrew poem there is no mention of Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob; no mention of the law nor of the tabernacle; thus Job was written before the 1492 BC giving of the law. But there is the rub, such a pre-law, pre-tabernacle extensive dissertation on the LORD God's judging of man records mans need of a “daysman” who can ascend up to God, descend down to man, and be a mediator between the two (Job9:32-33, cf Prov30:4-5, John3:13, Rom10:6-8, Eph4:8-10). Job knew that his Daysman was his Saviour, his Saviour was his God, his God was his Redeemer, and his Redeemer “liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth” (Job 19:25).

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