My Redeemer Lives!

For I know that my Redeemer lives,
And He shall stand at last on the earth. Job 19:25

In the middle of his rant, Job laments, "Oh, that my words were written! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book!" A number of centuries later, we are here to testify that indeed Job's words were inscribed and what a book it became! The first mention of our Redeemer in the Word of God comes all the way back in the book of Job as this statement by the man himself stands out like a pearl in a mud pie. (I refer to the words of Job's ranting, not the rest of the Bible! Aaagh! Don't bring out the tongue lashes of castigation!). 

Job knew by faith of course, in exactly the same way that we know by faith that once more our Lord Jesus, our Redeemer, will stand on the earth. Job did not live to see his Redeemer stand in the court and tell the high priest that He was the Christ, the Son of God. (That story in Matthew 26) Yet Job still knew by rock solid assurance in faith that Jesus would stand.  And in that same statement of His divinity, our Lord told the high priest that He would be seen again...sitting at the right hand of the Power and coming on the clouds of heaven. Now that is a promise of a divine appointment. Still, an appointment wherein we desire to be with Him, and not standing against Him as that high priest was doing. 

Great is the name of our Redeemer!

Bucky