“Oh, that the words I now speak were written! Oh, that they were recorded in a scroll!
That with an iron stylus and [molten] lead They were engraved in the rock forever!
For I know that my Redeemer and Vindicator lives, And at the last He will take His stand upon the earth.
Even after my [mortal] skin is destroyed [by death], Yet from my [immortal] flesh I will see God,
Whom I, even I, will see for myself, And my eyes will see Him and not another!
I am overwhelmed at the thought.”
Job 19:23-27 AMP
Absolutely incredible and beautiful words. If only Job knew that his words, spoken in a time of deep darkness in his life, would be recorded by the Holy Spirit and eventually be written and recorded in a scroll.
Words inspired and choreographed by the Spirit of the Ancient of Days.
This is Job speaking and prophesying by God’s Spirit in the midst of so much despair, centuries before the unveiling of the Law to Moses. A few millennia before the birth of Jesus.
Job, in the throes of excruciating pain, loss, trauma, anguish and suffering, still had the presence of mind to speak by the Spirit of a distant future event.
Acknowledging that the Redeemer, his Redeemer lives.
The Redeemer that we in this time of grace have come to learn is Jesus, the Christ.
Job, indicating that the Redeemer, the Christ will stand upon the earth both as man and as God. As revealed later in multiple historical accounts in the new testament and in the book of Revelations about our coming King.
Job, a few millennia before the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ the Redeemer understood that our corruptible, mortal body will be shed, so that we can put on the incorruptible.
As revealed by Paul centuries later, speaking by the Spirit of the living God.
Job, centuries before God made His grace freely available to all humanity through Jesus, the Christ, understood that he will see His Redeemer for himself, with His own eyes.
Just as Paul confirmed centuries later, that we will see Him (our Redeemer, the Christ) as He is.
Job was overwhelmed at the thought of seeing, experiencing and being in the very presence of Deity unendingly.
Just as David, longed for and sought after the idea of being in the presence of God and His pleasures for evermore.
Job had come to the same realization as Paul did, that all the glamor, all the wealth, all the beauty, all the status of this world, the pride of life, all the assurance in our achievements in this realm, whether real or perceived are dung, less than nothing, compared to the prize of the high calling we have by the Redeemer, Jesus, the Christ.
It is a thought, as mind-bending, as it is terrifying and exciting.
The thought of seeing Him as He is, He who is the source of all things.
The thought of spending an infinite, timeless, eternity, experiencing the discovery and rediscovery of the boundless, uncontainable, ever expanding attributes of the Person of our Redeemer, the Christ.
This eternity, this new state of everlasting wholeness and abundance, starts now while the earth remains.
Selah!
That I May Know Him! 