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Job 19:25-27 - The Divine Redeemer.

Job 19:25-27 (NIV) I know that my Redeemer 
lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the 
earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in 
my flesh I will see God; I myself will see him 
with my own eyes--I, and not another. How my 
heart yearns within me!  

INTRODUCTION

At the heart of the book of Job comes his 
ringing affirmation of confidence: "I know that my 
Redeemer lives." In ancient Israel a redeemer was a 
family member who bought a slave's way to freedom 
or who took care of a widow (see the note on 
Ruth 3:1). What tremendous faith Job had, 
especially in light of the fact that he was unaware of 
the conference between God and Satan. Job 
thought that God had brought all these disasters 
upon him! Faced with death and decay, Job still 
expected to see God"and he expected to do so in his 
body. When the book of Job was written, Israel did 
not have a well-developed doctrine of the 
resurrection. Although Job struggled with the idea that 
God was presently against him, he firmly 
believed that in the end God would be on his side. 
This belief was so strong that Job became one of 
the first to talk about the resurrection of the 
body (see also Psalm 16:10; Isaiah 26:19; Daniel 
12:2, 13). [Life Application SB] 

COMMENTARY PEARLS

   I opened the small black box Aunt Joyce 
had mailed me and gasped. "Honey, look at this," 
I said to my husband, Kevin. The pendant I 
held up to the light was crafted in two different 
colors of gold and was shaped like an angel in 
flight. "What a lovely gift!" 
   Aunt Joyce had recently been cleaning out 
her jewelry box and came across the angel. It 
was a uniquely fashioned gift from a friend many 
years before. She told me, "Since you're my angel, 
I feel you should have it." 
   I wiped away happy tears as I thought of 
the miracle this gift represented. When I was 
fourteen, I lived with Aunt Joyce and Uncle Dwayne. 
They gave me a stable home during a rough patch 
in our broken nuclear family. At first Joyce, 
Dwayne, and I lived in harmony. But my teenage 
insecurities and my aunt's ways soon clashed. When I 
returned home to my parents after only seven months, 
the feelings between Aunt Joyce and me were 
anything but angelic. 
   Over the decades, Jesus changed both our 
hearts. I grew up and acknowledged the world didn't 
spin to please me, and Aunt Joyce softened. We 
became friends - good enough friends that she 
considered me her angel. Wow. 
   My favorite quality of Jesus is how He 
loves to take the broken places of our lives and 
fix them. But He doesn't simply repair wounded 
souls. He mends and heals and makes them better 
than before. I believe the word for that is 
redeemer. Jeanette Levellie 
   Faith Step: Find a drawing or painting of 
an angel. Thank Jesus that His power to redeem 
your brokenness is greater than every angelic 
force in the universe. [Mornings With Jesus 2022 
Devotional by Guideposts and Zondervan] 

   I understand that this earthly life 
includes problems and troubles, but honestly, some 
seasons of our lives are especially hard, aren't 
they? My husband and I have just passed through a 
year that seemed to bring one crisis after 
another: unexpected job termination, serious illness 
and hospitalization, the turmoil of relocating 
again, the death of a parent. If I include my 
extended family, that adds other major crises to the 
list. 
   During such unsettling times, it's easy 
to get shaken by the uncertainty of life, 
especially when our minds are filled with questions. 
Why is this happening? How will I ever get over 
this? What does the future hold? Will my life ever 
resemble "normal" again? Surely these questions also 
filled Job's mind during his period of severe 
trials, when it seemed that everything good was 
stripped away from him. Yet even in the midst of 
expressing his grief, confusion, and pain, he 
occasionally burst forth with a statement of faith. 
Regardless of his feelings and circumstances, one thing 
Job knew: He had a living Redeemer whom he would 
see face-to-face one day. 
   It's okay to question why things happen 
to us. While we may never understand all the 
reasons during this lifetime, we can cling to what 
we do know: Jesus loves us so much that He died 
for us. He holds our present and our future in 
His hands and is working out everything for 
good. Meditating on these truths puts our earthly 
trials in perspective. by Dianne Neal Matthews 
   Faith Step: Make a list of your favorite 
Bible verses. Choose a few to be your designated 
statements of faith for when you go through a Job" 
season of life. If you find yourself struggling to 
pray, begin with one of these affirmation verses. 
[Mornings With Jesus 2018 Devotional by Guideposts and 
Zondervan] 

CLOSING THOUGHT

One of the most solemn and yet most glorious 
truths revealed in the Bible is that of Christs 
second coming to complete the great work of 
redemption. To Gods pilgrim people, so long left to 
sojourn in the region and shadow of death, a 
precious, joy-inspiring hope is given in the promise 
of His appearing, who is the resurrection 
and the life, to bring home again His 
banished. The doctrine of the second advent is the 
very keynote of the Sacred Scriptures. From the 
day when the first pair turned their sorrowing 
steps from Eden, the children of faith have waited 
the coming of the Promised One to break the 
destroyers power and bring them again to the lost 
Paradise. Holy men of old looked forward to the advent 
of the Messiah in glory, as the consummation of 
their hope. Enoch, only the seventh in descent 
from them that dwelt in Eden, he who for three 
centuries on earth walked with his God, was permitted 
to behold from afar the coming of the 
Deliverer. Behold, he declared, the Lord 
cometh with ten thousands of His saints, to execute 
judgment upon all. Jude 14, 15. The patriarch Job 
in the night of his affliction exclaimed with 
unshaken trust: I know that my Redeemer liveth, 
and that He shall stand at the latter day upon 
the earth:  in my flesh shall I see God: whom 
I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall 
behold, and not another. Job 19:25"27.  The 
coming of Christ to usher in the reign of 
righteousness has inspired the most sublime and 
impassioned utterances of the sacred writers. GC299-300 

SUPPLEMENTARY THOUGHTS

Job's Longing
   Job longed for his words of woe to be 
etched into granite so that people through time 
could enter into all the things he was enduring. 
He thought his words would be forgotten. He had 
no idea that his words would survive him. Yet, 
think of it, God chose to include them in His 
eternal Word! Along with Scriptures like Genesis 1, 
Psalm 23, Romans 8, 1 Corinthians 13, and 
Revelation 22, we call to mind Job 19:25"27 to this 
day! 
   As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, 
and at the last He will take His stand on the 
earth. Even after my skin is destroyed, yet from my 
flesh I shall see God; whom I myself shall behold, 
and whom my eyes will see and not another. My 
heart faints within me! (Job 19:25"27) 
   Thanks to Handel's Magnum Opus, every 
Christmas season we hear that message over and over 
again. Little did Job realize in his dreadful 
anguish that his Lord would honor his name by 
preserving his words for all the world to hear and 
sing! 
   I need to pause right here and speak to 
you whose God is distant and silent. And, 
perhaps (like Job), your friends have begun to turn 
against you. There is a future that is brighter than 
your wildest dreams! As Job will one day 
experience, justice will win out, God will replace evil, 
and right will eclipse wrong. In the end, God 
wins. And so will we. Job will be vindicated and 
remembered and respected. And all the Zophars, Bildads, 
and Eliphazes will be judged, silenced, and 
forgotten. "Then be afraid of the sword for yourselves, 
for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, so 
that you may know there is judgment" (Job 
19:29). 
   In all his misery, Job had not lost sight 
of who was right and who was wrong. He reminded 
all three men that "judgment and punishment are 
not coming my way; they're coming yours." 
   Focus on the future! [Chuck Swindoll 
www.insight.org.] 

Hope in Dark Places
   I love music! Choral music, instrumental 
music, popular music, classical music  folk 
tunes, ballads, country western and bluegrass  
the patriotic and romantic. For me, music is a 
must. 
   Like you, I have my favorite hymns - the 
ones that hold some special meaning for me or 
evoke grand and vivid memories of significant 
events. Invariably, those things pass in mental 
review as I become "lost in wonder, love, and 
praise" in my worship. 
   While thinking of the glorious message of 
the Resurrection recently, I found myself 
suddenly overwhelmed with the music that has 
accompanied the celebration of the empty tomb for 
centuries. Various scenes crossed my mind. I saw myself 
as a lad holding my mother's hand in a little 
Baptist church in South Texas. I remembered a 
sunrise service on the island of Okinawa when I 
fought back tears of loneliness. Another hymn took 
me to Chafer Chapel on the campus of Dallas 
[Theological] Seminary, where 350 young men preparing for 
ministry stood side by side and sang heartily of the 
Savior we'd soon be proclaiming. 
   During my nostalgic pilgrimage, at each 
geographical spot revisited, I gave God thanks that Job's 
words were mine as well: "I know that my redeemer 
liveth" (Job 19:25 KJV). 
   Gloria Gaither's familiar lyrics then 
brought me into the seventies: "And because He 
lives, I can face tomorrow. Because He lives, all 
fear is gone." It is Jesus Christ - the 
miraculously resurrected Son of God - who remains the 
Object of our worship, the Subject of our praise. 
   That hope has kept believers strong in 
the darkest places. 
   "Thus far did I come, burdened with my 
sin. Nor could ought ease the grief that I was in 
'til I came hither. What a place is this! Must 
here be the beginning of my bliss? Must here the 
burden fall off my back? Must here the chains that 
bound it to me crack? Blest cross! Blest 
sepulchre! Blest rather be, the Man who was put to 
shame for me" (John Bunyan). [Chuck Swindoll 
www.insight.org.] 

LINKS FOR FURTHER STUDY 

Psalm 34:18-19 - The Blessings of Adversity.

http://www.abible.com/devotions/2012/20120220-2245.html 

Acts 14:22b - Tribulation for Entrance to 
the Kingdom. 

http://www.abible.com/devotions/2021/20210810-1026.html 

YOUR COMMENTS

If anyone has a paraphrase, commentary or 
testimony on this passage of Scripture, either 
personal or otherwise, I would be interested in 
hearing from you.  Thanks in advance and let's keep 
uplifting Jesus that all might be drawn to Him. Fred 
Gibbs  

LINKS WORTH CHECKING OUT

Most Important Decision in Life: 
http://www.youtube.com/embed/WGnEuGwvXqU?rel=0 

A Man without Equal by Bill Bright: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiVa7UoruIo 

Steps to Peace by Billy Graham: 
https://stepstopeace.org/ 

Seeking God Made Real: 
http://vimeo.com/31489782 

Prayer Made Real: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc8VdMV26VE 

LINKS FOR BIBLE STUDIES 

Lifting Up Jesus Bible Studies: 
http://www.liftingupjesus.net/ 

Amazing Facts Bible Studies: 
http://www.amazingfacts.org/bible-study/bible-study-guides.aspx  

Voice of Prophecy Discover Bible Study 
Guides: 
https://www.voiceofprophecy.com/study/discover 

Glow Tract Video Bible Studies: 
http://www.bibleresearch.info/ 

LINKS FOR BIBLE PROPHECY SEMINARS

Unlocking Bible Prophecies by Cami Oetman of 
Adventist World Radio: https://www.awr.org/bible 

Panorama of Prophecy with Pastor Doug 
Batchelor: https://www.panoramaofprophecy.com/  

Hope Awakens by John Bradshaw of IIW: 
https://itiswritten.tv/programs/hope-awakens 

Prophecies Decoded by Pastor Ron Clouzet: 
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1A435C5373550657