July 28, 2025 - Job 19:25 - "Jesus Christ the Redeemer"

Job 19:25

"For I know that my Redeemer liveth, And that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:"

Although Job is called an upright man in Job 1:1 and one to whom we are exhorted to look as an example of patience, "Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy" (James 5:11), yet, he like all others of the LORD’s people was as wicked by nature as any sinners that ever were born. The Scriptures say that whom the LORD loves He chastens and scourges every son (Hebrews 12:6). Had Job been perfect in his nature he would not have needed scourging (disciplining). What is evident as you read through the entire Book of Job is that by his own testimony, what he thought he knew of God, he knew nothing as he ought and the LORD brought him to seek Him in repentance and Faith, "Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes" (Job 42:6).  

    What we know is that Job was blessed by God as one of His elect children, for whom the LORD Jesus would come and pay his sin debt and in whom the Spirit of Christ was given as an earnest of that redemption and justification yet to be accomplished. It is clear that Job was not looking to any righteousness or perfection in himself but to that which the LORD Jesus would come to earn and establish for him and God would impute to his account upon completion of His cross work. He was one of those like all of the Old Testament believers whereby the one sacrifice and death of the LORD Jesus ratified God’s covenant of Grace on their behalf when He had satisfied all that was required in the shedding of His blood unto death (Hebrews 9:15-22). 

    That’s why Job declared, “For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth”  (Job 19:25). Here the Spirit of Christ gave Job such a view of the LORD Jesus as the Redeemer Who was to come and stand in the latter day on the earth (Christ’s first coming) that his hope in that work of redemption that Christ would accomplish was all his hope of salvation. The same Spirit that revealed Christ in Job as the ever-living Redeemer is the One Who reveals Him in the elect today. Job was given the Spirit to look forward to the fulfillment of his redemption and justification. God’s elect today are given the same Spirit to look back to the One Whom God sent in the fulness of the time, to redeem each one of the elect and justify them. Redemption and justification are synonymous, "being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:" (Romans 3:24).   

    The Blessed Hope of God’s children is the same Redeemer Who came, lived, died, rose again and ascended on high as their Representative before God the Father. What a Blessed Hope He is, given eyes of Faith to see Him and rest in Him and His finished work at Calvary alone!