In Job, chapter nineteen, verse twenty-six, the servant of God expressed the conviction that after his body had decayed in the grave, he would be physically raised to life and see his Redeemer God in a resurrected body.
The Spirit of God, at this time, seems to have powerfully wrought on the mind of Job. Here, he witnessed a good confession, declared the soundness of his faith, and the assurance of his hope. Here is much of Christ and heaven, and he that said such things are these declared plainly that he sought the better country, that is, the heavenly. Still, God to Job to believe in a living Redeemer and look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. He comforted himself with the expectation of these.
Job had assurance that this Redeemer of sinners from the yoke of Satan and the condemnation of sin was his Redeemer, and expected salvation through him and that he was a living Redeemer, though not yet come in the flesh, and that at the last day, he would appear as the Judge of the world, to raise the dead, and complete the redemption of his people. With what pleasure holy Job enlarges upon this! May these faithful sayings be engraved by the Holy Spirit upon our hearts. We are all concerned that the root of the matter is in us. A living, quickening, commanding principle of grace in the heart is the root of the matter as necessary to our religion as the root of the tree, to which it owes both fixedness and its fruitfulness. Job and his friends differed concerning the methods of Providence, but they agreed on the root of the matter in another world.
The truth for Job and believers today is as children of God, we all must persevere until we encounter Him.