My Redeemer Lives
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My Redeemer Lives
My Redeemer Lives
Job 17-19 a
If a man denounces his friends for personal gain, the eyes of his children will fail.
Job makes a judgement about his friends behavior using a proverb.
It is striking.
He is saying that the children of his friends will have poor judgement because of how their fathers are behaving.
The eyes are a key motif in scripture. They are a thread that runs through the text.
This proverb is pregnant...
You and I may not really identify with “denouncing your friend for personal gain.”
In other words, do you have a friend that you could denounce that would be of any profit to you? Probably not, and that is good.
But, personal profit can take on many different meanings.
We don’t know if the “naming” of friends is true
Fred stole that object
Or if it is untrue.
Regardless, it is the MOTIVE…For sharing in the pirates booty, so to speak.
And what children learn is that it is OKAY to USE people to ENRICH yourself.
And that is what Job is accusing his friends of doing.
IN OTHER WORDS.....IMPORTANT....
If I CALL OUT EVIL, the God will REWARD ME.
THEN, the next GENERATION will be unable to see RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Bildad responds...
His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.
Bildad is explaining to Job that if Job DOES NOT REPENT...
Then there will be no memory of Job.
Which is interesting, since we are reading about Job.
This concept of “Making a Name” for yourself is nothing new.
Our CULTURE is SATURATED with this TODAY. (Twitter, TikTok, YouTube)
3500 years ago, an author recorded an event that relates to this.
Then they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.”
The people are of one voice, one language, unified.
What has resulted from this is the baking of bricks and building. Likely with forced labor.
The last time we had humans unified, we had violence across the land.
This is the outcome of making an name for yourself.
Someone will pay a price.
Back to Job...
“O that my words were written down, O that they were written on a scroll, that with an iron chisel and with lead they were engraved in a rock forever!
What have we seen from Job’s words.
He declares his innocence
He proclaims the injustice (and it is)
He voices his suffering (oppressed)
He calls out the error of his friends.
And, he has done more...
He has remained faithful to God
He has laid this at God’s feet as God’s responsibility
He continues to cry out to God for rescue
He is loyal to the redemption of God.
And that is where Job goes...
As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that as the last he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God, whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.
***As for me...
I don’t believe that God has been defeated.
God lives. There is no god that has won a battle with Yahweh.
Not only that, He will be the last on the DUST.
The phrasing literally goes like this:
“I, I know my redeemer is alive, as the last on the dust he will rise up.”
This sounds very prophetic.
Who is this redeemer of which he speaks?
You can see how GOD judges Job as Innocent.
It is because of faith...
*** And after my skin...
Because Job believes he will see God with his own eyes.
And he WILL NOT see any other God.
And at the thought of this, he...
“My stomach fails in my lap.”
Now…the pace between Job and the friends is going to pick up a bit.
They have said about all there is to say and HERE is the DEAL...
IMPASSE...
Job with God
Job with Friends
Friends with Job
Job with wife
They are all locked into their belief. There is not going to be any changing this until God enters the conversation.
The situation is NOT going to CHANGE.
Job is starting to RECONCILE this with himself.
To do that, he is accessing his belief in his Redeemer.
He is trying to BALANCE the equation in his mind.
Perspective
We call that perspective.
There have been few moments where Job is leaning into HIS PAST.
In other words, HIS PAST is not balancing HIS PRESENT.
He is at the point that his past does not compare.
He is looking forward to a time of a REDEEMER.
As if to say, this REDEEMER will stand on the dust of my former body...
AND I will see him in the flesh.
For Christians, this is Jesus.