Bible Questions Answered:
“How could Job think resurrection,
which he knew nothing of?...”
Thana/ Dubai, Saudi Arabia
Bible Answer:
Yes, Job believed in bodily
resurrection, and that he would see his Redeemer, in his flesh!
Job 19:23-27 KJV
23 Oh that my words
were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
24 That they were
graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
25 For I know
that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day
upon the earth:
26 And though after my
skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
27 Whom I shall see for
myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins
be consumed within me.
Long before...
Genesis
5:24 KJV
And Enoch walked with
God: and he was not; for God took him.
Genesis
28:10-13 NLT (Jacob has a dream at Bethel.)
10 Meanwhile, Jacob
left Beersheba and traveled toward Haran.
11 At sundown he
arrived at a good place to set up camp and stopped there for the
night. Jacob found a stone to rest his head against and lay down to
sleep.
12 As he slept, he
dreamed of a stairway that reached from the earth up to heaven. And
he saw the angels of God going up and down the stairway.
13 At the top of the
stairway stood The Lord, and He said, “I am The Lord, The God of
your grandfather Abraham, and The God of your father, Isaac. The
ground you are lying on belongs to you. I am giving it to you and
your descendants.
Exodus
24:9-12 KJV
9 Then went up Moses,
and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:
10 And they saw The God
Of Israel: and there was under His feet as it were a paved work of a
sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in His clearness.
11 And upon the nobles
of the children of Israel He laid not His hand: also they saw God,
and did eat and drink.
12 And The Lord said
unto Moses, Come up to Me into the mount, and be there: and I will
give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have
written; that thou mayest teach them.
Ancient
Egyptians believed in bodily resurrection, their culture was bound to
it.
Job's
hope was in his God, his Redeemer, Vindicator.
Psalm
19:14 KJV
"...O Lord, my
Strength, and my Redeemer."
Isaiah
47:4 KJV
As for our Redeemer,
The Lord Of Hosts is His name, The Holy One Of Israel.
What
Job believed:
25 For I
know that my Redeemer liveth,
25 and that He shall
stand at the latter day upon the earth:
26 And though after my
skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
27 Whom I shall see
for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though
my reins be consumed within me.
The
Word:
Psalm
17:15 KJV
As for me, I will
behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake,
with thy likeness.
Isaiah
33:17 KJV
Thine eyes shall see
The King in His beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far
off.
John
17:24 KJV
Father, I will that
they also, whom thou hast given Me, be with me where I am; that they
may behold My glory, which thou hast given Me: for thou lovedst Me
before the foundation of the world.
I
Corinthians 13:12 KJV
For now we see through
a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then
shall I know even as also I am known.
II
Corinthians 5:1 KJV
For we know that if our
earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building
of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
I
John 3:2 KJV
Beloved, now are we the
sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know
that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see
Him as He is.
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I
Corinthians 15:51-58 KJV
51 Behold, I shew you a
mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound,
and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible
must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this
corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall
have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying
that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is
thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
56 The sting of death
is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to
God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my
beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the
work of The Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain
in The Lord.
I
Thessalonians 4:13-18 NLT
13 And now, dear
brothers and sisters, we want you to know what will happen to the
believers who have died so you will not grieve like people who have
no hope.
14 For since we believe
that Jesus died and was raised to life again, we also believe that
when Jesus returns, God will bring back with Him the believers who
have died.
15 We tell you this
directly from the Lord: We who are still living when the Lord returns
will not meet him ahead of those who have died.[g] 16 For The Lord
Himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the
voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, the
Christians who have died will rise from their graves. 17 Then,
together with them, we who are still alive and remain on the earth
will be caught up in the clouds to meet The Lord in the air. Then we
will be with The Lord forever.
18 So encourage each
other with these words.
