![]() Job served God the best he understood how. So when God arrives at the end of the book, He explains to Job just who he's dealing with no mere tribal god, but the Creator of all things. Job believes that God has done this to him, that Job himself doesn't deserve it, but also that another force of justice besides God will make things right! Like Abraham and so many others in the Bible, Job serves Yahweh, but he doesn't really get that his god is different than all the others. This makes so much sense in the context of the rest of the book. Job believes that he will see God when justice is given, but that that justice will be given by someone else! Job doesn't want God to save him. He is saying that the one that will settle this dispute will come and stand upon the earth. ![]() Job is taking issue with God's treatment of him. But he doesn't say this arbitrator doesn't exist he says that the arbitrator isn't present! The implication is that the one who can stand between Job and God exists, and is also Job's redeemer, who he believes is coming. Job's mentions wanting an arbitrator in chapter 9, when he says no one can stand between man and God. The Hebrew in the answer to this question goes way beyond what I can handle. So did Job know that he was talking about Christ? Was he expecting a literal physical incarnation of God? If so, what was the basis of his expectation? And if not, what redeemer was he talking about? ![]() Christians understand him to be referencing Christ. Job says that his Redeemer will stand upon the earth. There's a verse that's often quoted at funerals from Job 19.Īnd at the last he will stand upon the earth.Īnd after my skin has been thus destroyed,
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