It has been quite a long time since we last communicated on this platform. I have been going through life in my little corner like many people are and have been going, but I know that My Redeemer Lives.
A lot has been going on around the world. We hear about good things, bad news, and even ugly ones. Look at the news, watch the movies, and consider the world we live in today; how long can we survive the pain within and without? Who shall deliver us?
Then, I thought about my Redeemer and your Redeemer. Oh, perhaps I am going too far by saying that my Redeemer is your Redeemer, but if you are among The Believers Today, that should not be a problem.
The saying, I know that my Redeemer lives have come to bear, and in this message, we shall see what it means and if there is any comfort in this knowledge.
Meanwhile, have you seen the message, What Is Blasphemy Against The Holy Spirit? You should give it a read!
My Redeemer Lives Bible Verse
There is a verse in the Bible where the statement, I Know That My Redeemer Lives, was mentioned. It is in no other book but Job 19:25. If I may, I would like to point out that just like myself and whoever is paying attention to this message, Job was a man who went through the storms of life. He struggled with losses more than many of us have and expressed himself as recorded in the scriptures.
Job said in Job 19:25 WEB, “But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.”
But why did he say that? Why would a man known to have lost his riches, children, servants, and flesh to diseases and afflictions say that he knows his Redeemer lives? Interestingly, the previous and the following chapters disclose an extended conversation between Job and his friends.
According to the scriptures, the friends of Job made statements about things relating to the judgment of God upon the wicked, and they accused Job of being an evil person and alluded that His predicament was God’s judgment on him. How unpleasant that is; even a righteous man was charged with error and wickedness by his friends.
However, Job responded with details of what had happened to him from his predicaments. He called out his friends for humiliating and accusing him, supposing that it was God who wronged him instead. He pointed out how his family left him, how servants disregarded him, how he became offensive to his wife, and that young people and close friends despised him.
Oh, how he was afflicted in his flesh that he was in pain and only whole in the skin of his teeth. That was a life that he lived a little away from death. However, his friends, who should have been a source of comfort to him, tormented him instead. Therefore, he said to them in Job 19:21–24 WEB:
“Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.
Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
‘Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!”
How amazing that we are reading these words today. More so, that regardless of what Job went through, he was able to say, I know that my Redeemer Lives. What he meant, we shall consider.
My Redeemer Lives Meaning
At the moment, many people are having a good time, while others are experiencing the opposite. Sadly, it seems some may live all their time in this life struggling and suffering, as one abandoned all by himself. I wonder if they would come to think of a redeemer and believe there is one who is the Lord God Almighty. Whether they would or not, it may be said that they did so in response to the circumstances of life.
Yes, that Job challenged the Lord is evident, yet he referenced God as his Redeemer who lives. Hold on for a moment and ask yourself, What does that mean? Why did he not say God does not exist because of all that happened to him? He was not foolish in heart to think so, or was he? May I say that it is not my intention to offend anyone, but it seems for some people that the answer they need to the issues of life is denying the existence of God. That does not solve the problem, but who am I to speak?
My Redeemer Lives refers to God being alive. Moreover, the expression My Redeemer was translated from the Hebrew word (גאלי), transliterated as gō·’ă·lî or gâ’al and pronounced gaw-al’. It refers to a Kinsman, a relative who redeems or vindicates his own, and the redemption. Job’s statement was personal in that he personified it and in another sense that he referred to one who will reveal Himself.
Therefore, he said in Job 19:26–27 WEB, “After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God, Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.”
Job had hope in God, and it was neither here nor there but here and there. He believed that God would show up on his side, whether in the flesh or out of the flesh. Was he referring to while he lived or when he died? So it seems. However, towards the end of the book, we learn the Lord appeared to him in a whirlwind and questioned Job. In the end, Job acknowledged that God can do all things and no purpose of His can be restrained.
I Know That My Redeemer Lives
The man who said, I know that my Redeemer lives, did see the appearance of the Lord who vindicated him from his accusers and blessed his latter end more than his beginning. Indeed, the Lord was on his side. But let me say that while it was Satan who afflicted Job with God’s permission, according to the scriptures, Job understood what happened to him as the touch of the hand of God.
O brethren, this message was not meant to discuss the life of Job, including his family, servants, and resources; we may look into those in another message. It was to consider the statement of Job amid difficulty and distress as many of us taste bitter waters in our thirst and are troubled.
God spoke to His people through the prophet Isaiah in Isaiah 54:7–8 WEB, saying,
“‘For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.
In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting loving kindness will I have mercy on you,’ says Yahweh your Redeemer.”
When I looked at Job, I saw in him a man forsaken for a moment and revisited with great mercy. How about you and me? Do you believe in a redeemer? Do you know whether or not your redeemer lives? Job gladly acknowledged it, and so did I. I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end, He shall stand upon the Earth. I will sing of my Redeemer and Lord, Jesus Christ. I hope you do. Shalom aleichem.
