08/08/2024 – Day 068 – Job – Chapters 19 & 20 / “But I know my living Redeemer, and He will stand on the dust at last, Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet I will see God in my flesh.”
Previous cycle posts on this day reading: 05/06/22 – Job 19: 23 – 27. Once again, talk about hope and assurance, what a rock solid affirmation from Job to his “living Redeemer” in praise, and a complete turnabout motif in his reply to Bildad! Bear in mind, Job died roughly 2,500 years prior to the birth of Jesus. So, how did he know his “living Redeemer” except through the Holy Spirit? Sorry, I don’t have the Bible verse handy but: “I chose you, you didn’t choose Me!” (The great “I AM”)
For chapter 20, I would like to share the pithy commentary from “The Apologetics Study Bible”:
“20: 1 – 29. Although Zophar’s second speech reflects many biblical truths concerning the wicked, it does not guarantee that his words were given in true biblical spirit, Zophar painted pictures of the certain failure and disastrous end of the wicked but let job to make the application to himself. Words have the power to wound or heal (Proverbs 11:9,11; 15:4). and need to be used in a positive manner (Proverbs 15:23). Believers are to be ready to give a defense of their faith, but their apologetic needs to be spoken with all due propriety and truth, bathed in love (Ephesians 4:15; Colossians 4:6; 1 Peter 3:15).”
Soli Deo Gloria!