It is interesting and encouraging to see how the yearnings of the saints of God of Old Testament times are answered by the truth of the New Testament. Who told Job, for instance, that, raised up from the corruption of death, he would see God? Yet this was the faith that had struck its roots deeply into his soul and made him cry out with hope in his distress, “As for me, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and the Last, He shall stand upon the earth [shall stand up above the dust]; and if after my skin this shall be destroyed, yet from out of my flesh shall I see God; whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another” (Job 19:25-27 JND). His great hope was that he would be delivered from all his woes when he should see the Last (see Isa. 48:12), who is also the First, triumph in His power over all the corruption that death had brought in. He knew that he would see that triumph, and so he will, for this is assured to “all who are Christ’s” (1 Cor. 15).
J. T. Mawson