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"For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth." (Job 19)
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Job in the New Testament
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering, affliction and of patience. Behold, we count them happy who endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. -- James 5: 11
My Redeemer Liveth
For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth. And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I shall see my God. Who I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not another: this my hope is laid up in my bosom. --- Job 19: 25--27
Immortality of the Saved
Behold, I shew you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. 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. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 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.
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. --- 1 Corinthians 15: 51--58 KJV
For the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice. And shall come forth: they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. -- John 5: 28-29 KJV
And many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth, shall awake: some unto life everlasting, and others unto reproach, to see it always. -- Daniel 12:2
• Introduction to THE BOOK OF JOB
"Man is most comforted by paradoxes."
"The central idea of the great part of the Old Testament may be called the idea of the loneliness of God. God is not the only chief character of the Old Testament; God is properly the only character in the Old Testament. Compared with His clearness of purpose all the other wills are heavy and automatic, like those of animals; compared with His actuality all the sons of flesh are shadows. Again and again the note is struck, "With whom hath he taken counsel?" "I have trodden the wine press alone, and of the peoples there was no man with me." All the patriarchs and prophets are merely His tools or weapons; for the Lord is a man of war. He uses Joshua like an axe or Moses like a measuring-rod. For Him Samson is only a sword and Isaiah a trumpet. The saints of Christianity are supposed to be like God, to be, as it were, little statuettes of Him. The Old Testament hero is no more supposed to be of the same nature as God than a saw or a hammer is supposed to be of the same shape as the carpenter." Read More Here
• An Example of Patience
During the aforesaid times lived the most patient Job, whose words are so mysterious, that there is not one without its profound meaning concerning the life of Christ our Lord, the resurrection of the dead, the last judgment in the same flesh, in which each one lives, and concerning the violence and astuteness of the demons and their warfare against men. Above all has God placed him as an example of patience for us mortals, for in him we all may learn how we are to bear our adversities; especially as we have before our eyes the death of Christ, whereas this saint saw Him only at such a distance and yet imitated Him so closely. -- Mary of Agreda (+1665)
Matthew Henry Commentary
Originally written in 1706, Matthew Henry's commentary provides an exhaustive look at every book of the Bible.
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• "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth" by Handel, from "The Messiah" 5 min.
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Comments by viewers
This is the way it should be sung. I love the Messiah; all of it. I love this part. I brings tears. What of? Joy? Appreciation of the beauty of it ? The promise of those words? I don't know. I just love it. Sylvia McNair has a beautiful voice. I was born not far from St. Martin in the Fields.
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One of the loveliest Soprano voices I have ever heard.
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When such a great performer as this sings "I know that my Redeemer liveth", it validates the eternal nature of this truth.
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Very pure tone, like an angel.
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This is one of the pieces that holds a special place in my heart. It is the affirmation that I want sung when my time comes.
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What a beautiful profession of faith this song is!
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she's got an angelic voice. I'm just in love with the way she controls it.
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The clear articulation makes this version most beautiful! This declaration of faith is the stuff of the servants of God! It is not a vain thing, but it is our life! Job 19:23 ¶ 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.
28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
Part III -- of The Messiah, by George Frideric Handel
Scene 1: The promise of eternal life
45. I know that my Redeemer liveth (soprano)
46. Since by man came death (chorus)
Scene 2: The Day of Judgment
47. Behold, I tell you a mystery (bass)
48. The trumpet shall sound (bass)
Scene 3: The final conquest of sin
49. Then shall be brought to pass (alto)
50. O death, where is thy sting (alto and tenor)
51. But thanks be to God (chorus)
52. If God be for us, who can be against us (soprano)
Scene 4: The acclamation of the Messiah
53. Worthy is the Lamb (chorus)
Amen (chorus)
He Saw the Dead Proverbs Come Alive
For instance, we have just seen (1931) a staggering turn of the wheel of fortune which has brought all the modern material pride and prosperity to a standstill. America, which a year or two ago seemed to have become one vast Eldorado studded with cities of gold, is almost as much embarrassed as England, and really much more embarrassed than Ireland. The industrial countries are actually finding it difficult to be industrial, while the old agricultural countries still find it possible to be industrious. Now, I do not pretend to have prophesied or expected this, for a man may cheerfully call a thing rotten without really expecting it to rot. But neither, certainly, did the young, the progressive, the prosperous, or the adventurous expect it. Yet all history and culture is stiff with proverbs and prophecies telling them to expect it. The trouble is that they thought the proverbs and history a great deal too stiff. Again and again, with monotonous reiteration, both my young friends and myself had been told from childhood that fortune is fickle, that riches take to themselves wings and fly, (Prov. 23:5) that power can depart suddenly from the powerful, that pride goes before a fall, (Prov. 16:18) and insolence attracts the thunderbolt of the gods. But it was all unmeaning to us, and all the proverbs seemed stiff and stale, like dusty labels on neglected antiquities. We had heard of the fall of Wolsey, which was like the crash of a huge palace, still faintly rumbling through the ages; we had read of it in the words of Shakespeare. We had learned them, and learned nothing from them. We had read ten thousand times, to the point of tedium, of the difference between the Napoleon of Marengo and the Napoleon of Moscow; but we should never have expected Moscow if we had been looking at Marengo. We knew that Charles the Fifth resigned his crown, or that Charles the First lost his head; and we should have duly remarked ‘Sic transit gloria mundi’, after the incident, but not before it. We had been told that the Roman Empire declined, or that the Spanish Empire disintegrated; but no German ever really applied it to the German Empire, and no Briton to the British Empire. The very repetition of these truths will sound like the old interminable repetition of the truisms. And yet they are to me, at this moment, like amazing and startling discoveries, for I have lived to see the dead proverbs come alive.
G.K.C., On the Pleasures of no Longer being Young
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Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18
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Tried Like Gold in the Furnace
You are kept by the power of God, through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations.
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ -- 1 Peter 1:6-7 KJV
But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. -- Job 23:10 KJV
Consider the wondrous works of God
Wheat desireth clouds, and the clouds spread their light: Which go round about, whithersoever the will of him that governeth them shall lead them, to whatsoever he shall command them upon the face of the whole earth: Whether in one tribe, or in his own land, or in what place soever of his mercy he shall command them to be found. Hearken to these things, Job: Stand, and consider the wondrous works of God.
Dost thou know when God commanded the rains, to shew his light of his clouds? Knowest thou the great paths of the clouds, and the perfect knowledges? -- Job 37:11--16
Who maketh the clouds his chariot. Psalm 104, 3
• He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades, and the constellations of the south. He does great and unsearchable things, wonderful things that cannot be counted. - Job 9:9
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. . The Pleiades is mentioned three times in the Bible.
• Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. -- Ecclesiastes 12:14
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• I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. -- Thomas Jefferson
• For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise. -- Benjamin Franklin
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The Happiness Of Heaven:
The Joys and Rewards of Eternal Glory, by F.J. Boudreaux
Shows how the joys of Heaven stem from the direct vision of God--the joys of the heart; of the mind; of physical beauty; of the senses; of friendship; and of perfect love of God. Tells of the magnificent variety in Heaven. How Mary Magdalen's glory exceeds that of many innocent souls; etc. Explains that a high degree of glory in Heaven is within the reach of all baptized souls; however poor; ignorant or insignificant they may be here. A marvelous book!
The Rev. Fr. J. Boudreau, S.J., was a priest of the Society of Jesus and author of the nineteenth century. His work The Happiness of Heaven: The Joys and Rewards of Eternal Glory was originally published in 1872 by John Murphy & Company, Maryland. It discusses the infinite joy of the souls in Heaven, as well as the fact that all baptized persons are capable of obtaining it, no matter how seemingly insignificant they may be. Father Boudreau's book was also reset and published by TAN in 1984 with the Imprimatur.
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