Today, I am reading and commenting on  Job 16-21.

The Book of Job is an interesting foreshadowing of many themes which are addressed in the New Testament.  In his suffering Job had begun to hope for death, but he tells us that if all we have to hope for is death, we have no hope.  Which sounds very similar to what Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 15 where he says, “If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.”  Job also goes on to say that his intercessor plead with God for him.  Which fits with what Paul says in Romans 8:34, “Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.” And what John writes in 1 John 2:1, “My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.”  Finally, Job also expresses the hope for resurrection when he says, “I know that my Redeemer lives…in my flesh I will see God.”  I know that one day I will die, unless Christ returns before then, but I also know that in my flesh I will see God.  That is the great hope all those who put their trust in Jesus have, no matter what they may suffer in this life.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.