Some two thousand five hundred years before the incarnation of Christ, Job was assured that His Lord was indeed alive, and that He was his Redeemer. And not only was he assured of these great truths, but he also had knowledge of a number of other glorious realities, such as that Christ would one day stand upon the earth; that though his own skin and body should be destroyed by worms, yet in his flesh he would see God; and that he would see Him for himself, with his own eyes and not someone else's. All this and much more Job had some clear knowledge of long before the Bible as we have it was written and compiled. 

    It is interesting to observe that some fo the most precious truths that God's believing people of today hold so dear to their hearts were known and loved thousands of years ago by others to whom the Lord revealed them. Our Redeemer did indeed stand upon the earth in the beginning of this present latter day dispensation, and He did indeed redeem His people, including Job and all the other saints who lived in the long ago. And we of today who look for His second personal coming believe just as firmly as did the saints of old that though we may die before His return, yet we shall, in the resurrection, see Him with our own bodily eyes in our own glorified bodies, not in an exchanged body, but in a changed body (See Phil. 3:21). 

    Hundreds of years before Christ came into the world, the Psalmist David had the assurance that he would one day behold the Lord's face in righteousness, and that he would be satisfied when he awoke with the likeness of his blessed Saviour (See Psalm 17:15). This has been the hope of God's humble poor down through the centuries. 

    In perfect harmony with the saints of old the apostle John said, "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He (Christ) shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is" (I John 3:2). Surely having this hope in us should make us want to purify ourselves, "even as he is pure," and live just as close to Him as possible.