Job 19:25, 26, 27 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh I shall see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
In the depths of despair and in the midst of complaint Job breaks out with this amazing declaration of faith. It is amazing that Job could see the resurrected body of his Redeemer and that he would, in his own resurrected body, see Him face to face. This proclamation is so miraculous that it had to be the Holy Spirit inspiring him to believe in and speak of his resurrected Redeemer.
Job expresses his faith in five different but related truths: 1) I have a redeemer, a person who will rescue me and bring me back from sin and misery; 2) this redeemer lives, himself resurrected from death to live eternally; 3) He will be in a resurrected body, standing on this physical earth at the last day; 4) after my physical body is utterly decayed I will see him with physical eyes in my resurrected human body (“flesh,” which is body and soul). 5) the Redeemer I will see is God, not someone else, not some vision, delusion, ghost, or phantasm.
Maggots (skin worms) will destroy my body and my vital internal organs (reins) will be consumed. Sin causes death and destruction. But I have a promise: because of the first resurrection, the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ, my body will rise up from death and decay and be transformed into an eternal, incorruptible, spiritual body. And this I know: the One who redeemed me is living still, and I will, too. And this is true, no matter what I am presently feeling. This may be the most powerful Promise ever spoken or recorded.