Alan Dale Gross
Well-Known Member
Our Advocate in Heaven
“Also now, behold, my Witness is in Heaven, and my Record is on High.” (Job 16:19)
“It is significant that here, in what is probably the oldest book in the Bible, two vitally important New Testament Truths are anticipated. God had Revealed Himself to Job, where Job knew that he (and, by implication, every other person as well) has a “Record” in Heaven. This is the only occurrence of this word ("sahed"/ “Record”) in the Bible, but it basically means that our works, good or bad, have been Recorded by God in Heaven concerning how we have used or abused our Stewardship here on Earth.
“And the Record inevitably Testifies against us,
“for there is not a Just man upon Earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not” (Ecclesiastes 7:20).
“At God’s Throne of Judgment, when “the dead are Judged out of those things which were Written in the Books,
according to their works,” then “whosoever is not found Written in the Book of Life is cast into the Lake of Fire” (Revelation 20:12, 15).
“But how can we know that our names will be in God’s Book of Life in that Last Day?
“Thankfully, even Job knew, in his long-ago time, that “my Witness is in Heaven.” Here the word (Hebrew "ed"/ “Witness”) speaks of a Formal Personal Witness who can Testify on our behalf, one who “might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbor” (Job 16:21).
“Job somehow knew that such a Witness was there, for he could also say, “I know that my Redeemer Liveth” (Job 19:25). In light of the New Testament Record, we know that this Redeemer and Witness is none other than the Lord Jesus.
“If any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous: and He is the Propitiation"
(the "Sacrifice" Made by Jesus in our place) "for our" (own personal) "sins” (1 John 2:1–2).
"That is, He was the Sacrifice for our sins and thus can Redeem us from sin’s Penalty
and thereby Jesus Serves as our Defense Witness in Heaven. Our Record of sin and guilt
has been Washed Clean with the Precious Blood of Christ.”
Our Advocate in Heaven
“Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.” (Job 16:19) It is significant that here, in what is probably the oldest book in the Bible, two vitally important New Testament truths are anticipated. Job somehow knew that he (and, by implication, every other person as...
The word “Deem” means “to Judge” and whereas we were Judged for our sins against God, through the Blood of Jesus, we are “Re-Judged” and “Re-Deemed”, then when God Looks on us after we have been Washed in Jesus’ Perfect Blood He Sacrificed, God Sees us Perfect as having Jesus’ Perfect Righteousness Credited to our former life as a sinner.
We now have Eternal Life and will live Forever.