Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas
Jeremy approaches Bible teaching with a passion for getting the basic doctrines explained so that the individual can understand them and then apply them to circumstances in their life. These basic and important lessons are nestled in a framework of history and progression of revelation from the Bible so the whole of Scripture can be applied to your physical and spiritual life.
Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas
NT Framework - An Ancient Confidence in Resurrection
Job expected to see his Redeemer with his own eyes, from his own flesh! That early testimony reframes the way we read about the hope of our own resurrection across the whole Bible.
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Jeremy Thomas is the pastor at Spokane Bible Church in Spokane, Washington and a professor at Chafer Theological Seminary. He has been teaching the Bible for over 20 years, always seeking to present its truths in a clear and understandable manner.
Welcome to Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas and our series on the New Testament framework. Today, a smaller, bite-sized piece from the larger lesson. We hope you enjoy it.
SPEAKER_01:Resurrection of the Old Testament. Then we'll move in, of course, later to resurrection of the New Testament. But Job chapter 19. Now, Job is very early, and I'm not going to go through all the evidences for uh resurrection in the Old Testament, but I've always thought this one was so interesting because it's so early. Job is probably written after the flood, but before God made the covenant with Abraham. So sometime in like Genesis 9, 10, 11, in those, uh that time period. And evidently they knew quite a bit because Job knew about the resurrection. This is one of the clearest descriptions of resurrection in the whole Bible. Job 19, 25. This is his second reply to Bildad, if that helped. Job 19, 25. As for me, Job says, I know that my redeemer lives. So first of all, he knew about a redeemer, which, I mean, in Genesis 8, 9, 10, 11, in those chapters, that's very early. So he knew about the seed promise made to Adam and Eve, right? Seed of the woman who would come and conquer. He connected that with redemption. I know that my Redeemer lives. And at the last he will take his stand where? On the earth. So he knew that the Messiah would come to earth and set up his kingdom. Even after my skin is destroyed, says Job, yet from my flesh I shall see God. So he realizes, yeah, we die, but he says, guess what? We're going to get another flesh, and in that flesh, gonna see God. And he recognized that his Redeemer was God, and this is the seed of the woman. And we already, I mean, he knew so much. He says, verse 27, whom I myself shall behold, I will behold him, and my eyes will see, not another's eyes. These are will be my eyes. I I'm just hoping that my eye, like I've got some pretty bad eyes. Like if I take my contacts out, I don't know who you are. Um I don't know what my my I think my uh prescription is something like minus 5.75 in one eye and minus like five in the other eye, or something like that. Um so I don't really know who you are without without my contacts. But uh but I'll still have my same eyes, they'll just be everything will be proper. I won't have to wear contacts, thank God. I hope I still have blue eyes because I've always kind of liked blue eyes. But it's his choice, right? But my eyes will see and not another, my heart faints within me. Just the thought. You know, your eyes, the eyes that you have now, will be somehow transformed into resurrection eyes, but they're still your eyes, see? And you will see your Redeemer, who is the God man, Jesus Christ, with your eyes. With your own eyes. And not the eyes of another. You'll see him directly with your own. So that's fantastic. And Job knew that. Now the un another evidence is the unconditional covenants God made starting in well, technically there are promises in Genesis 12, right, with Abraham, and he tells Abraham to go to a land he would show him and so forth. It's the promised land. And there are promises in chapter 12, they become a covenant in chapter 15. He puts those promises in a covenant. And it's an unconditional covenant, meaning that there's no requirement, right, on Abraham's side, but God will simply do this. Sometimes we call it a unilateral because it's one way. It's one way. It's God saying, I will do this, I will do this, I will do this. And you say, well, what does Abraham have to do? Nothing. Nothing. It's a one-way. Now, so whenever you see I will language in the covenant, in the in the in a covenant in the Old Testament, it's a one-way covenant. Whenever you see this type of language, if you do this, I will do this. Now that's a conditional covenant. And the Mosaic covenant is conditional. He says, if you bless me, I will bless you. If you obey me, you will live long in the land, and things like that. Those are all conditional. But when you see I will language, it's unconditional. God's saying, I will do it. So the unconditional covenants, what they do is they set up a context where resurrection must take place. It's very simple. If God told Abraham that Abraham would receive the land, and the Bible tells us that he walked and wandered through the land and never owned one part of it, but even had to purchase land from people who lived in it to have a burial plot, right? Which he did. And then he died, never having received the land that God promised. What does that imply about what God must do with Abraham in the future? He must raise him. He must resurrect him. Because he made a promise to give him the land. So it is see how resurrection is embedded in the covenant itself. Now, we'll look at this passage next week because it's New Testament, but the Pharisees, we know in the New Testament, they believed in resurrection. And we also know the Sadducees, they didn't believe in resurrection, right? And this is where they're always fighting in the gospel. And Jesus enters into this discussion with the Sadducees. Now, the Sadducees, they're also interesting because they only believed the Torah was the inspired word of God. So they did not believe anything outside of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Those are the only five books they consider inspired, okay? The Pharisees believed all of them, like we would, the same Old Testament that we have. So this is another point of disagreement between the Sadducees and the Pharisees. So when the Sadducees challenge Jesus on resurrection, Jesus does something very shrewd. I mean, he could have picked something from Daniel or Job to prove resurrection. But the Sadducees don't believe those books are inspired by God. So did Jesus try to argue the point, well, now wait a minute, let's get the canon of scripture straight. Or did he just go to one of those five books that they already believed was the word of God and prove to him from that? He just went straight to that. And let's not mess with this other stuff. Let me just show you that in the old in the five books that you do believe are God's word, it teaches resurrection. And it does so, he insists in the burning bush episode, Exodus 3.6, where God is talking to Moses. He says, Take off your feet for standing on holy ground, and so forth and so on. And Moses comes to the bush, and God says, or yeah, the voice in the bush says, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob. Jesus quoted that to the Sadducees to prove resurrection. Now, this is their book. They believe this book, right? They believed the burning bush. They believed Moses and the voice and all that. But they didn't catch that resurrection is implied by that statement in Exodus 3:6. But it is implied, isn't it? Because Abraham had already died. Jacob had already died. Isaac, they'd already died physically. But if God made covenant promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give them the land and all these things, and that he was their God, he's not the God of the dead, is he? But he's the God of the living. Jesus says, haven't you even read your own Torah? I mean, don't you guys believe this stuff? So I don't know how many how how so many Sadducees missed it, right? But hey, we're how many times have we missed it? We have to be careful, right? How many times have we missed something that's very plainly in the text? It's implied or just explicit, and we miss it.
SPEAKER_00:Thank you for joining us on Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas. If you would like to see the visuals that went along with today's sermon, you can find those on Rumble and on YouTube, Underspoke and Bible Church. That is where Jeremy is the pastor and teacher. We hope you found today's lesson productive and useful in growing closer to God and walking more obediently with Him. If you found this podcast to be useful and helpful, then please consider rating us in your favorite podcast app. And until next time, we hope you have a blessed and wonderful day.