“For I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth;  And after my skin is destroyed, this I know, That in my flesh I shall see God.)

(Job 19:25-26)

Job, after losing his family, his possessions, and even his own health was convinced of the resurrection and declared triumphantly, “I shall see God!”

Notice that Job does not say, “I shall see heaven.”

He does not say, ‘I shall see the pearly gates, I shall see the walls of jasper, I shall see the crowns of gold and the harps of harmony,’ but ‘I shall see God’; as if that were the sum and substance of heaven.”[i]

Nor does he say, “I shall see the holy angels.”

Job did not even say, “I shall see those of this world who have gone to heaven before me,”

Job would see all these things: the pearly gates, the holy angels, his children. But over and above and infinitely more glorious than any of these, he would see God.

And like Job, we as believers, will also one day see God! (1 Cor 13:12; 1 Jn 3:2)

[i] Charles Haddon Spurgeon, “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth,” in Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, vol. 9