Atonement and reconciliation refer to a mediator or an advocate. Job was the one in the Old Testament who emphasized this thought very specifically. “If there be an angel with him, a mediator, one among a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness, then he is gracious unto him and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom. His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s; he shall return to the DAYS OF HIS YOUTH. He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him, and shall see his face with joy; for he will render unto man his righteousness.” (Job 33: 23-26).

This has exactly happened to those who believe. The price was paid, we are redeemed, sinless and spotless in the presence of God. At the second coming of Christ those who belong to Him will be changed in their bodies and return to a perfect youth again and, as predicted in Job, remain that way for all eternity. Amen.

Already the prophets and sages in the Old Testament were waiting for the redemption to take place. Job cried out by faith in all his trials and hopeless situation, “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 shall I see God, whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my heart be consumed within me.” (Job 19: 25-27).

We see the Messiah manifested in all the various attributes besides God. In view of this, Paul has written in I Tim. 2: 5, “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man, Christ Jesus.” Not two Gods, not two persons within the deity, but one God and one mediator: the man, Christ Jesus. We have to understand once for all, that He had to be man in order to redeem mankind and to be able to die and shed His blood for a ransom of the church.

In Heb. 12: 24, it says that we have come “to Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.” We have to believe everything, before it can become effective in our own spiritual lives. Already in the Old Testament the mediator was spoken plainly of in the person of the prophet Moses, who stood between God and the people. In the New Testament, he is referred to in Acts 7: 38 with the following words, “This is he that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him in Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received the living oracles to give unto us.” God did the speaking, and Moses was the one to deliver the words he received to the people. He acted as a mediator.

Also the ministry of an advocate is necessary. John speaks of those who believe, “My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and he is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.” Again we see Christ next to God, but not as another person, but in one of the necessary offices pertaining to the church and the plan of salvation. He now sits to the right hand and power to the majesty on high. That was prophesied in Psalms 110: 1, “The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.” There He remains until time ends, and all things are put under His feet (Heb . 1:13) .

Atonement and reconciliation refer to a mediator or an advocate. Job was the one in the Old Testament who emphasized this thought very specifically. “If there be an angel with him, a mediator, one among a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness, then he is gracious unto him and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom. His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s; he shall return to the DAYS OF HIS YOUTH. He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him, and shall see his face with joy; for he will render unto man his righteousness.” (Job 33: 23-26).

This has exactly happened to those who believe. The price was paid, we are redeemed, sinless and spotless in the presence of God. At the second coming of Christ those who belong to Him will be changed in their bodies and return to a perfect youth again and, as predicted in Job, remain that way for all eternity. Amen.

Already the prophets and sages in the Old Testament were waiting for the redemption to take place. Job cried out by faith in all his trials and hopeless situation, “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 shall I see God, whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my heart be consumed within me.” (Job 19: 25-27).

We see the Messiah manifested in all the various attributes besides God. In view of this, Paul has written in I Tim. 2: 5, “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man, Christ Jesus.” Not two Gods, not two persons within the deity, but one God and one mediator: the man, Christ Jesus. We have to understand once for all, that He had to be man in order to redeem mankind and to be able to die and shed His blood for a ransom of the church.

In Heb. 12: 24, it says that we have come “to Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.” We have to believe everything, before it can become effective in our own spiritual lives. Already in the Old Testament the mediator was spoken plainly of in the person of the prophet Moses, who stood between God and the people. In the New Testament, he is referred to in Acts 7: 38 with the following words, “This is he that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him in Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received the living oracles to give unto us.” God did the speaking, and Moses was the one to deliver the words he received to the people. He acted as a mediator.

Also the ministry of an advocate is necessary. John speaks of those who believe, “My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and he is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.” Again we see Christ next to God, but not as another person, but in one of the necessary offices pertaining to the church and the plan of salvation. He now sits to the right hand and power to the majesty on high. That was prophesied in Psalms 110: 1, “The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.” There He remains until time ends, and all things are put under His feet (Heb . 1:13) .