19神在基督里要完成祂在我们身上变化的工作,直到祂的变化终极完成于新耶路撒冷,先是在千年国里的得胜者身上,(启二7,)至终要在新天新地里完成于所有的圣徒,使所有蒙祂拣选并救赎的人成为祂团体的彰显,在永世里极完满的显出祂自己,(二一1~二二5,)而不是只显出任何种人性的美德。约伯和他的朋友们都没有以上的神圣启示。神在一切的灾难中对付约伯,剥夺他一切的所是,乃是要除去他在自己敬虔的成就和得著里的自满,并除去一切的拦阻和遮蔽,使他能倒空,好更进一步寻求神,并使他能看见他在人生里非常缺少一些东西。在约伯记的末了,神终于进来,指明约伯在他的人生中所缺少的乃是神自己。但直到约伯的时代,还没有像在新约那样积极、清楚、并完全揭示的启示。所以约伯记事实上并没有一个完成的结束,这结束应当是:神在基督里完全给约伯得著,使约伯与神成为一,好叫他能享受神在基督里作他的分。这样的启示,只有在新约里才能完满的看到。
19God in Christ will carry out His transforming work on us until His transformation consummates in the New Jerusalem, firstly with the overcomers in the millennial kingdom (Rev. 2:7) and consummately with all the saints in the new heaven and new earth, making all His chosen and redeemed people His corporate expression, manifesting Himself, not any kind of merely human virtues, to the fullest extent in eternity (Rev. 21:1—22:5). Job and his friends were devoid of all the above divine revelations. God's dealing with Job in all the disasters and His stripping him of all that he was, were to take away his contentment in his godly attainments and obtainments and to remove all the barriers and coverings so that he could be emptied for some further seeking after God and could realize that he was very short of something in his human life. At the end of the book of Job, after all, God came in, indicating that what Job was short of in his human life was God Himself. But up to the age of Job, there was not a revelation like what is positively, clearly, and fully unveiled in the New Testament. For this reason, the book of Job does not actually have a completed ending, which should be God fully gained in Christ by Job to make him one with God that he might enjoy God as his portion in Christ. Such a revelation can be fully found only in the New Testament.