Job 42:1-17
Job 42:10-17 records that after Job had prayed for his friends, God healed Job of his suffering and restored more wealth to him than he had before. Job's prayer for his friends demonstrated that Job had forgiven them and had become reconciled with them. Job had become more like God.
God also gave Job seven children to replace those that had been killed. But Job did not lose his first seven children. Before God recreates the heaven and the earth, He will resurrect His living images within Job's first seven children from the regions of the dead and recreate them to live on His recreated earth. God will use His consuming fire to dissolve their systems in order to separate and recover His living images in them from their spiritual deaths, but they will not be exactly the same persons that they were as Job's children. They will lose their former lives as Jesus prophesied in John 12:25. But God will allow Job to descend from heaven from time to time to visit them on earth, and he will recognize enough of himself in them to know that they are his children. Revelation 21:1-5.
As an Old Testament patriarch, Job lived to be 140 years old and saw four generations of his children. When Job died, his spirit and soul descended into Paradise located at that time close to the region of death called hell. Luke 16:19-26. Job would wait there for his Redeemer to come to Paradise and preach the gospel to him and all the other Old Testament saints there saved by grace. Job and all the Old Testament saints would believe the gospel that Jesus preached, be washed in the blood of Christ and forgiven of all their sins, be bodily resurrected and translated to heaven along with Paradise itself. Ephesians 4:7-10; Luke 23:43; Matthew 27:52-53.
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