Bible Questions Answered:
“Why did God give Job to the devil?...”
Jeff/ Hampton, Virginia U.S.A.
Bible Answer:
Bible Text:
James 1:13 NLT
"...God is never tempted to do wrong, and He never tempts anyone else.
Reading Job's story, we realize that it was Satan, who brought about all Job's problems, not God!
Job 1:8-12 NLT
8 Then The Lord asked Satan, “Have you noticed My servant Job? He is the finest man in all the earth. He is blameless—a man of complete integrity. He fears God and stays away from evil.”
9 Satan replied to The Lord, “Yes, but Job has good reason to fear God.
10 You have always put a wall of protection around him and his home and his property. You have made him prosper in everything he does. Look how rich he is!
11 But reach out and take away everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face!”
12 “All right, you may test him,” The Lord said to Satan. “Do whatever you want with everything he possesses, but don’t harm him physically.” So Satan left The Lord’s presence.
Satan's plan was two-fold, first to prove God a liar, and to destroy Job.
Now as a Bible Prayer Line reader, check the flyleaf of your Bible. There is our answer.
Psalm 145:17 KJV
The Lord is righteous in all His ways, and holy in all His works.
Now although God did not precipitate Jobs dilemma, yet He did have a purpose to “allowing,” Satan's challenge.
Satan's agenda was all too clear, but God had something in mind too, and it was that, though Job was a righteous man, God wanted Job to have yet a better image of just who He was.
Servants, animals and children gone, through all Satan's evil destruction, Job remained faithful.
Again Satan appeared before The Lord.
Job 2:2-10 NLT
2 “Where have you come from?” The Lord asked Satan. Satan answered The Lord, “I have been patrolling the earth, watching everything that’s going on.”
3 Then The Lord asked Satan, “Have you noticed My servant Job? He is the finest man in all the earth. He is blameless—a man of complete integrity. He fears God and stays away from evil. And he has maintained his integrity, even though you urged Me to harm him without cause.”
4 Satan replied to The Lord, “Skin for skin! A man will give up everything he has to save his life.
5 But reach out and take away his health, and he will surely curse you to your face!”
6 “All right, do with him as you please,” The Lord said to Satan. “But spare his life.”
7 So Satan left The Lord’s presence, and he struck Job with terrible boils from head to foot.
8 Job scraped his skin with a piece of broken pottery as he sat among the ashes.
9 His wife said to him, “Are you still trying to maintain your integrity? Curse God and die.”
10 But Job replied, “You talk like a foolish woman. Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?” So in all this, Job said nothing wrong.
Again, Job was faithful to The Lord.
Then three friends of Job, arrived, Zophar, Eliphaz and, Bildad. Their message, was not one of comfort, but of condemnation for sin.
Job 32:1 KJV
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Then The Lord visited Job, out of a whirlwind (Chapters 38-42). Now Job would have his answers.
Job had an encounter with The Living God.
When all was said and done, righteous Job said these words....
Job 42:5,6 KJV
5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Job had defended his righteousness before, but when he received a visit of The Lord Of Glory, his righteousness faded away in the light of God's eternal holiness.
Satan's plans had failed, God's intentions had succeeded!
Job had received a vision of The Lord, and was blessed by Him.
Job 42:10-17 NLT
10 When Job prayed for his friends, The Lord restored his fortunes. In fact, The Lord gave him twice as much as before!
11 Then all his brothers, sisters, and former friends came and feasted with him in his home. And they consoled him and comforted him because of all the trials The Lord had brought against him. And each of them brought him a gift of money and a gold ring.
12 So The Lord blessed Job in the second half of his life even more than in the beginning. For now he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 teams of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
13 He also gave Job seven more sons and three more daughters.
14 He named his first daughter Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch.
15 In all the land no women were as lovely as the daughters of Job. And their father put them into his will along with their brothers.
16 Job lived 140 years after that, living to see four generations of his children and grandchildren.
17 Then he died, an old man who had lived a long, full life.
Oh how easy it is to rest in our righteousness!
Easy that is, until we humble ourselves to receive a new vision of The Glory Of God.
There at the altar, like Job of old we will “ abhor (our-self), and repent in dust and ashes.
Isaiah 6:1-5 KJV
1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also The Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple.
2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is The Lord Of Hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory.
4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen The King, The Lord Of Hosts.
Proverbs 29:18 KJV
Where there is no vision, the people perish..."
Psalm 17:15 KJV
As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness
Salvation Prayer
“Why did God give Job to the devil?...”
Jeff/ Hampton, Virginia U.S.A.
Bible Answer:
Bible Text:
James 1:13 NLT
"...God is never tempted to do wrong, and He never tempts anyone else.
Reading Job's story, we realize that it was Satan, who brought about all Job's problems, not God!
Job 1:8-12 NLT
8 Then The Lord asked Satan, “Have you noticed My servant Job? He is the finest man in all the earth. He is blameless—a man of complete integrity. He fears God and stays away from evil.”
9 Satan replied to The Lord, “Yes, but Job has good reason to fear God.
10 You have always put a wall of protection around him and his home and his property. You have made him prosper in everything he does. Look how rich he is!
11 But reach out and take away everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face!”
12 “All right, you may test him,” The Lord said to Satan. “Do whatever you want with everything he possesses, but don’t harm him physically.” So Satan left The Lord’s presence.
Satan's plan was two-fold, first to prove God a liar, and to destroy Job.
Now as a Bible Prayer Line reader, check the flyleaf of your Bible. There is our answer.
Psalm 145:17 KJV
The Lord is righteous in all His ways, and holy in all His works.
Now although God did not precipitate Jobs dilemma, yet He did have a purpose to “allowing,” Satan's challenge.
Satan's agenda was all too clear, but God had something in mind too, and it was that, though Job was a righteous man, God wanted Job to have yet a better image of just who He was.
Servants, animals and children gone, through all Satan's evil destruction, Job remained faithful.
Again Satan appeared before The Lord.
Job 2:2-10 NLT
2 “Where have you come from?” The Lord asked Satan. Satan answered The Lord, “I have been patrolling the earth, watching everything that’s going on.”
3 Then The Lord asked Satan, “Have you noticed My servant Job? He is the finest man in all the earth. He is blameless—a man of complete integrity. He fears God and stays away from evil. And he has maintained his integrity, even though you urged Me to harm him without cause.”
4 Satan replied to The Lord, “Skin for skin! A man will give up everything he has to save his life.
5 But reach out and take away his health, and he will surely curse you to your face!”
6 “All right, do with him as you please,” The Lord said to Satan. “But spare his life.”
7 So Satan left The Lord’s presence, and he struck Job with terrible boils from head to foot.
8 Job scraped his skin with a piece of broken pottery as he sat among the ashes.
9 His wife said to him, “Are you still trying to maintain your integrity? Curse God and die.”
10 But Job replied, “You talk like a foolish woman. Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?” So in all this, Job said nothing wrong.
Again, Job was faithful to The Lord.
Then three friends of Job, arrived, Zophar, Eliphaz and, Bildad. Their message, was not one of comfort, but of condemnation for sin.
Job 32:1 KJV
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Then The Lord visited Job, out of a whirlwind (Chapters 38-42). Now Job would have his answers.
Job had an encounter with The Living God.
When all was said and done, righteous Job said these words....
Job 42:5,6 KJV
5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Job had defended his righteousness before, but when he received a visit of The Lord Of Glory, his righteousness faded away in the light of God's eternal holiness.
Satan's plans had failed, God's intentions had succeeded!
Job had received a vision of The Lord, and was blessed by Him.
Job 42:10-17 NLT
10 When Job prayed for his friends, The Lord restored his fortunes. In fact, The Lord gave him twice as much as before!
11 Then all his brothers, sisters, and former friends came and feasted with him in his home. And they consoled him and comforted him because of all the trials The Lord had brought against him. And each of them brought him a gift of money and a gold ring.
12 So The Lord blessed Job in the second half of his life even more than in the beginning. For now he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 teams of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
13 He also gave Job seven more sons and three more daughters.
14 He named his first daughter Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch.
15 In all the land no women were as lovely as the daughters of Job. And their father put them into his will along with their brothers.
16 Job lived 140 years after that, living to see four generations of his children and grandchildren.
17 Then he died, an old man who had lived a long, full life.
Oh how easy it is to rest in our righteousness!
Easy that is, until we humble ourselves to receive a new vision of The Glory Of God.
There at the altar, like Job of old we will “ abhor (our-self), and repent in dust and ashes.
Isaiah 6:1-5 KJV
1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also The Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple.
2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is The Lord Of Hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory.
4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen The King, The Lord Of Hosts.
Proverbs 29:18 KJV
Where there is no vision, the people perish..."
Psalm 17:15 KJV
As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness
Salvation Prayer
