Drama in Heaven and Earth. Job 1

 

Job 1 – Drama in Heaven and Earth                                                                                                                                     

We are told that Job was perfect in his relation to God in the sense that he had offered the sacrifices. Job feared God. He had a family of ten children. He was very wealthy, and they all lived in luxury and ease. He had camels for transportation and female donkeys for milk. Job felt that he was right with God. But he thought that maybe these sons and daughters weren’t as close to God as they should be, so he offered sacrifices for them. He was the high priest in his family.

In heaven the sons of God come before Him, and Satan also comes. Satan must make a report. He has as much access to this earth as we do. He says, he has been going up and down on this earth.

“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.” I Peter 5:8.

God is overruling all things, but He has given Satan a period of freedom. God speaks of Job to Satan and says he is an outstanding man. Satan replies, “you have put a hedge around him, and I can’t touch him.”

There is a hedge around every believer today, and Satan cannot touch you unless God permits it. If God took down that hedge from us, we would be tempted to curse God. Sometimes God permits Satan to take away from us those things we lean on. God grants permission to Satan to take all of Job’s possessions from him.

Job’s children went to a banquet everyday and one day the Sabeans came in and took away their cattle. Then all his children were killed. This man lost everything in one day.

Job falls, and he worships God, he rent his mantle and shaved his head. He said, “The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Everything down here is His, and we are just using them. When we leave, we won’t be taking anything with us. Job understood this, and he did not lose his faith.