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1 | Can a fallen angel be in God's presence? | Rev 1:4 | buscador | 203237 | ||
I've searched this forum and other web sites but am still looking for a good commentary/explanation on the meaning of Job 1:6-8. Based on the assumption that verses 7 and 8 represent a literal conversation between God and Satan, which seems plausable no matter which translation one references, I continue to wonder why God would allow or tolerate or summon Satan into His presence? This, based on an additional assumption that Satan was fallen and cast out of heaven prior to the time of Job. Any thoughts? |
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2 | Can a fallen angel be in God's presence? | Rev 1:4 | BradK | 203238 | ||
Hello buscador, You're asking a great question, my friend! In general, God allowed this for His Glory! To start, we gain perspective if we understand that Job reveals to us more about God's character than it does his circumstances! C.H. Spurgeon noted, "Up there, beyond the clouds, where no human eye could see, there was a scene enacted which augured no good to Job’s prosperity. The spirit of evil stood face to face with the infinite Spirit of all good. An extraordinary conversation took place between these two beings. When called to account for his doings, the evil one boasted that he had gone to and fro throughout the earth, insinuating that he had met with no hindrance to his will, and found no one to oppose his freely moving and acting at his own pleasure. He had marched everywhere like a king in his own dominions, unhindered and unchallenged. When the great God reminded him that there was at least one place among men where he had no foothold, and where his power was unrecognized, namely, in the heart of Job; that there was one man who stood like an impregnable castle, garrisoned by integrity, and held with perfect loyalty as the possession of the King of Heaven; the evil one defied Jehovah to try the faithfulness of Job, told him that the patriarch’s integrity was due to his prosperity, that he served God and eschewed evil from sinister motives, because he found his conduct profitable to himself. The God of heaven took up the challenge of the evil one, and gave him permission to take away all the mercies which he affirmed to he the props of Job’s integrity, and to pull down all the outworks and buttresses and see whether the tower would not stand in its own inherent strength without them." I hope this helps, BradK |
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