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Job 1:6-8 reads...
One day the angels came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came with them.
The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”
Satan answered the Lord, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.”
Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him;
he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.”
The first thing Satan said, after the Lord had just boasted about the sterling qualities of Job?
“Does Job fear God for nothing?” Satan replied. “Have you not put a hedge around him
and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so
that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. But now stretch out your hand
and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.”
Odd thing.
Why was Satan so intent to get Job to curse God to his face?
Why?
Because God had in the past had offered Satan a period of time to come to his senses and repent.
To confess his sin and repent of his evil, so that Satan could be reconciled and restored back into
the fellowship he had with God before he rebelled.
Keep in mind. Satan remained spiritual by nature. He had no need to be "born again" like we do.
All Satan had to do after he rebelled would have been to repent by admitting he did wrong and had sinned against God.
Apparently, Satan kept on refusing to do so, and was maintaing his denial of any wrong doing.
Well then?
From what we can know even from our relationship with God our Father?
What will God do with a child of his to bring him to his good senses in relation to God?
And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement
that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says,
“My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline,
and do not lose heart when he rebukes you,
because the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
and he chastens/ scourges (skins alive) everyone he accepts as his son.”
Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children.
For what children are not disciplined by their father? Hebrews 12:5-7
Keep in mind. That applied to angels as well!
After all, angels were referred to as "sons of God."
No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however,
it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been
trained by it." Hebrews 12:11
And, like the Father is with a wayward son?
God made Lucifer to hurt!
Punishing him to try to snap him out of his delusions of grandeur.
Made him to hurt to bring Satan back to his senses to realize that he was not invincible as he fancied himself to be.
Like what happened to the earth when Adam fell in our created world?
Thorns and thistles appeared?
God made the prehistoric creation begin to malfunction and experience a loss of perfect order.
A perfect order that Lucifer had felt like god while presiding over!
For Lucifer with his phenomenal light bearing abilities used to herald in the morning light of that creation.
He gloried in the idea that with each day, his light brought to life on earth animals to awaken and be alive.
(needed at this point) Long story short.
After he rebelled, God began working on Lucifer's physical nature as to humble him out of his feelings of greatness.
Each time Lucifer was made to hurt, Lucifer refused to repent and return to God.
Finally...
It reached at an intensified point while Lucifer was being painfully punished.
That, instead of finally refusing to repent?
Lucifer cursed the Lord to His face!
Then? Having cursed the Lord.
Lucifer then refused to admit that he had done anything wrong in cursing the Lord!
And, later, to announce to all the angels that they too would have cursed the Lord to His face if they had been made to experience what the Lord had put him through. Thus! Proclaiming to all the angels that the Lord is Evil for doing what He did to him.
In order for the Lord to put an end to that lie of Satan?
And to vindicate the Lord's Holiness before all the confused angels?
The solution:
Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him;
he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.”
Job, knowing full well, that all things come from the Lord?
Job refused to curse the Lord to His face!
The rest was history!
The Lord was vindicated before all the angels that had been confused by God's actions.
(While Satan crept away and hid himself) crawling away in shame and utter humiliation?
Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job?
That teaching is a part of what is called, the resolving of the prehistoric angelic conflict.It is one reason man was to fall, so God could set up living examples for the angels to learn from about themselves from man’s easily identifiable example.
grace and peace!
