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Who is GOD and who is satan and why is man tested?

In Job, GOD limited Satan and knew Job would be stubborn enough to withstand trouble until Job came to the place where GOD came to deliver him.

Satan was the one who dealt in the curses and darkness of Job’s confusion.  Under the OT environment, Job did not chose to walk with GOD until he was forced to do so.

Thus even we are left with the same problem. Will we listen and obey?

Law is only one aspect of God’s written character.  Moses’ was given Law to define sin and one type of faith....

Job is a book that leads to fellowship with God and away from religion and man. The basic question in Job is The relationship between God and man. Job was written before Moses wrote The Law and long before The NT.

Here is the problem of man not listening to The Courts of Heaven.... Trouble and trial come if we do not have a heart open to living with God. In Heaven we will always be welcome to have a personal and private counseling session with GOD - The Father, His Son and His Holy Spirit. Because we always have His Holy Spirit within us, Believers should be comfortable in God’s Presence.

This is the great difference between OT and NT relationships or religious vs Holy Spirit Led lives in the NT.

We have many Christians who do not realize the potential of fellowship we have with GOD - as shown in The Fall Feasts. Many do not even come into Pentecost and many more do not come into Christ Jesus at Passover.

Job can give us a shadow picture of how the Courts of Heaven are obscured when we do not listen in Faith-Contact with GOD. Job is the earliest book in the Bible as it was written during Jacob’s offspring, and before Moses lived.

Thus we see the trials Israel faced before The LORD revealed Himself to Moses.  Even though Moses had direct relationship with The Lord, he did not have constant fellowship as Christians do now have - if we walk in The Spirit.

JOB’S GOEL: ADVOCATE, AVENGER, INTERCESSOR, REDEEMER

HERE IS a CLUE IN JOB Predicting JESUS, AND WHO HE IS FOR BELIEVERS TODAY...!!!

   “Some see a progression in Job’s faith from a mediator (môkîa, 9:33) to the witness-advocate-intercessor (melî, 16:18–21) and finally to a redeemer (goel, 19:25).

 Many connections exist between these passages. The melî of 16:20, does the work of a môkîa described in 9:33 (“he pleads [yôka] with God,” 16:21). The work of the melî (16:18–21) is also set in the same context as the work of the goel, 19:25.  “

“the battle between Yahweh and the forces of chaos allegedly reflected in various biblical texts Job 3:8; 9:13; 26:12; 38:8–11; 40:19–24; Prov 8:22–31; Isa 17:12–14; 27:1; 30:6; 50:2, 3; 51:9; 59:15–20; Jer 5:22; 31:35; 51:34, 36, 42; Ezek 29:3–6; 32:2–7; Hab 3:8; Nah 1:4. In the book of Psalms this motif arguably appears in allusions to Rahab Pss 87:4; 89:10–14, Leviathan Ps 74:12–19, and the conquest of the sea in primeval times Pss 18:16–18; 46; 65:7; 77:17; 93; 104:5–9.”

The NT gives a more updated concept as in Ephesians, 1 John, Hebrews, John 14-17, etc....