Who was Job?
Job 1:1-5
Reading the book of Job, we find Job lived in the land of Uz
and that he was blameless, upright, fearing God and turning away from evil.
{ turning away; is to constantly turn away }
We learn that Job was the father of seven sons and three daughters.
That he was rather wealthy,
He owned 7,000 sheep. 3000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female Donkeys, and very many servants, and that he was considered the greatest man of all the men of the east.
We also find that Job’s sons held feast in the homes of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
And Job being upright and fearing God, when the days of feasting had completed their cycle,
Job would send and consecrate them, rising up early in the morning and offering seven burnt offerings one for each of his son’s; for Job said, “Perhaps my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” And out of his dedication to God this Job did continually.
Next, we are taken into the presence of God;
Job 1:6-8
Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them.
The LORD said to Satan,
“From where do you come?”
Then Satan answered the LORD and said,
“From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.”
The LORD said to Satan,
“Have you considered My servant Job?
For there is no one like him on the earth,
a blameless and upright man,
fearing God and turning away from evil.”
These are the first things that caught my attention;
1. “The sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD”
2. “And Satan also came among them.” Satan answered the LORD and said,
3. “From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.” The LORD said to Satan,
4. “Have you considered My servant Job?”
(1.) From reading more than i could post here,
What i came to was that the sons of God are beings who live in the heavens,
and as Satan rebelled against God seems so did some of the sons of God and left heaven to be with the women of earth, the descendants of Atam.
And when the time comes (Gods timing) they will be reviled to mankind.
What is said about the sons of God;
Genesis 6:2
that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.
Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them.
Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
Who were the Nephilim? They were or are the descendants of the sons of God who came to earth and got women of earth pregnant, those were the descendants the Nephilim that Anak was a part of so his descendants are descendants of the Nephilim, they are or were the giants spoken of in the bible.
Goliath and his brothers would have been descendants of the Nephilim
Numbers 13:32-33
So they gave out to the sons of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying,
“The land through which we have gone, in spying it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great size.
“There also we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”
Anak
(2.) “And Satan also came among them.”
i find this rather interesting.
For decades in church, we have been told no sin can be found in heaven; no sin can be in the presents of Father God.
If so, then what was Satan doing accompanying the sons of God when they came to present themselves before the LORD?
After spending days reading and praying for the Holy Spirit to teach me, to show me what i was missing, here is what I ended up with.
When the time comes and the Lord Jesus returns to take us to heaven Satan and all sin will be cast down from heaven.
And sin will no longer be allowed to have any refection in Heaven.
We are made pure by what Christ Jesus completed on the Cross and rising from the dead victories over death, hell and the grave. Making us clean of sin.
From that point in time, it has been man’s responsibility to choose to follow Christ and His teachings or not, it is our responsibility to take our short comings (our sins) to the Lord asking to be forgiving and turning from our sins and to Him. (repenting)
And other then that it is not up to me or us to determine what GOD can do or not do. And in His time, He will make things clear.
i know a little sidetracked but will get to the point of Job
Job 38:7
When the morning stars sang together
And all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Just found that all interesting
Job 1:6 - Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them.
Tomorrow we move on