The morning
Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks. Studying In
the Crucible with Christ in the SSnet.org series Lesson 4, may the Holy
Spirit be the speaker to your heart. The Topic today
is: "Satan in the Book of Job" The Opening Hymn
will be 229 "Spirit of the Living God" The Sabbath
School Quarterly, downloadable from SSnet.org in the Teacher's Edition is on
page 60 and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 41. The SSnet.org
site allows anyone, anywhere to read the lesson in their own language. Choose
your own language to see God speaking also to your heart. ---An
acknowledgement of the existence of Satan is essential for Salvation. Why?
Because all hardship and suffering will come from him. ---The text for
it is Job 1 and 2. Satan was asked where he came from since all the angels were
there. He answered "from roaming the earth going back and forth on
it" (Job 1:7). ---Job 9:24
says that "the earth has been given into the hands of the wicked one
[Satan]". After the Fall of course. ---Job 15:15
Satan repeated what he said to Adam and Eve and the fallen angels during the
rebellion in heaven: "He [God] does not believe in His holy ones and the
heavens are not pure in His eyes". It is a complete lie but Satan has
defiled it and made it impure with his ideas! ---In his final
remark of the young man Eliphaz in Job 37:24 Satan prompted his own wisdom in
him to be vomited out against God: "He [God] does not look upon any wise
of heart". What a lie against the character of God! ---In Job 4:15
Eliphaz had a seance with Satan. While he was sleeping a spirit passes by his
face. His hair stood up (v. 16)."Can mankind be just before God"?
"Can a man be pure before His Maker?" Hear Satan answering then in v.
18: "Look, He does not have trust in His servants" (Job 4:18).He
added to the earthly blame an heavenly one: "and error/folly He places
upon the angels". Satan through Eliphaz is playing his same game like
before Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden here! A red card is out. ---One of the
greatest scholars of Job is E. Dhorme (1926) and I bought his book. In 42
places he said that he does not know the meaning of the word! Even though we
have Hebrew Dictionaries. Why? Because
scholars did not know that Moses knew nothing about 7th century AD Arabic to
find the meaning of lost-meaning single words in the Bible, many in Job. Why?
Because Moses spoke Middle Egyptian, therefore one should use a Middle Egyptian
Dictionary. I did and words that read "God's character of terror"
> "God's character of beauty". Just the opposite! "May the
name of the Lord be praised" (Job 1:21). ---Job was not
confused about his relationship with God. He was innocent and knew in Whom he
believed. He was certain of his faith. If you read doubt, ask yourself if it is
a rare word translated with byzantine Arabic! ---If Satan had
access to heaven in 4179 BC after the Fall of Adam and Eve, then Satan had
access here in Job 1 to heaven in 2229 BC in the time of Abraham when Job lived
and one can be sure that in 31 AD until the crucifixion, that he had still
access to heaven. But no longer after that. ---Thus,
Neo-orthodox theologian Karl Barth who influenced Protestantism in the 1960's
to 1990's and further, who denied the Rebellion in Heaven of Satan, is
unbiblical and Protestantism followed an unbiblical scholar! Not so with Ellen
White who devoted chapter one of Patriarchs and Prophets to the
Rebellion in Heaven event. Proper theology of Adventism. ---At some kind
of SBL in the 1978/1979? I can remember the topic was the denial by scholars of
the existence of Satan. Hello Barth! ---Between 2004
and 20013, the Dutch Reform Calvinistic Church in South Africa had meetings
reformulating their view of Satan: "Some believe that Satan exists and
others do not. Both are right". What! ---The whole
world drank from the cup of evil and got confused and unbiblical. Once you deny
one doctrine of the Bible the whole network of doctrines in the Bible
collapses. ---The Dutch
Reform Church became liberal. Conservatives are at lost about this and since
2019 decided to separate from the main church and last night I read their
narrative of the history of problem in this Calvinistic Church between 2000 and
2022. Shocking. Gender Theology, Woman Ordination, Gay Recognition, Denial of
Satan, Denial of Virgin birth of Jesus, Theologians becoming atheists,
Allowance of atheists to join theology faculty and as students; bringing atheists
to open the yearly Theologian program speech! Moderator of the church
participating in Spiritism in northern Africa and invited the spirit to follow
them to South Africa; Moderator of the church synod asked government to accept
transsexuals and gays. So conservative congregations separated (dolate, they
call it). ---Apostasy is
when Satan, who used to be outside the church, is now administrating the church.
Ellen White predicted apostasy just before Jesus comes.