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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.