WHO IS BEHIND JOB’S SUFFERINGS

Job 1:18 ESV While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house,

Job 1:19 and behold, a great wind came across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you." Job 1:20 Then Job arose and tore his robe and.

WHO IS BEHIND JOB’S SUFFERINGS

Job 1:20 Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped.

Job 1:21 And he said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD."

Job 1:22 In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.

WHO IS BEHIND JOB’S SUFFERINGS

JOB 1:7There was a day when the sons of God came topresent themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them. The LORD said to Satan, “Wherehave you come from?” Satan answered the LORD, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.”

WHO IS BEHIND JOB’S SUFFERINGS

JOB 1:9Then Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear Godfor nothing? Have you not put a hedge about him and his house and all that he has, on every side? Youhave blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. But put forth your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face.”

WHO IS BEHIND JOB’S SUFFERINGS

JOB 1:12And the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, all that he hasis in your power; only upon himself do not put forthyour hand.” So Satan went out from the presence ofthe LORD.

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WHO IS BEHIND JOB’S SUFFERINGS

JOB 1:12And the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, all that he hasis in your power; only upon himself do not put forthyour hand.” So Satan went out from the presence ofthe LORD.

2Corinthians 4:4 …the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not,

John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy

WHO IS BEHIND JOB’S SUFFERINGS

Job 2:7 THEN SATAN LEFT THE LORD'S PRESENCE AND MADE SORES BREAK OUT ALL OVER JOB'S BODY.

WHO IS BEHIND JOB’S SUFFERINGS

DID JOB BLAME GOD?

Job 1:21 The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away;

WHO IS BEHIND JOB’S SUFFERINGS

DID JOB BLAME GOD?

Job 9:15 Though I am innocent, all I can do is beg for mercy from God my judge. Job 9:16 Yet even then, if he lets me speak, I can't believe he would listen to me. Job 9:17 He sends storms to batter and bruise me without any reason at all. Job 9:18 He won't let me catch my breath; he has filled my life with bitterness.

WHO IS BEHIND JOB’S SUFFERINGS

DID JOB BLAME GOD?

Job 9:23 When an innocent person suddenly dies, God laughs.

Job 9:24 God gave the world to the wicked. He made all the judges blind. And if God didn't do it, who did?

WHO IS BEHIND JOB’S SUFFERINGS

DID JOB BLAME GOD?

Job 10:3 Is it right for you to be so cruel? To despise what you yourself have made? And then to smile on the schemes of wicked people?

Job 10:8 Your hands formed and shaped me, and now those same hands destroy me.

WHO IS BEHIND JOB’S SUFFERINGS

DID JOB BLAME GOD?

Job 10:16 If I have any success at all, you hunt me down like a lion; to hurt me you even work miracles. Job 10:17 You always have some witness against me; your anger toward me grows and grows; you always plan some new attack.

WHO IS BEHIND JOB’S SUFFERINGS

DID JOB BLAME GOD?

Job 16:10 People sneer at me; they crowd around me and slap my face.

Job 16:11 God has handed me over to evil people.

Job 16:12 I was living in peace, but God took me by the throat and battered me and crushed me. God uses me for target practice

WHO IS BEHIND JOB’S SUFFERINGS

DID JOB BLAME GOD?

Job 16:13 and shoots arrows at me from every side--- arrows that pierce and wound me; and even then he shows no pity.

Job 16:14 He wounds me again and again; he attacks like a soldier gone mad with hate.

THE CAUSE OF SUFFERINGS

DID JOB BLAME GOD?

Job 30:18 God seizes me by my collar and twists my clothes out of shape.

Job 30:19 He throws me down in the mud; I am no better than dirt..

WHO IS BEHIND JOB’S SUFFERINGS

DID JOB BLAME GOD?

Job 30:18 God seizes me by my collar and twists my clothes out of shape.

Job 30:19 He throws me down in the mud; I am no better than dirt..

Job 30:21 You are treating me cruelly; you persecute me with all your power.

WHO IS BEHIND JOB’S SUFFERINGS

JOB FINALLY REALIZED IT WAS NOT GOD

Job 42:2 I know, LORD, that you are all-powerful; that you can do everything you want. Job 42:3 You ask how I dare question your wisdom when I am so very ignorant. I talked about things I did not understand, about marvels too great for me to know.

Job 42:6 So I am ashamed of all I have said and repent in dust and ashes.

WHO IS BEHIND JOB’S SUFFERINGS

JOB FINALLY REALIZED IT WAS NOT GOD

Job 42:4 You told me to listen while you spoke and to try to answer your questions.

Job 42:5 In the past I knew only what others had told me, but now I have seen you with my own eyes. Job 42:6 So I am ashamed of all I have said and repent in dust and ashes.

THE TRUTH

SATAN STEALS, GOD RESTORES TWICE AS MUCH!

Job 42:12 The LORD blessed the last part of Job's life even more than he had blessed the first. Job owned fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, two thousand head of cattle, and one thousand donkeys.

Job 42:15 There were no other women in the whole world as beautiful as Job's daughters. Their father gave them a share of the inheritance along with their brothers

THE TRUTH

GOD GIVESSATAN STEALS (TAKES)GOD RESTORES TWICE AS MUCH!

Job 42:16 Job lived a hundred and forty years after this, long enough to see his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Job 42:17 And then he died at a very great age

THE SUFFERINGS OF JOBWILL NEVER HAPPEN TO YOU

JOB WAS BORN BEFORE JESUS

John 10:9 I am the door. If anyone enters in by Me, he shall be saved and shall go in and out and find pasture. John 10:10 The thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come so that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. Joh 10n:11 I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

THE SUFFERINGS OF JOBWILL NEVER HAPPEN TO YOU

YOU ARE KEPT BY THE FATHER AND THE SON

John 17:11 And now I am in the world no longer, but these are in the world, and I come to You, Holy Father. Keep them in Your name, those whom You have given Me, so that they may be one as We are.

Joh 17:12 …. Those that You have given Me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

THE SUFFERINGS OF JOBWILL NEVER HAPPEN TO YOU

JOB WAS BORN BEFORE JESUS

John 17:18 As You have sent Me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world. John 17:22 And I have given them the glory which You have given Me, that they may be one, even as We are one, John 17:23 I in them, and You in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that You have sent Me and have loved them as You have loved Me.

THE TRUTH

GOD GIVES.

SATAN STEALS (TAKES) WHAT GOD GAVE.

GOD RESTORES WHAT SATAN STOLE!

GOD RESTORES MUCH MORE THAN WHAT WAST LOST!

John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy:

I(JESUS) AM COME THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE LIFE, AND THAT THEY MIGHT

HAVE IT MORE ABUNDANTLY.